Just how desperate are those people who go on "Fear Factor" anyway?

[Deja Q]

Grand prize for one winner: $50,000.

Sans ~$25,000 in taxes.

That's $25,000 for the winner.

The losers get nothing.

What do people do to win such a small amount of money?

Eating rotten bits of animals covered in various sorts of slime. The Christmas episode is still my favorite as they had to eat reindeer testicles covered in a sauce I'd rather not have had described, but they did say the sauce had lots of ants in it.

And how many of these folks get sick afterward? And more importantly, why aren't those scenes being taped because that would be a ratings smash for NBC... and now I'm off to scurry to the patent office so I can make the creator's claim before they try it... :rofl:

[pokerfan]

1. I knew a kid in grade school

who would eat anything for $5. It's pretty much the same deal.

I would attempt most of the actual stunts on the show but not the ones that expose myself to viruses, bacteria and parasites. The show would be better if it just kept to stunts.

[bridgit]

2. way to desperate for me...

x(

[Parrcrow]

3. Relief from credit card debt and boob jobs

That's what they all seem to need the money for.

[Deja Q]

5. Credit cards are one thing (they're a social norm), but b00b jobs?

No way. Not that I've seen the show lately, but I thought that was more a Springer thing...

[Mutley]

4. I cannot watch that whacked out show...

:shudder:

:scared: