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DrBear:
Having heard about but never seen it, it wasn't as frantic as I thought it would be; sort of a cross between Cram and Jackass with a politically incorrect veneer.

This is either going to be a huge summer hit or will finish dead last (or at least, not counting Pax.)

Just don't take it seriously.

cyberjoek:
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Couldn't resist
-Joe Kavanagh

Peter Sarrett:
I absolutely loved it, but was a little ticked at the \"pick a lady\" game.  They cheated.  You can visually tell the red woman apart from the others-- she's got a Princess Leia-like bun on her left (viewer's right) side.  And I watched it multiple times, including slow motion, just to be sure.  I tracked her, and know which of the three she was when they all stopped.  And yet the red underwear turned out to be on a different woman.  There's no doubt about it-- the woman they told us to watch wound up in position X, and then they revealed the woman in position Y to be wearing the red.

There's absolutely no reason for them to cheat on this, so why did they do it?  This kind of dishonesty bugs me, even in a farce like this.

  - Peter

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Peter Sarrett\' date=\'Jul 14 2003, 12:14 AM\'] I absolutely loved it, but was a little ticked at the "pick a lady" game.  They cheated. [/quote]
 She WAS in the middle, wasn't she? I thought she was. You have to understand, they do that same gig at the baseball and hockey games up here (ball under the cap, puck under the helmet, respectively), and I NEVER lose. EVER.

I enjoyed the show thoroughly, too, but I'm also a fan of Iron Chef, so the whole faux-stereotypical Japanese thing busts me up EVERY time. But yer right, you KNOW are frathouses and bars around the country where people are watching and actually dropping money, and they owe it to the viewer to \"keep it honest\" in situations like this. (Especially because NOT doing so didn't add a THING to the skit one way or the other.)

Matt Ottinger:

--- Quote ---But yer right, you KNOW are frathouses and bars around the country where people are watching and actually dropping money
--- End quote ---
Oh, sweet God, I hope not.  Anybody who takes this any more seriously than the animated \"races\" on a Jumbotron between innings really is clueless and deserves whatever he gets.

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