Although I was highly amused when I first saw this, I couldn't even sit through the youtube video without getting bored by it.  If the show can't even remain new, original and entertaining for a 10 minute youtube video, how is it going to remain new, original and entertaining for an entire season of 30-minute shows?

idk, it might not be that bad.  i just watched a few on youtube and maybe i'm just twisted but i liked watching people fall in the water or actually topple the game piece over on themselves.  i have a feeling we'll get a lot more of that here.

I haven't seen Idiocracy and I'm not saying that I don't think this game show idea isn't extremely stupid.  While I wouldn't stay home to watch it though I would probably laugh my ass off at some 400 pound man getting stuck in a body cutout for a 200 pound man.  Again, though, I am a little twisted.    It sounds a lot better than much of this forced drama of reality TV.

Come to think of it, those funniest home videos shows still seem to be on once in a while and most of those are nothing but mishaps.

im not sure who im more upset at...

Fox, for creating ANOTHER retarded program, amid hundreds of other retarded programs

OR...

Hamby, somebody who we have come to expect a modicum of intelligence from... admitting to watch (and subsequently, fall alseep infront of) Baseball

Shame on your Hamby, shame on you for watching that filth

Well, the idea is kind-of neat. It's the implementation that sucks.

The suits are strictly there to appeal to our baser natures, the morning radio show sounds are just irritating and the fact that competitors are chosen who are likely to simply screw-up and get knocked into the water is meant to appeal to fan of simple-minded slapstick - but I can't help but feel the show would have some merit if they took away the silly bucket of water, outfits and sound effects, and put in contestents who knew what they were doing. Some of the shapes looked like they would be interesting to watch people surmount - but it's not very interesting if all they actually ever do is get knocked into a pool of water.

...Says the girl in the wheelchair.

See, Shell? Now you and I have to sign-up for the show as a doubles team - me wearing the hat and my trenchcoat, you in your wheelchair - and we'll see how creative we can get to pass through some of the puzzles.

Aw, come on, it's just a game show. A bit silly, but aren't they supposed to be like that? And I think I have seen worse- like Big Brother. Now the country where thát was invented must be truly retarded... and I live there

dude, i'm so there... i've already gone in a hot tub with the chair (and unfortunately clothes.)  this would be awesome.  well, as long at i don't have to pass a breathalyzer test before you get on stage because i did need a few shots before the hot tub thing seemed like a good idea.

Here is another 'idiocracy' type show - This wins my award for stupidest.

HURL

The premise is; eat as much as you can for 5 minutes then subject yourself to a merry-go-round, tilt a whirl or any other device that the participant can be placed on and be twirled round and round....

if the contestant survives the 5 minutes twirling, they must then go back to eating for another 5 minutes, then back to the twirling. The show basically goes on like this until someone "Hurls". Last person standing that hasn't lost his/her cookies wins.

Take a trip through the Midwest...watch the vapid, expressionless faces of the non-thinking as they attempt to make change of a dollar. Just today I was walking through midtown Manhattan noticing people just meandering about...Christ in a corset...The cro-magnon sloped foreheads...the protruding brows...the hairy knuckles dragging on the sidewalk...I swear most of them were two steps above primates...Sometimes I feel like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes "Its a Madhouse!"

and *then*...that ignominious dolt, Dr. Phil has the Rev TD Jakes on his show...met with rousing applause...Where is the apocolypse when you need it?

George Carlin put it best "Think of how stupid someone with average intelligence is, and realize half the people are dummer than that."

To quote Joseph Merrick AKA The Elephant Man:  I am not an animal!

I remember walking up to a building one day that had a sign on the door stating, "No animals allowed".  I stood there for several minutes wondering why humans would build such a thing that we wouldn't even allow ourselves to use.

Heck, I've never been able to shake either.  Not that I want to. 

But anyway, this show reminds me of something from a Terry Gilliam film, maybe Brazil. 

Oh now.  You just have a major phobia about vomiting, Kelly.  Give it a chance, will ya?

Rich Woods

"Take a trip through the Midwest...watch the vapid, expressionless faces of the non-thinking as they attempt to make change of a dollar. Just today I was walking through midtown Manhattan noticing people just meandering about...Christ in a corset...The cro-magnon sloped foreheads...the protruding brows...the hairy knuckles dragging on the sidewalk...I swear most of them were two steps above primates...Sometimes I feel like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes "Its a Madhouse!"........"

Shit, you were probably seeing my family.

These TV shows are awful enough to compel a poor, orthodox and asketic Muslim to get dressed in TNT and go to send at least some of these mfkers to Jahannam. Me too, almost. It depicts people, who are so rich, fat, and stupid, that they are like an all-consuming bacteria colony, while the other half of the world starves. People like us, or our neighbours. (choose what fits) Without every one such a TV show, the world would be a bit better place, they don't do any good. (except of the charitative ones, of course)
I know, it's just a drop in a sea of piss, but every such a thing reminds me still again why the commercialism is more dangerous than atomic bomb.
Japan invented this shit and made America pay for it, probably as another round of Japanese reality show called "Invent a stupid TV show and sell it to Americans"
If there will be any better world, there surely won't be a commercial "junk fun" like this.

Edit: I admit, the show HURL is far more deranged than that, but also it's a boasting with a crime. Public, organized wasting of food, which could save many lives. Isn't that sick? Where is the traditional American call for morality, which is so loud when a human being dares to show a 100% natural bare ass or tits in the public?

I'm really good at basic math, and I would be very confused if you gave me $7.17 for a bill of $6.82.  Then again, I come from the days when pay phones were all over, and they took a quarter.  I suppose these days, maybe $0.35 is the price of a stamp, or maybe a gumball at the grocery store...

Anyway, I can't tell you how much pleasure I'm getting from being snarky and pointing out basic mistakes in the thread about Idiocracy.

So, you trade four coins for two... hmmm... interesting approach.  I'll admit, the thought never would have occurred to me.  I guess it never crossed my mind that there are people with pockets so full of change that they need to reduce encumbrance that way.  Out of curiosity, I did the math:

Penny - 2.5g

Nickel - 5g

Dime 2.27g

Quarter - 5.67g

Dime + nickel + penny + penny = 2.5+2.5+5+2.27 = 12.27g

Quarter + dime = 5.67 + 2.27 = 7.94g

Your overall reduction of encumbrance is 4.33g.  I'm led to believe by reliable internet sources that an average pair of adult men's jeans weighs approximately 1.9 lbs. 

1.9 lbs = 861.826g

4.33g / 861.826g = 0.005024216 (I used a calculator for this part.) or 0.05% of your total encumbrance, assuming you are not wearing a belt or carrying keys, wallet, paper money, or assorted pocket lint.

The median income for 2006 in the U.S. was $24,325.  Assuming a 40 hour work week with fifty work weeks, we come up with an hourly wage of $12.16.  Working on the assumption that you could be working instead of standing in front of a cashier, we can do some more math.  Supposing that it takes the cashier five minutes to ask you if you meant to give her that amount of change, ring it in wrong, pull out the wrong amount, check her figures, call a manager, void the transaction, ring it up again, pause contemplatively for several seconds, and finally give you correct change, you've wasted 1/12 of an hour, or $1.01 in the effort to reduce your encumbrance by 0.05%.

While I question the effectiveness of your strategy, I must confess, I can't deny the math.

All snottiness aside, I own a restaurant, and I can't remember seeing anyone do this.  The times are changing, apparently.  Considering that on an average day, 65% of my transactions are credit cards, and that the tip jar is usually the destination for any loose change left over from a cash transaction, it makes sense that nobody would exchange coins the way you're talking about.

Anyway, thanks for indulging me in my little jest.  It has brightened my day to engage in completely pointless bickering for a few minutes.

ummm, guys - 35 cents is the amount needed to make a call at a payphone.

[edit: and if you're giving the cashier $7.17, i would assume you had 2 nickels or 10 pennies rather than a dime in there... otherwise you would pay with $7.07 and use the dime you already have, right?]

Well, now that's a very good observation...

Actually, my county is one of the poorest ones in the nation.  We have 31% below the poverty line, and a median income of 22k.  (It's only that high because it's a big college sports town, and all of the coaches are making 6 figures plus.  My restaurant does tip sharing, and when the manager divides up the tips, she cashes in all the change in the jar, giving as many bills as possible.  When our change bag gets full, we swap it at the bank, although it's curious to me how seldom that happens.  Apparently the change drawer and the tip jar have got some kind of bizarre equilibrium going.

While we're talking about this, it has never occurred to me that people would pay at a tanning salon with change.  Again, I'm in a town with a 1A state college, so it's kind of a dichotomous place.  The actual residents here are very poor, but most of the students have Daddy's Money.  Most of the tanning in this town is done by rich sorostitutes who have an American Express, paid by their family every month.