Okay, let me say first off I do NOT watch this show.
But last week’s promos hooked me in a rubber-necking-past-a-car-wreck kind of way.
They weren’t really going to make them eat live slugs, were they?
I detest slugs with the heat of a thousand suns. The mere thought of them gives me the screaming heebie jeebies.
So I’m flipping back and forth because I can’t believe they’re going to eat live slugs. And sure enough, the woman chews (I guess you can’t swallow them whole) about six or seven, then washes them down with a shot of some green liquid.
My friend at work said on one show they made them crack duck eggs and eat the partially formed chicks, feathers and all.
First off, how much money do they offer to make them eat live slugs?
And where is PETA? Didn’t PETA go off because they killed a rat on Survivor? Why aren’t they jumping in for the rights of live slugs and unborn duck chicks?
Or is it all fancy camera work? I noticed that the camera very deftly cut between her picking up the live slug and then to her chewing it, with a hand held over her mouth presumably to keep the vomit in.
Are they really eating those things? And who in their right mind would do it, no matter how much they pay?
What was worse: The green liquid was bile, straight from a cow’s gall bladder.
The prize for the winner is $50,000. The thing that gets me is the poor people who go through to the end, having done a couple of scary/dangerous things and perhaps eaten something gross (if they don’t make them eat something, they instead will cover them with creepy-crawlies of some sort), but don’t win. Those people only get three days of union scale and the flight to L.A. and back.
If any show should, this show should have consolation prizes of some sort. There should at least be a second prize.
I like the fact that it is winner take all. That does a nice job of upping the ante for those that would otherwise chicken out just to get the winnings without the effort.
Mullinator, I definitely agree that people who bail shouldn’t get cash, but those that went through everything deserve something, even if they lose in the end.
You can tell the producers agree with you, because there have been a few situations in which a contestant could get to the next round with a total lowball effort, and Joe presented something to prevent that. Like in an early round where the top two women and the top two men would move on, and the first woman totally failed (leaving the other two assured of advancement if they took it slow and made sure to complete the stunt), Joe would put an extra thousand out for the one that had the best time (separate from the final prize).