You actually needed to watch it to realize that? I caught the stench of that show in the commercials alone. They need to get shit like that and pro "wrestling" the fuck OFF of my channel.
I actually get emails from NBC Universal about their shows occasionally. When they asked me about Scare Tactics, I told them I would rather watch static than a minute of that crap.
It's a "reality" show where they single out some hapless victim, and engineer a terrifying situation in order to scare the shit out of them. Fun stuff like fake murders. I would go absolutely ape shit on someone if they did that to me.
Sometimes the setups are funny. They had a lady looking after a 'special' boy who could start fires, she freaked out bigtime.
Great idea! I want to do this with my mother-in-law: put bags of confectioners sugar (look like cocaine), nazi paraphernalia, wires, toggle switches and other potential bomb-making electronics devices and so forth in her luggage then make an anonymous call to airport security! Also, ensure the security guards have strong foreign accents so she's completely confused and terrified!
I'm honestly waiting for them to try something on someone who's armed and nervous. How they haven't been sued yet, I'll never figger out.
They HAVE been sued, and they DID have a guy who took a swing at the 'monster' with a 2x4 (2 separate incidents). They ended the gag pretty quick.
Unless someone ends up in the hospital, it's easy--and a hell of a lot cheaper than funding a real show--for NBC to cut a check sufficient to foreclose a lawsuit. "I've got two checks here: one for $50,000 and one for $250,000. Choose the $50,000 and we go our seperate ways, no lawsuit; choose the $250,000 and NBC also gets to use the footage we just shot." Absent major injury, only a crazy person sues.
I watched an ep where the scare was that they were gonna kill this guys mother. The dude is half laughing and not really taking it serious. It was weak. If it WAS real, I woulda shot the kid for not taking it more seriously.
