00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the game shows that should
00:08have stayed in the brainstorming room.
00:22Ryan Seacrest made a successful name for himself as a host of several reality TV programs.
00:27Unfortunately, he had no such success with this gem of a show.
00:31How do we even begin to explain the premise of this?
00:34Contestants answer trivia questions with their hopes of staying put in the infamous money
00:37chair.
00:38The four players who managed to sit there the longest are able to keep the cash they accumulated.
00:42So yeah, we're just confused as you are.
00:49Besides its wonky structure, the non-cohesive questions and the endangerment of those involved,
00:54it's just straight up boring to watch.
01:05Imagine trying to go against your natural instincts for a game show.
01:08Contrary to what the title suggests, the goal is for players to stay still.
01:12If they flinch, a painful punishment ensues, and whoever reacts the least is crown the winner.
01:23To add to the pressure, each contestant is the guinea pig for one of the three hosts.
01:27Meaning whichever person receives the lowest score, the comedian they're representing
01:30gets the ultimate penalty at the end.
01:33Sounds delightful, doesn't it?
01:41Instead of enjoying the show, viewers are horrified at the consequences.
01:44I mean, why are we watching people face their phobias?
01:46Who the heck wouldn't flinch if a washing machine came flying at them?
01:50Forget second-hand embarrassments, this is more like second-hand painfulness.
01:58Giving birth is one heck of an experience.
02:09Having your loved ones, doctors, and a network TV crew with you perfectly sets the vibe.
02:15Wait, what?
02:16That's right, this game show centres on parents answering trivia questions mid-birth.
02:21Okay, so the prizes benefit the newly born, which is great and all, but really?
02:32Labour can be super stressful, and intimate at times.
02:35Why would this make great TV?
02:36Viewers want to be entertained, not worry about the wellbeing of someone pushing out a baby.
02:41No wonder this only lived to see one season.
02:54Let's play a game.
02:55Choose heads or tails.
02:56Three, two, one.
02:57The answer is heads.
02:58Now, imagine that being the entire plot of a game show.
03:02Players must pick either red or black.
03:04And then again.
03:05And then again.
03:06Until there's eventually a winner.
03:12Yep, the format gets a little creative by including stunts, like choosing which colour
03:17joust will win in a tournament or win a tightrope contest.
03:19But that's it.
03:20And the involvement of huge numbers of people in the early rounds is different, but popular
03:24game shows are exciting because they're intriguing, and get you thinking about how you'd handle
03:28the situations.
03:29Simon Cowell's creation is extremely repetitive and very gimmicky, making it 100% not worth tuning
03:36into.
03:37In addition, several players involved had criminal records, which didn't help.
03:49When your show premieres the same night as President Kennedy's inauguration, you're already
04:05facing stiff competition.
04:06As it turns out, the pilot crashed so hard that the second episode was a long apology
04:11for how bad it was.
04:12That was also the final episode of the game show.
04:18The premise is that celebrities put their faces in a hole within a painting that depicted famous
04:31lyrics or movie scenes.
04:33By asking questions to the host, the objective was to guess what picture they were in.
04:37It's not that ridiculous of a plot, but the choices they made for the pictures were, well,
04:41inappropriate to say the least.
04:50The show was so poorly received that people were more excited for the commercial breaks
04:54than the series itself.
04:57It's not that bad.
04:58Yes, you are.
04:59Is it a bar?
05:00No, it's not.
05:01Is it a French bar?
05:02What's the difference?
05:045.
05:05My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad
05:07It doesn't matter if he's 50, he is the strongest guy out there.
05:12Turning a kid's joke into an entire TV show is ridiculous.
05:15Let's be honest.
05:16Children cheer on their fathers as they participate in a series of trivia and physical challenges,
05:20and you can just see the toll some of these games were taking on the fathers' bodies.
05:30It's hard to watch at times, especially when one of the dads ends up having a heart attack
05:34mid-challenge.
05:35The prize is also extremely underwhelming.
05:38All of this hardship for a mountain bike and an Xbox 360?
05:41I mean, they couldn't even give a monetary reward as well?
05:44It's no shock that the show was eventually cancelled after only eight episodes.
05:47Good riddance.
05:50Guessing games can be super fun, but this one is just so random.
06:02Players had to guess how audience members answered survey questions.
06:05If they made it to the pitfall round, they had to go through a complicated process that
06:09no one understood, involving general trivia and an elevator.
06:18The concept made absolutely no sense, but turns out it didn't even matter.
06:21The production company went bankrupt before the show even made it onto the screen.
06:25Winners and Alex Trebek, the future host of Jeopardy!, never even got paid fully.
06:30Pitfall.
06:31It is as spooky as it sounds.
06:42Players answer questions while being in a container that is either super cold or really hot.
06:46There are also other elements brought into the mix, such as shocks and lowering oxygen levels.
06:51And obviously, this show tanked.
07:02Viewers want to leave the episode happy, not like we involuntarily saw a horror movie.
07:06The winner of one show won some money and a trip to the hospital immediately after filming.
07:11The conditions were so unsafe that he received monetary reparations from Fox after saving
07:15them a lawsuit.
07:24So the show is hard to watch for viewers and horrible for contestants to experience.
07:28Thank goodness this show was cancelled after just three episodes.
07:34Close work relationships can be a sensitive conversation topic among some couples.
07:47This show takes it a step further by having a husband's wife and his secretary compete
07:52to see who knows him best.
07:54There's three groups of contestants playing simultaneously, and whichever team of women get
07:58the most right answers, wins.
08:04Besides watching marriages fall apart in real time, the concept is rooted in sexism.
08:10It doesn't matter if it's their colleagues or partners who win, the men receive money
08:14regardless.
08:19Plus, this is rather humiliating to everyone except the male spouses.
08:26No wonder the National Organization for Women spoke out against this disaster.
08:31And a 1999 revival with different female pairings fared no better.
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08:58Hell.
08:59What a whirlwind of disgust.
09:05Competitive eating and vigorous activities are cool enough to watch independently of each
09:10other, but combining them to see who's the last to vomit?
09:12I mean, we need to have a quick chat with the creator of this show, now.
09:20While some people are more tolerant of puke than others, there's only a small percentage
09:23who like to go out of their way to see it.
09:25Also, the food choices are atrocious.
09:28PB&J sandwiches and a brosier salad do not go together.
09:32If you really need to have a censored and uncensored version of your game show, maybe don't air it
09:37at all.
09:38Despite the odds, the show aired for 11 glorious episodes.
09:48So, which of these game shows should have been cancelled immediately?
09:51Let us know in the comments down below.
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