Stumbled onto a new game show called “The Chamber” on Fox (of course). Sort of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire in Hell!”, the show asks contestants general knowledge questions while they are strapped into a torture chamber. They are either frozen with jets of cold water and ice, or roasted with flames and high winds. They are also shaken, rotated and shocked with electric stimulators.
Welcome to network TV, 2002.
“The Running Man” and “Series 7” can’t be far off. And as you might expect, I also saw a promo tonight on ABC for a similar show called “The Chair.”
Oh my sweet lord.
wasn’t that the SIMPSONS episode when they went to Japan?? they had to get the airline tickets while crossing over a volcano?
By the way, I was really kidding when I said this was the best show ever.
yeah, but ‘The Chair’ has John McEnroe… c’mon…it’s McEnroe!
A lot of Japanese gameshows are just like that episode of the Simpsons — “In America you are rewarded for knowledge,…but in Japan you are punished for ignorance.”
I saw one where people had to get into a tub of scalding water. The goal was to stay in for as long as you could stand. However long you stayed in (say 4 seconds) you got airtime at the end of the show to pitch your product or business.
Look on the bright side, as the game shows get more and more life-threatening eventually natural selection will take care of the people who want to be on them. Then the producers, lacking in contestants, will all have to go creative again and give us magificent stuff like “Everybody Loves Raymond” or “Glory Days.”
After having watched only ten minutes of this show, I can just say that I’m not conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Nor am I easily scared. But this makes me have NO hope for humanity, and that detracts from the surprising little I already have!!!
I agree 100% with the thought of “Running Man” looking like it although I’ve never seen “Series 7″…
And Moira, I agree with the bit about natural selection too…
Maybe the millions of self-professed christians were right. This country is going to complete and total chaos.
Someone needs to
Cancel
This
Show.
NOW.