Yeah, but they only do crucifixions during sweeps.
AWWWW! How come they only do crucifixions during sweeps??
Because crucifixions take three or four days (if the legs are unbroken) for the contestent to die. They really can’t afford to spend that time on such a stunt during non-sweeps months, you know.
Not if you stab the crucifixee in the side with a spear. It seemed to work in that bible book. Only problem is they tend to come back as zombies in three days.
- Sign up, lie.
- ???
- Profit!
Then Emirl Live or Iron Chef - can’t let all that good beef go to waste.
I wonder if it would become an art to prepare Celebrity - much like Fugu Chefs need to avoid poison, you have go to around the implants …
err … long pork
I object to this, on the grounds that I don’t want to see sentient humans killing each other. Politicians and network execs get a pass on this, of course.
A friend of mine was saying that the trick isn’t actually avoiding all the poison, but putting a precisely controlled dose in the dish to give the diner a buzz without killing him.
Huh, I thought it was all mental macho brain stuff that gave the ‘buzz’.
Your location scared the crap out of me, BTW.
Oh, I’d forgotten about that trainwreck. I felt the same way about that show that I feel about most practical jokes - that’s just plain mean.
(As for the Strom Thurmond idea, I know there’s a “stiff” joke in there somewhere, I just can’t find it right now.)
Without a doubt, the would call the show Lucky Stiff.
I happened to see this ludicrous Fear Factor take off (Facteur de risques or something) in which one of the stunts was to have needles of increasing size inserted into your arm.
You know, I knew televising torture for entertainment was coming; I just wasn’t aware that people would volunteer.
The American reality TV shows are relatively benign compared to what Nippon Television has been up to. Google on Nasubi and Denpa Shonen.
Denpa Shonen producers in Japan put contestant Nasubi naked in an empty room with water, a couple of pens and a pile of magazines, and left him to survive on his magazine contest winnings until his winnings totaled over $10,000.00 in prizes. They did not tell him that he was on TV, and later on the Internet 24/7. The ordeal lasted over a year.
It took him a hungry couple of weeks to win some food. For the most part he won and ate rice. When the producers moved him to another empty room, they did not move his rice with him. At one point he subsisted on dog food.
By the time he eventually won enough to be released, he was curled up into a ball, and had difficulty communicating.
For his prize, he was taken to an amusement park in Korea, after which he was put naked into a Korean room and told to win his way back to Japan through winning more mail-in contests. Once he won enough, the producers raised the bar and made him win even more contests before bringing him back to Japan.
Back in Japan, he was put naked into yet another room. The walls fell away, and he faced a television audience, where for the first time he was told that his ordeal had been on TV and the Internet.
You mean you missed out on Series 7? (make sure to turn your speakers down a notch first).
It’s a good thing Luke Skywalker didn’t sign up for this show…
Nah. Showing someone begging for their life before getting their head sawn off is more cruel.
Yeah, because Al-Jazeera is just clamoring for the rights to air those as daily half-hour sitcoms…
Well I sure hope they don’t get that right in Canada !