One of my regular blog haunts is the game show news site BuzzerBlog, and when I logged into it today and saw this post, I couldn't believe my eyes: FOX and Fremantle Media are apparently putting together an American version of the popular Japanese game show Hole in the Wall. I was so flabbergasted that I had to see who else reported on it; sure enough, it was right there in Variety for all to see.If you're not sure what Hole in the Wall is, take a look at the video after the jump. Basically, it's a game of human Tetris: contestants have to bend themselves into the shape of a cutout on a fast-approaching wall. If they do it in time, they go through the wall. If they don't, the wall pushes them into a pool of water. That's it. That's the whole game.
Well, maybe. Actually, a recent study showed older women who cite
daytime dramas and talk shows as their favorite shows to watch did not score as well as those who listed
other shows. However, Dr. Joshua Fogel of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, the man who conducted
the tests, was quick to point out this doesn't mean there's a direct link between stupid daytime shows and actually
being stupid. Heck, if seeing stupid things on TV actually made you stupid this whole blog would be completely
unreadable since we'd all be drooling and banging on our keyboards with our foreheads. Anyway, the research hasn't
really proved anything, except their MIGHT be a connection between the shows we choose to watch and our own cognitive
ability. Well, I know Grover's demonstration of "near" and "far" has helped me tremendously with my
grasp of spatial relations, so maybe they're right.
A recent survey conducted by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum
revealed that those surveyed knew more about The Simpsons than they did about the Constitution. When asked,
more people could name characters from the show than could name any of the five freedoms upheld by the First Amendment.
That would be freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, freedom of speech, and freedom to
petition. Of course, you guys already knew that. My thoughts on this are that such surveys are meaningless. It's not
that hard to find people who know more about one thing than something else. 
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