# Wipeout - ABC **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854 "2010-07-16T00:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/41 "2010-07-21T20:30:23Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I don’t remember much of my life before Jill Wagner other than everything was in black and white and it always smelled like burnt toast. _sigh_ That gal makes a T-shirt look like a prom dress. Her smile is a licensed defibrilator. The contents of her PedEgg are more precious than a Ferrari. I’m soooo glad she’s not my sister. > > Love the show. I wish for one episode they’d put some people with actual athletic ability in there but readily admit it wouldn’t garner near the laughs. If I were on that show and I met Jill I’d tell her my nickname was Humper. When she asked me why my nickname was Humper instead of telling her I would show her. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/42 "2010-07-21T22:57:59Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Love the show. I wish for one episode they’d put some people with actual athletic ability in there but readily admit it wouldn’t garner near the laughs. I don’t know, there’s always a few people with athletic ability each episode and they either make it all the way to the end or get bounced just as badly as everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![MandaGwen213](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MandaGwen213](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaGwen213)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/43 "2010-08-18T02:54:33Z")
Has anyone ever gotten all the way across the ribs?? ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/44 "2010-08-18T03:29:57Z")
> [@CJJ](#): > > …has anyone ever made it over those giant balls? A few people have done it… but I don’t remember anyone doing it this year. The first guy I saw do was a guy in his early 60s! The secret seems to be: go across them fast, if you go slow, you’re dead. What I can’t figure out is how is anyone supposed to get through the shape-shifter thing? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/45 "2010-08-18T03:48:41Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > What I can’t figure out is how is anyone supposed to get through the shape-shifter thing? I’ve only see one guy make it thru. He landed in one of the holes, rode the wheel around one time, and jumped out the other side. And just recently I saw another guy do the same thing only when he tried to jump off the other side he shorted it. I’ve never seen anyone make it across the ribs though. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/46 "2010-08-18T13:32:08Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > > [@CJJ](#): > > > > …has anyone ever made it over those giant balls? > > A few people have done it… but I don’t remember anyone doing it this year. The first guy I saw do was a guy in his early 60s! The secret seems to be: go across them fast, if you go slow, you’re dead. Ariel Tweto, the first player to make it across the big balls, did it one ball at a time. See post 26. I think the cop in the parent/child special made it across last week too. He did the fast giant step method. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/47 "2010-08-18T13:44:59Z")
Last night was the first time I’ve ever seen somebody do the second stage in one pass, at a gallop. He took 3 seconds to let the arms get into position, jumped on the wheel, loped to the axis, hopped over without stopping, and jogged to the tilt platform, where he stepped onto the finish mat. Never even broke a sweat, much less get dunked. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/48 "2010-08-18T14:40:17Z")
There was also a guy last night who was one obstacle away from finishing the wipeout zone flawlessly. But I’m still wondering if “Totally Inappropriate” woman wasn’t wearing any underwear at all. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/49 "2010-08-18T15:21:21Z")
What I wondered about Totally Inappropriate Woman was if maybe she was completely appropriate but the censoring was funny. Kind of like Jimmy Kimmel’s Inappropriate Censorship bit. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/50 "2010-08-20T04:21:15Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > What I wondered about Totally Inappropriate Woman was if maybe she was completely appropriate but the censoring was funny. Kind of like Jimmy Kimmel’s Inappropriate Censorship bit. I don’t know about the underwear, but it looked to me like she was wearing a skirt instead of the usual gym shorts. I’ll have to see if I still have it recorded. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/51 "2010-08-20T15:42:05Z")
She was indeed wearing a skirt, and, perv that I am, I did some pausin’. It looked to me like she was wearing some rather unremarkable red-and-white striped underwear. Maybe it turned too see-through when it got wet. And speaking of being a perv, have you noticed they’re doing a lot of subtle “blurring” when anyone presents the camera with a buffalo shot? Back it up and pause any time you have a straight shot at the basketal-batchular region, you’ll see that they do a digital blur to obscure the area. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854/52 "2012-02-03T01:11:50Z")
I’d swear the smacking around on this show has gotten more violent. And it sucks without Jill Wagner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wipeout-abc/546854.md?page=2)