I wish they'd bring "The Mole" back.

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My wife and I found a(most likely illegal*) copy of The Mole 2: The next betrayal on youtube recently and we’ve been watching it. I saw it when it aired in 2001 and…I actually auditioned for it.

Man, I miss this show. I know they did one more round of it with non-celebrities, but I really wish it would come back as a summer show. We don’t like reality TV except for Survivor, but we’d love to have a summer reality show and the Mole was great.

Anderson Cooper will always be the Mole host to me and he was really good at it. He’s the best reality show host I’ve seen, along with Probst.

I’m sure the show would need some variation to avoid getting old, but I really wish they’d bring it back…again.

Anyone else really enjoy the Mole when it was on?

*I am unaware of a legal means of watching this show and I didn’t tape it when it aired. The Youtube videos of it are, in fact, from VHS tapes someone made and uploaded.

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Yeah, that was one of the very few genuinely entertaining reality shows ever made.

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With the *most *genuinely entertaining reality show ever made being “Temptation Island,” of course.

But I’ll grant you, “The Mole” was up there too.

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I loved The Mole and was extremely disappointed when it was cancelled.

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The newest season of it(2008, I think) was very good. Shame that didn’t turn into a revival.

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Ha! Last week I finally removed the season pass for The Mole from my TiVo. I’ve accepted it’s never coming back. It was one of my all-time faves.

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Loved it and actually sent in an audition tape for season two. I hated celebrity mole but the regular version was great.

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We just finished season 13 in the Netherlands; the only place (together with Bulgaria) where it still exists… pretty sure season 14 is going to happen as well.

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I still shudder, thinking of that one challenge, every time I hear “Tiny Bubbles”.

(They stuck the contestants in separate rooms, and told that the last person to give up would win the challenge. All they had to do was go in and go to bed, and it’d end when your feet hit the floor. The moment they got on the bed, Don Ho’s “Tiny Bubbles” started playing. Loudly. Over and over and over. Sometimes it’d play backwards. Sometimes softly. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. Sometimes a combination of those. Oh - and the room would be filled with bubbles, or lights would flash, etc.)

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I see that Autstralia did 4 seasons, stopped a few years ago, and is going to air again this year.

Don’t spoil those ones. I may be trying to find a way to watch them. :slight_smile:

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I liked the concept, but I thought the show mechanics were a bit flawed. By the end of the show everyone who is left pretty much knows who the mole is. In theory, the entire cast could figure it out halfway through and then it becomes a series of tests on who remembers arcane information about the day’s events rather than knowing who the mole is.

Also, as a viewer, I was incensed by season one’s reveal. They showed ridiculous ‘clues’ that pointed to who the mole was.

Shit like, “X was the fourth person introduced and mole has four letters!” Gag.

In fairness, there was a legit mistake by the mole that could have been caught, but other than that, all the ‘clues’ were bullshit.