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Grooch

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I read somewhere that tonight's show is supposed to be the grossest one yet. This might prove it.

I think the cow blood thing is totally disgusting and aren't these people afraid of getting some horrible disease like Mad Cow disease or something else. Ugh.

Car54

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well isn't that something to live for.

Kitt

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You've got to hope all the blood and entrails are thoroughly tested for any diseases, like that poor cow they drank the blood out of in Survivor.

Very very gross indeed. There's a second new show this week, an all women episode which I think is on Wednesday?

Brenda1966

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe they should rename the show "Gross Out Factor" because eating disgusting stuff, to me, is nothing about fear. Gagging and throwing up is not about being afraid, it's about being grossed out. I had always wondered if you were disqualified if you purged after eating all that junk. From last week's episode, it appears not. Two of the people who advanced got sick afterward. It was gross.

Fear is: fear of heights, of the dark, of being underwater, of live bugs/animals crawling on you, etc. Maybe they count fear of vomiting. :(

Tabbyking

Monday, February 03, 2003 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think they just have to get it all down and show an empty mouth and then they can toss their 'oogies'. totally gross food requirements and you are right, it isn't a fear, it's a gross-out on the food stuff.

Conejo

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 05:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Brenda, I've been thinking the same thing since the series started. There is no "fear factor" to this show anymore it's just "gross" and I'm not going to be watching any longer!

Anyone know if any of the contestants have ever became really sick from eating any of this stuff?

Lizadee

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 06:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kitt, I believe they said on the show last night that there will be an all women Fear Factor on tonight (Tues.) 2/4/03

Brenda1966

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 11:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I watched last night becuase there's nothing else on (I guess I'm going to have to turn the TV off and listen to the radio or something instead *gasp*!).

This is the first time I actually gagged while watching this show. The bobbing in blood was beyond disgusting. All 3 of the stunts this show were gross things. The "creators" have lost their creativitiy.

Grooch

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 11:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What were the other stunts?

Brenda1966

Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 11:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The blood bobbing was the first so we got to see all 6 contestants do it! The second one was eating live tomato worms. The third one was a bit scary: the had to crawl through these pitch black tunnels and collect 3 dead skunks. Where the tunnels met there was a pit of water they fell into. It was completely dark and smelly inside.

Pretty boring show overall. No daredevil type stunts.

Adven

Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 09:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm from Atlantic Canada, so we got a different episode. We had to settle for large-breasted women reaching into a tank of electric eels and getting shocked. Very spiritually uplifting. It was kind of like Masterpiece Theatre minus the redeeming social value.

Brenda1966

Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 10:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Adven, that was the second episode of the week. I think we were lucky enough to get two this week, one on Monday and one on Tuesday (which I didn't watch). Gosh, and people thought Chuck Barris's Gong Show was the worst TV could offer -- they hadn't seen anything yet. :)

Denecee

Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG! The last guy doing the blood bath bobbing, scared the bejeezes out of me. The other contestants were backing up. He was going crazy, not getting any of the rings. I thought maybe he was trying out for a horror show. I was scared

Lizadee

Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 07:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Alright I watched the one that was on Tues.night and I was just wondering do you all think that it is a prerequisit (sp) that all girls wear sexy sports bras and have a huge chest ??
The show they had on Tues.night was all women
Did anyone see this ?

Kitt

Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 03:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Liz, I think the sexy sports bras are requisite, the implants are just considered a bonus. I just don't get these women, do they really want the first thing anybody notices about them, to be their chest? I guess they do. I've nothing against implants, but why have them bigger than your head??

Rslover

Monday, February 10, 2003 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't you think these outfits are very strange. In doing all these crazy stunts wouldn't you make sure nothing pops out? I also thought the "all female" show was not as hard as usual.

Ryn

Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Couples show tonight - 4 couples...

Rslover

Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was so happy when that big talk no action couple got canned. It was an Asian girl and her boyfriend who was making fun of the "older couple" - 32/34. How ironic that the older and married couples did better. I never root for the cocky and mean people.

Pamy

Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 08:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree RS, I bet that couple is not together any more. I loved that both married couples won. Was it me or did the one wife look a little like Marsha Brady?

Calico

Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 06:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
one of the wifes looked like Elisabeth from Survivor.

Crossfire

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 05:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG! Tonight is looking pretty scary. They are getting pierced by ten needles...each progressively larger than the previous.

Wilsonatmd

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 06:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
next weeks ep should be good...they're going to Vegas...and I know a couple of things...

-two of the stunts were taped before a crowd, the first time ever that they've done that.

-the winner of the show will win nothing to $100K....as they have to bet at least $25K of their winnings on a blackjack hand...but they can bet more if they choose to.

Pamy

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That sounds cool!

Juju2bigdog

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They are certainly pushing the envelope on the things they are doing on that show. I was minding my own business watching Celebrity get me out of here, when Bigdog burst in from the other room to announce that they have gone too far on Fear Factor, which he was watching (I think he just watches for the big bosoms). He was totally grossed over the piercing with needles. I ran out to look at it, and about lost my dinner. Ick!

Wilsonatmd

Monday, March 03, 2003 - 09:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well it was a little disturbing, but remember:

-They were strapped in only to protect themselves...if they thrashed around, the needles could break within them, and it would be dangerous. It also looks better anyway for the cameras.

-The first female contestant(who ended up winning) delibrately tried to make it look like she was more scared than she actually was with the crying, so the other woman that was left might not do the stunt (she had said her biggest fear was needles; it didn't work cause she did, but the other woman failed to do stunt 3 of 4 tonight, the gross food stunt of eating maggoty cheese, in fact, all 5 players left did the needles, but only 2 did the cheese; two of the three men didn't even attempt it). Part of the show is psyching out your opponents.

-there wasn't a lot of blood, the place on the arm where they were pierced wasn't too vital.

-they test every stunt throughly before it goes on TV, so someone from the show had to go thru it first.

-the needles were sterilized, each contestant had their own set, and the person putting the needles in was a professional.

That all being said...I wouldn't do it. I hate needles. A lot of people do as well, and that's why this stunt may seem to "go over the line" to some....it sparks a legit fear within them, as opposed to the usual reactions to some stunts ("gross" or "that's impossible" or "not even if you paid me")