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Ryn

Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 09:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm - weel - I have this listed on the TV Times area so we still need a discussion area for it....

Denecee

Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 12:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anybody on here watch last night's show? OMG! The one girl who would not shut the blank up!! She was very rude to the guy that fell off the last step of the ladder. I hope she realizes how bad she appeared on nat'l t.v. I laughed so hard when she had to eat the water buffalo penis after she was talking smack to the other girl.

Kitt

Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Could anyone tell me who won last night's episode? I had to turn over at 9o/c after the second girl freaked over the scorpions. Did they bring all three back for the final, and if so, who won the money?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can enlighten me!

Neko

Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 02:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They brought all three back to the final.
The guy and the two girls.

They had to do a rock climbing challange on a wall that was rotating and getting faster each time.

Guy went first - Time 1:05 minutes
One woman went next - Time 57 seconds or something
Horsing Riding, Bull Riding Women went next - Time 1:07.

So she won by 2 seconds. It was very close since she had to hold on with her hands for those 2 seconds since it had flipped on her..

Kitt

Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 04:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sounds tricky! Thanks very much for the info, I hate not to know who won :).

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 09:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kitt, the guy won $25,00 because of the two girls dropping out on the scorpions. Then they brought back the two girls for the final competition, and the three of them competed for the remaining $25,000.

I felt sorry for the first girl who got eliminated on the burning building scenario. She beat every one of the guys' times.

Halfunit

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 05:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Weenie roast !!!!

Weinermr, don't watch the show tonight.

Tabbyking

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 12:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
how gross was that?! that girl gagging made me laugh out loud, especially after all her trash talking to the other gal while the other gal was penis-eating. oops, guess we can't say 'peanuts' on here...we'll see if it's edited out. anyway, i had a feeling it would be something along the same line as last week, where they had to eat reindeer balls. my husband, who had never seen the show before, turned positively green and left the room :>)

Denecee

Tuesday, December 17, 2002 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, that show was a repeat but I had to watch it again. The loud mouth girl made me laugh so hard both times, especially during the last stunt. She's screaming "How do I do this?" She was down right mean to that guy that fell. I'm glad the Waco guy won. I would rather eat what they had to eat(wieners) than some of the other stuff I have seen on Fear Factor like the ostrich egg (raw) ewwwww! or the live beetles yuck!

Car54

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Missouri NBC Affiliate Pulls 'Fear Factor'
Wed, Jan 8, 2003 05:01 PM PDT

by Rick Porter
Zap2it, TV News

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - An NBC affiliate in Missouri pre-empted Monday's (Jan. 6) episode of "Fear Factor," in which contestants were asked to eat a horse's rectum.

Mike Scott, president and general manager of KYTV in Springfield, Mo., says the decision was made Monday. He acknowledges that the stunt show regularly pushes the envelope of good taste, but the horse-rectum stunt "seemed over the line."

"I don't look at it as censorship," Scott tells Zap2it. "Our station has an image that we try to develop in the community, and this didn't fit with what we want to portray." Scott also says he thought the episode should have carried a stronger rating than the TV-PG it was assigned.

KYTV made the decision to pull the episode Monday. Because of the abbreviated time the station had to find replacement programming, Scott says, reruns of old shows "Dragnet" and "McHale's Navy" ended up running in its place.

Scott says he notified NBC of the decision, and the network didn't object. The station's affiliate contract allows it to pre-empt programming it deems unsuitable, Scott says.

Viewers seem to agree with the decision. As of Wednesday (Jan. 8), response to KYTV was running about 60-40 in favor, Scott says. In hindsight, however, he says he might have aired the episode in late night so viewers would at least have some chance to see it.

NBC has no comment on the matter.

Springfield is a city of about 150,000 in southern Missouri. KYTV serves about 400,000 households in the country's 73rd-largest TV market.

KYTV's removal of the show didn't have much effect on the national ratings. "Fear Factor" had its best performance since March 2002, drawing 15.1 million viewers.

Brenda1966

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 11:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
That is beyond absurd. I'm sure they air crime dramas where people are killed, but to air a show where someone eats a part of a horse we don't normally eat is too much? Nonsense. Maybe he should pull all shows and commercials that show people consuming meat of any kind -- something that is offensive to many peta/vegetarian types. This is laughable.

Crossfire

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh man, talk about a rump roast, I am almost glad I missed that episode.

I'm usually bouncing around the room in a fit of heebeegeebies (however you spell it heh) when they have to eat...unusual things.

Halfunit

Thursday, January 09, 2003 - 10:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, now we know your weakness Crossfire!

Crossfire

Friday, January 10, 2003 - 09:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh yeah, I would do very, very poorly on the reality circuit based on what I am willing to put in my mouth. :)

Tvjunkie

Monday, January 13, 2003 - 08:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'd have to agree some of the stuff they have to eat ...well ok, ALL of the stuff they have to eat makes me sick. The worst one for me was when they ate brain. It gave the the heaves and I actually ran to the bathroom gaging thinking I was going to puke (I didn't). I think I was eating while watching it, guess that wasn't a smart idea!
horsepoop The horse ass they ate last week was pretty gross too!


Wow! This was the first FF I've ever watched where everyone was actually nice to each other!
It was kind of refeshing to not hear someone talking smack the entire show.

Laura11103

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 01:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They got off soooooooooooo easy w/ that transfering the frozen rat challenge. If I had been on a previous FF and had eaten something nasty I'd be PO'd!

Tabbyking

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 02:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think the horse's rectum just about wrecked 'em. ick, ick, ick.
but i wasn't eating anything while it was on, thank heaven!!
all i could think of was a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy and hoped they had 'been cleaned out' as it were before they were ingested!
my kids said they had to eat a pig's uterus in one that i fortunately missed. i thought the penises were awful, too. but remember, 'the penis mightier than the sword'...

Kitt

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wonder who thought up that rolling log stunt? Do they try these things out? I wouldn't have thought anyone but Jackie Chan could have completed that.

Next week apparently they get a nice assortment of goodies, including those gross eggs with the ducklings still in them :(.

Sia

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Somehow I missed the episode of FF where the horse's behind was served up to the contestants, thank goodness. It isn't that they're eating parts of animals that I find objectionable; it's that the parts of the animals they're eating are highly objectionable. FF airs at 8:00 in my time zone, and my four- and six-year-old are still awake at that time. We only get network TV. And even if I am consciously avoiding NBC when the show is on, there are constant promos for the show at all hours of the day and night. My six-year-old asked me, "Mom, what's a rectum?"

As I say, it's not so much that they're eating parts of animals, it's more that I find having to explain which animal parts are being eaten to my little kids that I find unreasonable. The show just goes beyond the bounds of good taste; it certainly can't qualify for family entertainment. If extreme stunts comprised all three segments of the show I would have less of a problem with FF.

The crime dramas that re-enact in gory detail horrible, violent homicides are off my list, too! TV is just not good family entertainment any more. There's too much negative content that has an adverse effect on my family for me to want to keep the set switched on very much these days. I hope things will change again one day.

Chance

Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 03:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a question....does fear factor have a rule that you can't be on the show unless you're under 30? (except for celebrity versions) I have NEVER seen anyone who looks older than 20 something.

Calico

Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 08:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
there were a couple of 30's people in FF.

Lauram

Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think their only rule is that the women must wear TIGHT sleeveless (preferably halter) tops

Kitt

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Why is it that at least two out of the three women are always... augmented? Does that accurately represent the women who apply for the show I wonder...

That pizza.....eurrrrghhhhhhhk. I think that was far worse than the animal parts, that blood sauce, I just couldn't watch.

Brenda1966

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 02:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kitt, is it because 2 out of every 3 women in L.A. or Hollywood have implants?! :) (My apologies to my California friends here.)

I also wonder if it's a requirement that they wear a bikini. I think I'd want to wear a whole piece while I was performing a stunt -- that way I could concentrate on the stunt and not worry about losing my suit.

I agree, that blood on the pizza was far worse than Horse rear.

Cablejockey

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tonite's show has contestants bobbing for something in 50 gallons of cow blood. Too much blood on this show, I like the stunts where you have to climb something or drive a car into the air.