- How far would you go for some prize money?
There have been a lot of things that've
been aired on television.
Some good and a lot bad,
but on the bad end, some reality shows
take it to a whole 'nother level.
- I still love you.
(man wailing)
- The following reality shows actually exist,
and when you find out what these people
had to do and what was done to them,
it's going to make Survivor look like a walk in the park.
Here are 10 Reality TV Shows You Won't Believe Exist.
Number one is Dadagiri.
Premiering on June 9, 2008, in India,
Dadagiri ran for four seasons and has been
called the meanest show on Indian television.
Described as a competition that requires
physical strength, brains and raw courage,
the show took four ex-students and brought them,
metaphorically, back to their first day of college,
and it's just ugly.
The show was complete with bullies who would
torment them and ridicule them for being dumb
and insult their appearance and personalities
and even physically attack them.
Every round, someone would be eliminated
and then would be forced to eat disgusting
meals like maggotaroni and cheese out of a toilet.
(gagging)
But it was one particular incident that
gained the show international attention,
when a female challenger slapped one of the male
contestants who, in turn, slapped her back.
Unfortunately for him, the crew of the show
did not take too kindly to that,
and they all rushed the man, live on television,
and beat him on stage in front of all of the cameras.
Number two is the 90 Day Fiance.
Getting married is a, you know, kind of a serious thing,
so you better be sure you wanna spend the rest
of your life with that person, and obviously,
you're gonna take the time during the selection
process to pick the right spouse of your choice.
Naw, not these guys.
Yeah, they got 90 days.
The American reality series that premiered
on January 12, 2014, called 90 Day Fiance
that aired on TLC involved several foreign
people entering the United States on a 90-day visa,
which does not quite sound legal.
After they received their fiance visa,
they were then paired with a potential match,
chosen by the producers, and then given the length
of their stay to convince that person that
they were the right match to marry.
During their visit, the potential wives or husbands
from overseas had to overcome some pretty big obstacles.
These included language barriers with their partner,
cultural differences and the possible disapproval
from their family members, which I'm pretty
sure was gonna be high.
Oh but don't worry, it's even, because Americans
are sent to foreign countries with the same
timeline and goal.
Well this game's just a big pile o' nope.
Number three is There's Something about Miriam.
Filmed in Britain in 2003 and aired on February 22, 2004,
There's Something about Miriam was a dating
show in the same style as the Bachelorette
with a twist.
Labeled by critics as the cruelest reality
show idea yet, the program had six men
competing to be chosen by Miriam,
a 21-year-old Mexican model.
Yeah, sounds great, except that what the men
didn't know was that Miriam was a pre-operative trans woman.
At the end of the season, the winner, Tom Rooke,
learned the truth about Miriam being born
a man, and that he'd been lied to.
However, he accepted the money and the vacation
with her as the prize.
But unfortunately, after the taping, Tom,
you know, changed his mind a little bit
and denied the prize, and not only that,
but filed a joint suit against the producers
with the five other men.
The lawsuit cited a series of crimes committed
against the contestants.
These included psychological damage,
defamation, breach of contract and sexual assault.
The Sky network that aired this show
opted to settle the matter out of court
for an unknown amount of money and went
ahead with the airing of the show anyway after its delay.
Number four is Married at First Sight.
Originally aired on July 8, 2004, Married at First Sight
takes six single people, pairs them using advice
from relationship experts and has them meet,
literally, on their wedding day.
Without any time to know a thing about each other,
the couples say I do and are literally legally married.
Next, each couple spends their first night
in a hotel, goes on a honeymoon and then spends
six weeks living together.
At the end of the bizarre journey, they get
to decide if they wanna stay married or get divorced.
Well, sure does speed up the whole settling
down part of life, doesn't it?
The show is based off a television show
of the same name from Denmark, so if you think
this show is messed up, you can thank the Danes.
But what's possibly most surprising is that
believe it or not, four of the shows 12 couples
are still married with five of the couples
rejecting the marriage at the end of the six weeks
and three couples accepting the marriage
only to be divorced later on.
Man, you don't play with marriage like that.
That's a sacred institution!
It goes against my beliefs and uh oh,
my triggers, ooh, ugh!
Number five is Hurl!
Aired in the U.S. between July 16th and September 19th
of 2008, Hurl was an obstacle course mixed
with a competitive eating contest.
Five players sit down and eat a mountain of food,
and that's where it gets interesting.
The first two to well, hurl, are disqualified,
and the remaining three contestants move on
to compete in high-energy activities including spinning
and running around quickly.
Two more similar rounds occur until there is
just one winner, who clearly must have hated
themselves by that point for ever wanting
to compete at all.
Yeah, I won, but oh, mama.
So you might be wondering what was the coveted
prize that everyone was willing to experience
extreme discomfort and possibly vomit for?
Oh well, it was $1,000.
$1,000 cash prize.
That's it.
To add to the gross, is a player manages
to swallow their, you know, without spewing any of it,
they get to stay in the game.
In the end, the show only ran for 11 episodes.
I wonder why?
This show is nasty.
I wanna move on, makin' me all gag.
Number six is Ready of Marriage.
Though this reality show is definitely bizarre,
and a bit sexist to many people, at least the producers'
hearts were kind of in the right place?
Airing on Movie TV, a private television station
in Zambia, one of the world's poorest countries,
Ready for Marriage or R for M for short,
is a 16-week-long competitive program
which takes 18 women who work in the sex trade
industry and teaches them how to be regular girls.
The teachings include cooking, cleaning
and overall how to be a good wife to someone.
The uh lucky lady gets $9,000
and an all-expense-paid wedding.
Now R for M has received its fair share of controversy,
as you may have guessed, mostly for the way
that they explain a woman should act.
But apparently many women who participated
appreciated the help turning their lives around.
Of course, they may have appreciated it
even more if they were actually taught a skilled trade
in a professional occupation in order to get
a decent job and earn financial independence.
But hey, it's the thought that counts, right, ha, ha.
Number seven is Bridalplasty.
Many brides like to change the way that they
look before their big day, through dieting,
exercising and maybe even dying their hair color,
but E network's unbelievable reality show Bridalplasty
took things so, so much further.
On this competition program, 12 contestants,
who were either soon-to-be brides or recently
married wives, some with kids already,
competed to be the perfect bride and ultimately
win a dream wedding and a complete plastic surgery makeover.
Each week, one woman is sent home in a public
voting session amongst the contestants after they
participate in a series of elimination challenges.
The winners of each challenge receive a ceremonial
syringe as their prize, excluding them
from the weekly elimination vote.
The remaining women who survive the voting process,
receive a cosmetic enhancement from their wish list.
And so on and so on, the cycle continues
until there's only one bride left.
But the kicker of the whole thing, which is really
disturbing, is that her fiance or husband
doesn't get to see what she looks like
until it's all done and he gets to lift the veil.
That's risky business, especially if you're already married.
You might be lifting the veil to look right at Shrek.
Number eight is Prize Contest Life.
If you liked the Truman Show, you might
just love the real thing, though, spoiler alert,
instead of Jim Carrey, it's a naked man
who doesn't know he's being live streamed.
Running from 1998 until 2002, this Japanese program
took the term reality TV to a whole 'nother level.
Nasubi, a Japanese comedian, won a lottery
at an audition for a job in show business,
but unbeknownst to him, the job was actually
a reality TV show challenge to win one million yen
solely in mailed-in sweepstakes from magazines
and radio ads.
He was taken to a tiny apartment and told
to remove all of his clothes.
It was there that he agreed to spend time
completing the challenge all by himself
while he went about his daily routine completely naked.
In order to survive, he used a phone,
a radio and postcards to win various sweepstakes,
which provided him with food and other needed items,
such as toilet paper.
In addition to winning the items to literally
not starve, the value of each item went towards
his one million yen goal.
Oh man, this is just cringy.
As if that wasn't enough, another thing
unbeknownst to Nasubi was instead of everything
just being filmed for a documentary style of sorts,
it was well livestreamed, and he became very famous.
Number nine is Man vs. Beast.
Airing as two specials in January of 2003
and February of 2004, this Fox reality competition show
pitted the fastest, strongest and hungriest,
and sometimes weirdest people, against their
animal counterparts.
Bits of the show included a hot dog eating competition
between a competitive eater and a Kodiak brown bear.
Sounds safe.
Then there was the tug of war between the sumo
wrestler and the orangutan and of course,
the obstacle racing track between the Navy Seal
and a chimpanzee.
And despite all of that, the winners never
even got a prize bigger than, well, bragging rights.
That's because the show bombed in viewership
and ratings and animal rights groups heavily
criticized the treatment of the animals
involved in the competitions.
Literally after airing of the second season,
the show was canceled and never saw a third installment.
I wonder what animal I'd be up against.
Ah, bald eagle, bald eagle.
Beat ya to it.
Beat ya to it before you could troll me in the comments.
(throat clearing)
And number 10 is Kid Nation.
Okay, we live in a world where sometimes
adults in important positions make huge mistakes,
and the consequences hurt many others.
Well apparently, CBS was sick of letting adults
have all the fun and created the short-lived
show Kid Nation.
Originally aired between September 19th
and December 12th of 2007, this 13-episode
reality show took 40 kids between the ages
of eight and 15, placed them in a small private
town in New Mexico and allowed them to form
their own society with little to no supervision.
You can probably guess what happened.
After four of the children drank bleach
and another burned her face with grease,
the show was canceled.
Whew, oh wait, no, it wasn't.
It still continued.
Yeah, this proves that you should probably
never entrust the safety and good health of your kids
to money-hungry television producers.
They don't exactly have you're best interests
in mind, baby.
So those were 10 reality shows that you now
probably still can't believe exist.
So the question of the day is, would any
of you guys do any of the things on these shows
for the prize money, and if so, how much
money would it take?
Leave your comments below because I'll be
reading through them, and I'm gonna pin the best
one to the top.
As always, thank you guys so much for coming by today,
and remember to come back tomorrow at exactly
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I'll see you then.