Miscellaneous rambling, and bragging about my kids.

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Man, I loved this show as a kid. As a lifelong pro-wrestling fan, this was the perfect Saturday morning show. Imagine all the playground games you played as a kid, turned into real competitive sports. King of the Mountain? Got it. Kill the Guy With The Ball? Got that too.

So I was excited to hear it's back. Not optimistic, for a number of reasons. It's on primetime, apparently at 9pm, and hosted by Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali. Let's see how it goes…

I'm happy to see that they actually kept most of the show the same. Most of the original events are still there, and even when they say something is a new event, it looks like just a reworked version of an older one. They added water to several of the "fall off" events, like Joust, so you get soaked if you fall. Nice, if unnecessary, touch. They did also take the Gladiator out of the final Eliminator station, which is a good idea – that final event should be all about the competitor.

The gladiators are the same sort of personalities you had in the old one – short names like "Titan" or "Fury" and some hint of the character behind them. Wolf, who howls a lot, seems to get lots of tv time. One guy appears to be named Toa, and has some Hawaiian gimmick going. Not sure where they got that idea, as it sticks out like a sore thumb. But you can expect them to all develop fan followings shortly.

Thus far, Hulk is a lousy host. He says "brother" and "dude" a lot, and spends too much time hogging the microphone. But, then, his purpose is to ask questions of people who just got their butts kicked, so they don't have much to say anyway. As a matter of fact, listening to the competitors talk might well be the worst part of the show. Much like typical game shows, some producer backstage tries to convince the competitors that they are as much a charcater as the professional actors, and they go in front of the cameras with all these catchphrases and speeches and just end up sounding stupid. Shut up, win your competition, collect your prize and go home.

I liked it. Looking forward to seeing more. I hope they keep it competitive and don't overproduce it.

Ok, normally I would probably give this show a pass, it's a total "jump the shark" moment for Trump and his franchise. But, with the strike going on there's nothing else to watch.

For episode one, Gene Simmons is the star of the show. He's a regular on all the reality shows, and most people familiar with him know that ultimately he's a giant a-hole. There's no reason to think that that's changed.

The task is selling hot dogs. While the women debate whether they should rely on their celebrity and the men wonder what their hook should be, Gene gets on the phone and you hear "Listen, do me a favor, come into the city tomorrow and donate five grand to charity for a hot dog, ok? Thanks." Next thing you know the guy's whole strategy is going through Gene's phone book and getting rich people to swing by and drop off donations.

The women, led by Omarosa (who is a "celebrity" only in the sense that she is a past Apprentice contestant), never stood a chance. By not playing the celebrity card they were selling hot dogs for $5 and lucky to see a $5000 donation, while one call from Gene Simmons brought them $10k. Guys win, $52k to $17k.

I really really really hoped that Omarosa would be the first to go, and she does nothing but subtract from the show. She's annoying to look at and to listen to. But Trump ends up firing the Playboy playmate because she never called Hugh Hefner for money. That's just dumb.

One change this season that I like is that the men got to watch the boardroom on video. It was fun hearing their comments. "Omarosa is a cockroach,you can't kill her!"

🙂 I was translating for the non-geek-speaking readers in my audience.

I hope the tiger started with his asshole first and worked her way up. I hope it hurt like hell. I hope the other two have nightmares until the day they die. I am so sick of people being mean and abusive to animals and thinking its ok. It's NOT!

You are supposed to spell that "pwned".

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ROB

Geragos said that they (Sousa and Paul Dhaliwal) were mauled by the tiger. Paul escaped to try and get help from the cafe and a female security guard,
who appeared "diffident" when she was informed of the escaped tiger. He said she didn't believe Paul.

So if he was "mauled", he'd have blood all over him. We're supposed to believe that she saw him covered in blood and she didn't believe him?

Sorry – I don't buy that. We didn't buy his defense of Scott Peterson, we didn't buy his defense of Michael Jackson, so why should we start buying his BS right now, especially when it's so full of illogic and inane yammerings?

It doesn't matter if they taunted the tiger. Tigers in Zoo's are not supposed to escape by jumping over the wall. Kids make faces and say weird things to zoo animals all the time. Thats the only safe place to do it, not in the wild or at the San Francisco Zoo.

i am sick over this poor tiger taunted, it was on purpose, they had a mission to hurt, and torture this animal. shame on them, they got what they deserved, i think the poor kid that was killed was a minor, and dragged into it. you can't blame the tiger for defending it self…
then, they complain that staff did not respond fast enough? what the hell do you think? to have sling shots on there persons, tells me, they had a plan, and it back fired, those two boys or "men" should be held accountable for there friends death..
they instigated the death, .. they are to blame, not the tiger.. it was just doing what a wild animal would do, defend it self…