Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Game Show (AKA I Want that Two Hours of my Life Back)
So I cannot believe I just spent the last two hours of my life watching Wipeout and I Survived a Japanese Game Show on ABC. I needed a good laugh, and I was hoping to see some awesome, MXC-like wipeouts.
I want my money back.
John Anderson (aka the SportsCenter anchor) was mildly entertaining, though perhaps the producers should have paired him with Stuart Scott or Scott Van Pelt. The other John (whatever his name is), though, was trying WAY TOO HARD to be funny, and of course, he was not even remotely funny. And don’t get me started on the eye candy interviewer Jill Wagner. Was Jill Arrington not available? Stick to the Mercury commercials, Jill.
(That got me thinking: how many takes does a single Mercury commercial take Jill to complete? Ok, so maybe she doesn’t do well with live action. Couldn’t ESPN have loaned the producers of Wipeout Erin Andrews? THAT I would watch.)
Once the debacle that was Wipeout ended, I started watching I Survived a Japanese Game Show…and WTF? The previews showed nothing but crazy Japanese game show action, and, I got to see a short, pudgy woman scream at a bunch of Road Rules rejects?
Twenty minutes in, and I was ready to shoot myself in the face. About the only thing entertaining about the show was the super-hyper host, who should have done all his commentary in Japanese.
(EDIT: Oh great. I just found out that this show will be Survivor-like, where each week, one player gets eliminated. Don’t worry…I see nine eliminations next week, if you catch my drift.)
(EDIT #2: OK…watching Cathy rickshaw around the sumo wrestler was kinda funny. Fine.)
I’ll consider laying 3:1 odds to anyone willing to bet that both shows will last four weeks.
(I know what you’re thinking. If the shows were so awful, why did you sit through both hours? Honestly, I have no idea; I think I went in and out of a coma several times.)