You may be able to watch Fear Factor and eat dinner at the same time. But I wouldn't risk it. The producers of the show say they're going to be doing more stunts and have fewer gross contests when the show launches its new season tonight on NBC. The show became known for making contestants eat pig rectum, cheese full of maggots, and blended rats. Producers have been retooling the show since it went off the air in May, when its ratings went down to about 10 million viewers, as opposed to the 18 million viewers it had in 2004.Other gimmicks to make people watch this season of Fear Factor (I'm not making this up):
- Heist Fear Factor, contestants try to get $1 million out of a submerged armored car.
- Reality Stars Fear Factor, watch reality stars like Twila and Johnny Fairplay from Survivor play against Carmen Rasmusen and Anthony Federov from American Idol.
- Family Fear Factor, because scaring the kids is a good thing, where Shaquille O'Neal hosts as parents and kids perform stunts like jumping out of a helicopter.
- Psycho Fear Factor, where teams compete in the house and hotel where Psycho was filmed.
- Military Fear Factor, girls versus guys where teams compete in military-style stunts on an aircraft carrier.
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12-06-2005 @ 3:58PM
LC said...
I can understand the FEAR part in stunts like being in a cage with whatever creature you fear most, but from most of the promos I have ever scene the show should have been titled Gross Factor. Then again Bill O'Reilly may have that title copywritten.
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12-06-2005 @ 4:00PM
Anna said...
Ha ha, LC! You get some stars for that one.
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12-06-2005 @ 7:32PM
doc said...
This is actually a good idea I think. I have been a fan of Fear Factor since the beginning, but always preferred the stunt portion of the show to the gross-out portion. Last season they really amped up the gross quotient. I would welcome an increase to the crazy stunts. Interesting side note, have you ever noticed that when they drive cars, it is almost always a Camaro? I wonder why that is.
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