would you be willing to confront your
deepest darkest fear for the right price
$50,000 to be exact
that was the promising premise of the
original fear factor a show that
demonstrated how some folks will do
anything to win a bit of extra cash
while Fear Factor isn't a show that
anyone would mistake for prestige TV it
was certainly entertaining particularly
if you like watching people eat super
worms you must consume the 5 earthworms
and the one super warning you must chew
them you cannot swallow them whole the
show originally ran between 2001 and
2006 on NBC before a plunge and ratings
led to its cancellation then it was
unexpectedly brought back to life in
2011 enticing viewers with the promise
of even bigger stunts unfortunately one
of those stunts was perhaps a little too
out there in fact it could safely be
labeled disgusting this particular
challenge occurred in an episode titled
hee haw hee haw and it's very likely the
reason Fear Factor was abruptly
cancelled a second time the episode
never aired in America and there's a
very good reason for that
this is some truly nauseating content
the contestants in this case were three
sets of twins and the challenge involved
gulping down a bunch of fluid which the
show
coyly called quote donkey juice these
were two different bodily fluids one
yellow one white that both came out of a
living breathing presumably mortified
male donkey how much of the stuff did
they need to swallow
well that pesky detail was decided
through an impromptu game of horseshoes
as InTouch Weekly reports the number of
the horseshoe landed on became the
amount of donkey juice they had to drink
in ounces watch out
ooh 24 ounces impressively one member of
each team did indeed guzzle down the
donkey juice and live to tell the tale
unfortunately Fear Factor didn't fare
quite so well on January 30th 2012
deadline published a story that strongly
suggested the writing was on the wall on
January 31st 2012 Bob Greenblatt then
the entertainment chairman of NBC
released a statement to TMZ that read I
reviewed the episode late last week and
decided it was a segment we should not
err perhaps not coincidentally twin
sisters Brynn and Claire oh do so opened
up about their ordeal in an interview
with the cow head show on that exact
same day well yeah I'd say it was the
hardest 15 minutes of my life elsewhere
in the interview of the sisters really
get into the nitty gritty
if you vomited you would have to start
over Oh what I ended up doing was just
vomited in my glass and just drank that
later on one of the oh do soul sisters
revealed the cameramen were vomiting by
May 2012 it was official despite its
impressive ratings Fear Factor had been
cancelled once again the controversial
episode did eventually air in Denmark in
June 2012 but as far as American TV was
concerned Fear Factor was finished
right job but much like Robert De Niro's
character at the end of Cape Fear Fear
Factor simply refused to die in 2017 the
squirm inducing show returned from the
grave once more this time on MTV my
strategy to just try to be as calm as
possible the third incarnation of the
show is hosted by Chris bridges
otherwise known as Ludacris the concept
remains more or less the same but MTV
may be playing it a bit safer this time
around not that there's anything safe
about being buried alive in wet cement
contestants are still giving it their
all getting down and dirty with rats
thrashing around with slithering snakes
and enduring well whatever fresh hell
this happens to be much like previous
versions of Fear Factor each episode is
divided into three equally upsetting
parts first comes beat the beast in
which participants face off with various
creepy crawlies next round is face your
fear which finds contestants confronting
something that frightens them to their
very core as Ludacris explained to GQ we
study what they're really scared of and
try to cater to their worst fears for
what they're going to do challenge wise
it's not mean-spirited but it's fun and
definitely scary the final fear usually
involves some intense physical challenge
and whoever wins final fear finally gets
that $50,000 prize we gotta say all
these stunts look positively PG when
compared to guzzling down several ounces
of you know it seems for most viewers
the only thing to fear is fear factor
itself
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