As I was laughing at mellonhead get angrier and angrier, my hubby says that he doesn’t see what’s so funny about making fools of people for the enjoyment of others. He called us (me and the kids) sadistic and I felt bad.
Until the guy who was not a murderer-- just an idiot-- came on. Sometimes I do feel uncomfortable watching people squirm, but not this show.
Do you think the show is sadistic?
Sadistic, maybe,
Hilarious, definitely.
I was laughing so hard during the insult rap section.
It’s basically Candid Camera with a stupider setup. I never particularly like CC the first time around.
Sadistic. By far.
My vote: mostly sadistic and not very funny.
At least Candid Camera had a good heart about their scenarios…SPY TV is mean-spirited.
I bet you wouldn’t think SPY TV was funny if it was you on the spot.
It’s pretty sadistic, IMO. If their little clock was accurate, they kept that poor guy in the interrogation room for almost an hour! That’s mean. Funny (What do you buy in there? Potato chips? Computer chips?), but mean.
I get the distinct impression, though, that no one really know what Spy TV is once the gig is up. The receptionist was the best example… if that guy had been saying, “You’re on Candid Camera,” she would have gotten it almost immediately. Instead he had to keep saying it until she figured it out. Even then, I don’t think she really understood. Hopefully, if the show stays on the air for another year or two, it’ll get better.
Slightly off-topic but - could someone explain what Spy-TV is? I’ve never heard of it, but the name alone triggers my paranoid instincts (which, after all, are never far from the surface).
Like Candid Camera, but more mean-spirited. They take their pranks farther and with more of a sadistic edge than the harmless CC. For instance, one of their themes is “revenge.”
Thanks, flyboy.
Do they do this to normal people? 'Cause if so, I’m never leaving my house again.
OK it was sadistic. I was all ready to hate it, but damn, was it ever funny. I mean, that delivery guy got so freaked out helping on the surgery that he jumped out the window. That was great.
Plus, it’s hosted by Michael Ian Black, member of The State and one half of Barry and LeVon, from whom comes my sig line.
With a few more pictures and a little more time I think that guy was going to confess.
When he started to get choked up my wife got upset
“It’s just mean, that guy is gonna cry, this isn’t funny”
I say it is sadistic but in a funny way.
CC was pretty rude when it came to handicapped people. I see Mr Funt around sometimes because this is his home city.
Spy TV needs to be a little stronger than CC but I wish they would start showing some of their clips that they show during the begining of the show. I hear they want to have STV every night.
I can’t wait until they have a guy with a fake erection in his pants walking around asking people to do things for him. They did it once on Spanish TV like this it was really funny.
From a Yahoo news story, commenting on this show and others: “NBC = Nothing Beats Cruelty”.
Oh, I think it’s very funny. But those delivery guys! That was unbelievably sadistic! The poor self-admitted “Idiot” they had in the interrogation room had me a bit upset, also. And yet I didn’t turn the channel, so it must not be too bad.
“Melonhead” was tooooooo funny.
On the first episode, at the end they had a clip from South Korea where a guy was walking along a dirt path, minding his own business, when a tremendous explosion goes off directly in front of him. He jumps back, another goes off. He starts back up the path, and another. Some were almost directly beneath his feet. This in a country that’s been virtually at war for 40 years. I can’t imagine how that’s supposed to be funny.
Of course, I think funniest home videos are just awful as well. “Hey kids - watch this old lady slip on the ice! If she breaks her hip, it’s tragic - but she doesn’t! So it’s funny!”
It might just be me but I don’t think that every video they show is a setup by the creators of the show. You can tell that some of the skits are definitely setups recently created (like the insult rap or the accused chip smuggler) but others look like something collected by other shows. The one involving the guy in South Korea and the one today involving a guy being woken up by a bazooka look like amateur tapes.