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Fear Factor 1/24/05

 Last night was Week Four of the Couples showdown on Fear Factor.  I think they started out with eight couples (can't be sure), and now they're down to five.  I'm not going to review the entire episode, but I am going to say that I was a little pissed by one of the stunts.  The couples had to stick their heads into two plexiglass boxes and backpedal across the floor to four keys; two of which would unscrew the four screws on the box, releasing them.  But this is FF, so you know that there's something squirmy to it.  The man had snakes in his box.  The woman had... 200 tarantulas.

I thought that was totally unfair.  Why did the women have to be enclosed with hairy, scary, hyper little things that could potentially harm them?  Why did the guys get off so easy?  I don't even think it's me, who doesn't have a problem with snakes, and would have gladly done the stunt with them-- I think lots of people would say the stunt was lopsided.

One woman couldn't do it, and backed out.  Another shook and screamed and basically freaked out, but she eventually finished the stunt, although she froze up and her boyfriend had to help her.  She was really crying, and I felt bad for her.  I also know I couldn't handle it, either.  Ugh.  No fair, FF.

Oh, there's also a jackass on there by the name of Randy, who pretty much cost his team a trip to Jamaica and $10,000 because he can't keep his Big. Yap. Shut.  He's really an asshole.  This is supposed to be good television?  All it does is irritate the hell out of me, wonder what his girlfriend sees in him, and wish he was gone.  It's exactly the way I felt watching Jonathan and Victoria (who, hallelujah, got knocked out of The Amazing Race).  I wish producers would realize that the majority of us don't find this kind of behavior amusing.  It's more pathetic.

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#1  25 January 2005 - 08:47

 

The spider thing freaked me out. No way I could have done that--not for any amount of money. You're right, too, the snakes looked so much easier.

I'll be glad when the couples thing is over. I enjoy the show much more when it's just six random people.

I missed Amazing Race last week because of American Idol so I didn't get to see Jonathon and Victoria go bye-bye. I bet the man about had a coronary over that.

StacyT

#2  25 January 2005 - 09:38

 

Actually, he was very calm by the time they got to Phil. I think he knew the writing was on the wall, because part of the 'task' (I don't know what it's officially called yet) required that they lead two donkeys to a certain point, and they only brought one, not realizing until they made it to the checkpoint that they had to go back and get another. But yeah, they were bitching at each other the entire time before that.

I'll probably miss AR tonight. I'm really missing Scrubs.

Back to FF: I was actually looking forward to the Couples editions, but this guy Randy's grating on my nerves, the same way that blonde couple did last year (the jerky ones). Do you think his girlfriend looks like Kelly Clarkson? Every time I see her, I think that.

athenawj

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