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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Fear Factor: Is anyone going to watch NBC's version of the reality show? | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 9:50 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | 'Fear' Strikes Out Be afraid, very afraid, of NBC's latest By DAVID BIANCULLI Daily News TV Critic he name of the NBC series airing tonight at 8, the one in which six contestants battle for prize money by doing appallingly gross or risky things, is "Fear Factor." The title doesn't do the show justice. To give potential viewers a true picture of what NBC has in store for them, NBC should have called the series something closer to the mark. "The Bottom of the Barrel," maybe. Or "Another TV Triumph From the Folks Who Brought You 'Big Brother' and 'Chains of Love.' " Whatever you call it really doesn't matter. This show, by any other name, would stink. Each episode takes three men and three women and has them undergo a series of daunting or disgusting tasks. Some are timed, and the slowest contestants are eliminated. Others are tests of will, as in, "Will they or won't they agree to endure what nauseating things we've dreamed up?" The last person standing, at the end of each hour, gets a measly $50,000. In tonight's pilot, host Joe Rogan — a comic actor ("NewsRadio") now doing his best to act like Jeff Probst of "Survivor" — guides his six greedy victims through three challenges. In the first, they take turns holding onto a rope tied to a horse, and get dragged through mud. In the second, they take turns being strapped down and lowered into a pit, then told to wait for four minutes while hundreds of rats are dumped atop them and begin crawling and nibbling. In the third, a car is suspended at a steep angle, and contestants tied to a safety harness must try to climb around the outside of the car performing stupid tasks while a rainmaking machine makes everything slippery and even more daunting. All three tests end up drawing blood, which is one reason this idiotic, sadistic TV show ended up drawing my ire. Another reason is its stench of cynicism, its self-assured smugness that if you're mean and demeaning enough, viewers will watch. Prove them wrong. The executive producers are Matt Kumitz, Douglas Ross and John DeMol, which I mention only so that their relatives have a better opportunity to be ashamed of them. Original Publication Date: 6/11/01  | ||||
| MaynardGKrebs | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 10:14 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 |  Mmmmmmmm......tofu..... "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Still room for one more castaway. | ||||
| skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 10:30 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Since there isn't much else on at 8pm, I suppose I will watch it...at least until the new season of Boston Public starts! | ||||
| hornygoatweed23 I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 11:04 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I'll give it a shot, if its as bad as they say it is, it won't be around all that long to be an annoyance. Besides, what the hell else is on during the summer?? | ||||
| King f-tard | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 12:11 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | The original version of this show, which they copied, FEAR on MTV is pretty cool, and I think that NBC's bastardized copy will suck. Joe Rogan was funny in Newsradio, but this is different. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 3:06 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | No because I hate reality shows but it rocks to see Newsradio's Joe getting another job. Has anyone else realized that a lot of the NewsRadio cast has been given jobs on other NBC shows (Maura Tierney (who I'd totally do) on ER, Joe on Fear, the girl who played Beth on Three Sisters, I heard Dave has something coming up) And I have to add- NewsRadio is the best sitcom of at least the 90s, better than Seinfeld and FRIENDS. Tripod Fucking Sucks Ass, bastards shut down my site which really only had sounds but a way for others to download it Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney Read my column at Foundry | ||||
| mikeWOW | posted on 06-11-2001 @ 6:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | the show looks pretty dam good "i hate people that dont get it!" | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 06-12-2001 @ 1:17 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | Speaking of NBC Reality Shows, I'm watching Conan and they have this Ad for Spy TV which is CANDID FUCKING CAMERA and they are promoting it as "New, different, original" and all I can think is ALLAN FUCKING FUNT The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney | ||||
| skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force | posted on 06-12-2001 @ 9:00 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | I watched fear factor last night...not bad, and that blonde was easy on the eyes. I guess I will tune in next week. | ||||
| Drunken GW I Pissed on a Church to get this Status. | posted on 06-12-2001 @ 9:18 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | No sir, I didn't like it. Adopted - The Big RedMachine - 6/12/01 Pull deh string...Pull deh string. | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 06-12-2001 @ 9:25 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | That rat thing was one of the sickest things I ever saw on national Tv. Who the hell would want 400 rats poured on top of them and have them nibbling on your skin for a change at 50 grand. Anyone notice on these reality shows, it is the black person who always quits first. Fear Factor and Boot Camp come to mind. Not blaming, the guy because I would have quit right there too. | ||||
| MaynardGKrebs | posted on 06-12-2001 @ 9:31 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | I didnt even know it was on last night or I would have watched it. Instead I watched MTV's FEAR which they were showing like 6 hours of last night. I guess it was to compete. "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." Still room for one more castaway. | ||||
| FoundryMusicDoug | posted on 06-12-2001 @ 1:16 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: I was listening to Lovelines (It puts me to sleep at night), and they had the host on. The guy said that the rats were well fed and they were well breed lab mice. The only thing that they should have been worried about was the shit all over their bodies. "Now the seasons over, and I feel it gettin' cold. I wish I could take you to some sandy beach road, we'ed never grow old. Ah but baby you know thats just jive, but tonight's bustin' open and.... I'm alive!"~Bruce Springsteen (Thunder Road Est. 1973)  | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 06-19-2001 @ 10:09 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Anyone watch this last night. It was pretty good. The first stunt had them jumping 7 feet from one tractor trailer to another while going 40 miles an hour. The second was disgusting with I think they said 400,000 thousand worms being poured on top of you and crawling all over you for 4 minutes. The last stunt was your oppoent is strapped to a bullseye and you are launched 100 feet in the air like a slingshot and you shoot paintballs at him to see who is closest. I think it is a pretty good show. Just wanted to see if anyone watched it last night.  | ||||
| WoundedAngel Absolutely spectacular, and 1337 as hell. | posted on 06-19-2001 @ 12:17 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | I saw Fear Factor last week, when the challnges were to: 1)Get dragged around by horses, in the mud 2)Stay in a box filled with 400 rats for 5 minutes and the final challenge: Climb on a car suspended thousands of feet in the air, at an angle, while water is falling on you--making the surfaces slippery as all hell. Then you had to take the key out of the trunk keyhole, grab a ribbon off the hood and climb back in. I have to admit that I like reality TV, but this has to stop somewhere. The show seems alright but when is enough going to be enough?  | ||||
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