Generally dont watch it but yesterday's episode was so gruesome that I just couldn't flip the channel. Usually, people are made to eat ants or lie down with a million rats or spiders or perform similar intellectual asks. Yesterday, the grand prize was a year's free mortgage for which the participants (4 mother and son pairs) had to perform these simple tasks (fastest pair wins):
1) From a murky water filled blocked kitchen sink (drain blocked with hair and garbage) take out a set of keys using their mouths.
2) Open a glass cage filled with vipers with these keys and take out a box (first one has to unscrew a couple of screws holding the box. everyone got bitten).
3) Open the box and transfer 6 scorpions from the box to a bowl...using their mouths.
4) From a bottle of spoilt rotting milk transfer the contents of the bottle to a bowl using a straw.
5) Drive a low sports car alongside a 12 wheel truck at 60mph and 'undertake' the truck..that means cross the truck from underneath and overtake from the other side.
Each of these had to be done by BOTH the mother and son, separately. And ALL of them did all of this, no one failed to complete the agenda. The winner was decided on time. The expressions on the mothers' faces were to be seen to be believed...but they did it all.
I guess mortgage is important to these guys. Personally...i would rather pay my EMIs.
Jun 2, 2006
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Shuv,
It seems the etymology of mortgage is from the french 'mort'=dead and 'gage'=pledge. It doesn't seem surprising then that these morons would put their life on the line for maybe $40K - $50K. Or maybe they know something about the value of their life that we don't know.
As far as the 'pull' of these shows, it's absolutely fascinating (actually quite brilliant) that soneone suddenly figured out that these low-brow shows would be so magnetic that even with a large portion of their viewers being one-timers, (besides of course the die hard fans), just the 'EWWW' factor would be enought to get huge viewer ratings. After all, they don't care about the average IQ of the audience - just the confidence to assure their advertisers that so many million will be watching.
I have practically given up watching non-sports TV because of REALITY TV, but sometimes while channel flipping, I do admit I'll get hooked onto something that I would never admit publicly to having watched. Oh well! I guess I am NOT the smartest person I know.
One of those reasons why I dont watch TV except sports. But time for some football..
finally u commented!! welcome DD
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