Wipeout

Has anyone seen Wipeout? It is a reality game show that has many difficult obstacle courses that smacks the contestants on their butt, faces and other parts of their bodies!! Ouch! Ouch! Double ouch!!! If they are not successful with their quest, they end up in the pool of mud or water!!!! It is not funny, but it is funny to see them drop like a rag doll on the mud or water and get hit on the face!!!!! What do you mean it is not funny, but funny??? Well, you should not laugh when someone gets smack in the face or falls in the water, right? But it is also funny to see someone splash into a pool of mud, and gets mud from his face to his feet, right??? There you go!! And the contestants keep coming for more punishment one after another!!! That seems like a punishment to me, but they endure everything for the smell of $50,000!!! They hit every part of their bodies on the contraption before they even fall into the water! Does that sound exciting??? You bet!!! But it is not for the faint of heart!!! What do you mean?? Well, it is a real physical challenge, and if you are not physically fit, I do not think that you can survive!!! I imagine that the contestants probably get a seal of approval from their doctor and sign a waiver from the producers of the show before they become a contestant!!! Right????

Let us talk first about the three hosts of the show. Jill Wagner, who interviews the contestants on the obstacle course. I find her very pretty, funny and witty! Jill is from Winston- Salem, North Carolina and has had many Hollywood stints under her belt which included a role in MTV'S hit series Punk'd, and TV's Blade. The Series! Her greatest exposure was in 2005 when she became the Lincoln Mercury spokesperson!!! No wonder she looked familiar!!! John Henson, from Stamford, Connecticut, who has received 3 Emmy award nominations. He is an actor, writer and former host of E! Entertainment television Talk Soup! He also has his own production company, Skunk Boy Inc. John Anderson, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, who competed in high jump in college! He used to be ESPN News anchor. Very impresssive qualifications for the hosts of this terrifying, gut wrenching, zany reality show!!!!

What are some of the obstacle courses that the contestants have to endure??? First, there is a qualifying round for all 24 contestants. It starts with 4 huge red balls that you have to go through to go to the next round! Very, very few has accomplished this feat!! The daring contestants usually end up in the pool of water! Some other obstacle courses are the double cross, pitch fork, smack wall sweeper, and fence flapper, to name a few. The contestants then have to go to a second round. At this point, they are really tired. One of the obstacle course was enduring being hit on the head by suitcases or boxes being thrown by the Wipeout crew from the top while standing on a spinning carousel. The four surviving contestants then get a shot to go to the finals and winning the prize money of $50,000!!! I think the prize money is too small, considering the punishment the contestants have to endure!!! Yes!!! That is too cheap, don't you guys think so??? Maybe, for the contestants, it is not really the money they are after for, but the crown of being Wipeout champion!!! After all, this is really the survival of the fittest!! You have to have balls and a real hunger to compete ahd show the world that you can survive any obstacle course that comes your way!!!!

I was really, really surprised that the winner on the last episode of the show was a woman!!!! This shows that women are not after all, the weakest of the human species!!! Men can be beaten by a woman, when a woman sets her mind to it, especially with a sugar rush!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Go, girl!!!
Posted by vs at 6/25/2010 8:11 AM Add Comment