Finish your drink: you find yourself not wanting to punch the host in the mouth3. Two drinks: someone fails to grasp the concept and refuses the money. Two drinks: some idiot goes 0/5 on their questions. One drink: a contestant seems to catch on to what’s happening to them. One drink: someone wins $20 on a one question bumper before a commercial break. To alleviate the drudgery of people getting way too excited over winning a Benjamin, give these new rules a try: You know, I make $6.50 an hour… I could really use that $100… This was accomplished by having the host masquerade as the totally believable roles of “Hollywood Agent” or “Man Getting Married at Taco Bell”. To make up for the fact that you could win double their budget by coming in third in Wheel of Fortune, they attempted “comedy”. Oblivious, on the other hand, gave most contestants a maximum of $100, with one special segment per episode worth up to a whole $500 dollars. Most game shows that reward knowledge offer sports cars, thousands of dollars or the chance to hug Bob Barker as prizes. Supposedly, the original version of the show would have the host rob the contestant for incorrect answers but it was deemed “lawsuit bait” by the Spike legal department. The host, Regan Burns, would pose as some supposedly inconspicuous individual and ask people questions in public, awarding $20 per correct answer at the end. The brainstorming session for the show mostly revolved around taking tapes of Jeopardy and Hidden Camera and trying to get them to mate. Oblivious billed itself as “the gameshow that you don’t even know you’re on”. Finish your drink: if the creators ever secure another job. Two drinks: if you catch yourself moaning in sympathy. Two drinks: when a joke is unfunny and offensive. One drink: when a contestant looks like they’ll be permanently injured. One drink: when someone says “Right you are”, “Indeed!” or “Baba ghanoush”. To lessen the tedium of the parade of nut shots and lacerations, follow this handy guide: Nothing entertains like a compound fracture. Popular segments included having people getting hurt, people getting seriously injured, and people making fun of people getting hurt/seriously injured. Removing anything remotely related to Japanese culture, the creators instead crammed sex and pop culture references into every line of dialogue like some two-bit internet list comedy writer. A handful of voice actors took the roles of two announcers, field reporter “Guy LeDouche” and the contestants. The show ran for five seasons and 81 episodes, and was probably massively profitable. Since the show they use for fodder, Takeshi’s Castle, is designed to make contenders complete real life obstacle courses based on video games, it offers a unique blend of parody and physical pain. The show dubs over and edits footage from one of Japan’s notoriously-painful-for-contestants gameshows. Originally, the show was titled Most Extreme Elimination Challenge until it was deemed “too hard to slur to your friends over a Jägerbomb”. 
MXC was one of Spike TV’s first hits and a guilty pleasure for millions.
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