My girlfriend and I are hooked on a few TV shows one of which is MXC (Family Guy & Futurama are the other ones). The show is very well written.
If you watch it, what is your favorite profession/occupation or mystery sludge they have said?
I like:
[Contestant name], the owner of the Happy Jihad One-Way Truck Rental Company.
Cracked me up!!! I wish I could remember more!! 
I can’t remember any of the contestants’ “names & occupations” but I love that show!
DON’T! GET! ELIMINATED!
I’ve watched it occasionally… while funny at times, it’s very hit or miss and goes over the top a tad too much occasionally.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
I enjoy it, but I don’t watch it consistantly.
Its more of a “I’m bored, what’s on?” type of thing.
My favorite games are the one where they have ride the surfboard in a circle dodging water related things and the one where they have to run to the end while other people are dropping things on them or swinging giant heads on strings and they have to jump on a trampoline at one point.
Oh and the one where one person dresses up like an animal and someone from the other team takes shots at them to knock the animal head off.
I love this show! My boyfriend hates it and teases me all the time about watching “television for men.”
My younger brother declared this his new favorite show when he watched it with me when I was home from school for Christmas break. Even my mom is a fan (she’s a cool mom :)).
I’ve always wondered about the logistics of writing for that show. It has to take forever for them to come up with lines that sync up with what’s going on around them.
I don’t have cable, but I’ll watch it when it’s on. My favorite was the Food Service vs I can’t remember who. Featuring Scott Blumpkin of Blumpkin’s Sit-Down Buffet, and the owner of Hot Carl’s Jr.
I love it. When I was watching the episode with the people in rubber monster costumes, I laughed so hard I thought I might risk triggering a stroke. One of the events had the contestants trying to hop across a pond from one stone “lily pad” to another…and one of the contestants was dressed as a totem pole or something like that, complete with movable wings on the sides…well, he could barely move his legs, let alone hop, but he made it maybe two ‘pads’ in before he lost his balance, and started falling, flapping his little wings in futility…then in the same event, another guy was dressed as a shark, and he fell almost immediately, and as he was flopping around, it looked like his shark costume was trying to eat him.
Oh man. I nearly peed myself. It’s not just that they’re funny, but it’s the rapid-fire delivery that gets me.
That would be the Rotating Surfboard of DEATH!!
Brass Balls
Haven’t seen that one…
I saw that episode, I thought that totem pole guy was going to drown…
I’m with Aesiron. It’s better when it’s more subtle.
I don’t remember the names or occupations, but I do love the little things they shout before they do the particular task. My favorite is “I like red meat!” So random. I was in stitches.
I wrote a post about this show a while ago when I first saw it. I still watch it, or rather I still TiVo new episodes (which there aren’t too many of, sadly).
It has gotten a little old. I mean, its kind of a one note show. But it still comes up with some pretty good lines. And its still better than any other “real” suck-ass reality show out there.
They use the contestant name Babaganoosh so much I finally had to look it up. Its some kind of arab food.
Right you are, Ken!
I love the show, and all the dirty jokes that go by so fast that nobody catches them in time…
Then my wife started watching The Iron Chef, and I know who MXC is really parodying…
“…He’s going into a ‘Willing Participant’ from a ‘Scary Uncle’! Yes! Yes! And he’s down into the Mystery Sludge!”
One of my very favorite shows. I wish there were more episodes and that ‘Hey! Spring of Trivia’ was funnier.
“Oh Kenny, you giddy monkey!”
Funny. Today was going to finally be the day I started my MXC thread! I like the show. The American changes aren’t what make me laugh about this show. I could practically watch it on mute. What amazes me is that this show is REAL. How the hell do they not have someone die every episode! Those physical challenges go beyond ANYTHING American Reality TV puts out. How there aren’t dozens of broken necks each week is astonishing. Are these people really stunmen?
(And my favorite is when they swing on the rope and try to land on the platform.)
Actually, from what I have read (do you want me to find a cite?) there were many real injuries including broken bones. But it was the 80s! Before litigation! All for fun!
I love the show. One of my favorite games is when they dress people up in giant glove costumes and they have to flop face-first on a certain number. I also love the standbys, especially the logrolling one. There’s not a round that goes by without someone apparently dislocating their leg.
–Cliffy
“And here’s Jimmy Downs, he drives a short truck for special deliveries.” :eek:
The mascots verses the monsters (with the totem pole guy) is my favorite all around show. Regular contestants have a hard enough time with the challenges, but to put them in giant foam costumes? Sadisticly funny.
There have been quite a few truly memorable events:
For a collection of quotes, check out imdb. What a great show. 
And you just can’t top Guy LaDouche!