Grooch | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:19 pm     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     Well isn't that something to live for. |
Kitt | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:59 pm     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     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     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     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     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     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     What were the other stunts? |
Brenda1966 | Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 11:35 am     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     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     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     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     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     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     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     Couples show tonight - 4 couples... |
Rslover | Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 07:39 am     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     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     one of the wifes looked like Elisabeth from Survivor. |
Crossfire | Monday, March 03, 2003 - 05:27 pm     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     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     That sounds cool! |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, March 03, 2003 - 08:52 pm     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     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") |