| rdfs:comment | - An ABC Game Show that, at the surface, may seem like a normal elimination quiz show with a $50,000 grand prize. Starting with eight contestants split into two groups, each set of contestants answers an estimated guess question to determine the order they will play in (closest to the answer goes first, etc.). Then, a question with four choices is given, where three of which are correct, and one isn't. In order, the contestants make their claims for each answer. Whoever is unlucky enough to be stuck with the incorrect answer gets eliminated, and whoever answers correctly stays. The process continues with the two groups of three, with only three choices and two correct answers. Then, the final two from each group get back together for the final round, where they must answer one more question
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| abstract | - An ABC Game Show that, at the surface, may seem like a normal elimination quiz show with a $50,000 grand prize. Starting with eight contestants split into two groups, each set of contestants answers an estimated guess question to determine the order they will play in (closest to the answer goes first, etc.). Then, a question with four choices is given, where three of which are correct, and one isn't. In order, the contestants make their claims for each answer. Whoever is unlucky enough to be stuck with the incorrect answer gets eliminated, and whoever answers correctly stays. The process continues with the two groups of three, with only three choices and two correct answers. Then, the final two from each group get back together for the final round, where they must answer one more question with only one correct answer. Whoever answers correctly wins, it's just that simple. Right? Wrong! Because this is not a normal game show, the producers have (supposedly) come up with 101 different ways to eject eliminated contestants from this show, whose levels of ridiculousness increase every round. All are hopefully guaranteed to ensure High Octane Nightmare Fuel for the contestants, and Ensued Hilarity for those watching it at home. These have included, among other things, being flown off strapped to the top of a biplane, doing a stuntman styled drive over a ramp (complete with explosion), riding a pickup truck going off a cliff while attached to a cord on a helicopter (with an explosion below when the truck lands), being blasted down a zip line on a jetpack (which involves rockets, and may qualify as an explosion) or being blasted into the air with the use of explosives under your chair (which may also qualify as an explosion). You see where we're going here? And then for the final four, it gets worse. The final question is played while contestants stand on platforms that give way when a player is revealed to have answered incorrectly. The platforms, are of course, high above a pool of water. Sound familiar? It's an uncomplicated premise, helped along by a good helping of cheese courtesy of the host, Jeff Sutphen, and an altogether lighthearted tone.
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