Yes, the long awaited game show, The Moment of Truth, finally debuted last night on Fox. Here's the deal: you answer 50+ questions while hooked up to a polygraph before the show starts. Then the show takes 21 of the questions for use during the show, but you don't know which 21 nor do you know if you answered them truthfully (based on the polygraph at least).
At first, you have to answer 6 questions for $10,000. If you get through those, you have to answer 4 more for $25,000. It continues like that until you play for $500,000. You can stop before any question is ASKED and leave with what money you've earned. Once a question is asked though, you have to answer and answer it truthfully (based on your polygraph test).
To add stress to the matter, they bring in a friend, your spouse/significant other and possibly someone from work or a relative.
While I said I would totally do this show in a heartbeat previously, now I'm not so sure. The questions they ask are really tough and possibly hurtful. This guy had his wife of two years sitting 20 feet away and the question was, "Have you put off having children with your wife because you're not sure she is going to be your life partner?" Ugh....he said yes. Double ugh. The polygraph confirmed that he was telling the truth. Triple ugh. She was crushed. Oddly, the three people watching can stop one question by hitting this buzzer. The host will read another question, which could be worse. She chose to hear that question. Needless to say, she wasn't particular warm towards him at the end of the show.
The next guy, we found out, belongs to the Hair Club for Men (actually no surprise, it's a terrible weave), has had perverted thoughts in church, believes he has a gambling addiction (he works at a race track!), has looked through his co-workers personal items without them knowing it and that he has padded his underwear to look more well endowed. Unbelievable. They really struck it rich with this clown. In the next show, it appears, his son asks him (not the host) if he has ever gambled away one of his children's college funds.
So no thanks! I thought it would be an easy $500,000, but now I'm not so sure.
Hey, there's Amy Freeze on Fox32 again! Yay!
Just found this video clip on Youtube. The guy has a series of them and he's very funny. It's sort of like Wallace and Grommet if you're familiar.
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hrm, if they just made the contestants participate naked, I think they'd have finally hit on the least comfortable show to watch. Talk about humiliating.
So how was it to watch the show though? Were you drawn in or put off by it? I don't think I could watch something like that, even though those participants did volunteer.
I love it, a show that destroys human relationships. Almost like American Gladiator but with emotional rather than physical damage and the damage is possibly much more significant...way to go TV!
Stef, the show was pretty hard to watch. You feel no empathy for the contestants, but you feel bad for the three people they know who are in studio and it just made me feel uncomfortable. I'll definitely watch again though.
You know, if we continue to support crap ass television like that by watching, the networks will continue to pump out new and even more outrageous garbage! One day it might even hurt someone you care about...i hate that crap...
Just my opinion though...
i think i like the show... but it's hard to admit it!! lol - your favorite weather lady? AMY FREEZE
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