Did you catch this game show last night? It’s like Jerry Springer with inflicted dramatic pauses so big, our cat’s stomach could drive a semi sideways through them. You knew it was going to be bad when the opening credits had the host, Mark “Not That” Walberg, shout the show’s name straight up into a ceiling mounted camera (a la Colbert Report but without the twisty torso)!
The premise is that a contestant takes a polygraph of 50 questions and of those 50, twenty one are used to be re-issued to our poor sap so s/he has an opportunity to respond truthfully to them in front of their family and the world. Sounds complicated? Well it is. If they decide to use the question “Have you ever done anything that might make your wife no longer trust you?” it may make you squirm and may make you say “No!” but your polygraph prior to the show knows better. One wrong “answer” will make you lose all your dosh. I’m surprised at the level of complexity of this game considering it came from Fox.
Still confused? A round of questions went like this: last night’s rube was an ex-pro football player. With him he had his best friend (male) a good friend (female) and his wife sitting in with him. The first round of questions were innoccuous enough: “Have you ever hit someone’s car and not stayed to report it?”
LONG PAUSE
Football player: Yes.
Vaguely Computerized Woman’s Voice: That statement is (even longer pause with shots of wife, husband and friends looking worried that they’ll not get a cut of the cash) …TRUE!
On and on the questions go ramping up in raunchiness, until he got: “Have you ever looked at another man’s private parts when showering with them?” Well duh! Get me on that show! Chaching $10,000 easy.
We shut it off at “Have you ever suspected your friends of making a play for your wife?” with the world’s most sheepish friend looking down at the floor. Shots of the wife looking over at the female friend telegraphed the thought between them that in a few moments the drunken fourway in the hot tub over New Years Eve was going to be aired on national TV very soon.
5 thoughts on “Moment of Truf”
No — That guy failed on a question about “do you touch the women you personally train more than is expected of you?”
Bzzzzzt!
“Um, Honey, I think we need to talk.”
I was screaming at the TV before they finished asking the first question…
Is that how far they went? $100K?
Dude. That was BRUTAL! Michele and I loved it.
We just kept commenting even more with each question how much more awkward the drive home with the bride was going to be.
Of course she wanted the football boy to win $100k… Tomorrow she calls 1.800.DIVORCE and cashes in for half without answering shite!
Oh yeah, we’ll watch it again next week.
I saw the commercials for this and was offended, so I didn’t watch the show. It just made me feel really uncomfortable and dirty.
“Have you ever looked at another man’s private parts when showering with them?â€
Who the hell hasn’t done that? It’s not even a sexual thing, more of a curious…”How do I measure up?” thing.