Wipeout Review

I know it is soooo wrong, but I love to see people fall, tumble, or otherwise make total idiots out of themselves.  That is why I am enjoying the new show WIPEOUT.  It's an hour long show, which is supposedly a fitness competition, but is more like a live version of America's Funniest Home Videos.

Twenty four contestants (men & women) compete in a first event by climbing over slippery walls, try to avoid being punched in the face by automated punching fists, trying to avoid a mud pit, and bouncing off these ENORMOUS big red balls.  The first eight (I think it's eight) people that make it through get to move on to the next event.

And the events get worse from that!  They stand on isolated platforms and have to jump over a huge arm type thing that rotates quickly towards them.  They must endure a very fast merry go round sort of thing and then race running to the end of the obstacle course, and so forth.  You get the idea.  At the end of every event, a limited amount of people move on to the next round until the final event where four people compete for $ 50,000.

Most shows like this one concentrate on the athleticism of the contestants.  NOT THIS ONE!  The two hosts of the show narrate what's happening from a control booth and crack jokes at the contestants, and make fun of the way they fall, leap for safety, etc.  It's a show our entire family watches and we just laugh the whole way through it.

I do believe that this show will lose it's novelty quickly.  It's fun to watch right now, but after a few weeks I think it will lose it's appeal.  But for now, it's something I'm watching every week and it makes me feel better about myself!  I'm not such a clutz afterall!!