Right about this time of year, most of the true children of the nineties are graduating from four years of Hell and preparing for a lifetime of also Hell, this time sans meal plan and floor meetings. Take a break from job-hunting and crying about student loans, children, and join me in wading in this pool of nostalgia, for your dreams have finally come true. Yes, yes. It looks like Nickelodeon's totally awesome sports challenge show, GUTS, is coming back.Now, before people get way too excited, keep two things in mind. First of all, you're probably way too old to climb the Aggro-Crag with the gazelle-like grace you once had. Secondly, the format has changed a bit. Remember how Double Dare turned into Family Double Dare and it was extra-embarrassing for Daddy when he had to go back to the office on Monday with Gak in his hair, nineties kid I'm pretending to talk to? Well, prepare for more of that, because this resurrection will be called My Family's Got GUTS and will air this fall on Nick at Nite. On the show, three teams of two parents and two kids will face off in four different sports-inspired challenges. I hear the promise of it being humiliating for all involved, which is why I fully intend to watch.
Since I'm sure Mike O'Malley is still busy doing sitcoms I don't like, the show is searching for a host to oversee the challenges, which will take place at Universal Studios Florida. No word on whether or not they will find another adorable English woman to put on an ill-fitting referee shirt and blow a whistle every once in a while.
That's all the 90s news for now, kids. Now, go cut that hair and find a job. Seriously, eating Top Ramen everyday outside of a dorm room environment isn't thrifty, it's sad.
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5-10-2008 @ 2:06PM
Oreo said...
BOOOOOOOOOOO!
I want regular Guts, screw this family crap.
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5-10-2008 @ 2:48PM
Drago Dracini said...
*vader* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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5-10-2008 @ 2:49PM
Don-Don said...
I prefer Legend of the Hidden Temple
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5-10-2008 @ 2:52PM
Oreo said...
No one ever won on that show, and the rock face was creepy and hit on people. :)
5-10-2008 @ 2:55PM
JW said...
Yes, regular GUTS and Legend of the Hidden Temple rocked! I cannot believe how long ago that was, I was probably 6 or 7 then. I hated the Global GUTS, and Family Double Dare. I guess Nick feels the need to compete with NBC's American Gladiators even though it's not for families.
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5-10-2008 @ 3:19PM
MCW said...
YAY! BRING BACK MO!!!!
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6-24-2008 @ 11:09PM
tingrin87 said...
wait - Mike O'Malley has been on Earl, as the bowling cop...
you don't like Earl??
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5-10-2008 @ 5:59PM
Caroline said...
my head just exploded...i LOVED that show when I was little and one of my goals was to get a piece of that damn agrocrag...along with being in the video challenge on nick arcade and having my family being on double dare. YES
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5-10-2008 @ 6:22PM
TVGenius said...
Yeah, original DD was much better. I expect Family GUTS to suck about as much as My Dad's Better Than Your Dad. I liked LotHT, but the temple run at the end was awfully complicated, and most kids got lost or confused.
I stumbled across some Finders Keepers replaying on Nick GAS a few years back, and that was interesting... I barely remembered the original show.
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5-10-2008 @ 11:35PM
kickit said...
The temple run at the end of LotHT always used to scare me! Whenever those crazy people would come out and capture the kids, and they'd have to give em that piece of the symbol or whatever... used to scare the crap out of me. That and "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
GUTS was def my favorite show when I was a little youngster. I remember my teacher ask me what my favorite show was and I said GUTS and she didn't understand and must have thought I was talking about some surgery show or something lol.
Great times in those 90s we had.
5-11-2008 @ 12:00AM
BJ said...
Well, I'll watch anything that has anything to do with one of my favourite shows once.
I'll give this new "Family GUTS" a fair shake, and if it leads to putting the ORIGINAL version of GUTS on iTunes (and hopefully without the godawful way they put the original American Gladiators on iTunes in totally inappropriate "Six-Packs"), then I'm all for it!
BJ
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5-12-2008 @ 7:32PM
Sam said...
Haha, YES, I'm all for bringing back the 90's! Definitely was the best time to be a kid. I've realized though that recreations are NEVER as good as the original.
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