Steve from OW here. The thirty minutes I spent watching this were ten times more enjoyable than being on the actual show, and everything you said was spot on. My first experience on the show was that crucifixion torture challenge. It took ages for them to set that up, and they stuck Mercy and I in a van for about two hours while we waited - they refused to let us go to the bathroom and spoil our big entrance, so I got to sit right next to her as she was forced to squat and pee into a water bottle. We eventually get to go on set and hear the rules of our first big competition, and like you said, the point of the tomatoes in it was supposed to be to distract the people untying their teammates. Luke claimed the tomatoes were rotten and were thus supposed to be soft and painless, but due to the extreme cold, they all froze - Luke accidentally dropped one and when Frank saw the tomato literally bounce back up, he realized how hard they were and immediately signed up to be the person throwing them. Because he was also a MINOR LEAGUE PITCHER growing up. So yeah, tomato fast balls, being launched at my face. Good times. After spending most of my first day on OW in the emergency room getting stitches on my face (yes the scar is still there), I knew the producers had no idea what they were doing. I auditioned bc I’ve been a lifelong big brother and survivor fan but this was nothing like that or any other logical reality show. They went out of their way to edit all strategy out of the show (there was actually a diary room we went into to talk about our gameplay, alliances etc which never even made it onto the show), the competitions were rigged for Frank, the Twitter popularity index was messed up bc several contestants families paid for thousands of spam bot accounts which altered the results, half of us got hurt and received no compensation or actual care for our injuries... but the producers somehow actually proved to be more intelligent than the actual competitors. Epoch had the chance to just outright vote Frank out of the game bc no one would beat him in a comp, but they chose to vote me out instead. Why they added a twist out of nowhere about someone being voted out when everyone else was eliminated because they lost a competition, I’ll never understand... but half of the shows twists were created on the fly. Jeffry’s entire game was based on an alliance with JR which did virtually nothing for him and which every single one of us knew about. No one on that damn show seemed to actually think about winning, and that combined with Luke Tipples awkwardness and the producers lack of a clue made for one of the most hilariously horrible shows in television history. And believe me, it was as bad to be a part of as it was to watch. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, gotta share this with the friends who made the mistake of watching OW for me! On and added fun fact, Frank spent a bulk of his winnings buying a publicist and a website and Beast Mode merchandise because he thought the show was super popular and would be his big break. Gotta love him.
Ok I was thinking about the vote-out all morning and how it didn't make sense, and decided that the most reasonable explanation was that it was added in to compensate for the loss of Charles. With Charles gone they were down one additional player. This also made an odd-numbered group of contestants. The show was paced for a certain number of eliminations before the finale, and I have to assume there was going to be an additional team elimination challenge, taking out two players at once. With Charles gone, they were one player short for that. But they wouldn't have time or presumably money to add a whole new single-elimination challenge. They had an extra "floating" contestant with no convenient way to remove them from the game. Throwing in an in-team vote was the laziest way to take care of that. Basically Charles' injury had a butterfly effect that ruined the whole competition. The vote aspect was good reality tv drama but was nothing like the rest of the competition and was another thing that ruined the illusion of fairness in the game.
Steve D but an actually insane reality show pitch is in here. Contestants sign up to a show where the producers have absolutely no clue what's going on. Like the whole thing is improvised by design. If they sold it like that I would watch BECAUSE it would be such a shit show. In this case though the producers are just as much a part of the show.
I JUST REALIZED: Given the reactions everyone has to leaving and the show is called Opposite Worlds, the plot twist is that the whole point of the show is to leave. So the first person to be eliminated is the actual winner. In which case, the episodes would’ve been better shown in reverse order; the first episode showing Frank as the last to be eliminated, making him the ultimate loser.
Yeah,, doesn't that mean she no longer needs the luck. I think at that point he should be saying, "Congratulations Angela, you have been eliminated." Turns to the others. "And the best of luck to all of you." "May the force be with you. You will be in our prayers."
@@wingsofhope2 I remember there was a Modern Family once and the grandpa was thinking back to when he and his son were building something with power tools and he said "That was my Vietnam, and I was in Vietnam"
This honestly seems like some kind of Stanford Prison Experiment type setup where the subjects all think they're on a reality show but it's actually studying how much bullshit they can subject the Past team to while favouring the Future team until the Past team snaps.
Would've been ace if there was a prison riot type thing happened. Smash down the glass wall, storm the future side, execute whoever was in charge of the whole mess.
I did some brief research and found out that marine biology does have a subspecialty involving psychology, but someone who studies the pod dynamics of dolphins doesn’t in any way really translate to human psychology.
I love how the wikipedia article for this show now has two sentences under "Reception." The first is an obvious advertising blurb about it being great, and the second is "Cultural critic Jenny Nicholson later referred to the program as "the worst reality show of all time," citing the numerous injuries on set, the unequal treatment of the two teams, and the lack of playtesting evident in many of the challenges."
@@digimonlover1632reviews are just a form of advertising, but yeah the review is not just an advertising blurb, it’s someone from a random, now defunct, chicago blog who just said it was “freakishly addicting” and that’s the entire quote/blurb. she also mentions the accidents and the total imbalance as a reason it was addicting, like watching underdogs.
I feel like we’ve all seen a lot of dystopian/black mirror stuff this past year, but Twitter deciding who to STARVE on a game show might just be the worst
Makes you wish the contestants on the "future" side said "screw this; the future is going to be a more humanitarian one" and let all the "past" people into the warm with the food and the nice bedding. But I bet the producers would've turned off the cameras and made them stop if they tried :/
The planning for this show began and ended with the fur bikinis. They had an idea to have fur bikinis, and they made whatever show they needed to to make those bikinis a reality.
As someone who watches a lot of lyfy just for their completely crazy wild way of trying to appeal to future generations, this comment 100% makes sense and lines up with lyfy's entire general vibe.
Way I could imagine this concept working-- if team Epoch was all HARDCORE survivalist types. Like the folks who go backpacking over mountain ranges for funsies, and team Chronos was all folks working in tech with engineering degrees and sedentary occupations. And then, have challenges designed to have a 'smart' method AND a 'brute force' method. Keep the split house, but make the Epoch side more like a cabin in the woods type thang, with food supplies being wild game meats, fruits, mushrooms, and roots that might be foraged that all require preperation, and Chronos side being all convenience food-- some of it on the healthy side but with all the modern junk available in vast supply, with no kitchen supplies besides a microwave. Oh right, and have someone who actually cares set up safey measures for the challenges.
I like this. Actually, I love it. Also, as I think about it, the difference in mindset between survivalists and techie/gamer types would go much deeper than "force vs strategy." In a survival situation, risks are not rewarded. You're taught the correct way to pass a knife, to minimize the risk of injury. You're taught to never break sticks with your foot -- you can make do with an injured hand, but it's really hard to get around with an injured foot. Staying alive is good enough, and one slip-up might take even that away from you. Techie logic seems to run the opposite way. Once there are enough safety nets, there's a lot less need for caution, and a lot more competition from aggressively creative people. You're rewarded for taking risks, and punished for letting opportunities slip by you. So maybe, on some level, the real difference being tested here is something like "orderliness vs creativity" or "caution vs aggression" -- which could be a really, really interesting dynamic to see played out in different situations. Way cooler than whatever these yahoos were doing.
Erika Söderlund Tbh, that would make a way better reality show. Just starve a group of people and see how long it would take until they kill and cannibalize someone.
@@localweeb2924 That's how big bone breaks work. That area is much more likely to break again. I knew a guy in high school who had broken his arm like 3 times.
@@Arella17 Well I assume the show will be footing his medical expenses forever. Hopefully they buy him an enormous third nicer leg since they caused his injuries. Even if he signed a waiver, that doesn't excuse negligence... and it won't protect them from a devastating PR situation. Capitalism wins?
This wasn't even how early humans lived, it's like the most vague minimal attempt at science/history education to make you feel like a big brain while watching chicks in fur kinis
Yeah, if they gave them fur clothes why couldn’t they give them furs to sleep on and use as blankets? Early humans weren’t just sleeping in the open air freezing all the time. And the food is also silly.
Modern bread, and orange carrots. I don't know when I'd put modern bread at (though bread from wild grains goes back at least 14000 years and probably more than 30000 years), but orange carrots date to around the 16th century AD. I would have thought there'd be berries and lean meats on a show like this, but I guess not.
@@evamiller4886 Kinda sucks they gave them skimpy versions of early clothing. Based from what I know, it goes from head to toe, and that they lived in tents, some form of hut probably, and so on. Even sucks more since we have to realize hunting played a large role in survival. Not only that, but I think they could cook up meals by boiling? Like, if they had a clay pot...?
@@jonajo9757 Yeah, hunting was a huge thing but most of the calories came from people gathering berries and vegetables. They should have pretty healthy food instead of kitchen scraps.
This part really infuriated me, but thankfully shortly after showing that, it became clear in this video that it was a complete shitshow, so it added to the hilarity. Like, I could provide a laundry list of the actual ways Neolithic humans lived and how they made their homes comfortable, warm, and arguably ate a far more varied diet in terms of biodiversity than our modern diet of about 4 animals, 3 grains, and a select few vegetables. I could do that, but why plan to retile the roof when the whole house is about to collapse?
So wait... you're telling me, that when the producers learned all of the kindling and fire-starting supplies were too wet to burn, they didn't give team Epoch stuff that would burn??? So like the players wouldn't get hypothermia?!?!?!?
@@amtep I feel like “realism” should have taken a back seat to safety here just for moral reasons, but also considering how half assed the theming is throughout the rest of the show. They could’ve given them food and kindling.
The crew of survivor has an entire group of people whose sole job is to run through every challenge before the contestants actually do it, to test camera set ups, but also playtest the challenge for unforeseen issues. You know, unforseen issues like 10 foot death drops with no safety padding, or a maze that literally takes 5 seconds to run through
This is why I love Survivor so much! Obviously there are risks inherent to the premise, and people *have* been seriously injured before, but the crew goes to great lengths to make it as safe as possible. They’re not gonna completely deprive the contestants of food. Jeff and the crew appear to genuinely respect the players and want them to have a fulfilling experience.
Based on this video, I checked out a Rooster Teeth podcast episode where Luke Tipple was a guest, and SOMEBODY GETS INJURED IN THE FIRST THREE MINUTES. It's not even his fault, I think that energy just follows him around.
OH MY GOD I watched this show YEARS AGO and I have been looking for the name ever since, it remains one of the most surreal, dream-like memories I have from that year. I watched it while I had the flu and just- I thought it might have been a hallucination or a dream for years.
I had a similar experience watching the Syfy channel while sick, except it turned out to be reruns of a supernatural procedural that called itself “Friday The 13th: The Series” but had nothing in common with the movies other than its production company. It was like a bootleg X-Files except they couldn’t come up with a bunch of different monster plots for the main characters to investigate, so every episode was “one-off character finds a magical artifact that does something they want in exchange for murders”. I, personally, would commit a magical murder to get a retrospective like this about it.
Champiness Dude, X-files came out *years* after Friday the 13th: The Series. It wasn't suppose to revolve fully around the main recurring characters fighting monsters. They ran that curio shop of cursed objects and shit. It's more like The Conjuring film franchise, if you think about it.
So what you’re saying is it’s the exact right time for James Wan to reboot Friday The 13th: The Series as a prestige Netflix show, which of course I agree with
I can’t wait to see who they get for the popstar role originally filled by Vanity in that episode where a fan finds a magical hypnotism watch and realizes over the course of several wishes-granted-in-exchange-for-hypnotism-murders that he kinda just wants to be Vanity
I had the same experience with “Little People From LA”. I worked as a night shift security guard in a hospital and it was on the tv in the ER waiting room. It was so bizarre that I wouldn’t be surprised if that whole shift turned out to have been a dream.
“To lose him in this experience is terrible for me because he was my crutch... I mean, he was the best member of the CAST!... I mean, without him we don’t have a leg to stand on! ...I mean... I’m just gonna stop talking now.”
Yeah, up until I noticed the hashtag, I'd assumed it had come out around '05 to '07, and once I did I just went "oh, okay, it must've been no later than 2010 then, because I feel like it was around that time when these kinds of 'bunch of people live in a house and compete in challenges at night' reality game shows finally died out". Even the haircuts feel very late aughts to me.
Leaving poor Charles horribly injured entirely because of the show's negligence, poor planning and lack of safety standards and then bringing him back for a 'heartwarming' tear-jerking moment is so cartoonishly evil.
Not quite. In total drama, everyone got fucked while the host would be relaxing. Here, its just one team that has that. And some of these games are non competitive, like the 12 second chase one. In total drama, every game was an asshole game but it was evenly hard for most players. Like, no one, fire figther or wimp, would want to get in a barrel with leeeches.
@@wjzav1971 he’s an NYC fire fighter so you know he raised his flesh offerings as high as he could so that with their sacrifice, the twin towers may rise high again as well
my main issue is them not giving a huge variety of food and meat to the Epoch people but giving them stale bread??? what the hell is that supposed to represent. if they're pre-agriculture they aint got bread, least of all stale bread.
People that lived in those times weren't stupid either, they obviously were able make functional clothes that kept them warm. They also told stories, made art and looked out for each other. There are foundings that prove they took care of their disabled relatives. It makes me so angry to see when people act as if our ancestors were barely functional idiots. They weren't, the lack of technology does not mean they were less human than us.
Celestial Loves There was already a season of Survivor that was exactly that, the two competing tribes were the Haves and the Have-Nots with the Haves getting all the food and luxury items.
COULD have been an interesting premise if it was actually thought through. Have team past be all people who pride themselves in brawn, maybe some super fit survivalist types; team future be all highly educated people who pride themselves on their brains. Have all the challenges have equal amounts of physical and mental challenge. But this seems like they were just like "But, what if we make one team sleep in the dirt?"
future gets some pre-made meal shit, but it all tastes sort of bland, while past gets fresh fruits and organic proteins or something but they have to prepare it in some way to make sure everyone gets nutrition. also the past could have had uncomfortable hammocks while the future had kinda shitty beds with like cot matresses. like the concept is there! but they just half assed it for some cash and even screwed that up too.
Make the future eat vegan and limit the meat to the past. They get fruits too. The discomfort in the future about making electiricity sounds good. Or they have to solve riddles and mindgames to get food, or something. And mix teams by giving members the chance to shuffle. Lets see how long frank wants to be in the future. Even through he seems like a decent bloke, it makes the show so anti intellectual.
@@thiccbih3140 It's likely in the future most people will be vegan because of overpopulation and climate change actually ;o But honestly they should eat something like soylent or these NASA packages of food. Basically, it has all of the nutrition your body needs but tastes like nothing. Then the team Epok would have access to all yummy stuff but they would have to cook it themselves using a campfire. It could be interesting, because then Team Chronos would have the advantage of perfect nutrition, but at the same time they would probably crave something that has flavor real bad. After a few weeks I imagine some people would volunteer to Epok just to eat normal food.
lmfao "Minotaur" I thought the unintelligence was an exaggeration, but no. Frank is literally an 18 Strength, 18 Constitution, 7 Intelligence barbarian
I couldn’t dislike Frank though, he seemed like he was genuinely happy to have won that one maze game lol... Like it was sort of cute in a weird way that this giant beast of a man was celebrating something that he was pretty obviously going to win
Just saw the end - I agree that Frank winning was pretty satisfying. He seems like a nice guy and I hope he was able to afford to do some fun things with his kids and wife.
Fun fact: Frank competed in the Titan Games (the obstacle course show hosted by The Rock) a few years ago and lost cuz he got stuck in this rolling log obstacle basically due to him being a fucking minotaur who skipped leg day
For the first challenge why does the platform have to be 10 feet above the ground? Couldn't they just have rumbled maybe a foot off the ground? It's just whoever knocks whoever out first, right? Is having a cattle prod not enough?
@@luanagullotta6218 They'd have to have access the a water facility. I doubt they could afford it. But, also, don't overestimate the surface tension of water. It would have been better than landing on the ground, but the padding, had it been landed on, might have been just as safe as water.
"No, seriously. Get the hell out now. " "Thanks, okay, I'm going" "Security will now escort you off of the property." "Fine, alright, thank you. I'm walking away." "The police are on their way. You can't be here." "Yes, I just need my crutches, I'm nearly there" "You are currently trespassing on private property, we will be filing criminal charges. Good luck mate."
The Onion made a parody reality tv show called ‘Sex House’ where the contestants are put in a house, that as time goes on, becomes filled with mold, loses electricity and blasts burning and freezing air. The contestants are also not given food and are deprived of nutrients. The similarities between a literal parody reality tv show created to mock and over exaggerate the absurdities of reality tv shows made by The Onion and this REAL LIFE reality tv show is very scary
Wait it was a parody? I accidentally came across that when i was a kid and then went to bed and couldnt sleep because a guy crushed and killed a frog in that show
I think the worst reality show I've seen was "I Want to Marry Harry" where a bunch of women compete in a Bachelor-Style show, deprived of any outside contact, to marry a guy who looks ambiguously like Prince Harry who is not Prince Harry and is not at all wealthy. It's on a big English country estate, they constantly wave around "hints" that he's a prince, and these girls who are not given the allowance of a simple google search start tearing each other apart not for love but to become a literal princess because they deceive them all into thinking he's royalty. This aired before he was married, and oh dear god did no one come out looking like a good person.
Yeah.... And they had a "therapist" come on the show to tell the women who could tell that he wasn't actually Prince Harry that they had trust issues and needed to calm down. The "therapist" was one if the producers.
How did the creators not get sued to the oblivion? I get that there are contracts against injury responsibility and so on, but there must be some limits and job descriptions, right? Some of these are just physical torture and completely unprofessional, dangerous stunts that the contestants are thrown into like lab rats.
Keychain696 How do you think he felt? Eighteen years in military service, surviving some of the harshest conditions a person can be subjected to, gaining intense survivalist training and physical versatility, for what? To be critically injured by a pretty boy tool on a game show, and need to leave before the first contestant was disqualified. That’s gotta be demoralizing.
Seeing that small clip when he visited he really seemed to feel bad about leaving his team mates behind. He obviously had a gag clause to prevent him from speaking up in his contract, but he looks sad.
Can't believe she didn't mention that when Frank won, he was clearly trying to take his shirt off so he could scream bare chested, but he couldn't get the shirt off over his helmet, nor could he take off his helmet, so he just kind of awkwardly dances with his shirt kind of off, lol
They should have 1) Put people more inclined mentally in the "future" house and more physically able people in the "past" house to begin, 2) filmed in the summer in a place with little humidity, 3) make pros and cons for each house. For example, those in the future have to eat dehydrated food or rations or something, like an astronaut would. Those in the past get fresh ingredients to eat and attempt to make food with. Everything in the future could be purely efficient too, so it would be less luxurious and more having to make certain sacrifices to keep up the efficiency of the future. It will probably still be favorable to the past, but it will be closer to equal that way. There could also be incentive to switch where your team stays after winning a challenge if you get a different reward for each place. What I mean is, for example if you chose to be in the past, then you would get a hint as to what the next challenge is and be able to prepare. If you chose to be in the future, then you could call and chat with family or friends. And the prize for each will be different every challenge. 4) SAFETY PRECAUTIONS OBVIOUSLY! HOW DID THEY FUCK THAT ONE UP?? 5) make the challenges half physical, half mental, and some with overlapping qualities of both. Knowledge of history and evolution should help you in these challenges. Again: No one should be in harm's way for any of these challenges.
Where the heck were you when they were planning this show?!?! Except then we wouldn't have gotten this awesome video.. Well now we need a season two but you need to be there or better yet, make your own and act like you've never heard of this one or something. Be like , "I was thinking like a Total Drama vibe, but more humane and in the future a little bit. Like a Total Drama: Time Swappy Thing or Time Force!!" And yea that's what I was thinking, there needs to be incentive to want to swap, no one wants to freeze their butt off for free! Same with the other stuff, except I'd make it more around mid-spring-ish so that it can be cold but sometimes warm. Change when they put the actual seasons out too for a weather challenge.. Maybe they just threw the show together to get it out before someone else or something and paid off safety people, because there is absolutely no reason reason for the lack of safety, honestly even the thought of safety really. She said the mats weren't even big enough to even be ready for any kind impact really!! I honestly wonder how they felt when they were editing this for tv..
They could have made the future house sleep in those tiny pods they make for living in areas with high population density. Just adding to an already stellar list.
and they should have brought heaters for the outdoor people. Making them sleep in the cold is way too cruel. It's like they thought "we're gonna make the futuristic people do whatever but the people in the past have to live EXACTLY like someone in the past would!!!"
You know what's worse? That this show format was bought and remade with local stars in my country, Chile. It was one of the most successful reality tv show here ever, with a rating point of 31,4 in average...and it was just as shitty as this one. The female contestant that won this show was a Justin Bieber imitator. I honestly don't know what's worse.
But at least in THG you could at least, like, hunt a squirrel. Food wasn't being held from you, it was just hard to catch. (Not that I'm arguing it's easier, lmao)
@xoxoBumble Eh, you know what I mean. I'm not very familiar with all the ~Hunger Games lore~, but I don't remember there ever having been no food (besides donations.... tributes, shall I say) at all. It's just the closest comparison I had. I'm also still mildly embarrassed by my use of 'at least' twice and so close together. It hurts me to look at, argh.
@@tungsten_talons From what I remember, there was one Hunger games held in the Arctic. It lasted all of an hour. BUT, if everyone hadn't frozen to death, food would have been an issue
"Who will win between this team that's forced into horrible conditions where they can't sleep or eat and this team that had actual working plumbing and the strongest competitor on the show?" I guess the answer was the one guy who was given literally every advantage possible.
It was rigged to "prove" exactly that. They never tested Frank on his obvious weakness: intelligence. Which you need in order to survive from cave people to modernity... Living rough can make you strong too, if you know how to do it. There is a decent concept buried here I think. Just ineptly carried out.
My idea for how to improve this show involves past and future having different playstyles to navigate during the week. Make the past an agrarian commune and the future a competitive consumer economy. Different skills help in different times. Then at the end of every week the teams compete and get new captains who choose their teammates for that week so you never know which time you’ll end up in. Solo players might thrive in one house but struggle in the other, while team players might do better in group tasks and you still need to monitor social dynamics to win over team captains.
I think it's hilarious that they thought they were setting up a "brains vs brawn" thing where the primitive group would be stronger but the modern group would be smarter. Like why would being deprived of food and the standard of living you're used to make you physically stronger.
I mean you couldve easily set that up in a way it works: have the "future" side be a dystopia with a house with no windows, no recreation and have all their food be tasteless stuff that only gives good nutrition. Meanwhile the "past" team whilst living outside would have access to regular food and yk a non depressing environment.
@zawrator4457 I'd have gone with future: all food delivered but is trash fast food and microwave meals. TVs, computer games, Internet, etc for entainment but limited access to the outside. Caveman: Food is plentiful fresh fruits, veg and meat but requires physical tasks to get (particularly so for meat). Unlimited access to the outside but no entertainment items unless they make them themselves.
You better believe that the show didn't pay for Charle's surgery, either. I feel for him so badly as someone who shattered an ankle and severed my Achilles tendon a few years back. You never really recover, it affects you heavily for the rest of your life. I still wear a leg brace and can't work in most places. Having to cover the expenses yourself while still injured is hell without help.
that is infuriating to find out. I guess contestants signed a waver for that kind of a thing, but the show was hot garbage and unethical to begin with so you'd think the least they could do is pay for his medical bills that were caused by their shoddy production. I'm surprised he didn't sue tbh even if just to pay off the bills - I think there'd be a case there. the losers didn't even get an inexpensive simple reward after having dealt with being on this kind of a show. I mean, nobody's surprised and that's reality TV for you but I hope the guy is doing alright now. wishes for the best to you too, OP.
@@washedblue according to Steve, the guy pelted with tomatoes (check the pinned comment chain for this), they just didn't think of it in time. Another comment mentioned the statute of limitations there for personal injury claims runs out after a year and aside from that, the company producing OW shut down shortly after the end of season 1
Imagine going through a war mostly physically unscathed and then suffering a debilitating, life-altering injury the first day you join a shitty reality show.
In the UK, we had a reality show where people were basically chucked on to a remote Scottish island and left to fend for themselves, and there wasn’t half the injuries there was here. This is truly the most cursed show.
Kostis Afouxenidis i think it’s called the eden project ?? something like that ?? it failed cos everyone got cliquey and refused to keep doing it and then they made a series talking about how it failed
and when you consider it was 50ish people, kids, a gun for the deer, a pregnant pony, and some foul weather....no serious injuries I remember its more remarkable. Except everyone wanting to punch that one guy in the face who would whine all the time. Then again less blood possibly came from the no prize money or eliminations to drive people to do stupid things and that was Castaway.
I know i’m really late to the party, but while i did find his gloating after winning in 12 seconds funny, it was definitely a sign that he’s not the NICEST guy in the world. Who the hell gloats like that after winning a game of what is basically tag?
I feel like frank had some kind of life threatening disease and his dying wish was to win a game show so the whole show was designed to be in his favor
Imagine being on the past team and, if you're female like me literally wearing a bikini, in freezing temperatures while the camera crew is dressed in coats and warm clothing. Plus nothing to make a fire. And knowing that some of your fellow contestants are sleeping in heated rooms and warm beds. I'd be pretty pissed.
My instinct would have been to ambush a member of the crew while they were alone on a smoke break and steal their warm clothes, any food they had on them, and their lighter/matches I don't play by your rules, Luke Tipple!
The furkini thing still gets me, like, wtf, the past team is already primed to lose but then the girls have it even worse with their clothes not even being functional
There was likely an idea in mind by the show runners to make the cave girls dependent upon the generosity of the men to provide warmth (to create weird situations).
I expect to see Luke Tipple on the news screaming "I'm a scientist! I'm a scientist!" as the police drag him from his home after finding his basement full of kidnapped people he's been torturing.
Luke could've had some cool line for when players got eliminated like "You have to return to the present" instead he goes with "Good luck, but, you have to leave" 😂
Imagine being the guy that made it all the way to the end and not winning. Like at least with amazing race and stuff you get to go somewhere neat, but this one you're just like "great, I was cold and hungry for 3 months and I get... oh, nothing? yeah, awesome"
So I watched this monstrosity, and there's even another injury in the first episode. Lauren shows up after the challenge when the winners are being announced in a sling. The show doesn't even acknowledge it, because they got enough drama from Samm and the Charles(?) getting injured. Half of epoch gets injured that first night. Jesus.
The fact the primitive mab group got the most injured, is the only realistic thing in this entire show. Honestly the only thing that wouldve made it more realistic is if they got the plague or scurvy
@David Vazquez Hmm yes I also enjoy people getting smashed to bits in a reality show whose health and safety regulations couldnt even reach the lofty heights of limiting how hard you can throw a tomato
The closest I know to this show, in terms of just torturing the contestants, is the Japanese 'Za Gaman'. It is very old, 80's/90's old, and absolutely insane. Basically, a bunch of college kids were put through a series of increasingly more dangerous and humiliating 'challenges'. One of these included the infamous 'starvation booth', which is exactly as the name states: two kids were locked in a see-through cube-like booth placed by a river. They are to be held there 24 hours without eating. If they can refuse the food that will be offered them after they have been starving for close to a whole day, they win. If they eat, they lose. It actually gets worse: Given the closeness to the river and the fact that the flooring was sheer concrete, the booth was terribly cold. Then, the food they were offered was cold noodles introduced into slots...so that they inevitably fell on the floor. Yes, these poor starving, cold numbed and by now hardly coherent boys had to scoop their noodles from the floor and eat them! While the host cackled manically and let them know what LOSERS they were for not hanging in there a little longer. Starve like men! These kids went from being really happy-go-lucky to sniveling, shivering messes, unable to shake and crying. And I am not sure 'starvation booth' was even the worst 'challenge'. Another one is close to water boarding: they'd bury the poor guy all the way to the neck, by the sea so that the incoming waves would submerge his head for quite a while. Or they would use the same setting but would pour pepper into the eyes and mouth and in order to make sure they didn't close the eyes, a 'Clockwork Orange' like device was used! In yet another, they tied them to a water wheel...and yes, the wheel was working. But perhaps the most infamous challenge was the electroshocking one...Here, two guys were sat across from each other with electrodes attached to their naked chests and took turns taking shocks! I can't recall if they shocked each other or if someone from the show did it, either way, the voltage would climb each turn until they would writhe in pain. The first person to tap out, lost.
@@ThatDurre You're not entirely wrong. The host at the starvation booth, in particular, was enjoying himself way too much, laughing and cracking jokes at the poor kids who hadn't eaten in 24 hours. "Za Gaman" came out at a time when non-American entertainment was not readily available in the States; it became known because a late night show host- I forgot who it was- found a VHS tape and decided to do a skit about it. His first reaction was, "Is this for real?", and who can blame him. Nor was this show unique either. Other Japanese "prank" shows around that time included staging a terrorist attack, in which a poor guy thought he was being gunned down; toilet seats that were dragged out to sea and massage chairs that were tossed down snowy slopes; and in one particularly egregious example, an escape artist who was made to think he was about to burn to death, while his family watched.
@@Nocturnalux holy shit I remember seeing that one with the drive by during Japanese class in high school! It had a live studio audience laughing at this guy lying prone thinking all his coworkers got gunned down
I started the video and before she said the show I thought “no reality show she names could ever be worse than opposite worlds” because I thought I was the only one who remembered it
Ironically, the original version of this show, aka the chilean version, was actually pretty fun and well made, mostly because it was recorded on summer on a relativelly dry area and with acrually good inteligent creators who created interesting competitions... There were even cooking competitions and shit like that...
Yeaah, I remember the chilean version. It was super popular for a couple of months. Idk about the "good intelligent creators", but it wasn't as bad as the US one
It's ashamed the network pulled the plug so early. The second season the contestants were supposed to escape a mine field and hunt a grizzly with a spork.
Imagine if in survivor instead of the host saying, "The tribe has spoken." then snuffing out their torch, he just said. "Nice knowing you, bye now." And the person wandered off aimlessly.
I think it was a front to get the competitors when in reality, its a comfy hous3 vs a torture house. Which is fine but at least they should be honest about it.
They wasted so much potential. They could've made cooking challenges, programming challenges (it would be pure gold to watch Mr Muscles rip his hair out reading a book on how to program), sharp shooting challenges, butter churning challenges, building challenges, even magnetic hoverboard challenges. Since it's the future, they could've made all meals astronaut dried block food, short and efficient lunchtimes, and chopsticks only, which would make the future jealous of all the raw resources of the past while the future had all the ac they wanted. Hell, they could've even put in a tech guy/survivalist on each team to help fix broken tools so nobody would want to eliminate them. There was just so much cheap potential, all wasted om just 3 time periods.
ok but I found it SO funny when Frank wins at the end, he tries to take his shirt off in celebration to show off, but he can't because he has his helmet on?? ahaha :') He really is all brawn and no brains huh
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle Nah himbos are supposed to be nice, he just acted nice sometimes... (no srsly a nice person wouldn't ever think "I'm gonna bullrush this guy off this 10 feet tall platform I'm sure he'll be fiiine")
18:03 “Week seven, they remind the contestants that they hate them by having the challenge where they dig through a giant mountain of horse manure to find explosive charges.” I genuinely can’t stop laughing at this, Jesus Christ
They were cursed for a thousand years, but they only were in production for a year or two (id assume), so that thousand years of curse were put into one year of one thousand percent power curse
Luke Tipple is a time traveler. The show has nothing to do with this, of course, he just came back from the future to punish the ancestors of everyone who wronged him in his own time. These being Team Epoch.
I screamed the whole time watching this. Also my mom worked on multiple reality shows behind the scenes and can confirm reality show runners are some of the cruelest and ruthless people out there. They will always put entertainment before the safety of anyone
cahoots 😂 He immediately went after the dude tied up, like he was in such a craze, thinking about pelting the defenseless person, he was deaf to the actual point of the challenge. I wonder how long it was before they realized it was t just tomato pieces running down the guy's cheek? 😬 Frank was savage.
I remember Survivor tried a similar idea one season. They made it rich vs. poor. Only instead of having actual rich people face actual poor people they gave one tribe a better shelter, more food, while the other tribe got nothing. Spoilers: The tribe with tons of advantages dominated.
"Jesse looks like a rich guy that owns a boat. And then he uses his boat as a workshop to kidnap people and cut them open and look at their insides to amuse himself" -Holy Crap, I laughed out loud for 3 minutes at this.
Astronauts should not be fighting _anyone._ I'm sorry -- they're amazing people, and they go through things most people probably can't, both physically and mentally, but their bones are made out of rainbow nerds and plaster of Paris. An astronaut might actually be in serious danger from getting rushed by a sickly toddler in a wheelchair. Nope. Just nope.
@@Skull35 if the Astronaut has his jetpack or a gun then the caveman is a sitting duck in this instant. If he doesn't then the fight will be awkward and probably be a draw xD
@@pandorasangel2747 what jetpack? These things aren't in use outside of wacky gimmicks. If anything you'd just wait for the jetpack guy to collapse and no way anyone is going to shoot AND HIT anything from it. Also ancient people were really tiny and had lower muscle mass, anyone who is cleared to go to space would be physically overwhelming against any BC warrior and would floor them boxing or wrestling.
Steve from OW here. The thirty minutes I spent watching this were ten times more enjoyable than being on the actual show, and everything you said was spot on.
My first experience on the show was that crucifixion torture challenge. It took ages for them to set that up, and they stuck Mercy and I in a van for about two hours while we waited - they refused to let us go to the bathroom and spoil our big entrance, so I got to sit right next to her as she was forced to squat and pee into a water bottle. We eventually get to go on set and hear the rules of our first big competition, and like you said, the point of the tomatoes in it was supposed to be to distract the people untying their teammates. Luke claimed the tomatoes were rotten and were thus supposed to be soft and painless, but due to the extreme cold, they all froze - Luke accidentally dropped one and when Frank saw the tomato literally bounce back up, he realized how hard they were and immediately signed up to be the person throwing them. Because he was also a MINOR LEAGUE PITCHER growing up. So yeah, tomato fast balls, being launched at my face. Good times.
After spending most of my first day on OW in the emergency room getting stitches on my face (yes the scar is still there), I knew the producers had no idea what they were doing. I auditioned bc I’ve been a lifelong big brother and survivor fan but this was nothing like that or any other logical reality show. They went out of their way to edit all strategy out of the show (there was actually a diary room we went into to talk about our gameplay, alliances etc which never even made it onto the show), the competitions were rigged for Frank, the Twitter popularity index was messed up bc several contestants families paid for thousands of spam bot accounts which altered the results, half of us got hurt and received no compensation or actual care for our injuries... but the producers somehow actually proved to be more intelligent than the actual competitors.
Epoch had the chance to just outright vote Frank out of the game bc no one would beat him in a comp, but they chose to vote me out instead. Why they added a twist out of nowhere about someone being voted out when everyone else was eliminated because they lost a competition, I’ll never understand... but half of the shows twists were created on the fly. Jeffry’s entire game was based on an alliance with JR which did virtually nothing for him and which every single one of us knew about. No one on that damn show seemed to actually think about winning, and that combined with Luke Tipples awkwardness and the producers lack of a clue made for one of the most hilariously horrible shows in television history. And believe me, it was as bad to be a part of as it was to watch. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, gotta share this with the friends who made the mistake of watching OW for me!
On and added fun fact, Frank spent a bulk of his winnings buying a publicist and a website and Beast Mode merchandise because he thought the show was super popular and would be his big break. Gotta love him.
Steve D I want to believe
Oh my god
Ok I was thinking about the vote-out all morning and how it didn't make sense, and decided that the most reasonable explanation was that it was added in to compensate for the loss of Charles. With Charles gone they were down one additional player. This also made an odd-numbered group of contestants.
The show was paced for a certain number of eliminations before the finale, and I have to assume there was going to be an additional team elimination challenge, taking out two players at once. With Charles gone, they were one player short for that. But they wouldn't have time or presumably money to add a whole new single-elimination challenge. They had an extra "floating" contestant with no convenient way to remove them from the game. Throwing in an in-team vote was the laziest way to take care of that.
Basically Charles' injury had a butterfly effect that ruined the whole competition. The vote aspect was good reality tv drama but was nothing like the rest of the competition and was another thing that ruined the illusion of fairness in the game.
Steve D but an actually insane reality show pitch is in here. Contestants sign up to a show where the producers have absolutely no clue what's going on. Like the whole thing is improvised by design. If they sold it like that I would watch BECAUSE it would be such a shit show. In this case though the producers are just as much a part of the show.
This is phenomenal
“You have been eliminated, and you have to leave right now.”
“Thank you.”
Comrade 269 "Good luck, but you've been eliminated." Really makes ya think
I'm surprised she didn't say "Thank God!" and start weeping.
I JUST REALIZED: Given the reactions everyone has to leaving and the show is called Opposite Worlds, the plot twist is that the whole point of the show is to leave. So the first person to be eliminated is the actual winner. In which case, the episodes would’ve been better shown in reverse order; the first episode showing Frank as the last to be eliminated, making him the ultimate loser.
Comrade 269
Damn maybe you’re right! Actually you ARE right 😂
At least one person in those conversations comes off as genuine.
This is the type of show where you'd vote to eliminate the person you like the best to avoid seeing them suffer.
the last person left is the one that no one liked, and their prize is staying alone on the island for another week.
@@thomasjenkins7506 And there make be snakes in the island.
Only you eliminate them for realz.... "Liability hehe"
This is my thought. Sounds like Charles breaking his leg was a mercy move in reality.
@@thomasjenkins7506 *in a island
"Good luck to you Angela, but you are eliminated."
"Thanks."
Yeah,, doesn't that mean she no longer needs the luck. I think at that point he should be saying, "Congratulations Angela, you have been eliminated." Turns to the others. "And the best of luck to all of you." "May the force be with you. You will be in our prayers."
"You too."
good luck reintegrating back into society
_FREEDOM!!!_
at least she survived
Imagine being a vet, seeing actual combat and coming home unscathed only to break your tibia on a stupid game show.
I like to imagine that Charles probably told everyone for years that being on this show was worse than his deployments.
The most common way for people to get injured when I was in the Marines was doing sports for PT. (Or Crossfit, but that's a different story)
@@wingsofhope2 I remember there was a Modern Family once and the grandpa was thinking back to when he and his son were building something with power tools and he said "That was my Vietnam, and I was in Vietnam"
OoOoOoO, Ok, the other type of "Vet". Now your comment makes sense.
@@psps6623 "I'm a seasoned vet, I've dealt with many angry goldendoodles."
I can't get over how happy everyone looks to leave
Jack Madscientist Can you blame them? XD
😂Yes!
Frankly, when the horse manure challenge came, I would've faked sickness or something, because I really don't handle bodily waste well.
This honestly seems like some kind of Stanford Prison Experiment type setup where the subjects all think they're on a reality show but it's actually studying how much bullshit they can subject the Past team to while favouring the Future team until the Past team snaps.
Would've been ace if there was a prison riot type thing happened. Smash down the glass wall, storm the future side, execute whoever was in charge of the whole mess.
The only thing Robespierre did wrong was leaving too many heads on shoulders.
Would've been better with this premise
And much like the prison experiment, it was entirely unscientific and unprepared
I did some brief research and found out that marine biology does have a subspecialty involving psychology, but someone who studies the pod dynamics of dolphins doesn’t in any way really translate to human psychology.
I love how the wikipedia article for this show now has two sentences under "Reception." The first is an obvious advertising blurb about it being great, and the second is "Cultural critic Jenny Nicholson later referred to the program as "the worst reality show of all time," citing the numerous injuries on set, the unequal treatment of the two teams, and the lack of playtesting evident in many of the challenges."
Late af and not denying the criticisms cause the show is really bad but I’m sure it’s just a word of praise from a reviewer. Not an advertising blurb.
I really hope that Jenny has business cards that say "Cultural Critic".
@@digimonlover1632reviews are just a form of advertising, but yeah the review is not just an advertising blurb, it’s someone from a random, now defunct, chicago blog who just said it was “freakishly addicting” and that’s the entire quote/blurb. she also mentions the accidents and the total imbalance as a reason it was addicting, like watching underdogs.
It's gone ;-;
sadly removed now
I know Steve IRL. And yeah, he does still have that scar.
Brizzy Voices I love your connection with other audiences, and that you aren’t placed on a pedestal. Love you Brizzy
Toad Cozart #Toad cute. Speak from experience?
Dylan Applegate yup i had plenty woman get on there back and knees for me why u ask?
Toad Cozart #Toad squad How can you even get on your knees if you're lying on your back?
Hey look! It's you!
Frank trying to take his shirt off and getting it stuck on his helmet just sums up the whole show
Best comment ever
I think it sums up his IQ pretty well too
sums me up pretty well too
*golf clap*
*slow clap*
"How did you get that scar?"
"I was tormatoed in the face by a minotaur"
This comment Im dying
OMG tormatoed made me snort so hard I thought I was going to choke!
Lol, tormadoes. Reminds me of The Sculptor’s Clayground.
If that story doesn't get you attention at a party, what on earth will?
My eyes, the goggles do nothing!
I feel like we’ve all seen a lot of dystopian/black mirror stuff this past year, but Twitter deciding who to STARVE on a game show might just be the worst
Sounds like something from total drama
Something tells me that Twitter wasn't told beforehand what would happen to the loser of the vote.
Makes you wish the contestants on the "future" side said "screw this; the future is going to be a more humanitarian one" and let all the "past" people into the warm with the food and the nice bedding. But I bet the producers would've turned off the cameras and made them stop if they tried :/
@@delphinidin if they stopped “playing” the “game” and just sat in the warm yes the producers probably would’ve stopped them lol
@@UnstableEquilibriumThey were watching the show as it came out, so, they would’ve known after the first time.
The planning for this show began and ended with the fur bikinis. They had an idea to have fur bikinis, and they made whatever show they needed to to make those bikinis a reality.
I want to like your comment but I can’t. You can tell why.
@@herbertortiz9159 because 555
@@herbertortiz9159 🙄
That's actually just what happened.
As someone who watches a lot of lyfy just for their completely crazy wild way of trying to appeal to future generations, this comment 100% makes sense and lines up with lyfy's entire general vibe.
“Hey, how’d you get that scar?”
“Oh, I was suspended on a Medieval torture rack while a minotaur pitched tomatoes at my face.”
Enfys Best I suppose the show finally did make use of history but it wasn’t pretty
Liar!
What does your name mean? It is extremely familiar. If it’s original, I have definitely seen you in the comments of a video before.
Omg I read your comment before I got to that part of the video
I originally thought you were joking 🤦🏽♀️
*frozen tomatoes apparently
I love how they keep saying "Thank you" when they get eliminated.
Short for "THANK F@$%ING GOD,,,, finally!"
Because it was awkward as fuck. They didn't know how to react to it.
I think they were genuinely happy to get the hell out of there.
I think they truly are glad to get out of there 😂
This one guy said, "awesome." Okay. Apparently it's just "say something and play it cool and just edge out of the frame" basically.
Way I could imagine this concept working-- if team Epoch was all HARDCORE survivalist types. Like the folks who go backpacking over mountain ranges for funsies, and team Chronos was all folks working in tech with engineering degrees and sedentary occupations. And then, have challenges designed to have a 'smart' method AND a 'brute force' method.
Keep the split house, but make the Epoch side more like a cabin in the woods type thang, with food supplies being wild game meats, fruits, mushrooms, and roots that might be foraged that all require preperation, and Chronos side being all convenience food-- some of it on the healthy side but with all the modern junk available in vast supply, with no kitchen supplies besides a microwave.
Oh right, and have someone who actually cares set up safey measures for the challenges.
I like this. Actually, I love it.
Also, as I think about it, the difference in mindset between survivalists and techie/gamer types would go much deeper than "force vs strategy." In a survival situation, risks are not rewarded. You're taught the correct way to pass a knife, to minimize the risk of injury. You're taught to never break sticks with your foot -- you can make do with an injured hand, but it's really hard to get around with an injured foot. Staying alive is good enough, and one slip-up might take even that away from you.
Techie logic seems to run the opposite way. Once there are enough safety nets, there's a lot less need for caution, and a lot more competition from aggressively creative people. You're rewarded for taking risks, and punished for letting opportunities slip by you.
So maybe, on some level, the real difference being tested here is something like "orderliness vs creativity" or "caution vs aggression" -- which could be a really, really interesting dynamic to see played out in different situations. Way cooler than whatever these yahoos were doing.
@@eyesofthecervino3366 Me: Mom, I want to watch the show LoorTheDArkElf and Eyes of the Cervino came up with.
Mom: We have "Opposite Worlds" at home.
This would have actually made for a good show
that would actually give the contestants a reason to choose epoch lol
Honestly this is great. I always loved the concept of the split houses but the execution of the reality show just wasn't fair. I think this could work
The biggest question I have is how they kept Epoch from killing and eating the film crew.
Maybe that's why the team switch happened, they needed 24/7 surveillance after week 6.
Epoch the son of Eon?
Erika Söderlund that would’ve been much more interesting
Erika Söderlund Tbh, that would make a way better reality show. Just starve a group of people and see how long it would take until they kill and cannibalize someone.
nowhere was it said that crew wernt eaten.
You know a reality show is bad when Total Drama Island treats their contestants better
That was exactly what I was thinking 😂😂
Chris is quaking.😂
Which is saying a lot because their first challenge was to jump off a massive cliff into shark infested water
@@librasuperstar3779
At least there were no cattle prods????
KN1GHT - I mean yeah, and also it’s animated so they didn’t shatter any bones
I can't tell if Charles is the biggest loser for the broken leg or biggest winner since he got to leave immediately.
A soul for a soul
Definitely a loser since that leg will never be fully healed for the rest of his life. That poor sod.
@@localweeb2924 That's how big bone breaks work. That area is much more likely to break again. I knew a guy in high school who had broken his arm like 3 times.
@@MedievalGenie And got the pleasure of fighting the VA to get the surgeries he’ll need covered, if he’s insured via the VA.
@@Arella17 Well I assume the show will be footing his medical expenses forever. Hopefully they buy him an enormous third nicer leg since they caused his injuries. Even if he signed a waiver, that doesn't excuse negligence... and it won't protect them from a devastating PR situation. Capitalism wins?
I like how "Epoch" and "Chronos" are both time-based words but neither of them imply a specific period
"So what's the brief for the team names? Got any clever ideas for me to start with?"
"Eh, wibbly wobbly, timely wimey.."
"Say no more, chief."
They played chrono trigger once and were like “aha!”
@@mysticwater9056 "And now the final challenge of the competition: The Time Egg."
Well, the intention was that they would be swapping sides of the house more!
@@mysticwater9056I know this is unrelated but is your username a Pokémon reference
This wasn't even how early humans lived, it's like the most vague minimal attempt at science/history education to make you feel like a big brain while watching chicks in fur kinis
Yeah, if they gave them fur clothes why couldn’t they give them furs to sleep on and use as blankets? Early humans weren’t just sleeping in the open air freezing all the time.
And the food is also silly.
Modern bread, and orange carrots. I don't know when I'd put modern bread at (though bread from wild grains goes back at least 14000 years and probably more than 30000 years), but orange carrots date to around the 16th century AD.
I would have thought there'd be berries and lean meats on a show like this, but I guess not.
@@evamiller4886 Kinda sucks they gave them skimpy versions of early clothing. Based from what I know, it goes from head to toe, and that they lived in tents, some form of hut probably, and so on. Even sucks more since we have to realize hunting played a large role in survival. Not only that, but I think they could cook up meals by boiling? Like, if they had a clay pot...?
@@jonajo9757 Yeah, hunting was a huge thing but most of the calories came from people gathering berries and vegetables. They should have pretty healthy food instead of kitchen scraps.
This part really infuriated me, but thankfully shortly after showing that, it became clear in this video that it was a complete shitshow, so it added to the hilarity.
Like, I could provide a laundry list of the actual ways Neolithic humans lived and how they made their homes comfortable, warm, and arguably ate a far more varied diet in terms of biodiversity than our modern diet of about 4 animals, 3 grains, and a select few vegetables. I could do that, but why plan to retile the roof when the whole house is about to collapse?
So wait... you're telling me, that when the producers learned all of the kindling and fire-starting supplies were too wet to burn, they didn't give team Epoch stuff that would burn??? So like the players wouldn't get hypothermia?!?!?!?
Maybe the producers were hoping they'd rip some material from the fur bikinis to start a fire.
And when it wasn't summer, they didn't let them dress for winter.
Clearly they didn't want to spend the money to: get into a car, drive to the nearest gas station, and pick up a couple bundles of firewood =/
No but cavemen didn't have dry wood either. After all, where could they keep it dry??
@@amtep I feel like “realism” should have taken a back seat to safety here just for moral reasons, but also considering how half assed the theming is throughout the rest of the show. They could’ve given them food and kindling.
The crew of survivor has an entire group of people whose sole job is to run through every challenge before the contestants actually do it, to test camera set ups, but also playtest the challenge for unforeseen issues. You know, unforseen issues like 10 foot death drops with no safety padding, or a maze that literally takes 5 seconds to run through
And still people have been pretty severely hurt on occasion so this one was just an inevitable horror. If anything, it's a wonder no one died.
This is why I love Survivor so much! Obviously there are risks inherent to the premise, and people *have* been seriously injured before, but the crew goes to great lengths to make it as safe as possible. They’re not gonna completely deprive the contestants of food. Jeff and the crew appear to genuinely respect the players and want them to have a fulfilling experience.
Based on this video, I checked out a Rooster Teeth podcast episode where Luke Tipple was a guest, and SOMEBODY GETS INJURED IN THE FIRST THREE MINUTES. It's not even his fault, I think that energy just follows him around.
I feel bad for anyone who worked with him on Shark Week programming...
Rooster Teeth has to be the most accident-prone place he could have gone too, that injury was inevitable lol
_. . . For a thousand years. . . ._
I didn’t like this comment because it’s at 666 and that seems perfect
@@Ohnogoblin Well it's at 668 now. You can't expect everyone to be as principled as you.
OH MY GOD
I watched this show YEARS AGO and I have been looking for the name ever since, it remains one of the most surreal, dream-like memories I have from that year. I watched it while I had the flu and just- I thought it might have been a hallucination or a dream for years.
I had a similar experience watching the Syfy channel while sick, except it turned out to be reruns of a supernatural procedural that called itself “Friday The 13th: The Series” but had nothing in common with the movies other than its production company.
It was like a bootleg X-Files except they couldn’t come up with a bunch of different monster plots for the main characters to investigate, so every episode was “one-off character finds a magical artifact that does something they want in exchange for murders”.
I, personally, would commit a magical murder to get a retrospective like this about it.
Champiness Dude, X-files came out *years* after Friday the 13th: The Series. It wasn't suppose to revolve fully around the main recurring characters fighting monsters. They ran that curio shop of cursed objects and shit. It's more like The Conjuring film franchise, if you think about it.
So what you’re saying is it’s the exact right time for James Wan to reboot Friday The 13th: The Series as a prestige Netflix show, which of course I agree with
I can’t wait to see who they get for the popstar role originally filled by Vanity in that episode where a fan finds a magical hypnotism watch and realizes over the course of several wishes-granted-in-exchange-for-hypnotism-murders that he kinda just wants to be Vanity
I had the same experience with “Little People From LA”. I worked as a night shift security guard in a hospital and it was on the tv in the ER waiting room. It was so bizarre that I wouldn’t be surprised if that whole shift turned out to have been a dream.
“To lose him in this experience is terrible for me because he was my crutch... I mean, he was the best member of the CAST!... I mean, without him we don’t have a leg to stand on! ...I mean... I’m just gonna stop talking now.”
THE MOST UNDERRATED COMMENT😂
"I'm just gonna put my foot in my -- _dang_ it!"
It's going tibia tough game without him.
(Charles if you see this I am sorry and hope you are okay.)
I have to keep reminding myself that this was 2014 when it has such strong 2007 vibes
2014 was just discount 2007.
@@StarWarsomania 7+7=14
2+0+1+4=7
Yeah, up until I noticed the hashtag, I'd assumed it had come out around '05 to '07, and once I did I just went "oh, okay, it must've been no later than 2010 then, because I feel like it was around that time when these kinds of 'bunch of people live in a house and compete in challenges at night' reality game shows finally died out".
Even the haircuts feel very late aughts to me.
Like, if you had told me the host had had a guest spot in an episode of Lost I would've totally bought that.
Leaving poor Charles horribly injured entirely because of the show's negligence, poor planning and lack of safety standards and then bringing him back for a 'heartwarming' tear-jerking moment is so cartoonishly evil.
This is.... a real life Total Drama Island.. who greenlit this?
That's exactly what I was thinking!
My theory: some studio executive's kid loved total drama island so to impress their kid they made this show and their kid was very, very disappointed.
Not quite. In total drama, everyone got fucked while the host would be relaxing. Here, its just one team that has that.
And some of these games are non competitive, like the 12 second chase one. In total drama, every game was an asshole game but it was evenly hard for most players.
Like, no one, fire figther or wimp, would want to get in a barrel with leeeches.
Sarah Wagoner That was my theory with Emeril a shower liner and the last Airbender movie
It is, that's the worst part.
Poor Charles
He deserved better.
The only one that could've gone up against Frank.
Hi, Charles Stiles Mystery Diners.
AbaddonAlmighty we were denied the battle of the century, a clash for the ages, a time... kerfuffle.
...Time puns!
don't you mean... Porg Charles :p
“you have to leave right now”
“thank you!”
the picture of frank lifting up his babies like a flesh offering will never leave my mind for the rest of my life
Never say flesh offering again
@@Quackervoltz make me *bites lip*
@@vminweddingcaterer3675 Dammit I can't
I honestly wonder how he raised his flesh offerings and how they grew up
@@wjzav1971 he’s an NYC fire fighter so you know he raised his flesh offerings as high as he could so that with their sacrifice, the twin towers may rise high again as well
my main issue is them not giving a huge variety of food and meat to the Epoch people but giving them stale bread???
what the hell is that supposed to represent. if they're pre-agriculture they aint got bread, least of all stale bread.
Granted, pre-agricultural people _did_ eat grain, but they didn't have the querns or ovens required to turn it into bread.
People that lived in those times weren't stupid either, they obviously were able make functional clothes that kept them warm. They also told stories, made art and looked out for each other. There are foundings that prove they took care of their disabled relatives. It makes me so angry to see when people act as if our ancestors were barely functional idiots. They weren't, the lack of technology does not mean they were less human than us.
@@aptalsandvic5355 Cavemen didn't have porn yet so their women had to wear fur bikinis
Guess you can say they liked it, rock hard pfffftavdbdhsh
Ancient doesn’t equal stupid.
There were cavemen geniuses just like there are Gen Z geniuses.
Just using a different playbook of tech.
So a show meant to demonstrate the difference between Past and Future -- Actually demonstrated the gap between Rich and Poor.
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Wow, that's brilliant. If they had phrased it this way, and made a few subtle changes, they could've made some really interesting points.
or both idk
All history is class warfare
Celestial Loves There was already a season of Survivor that was exactly that, the two competing tribes were the Haves and the Have-Nots with the Haves getting all the food and luxury items.
COULD have been an interesting premise if it was actually thought through. Have team past be all people who pride themselves in brawn, maybe some super fit survivalist types; team future be all highly educated people who pride themselves on their brains. Have all the challenges have equal amounts of physical and mental challenge. But this seems like they were just like "But, what if we make one team sleep in the dirt?"
future gets some pre-made meal shit, but it all tastes sort of bland, while past gets fresh fruits and organic proteins or something but they have to prepare it in some way to make sure everyone gets nutrition. also the past could have had uncomfortable hammocks while the future had kinda shitty beds with like cot matresses. like the concept is there! but they just half assed it for some cash and even screwed that up too.
Make the future eat vegan and limit the meat to the past. They get fruits too. The discomfort in the future about making electiricity sounds good. Or they have to solve riddles and mindgames to get food, or something. And mix teams by giving members the chance to shuffle.
Lets see how long frank wants to be in the future. Even through he seems like a decent bloke, it makes the show so anti intellectual.
Jon Snor lowkey though what kind of future has everyone eat vegan food
thicc bih it’s all arbitrary to make the game more even in sport of competition and fun
@@thiccbih3140 It's likely in the future most people will be vegan because of overpopulation and climate change actually ;o
But honestly they should eat something like soylent or these NASA packages of food. Basically, it has all of the nutrition your body needs but tastes like nothing. Then the team Epok would have access to all yummy stuff but they would have to cook it themselves using a campfire.
It could be interesting, because then Team Chronos would have the advantage of perfect nutrition, but at the same time they would probably crave something that has flavor real bad. After a few weeks I imagine some people would volunteer to Epok just to eat normal food.
Imagine if Charles had fallen on his neck instead of his leg, this show is horrifying
How hard is it to have proper safety mats
In that case the whole show probably gets scrapped or restarted, at the very least it doesn't make the air.
That would have been horrible
That's what happens when you create a reality tv show on the fly, to "keep it fresh".
I honestly don't understand how the show wasn't sued because of this.
I like to think that Frank's drunk buddies set this whole thing up cause Frank was having a hard time and they just wanted him to feel cool again.
Luke was just a random homeless guy they got off the streets and said “now you’re a scientist”
This is the best conspiracy theory I've seen in a long time.
Lmao I love this
His Twitter has him being on the show as the foremost thing in the bio, and the only thing, except links to other social media.
This whole "reality show" was arranged by a bunch of frat boys.
"Yeah, I have to have surgery"
"How do you feel about that, man?"
Spit my coffee everywhere
😂🤣
"I feel great about it! I have attention addiction and severe
Münchhausen-Syndrom！"
lmfao "Minotaur"
I thought the unintelligence was an exaggeration, but no. Frank is literally an 18 Strength, 18 Constitution, 7 Intelligence barbarian
But his charisma has to be at least 14. I refuse to believe he's not making it through life on his looks and brawn combined.
I couldn’t dislike Frank though, he seemed like he was genuinely happy to have won that one maze game lol... Like it was sort of cute in a weird way that this giant beast of a man was celebrating something that he was pretty obviously going to win
Just saw the end - I agree that Frank winning was pretty satisfying. He seems like a nice guy and I hope he was able to afford to do some fun things with his kids and wife.
I snorted at that, thanks
Strength 100
One Handed 100
Two Handed 100
Speech 0
Fun fact: Frank competed in the Titan Games (the obstacle course show hosted by The Rock) a few years ago and lost cuz he got stuck in this rolling log obstacle basically due to him being a fucking minotaur who skipped leg day
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*”WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”*
You have no idea how much delight I got from reading this comment
WOOOOOOOOOOOO
WOOOOOOOOOOOO
8:00 dude is obviously not a chicken leg.
Frank seems like a real dick
For the first challenge why does the platform have to be 10 feet above the ground? Couldn't they just have rumbled maybe a foot off the ground? It's just whoever knocks whoever out first, right? Is having a cattle prod not enough?
And why is tackling allowed?
I know, it's basically sumo wrestling with cattle prods. No need for elevation.
Why not have it above water so when they do fall they won't hurt themselves as badly?
@@LoryskaEntertainment I imagine tackling was allowed becaus no one thought to prohibit it.
@@luanagullotta6218 They'd have to have access the a water facility. I doubt they could afford it. But, also, don't overestimate the surface tension of water. It would have been better than landing on the ground, but the padding, had it been landed on, might have been just as safe as water.
20:55
"You have been eliminated"
"Awesome"
...
"You have been eliminated and you have to leave"
"Thank you"
yeah
They weren’t supposed to react this way😅😂😂😂
"No, seriously. Get the hell out now. "
"Thanks, okay, I'm going"
"Security will now escort you off of the property."
"Fine, alright, thank you. I'm walking away."
"The police are on their way. You can't be here."
"Yes, I just need my crutches, I'm nearly there"
"You are currently trespassing on private property, we will be filing criminal charges. Good luck mate."
@@somethingelse4424 I’m dead 😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😂 this is genius
I havent stopped thinking about this. It's sooo funny.
"Yeah, I have to have surgery." "How do you feel about that?" "Uh... I kinda feel bad."
I had this literal conversation with my brother when he broke his leg.
The Onion made a parody reality tv show called ‘Sex House’ where the contestants are put in a house, that as time goes on, becomes filled with mold, loses electricity and blasts burning and freezing air. The contestants are also not given food and are deprived of nutrients. The similarities between a literal parody reality tv show created to mock and over exaggerate the absurdities of reality tv shows made by The Onion and this REAL LIFE reality tv show is very scary
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Breathe deeply, prepare for mist.
Cloudy drink kills frog!
Wait it was a parody? I accidentally came across that when i was a kid and then went to bed and couldnt sleep because a guy crushed and killed a frog in that show
I thought It was a dream. I definitely stumbled into that show way too young and was so confused and probably saw stuff I shouldn't have
I think the worst reality show I've seen was "I Want to Marry Harry" where a bunch of women compete in a Bachelor-Style show, deprived of any outside contact, to marry a guy who looks ambiguously like Prince Harry who is not Prince Harry and is not at all wealthy. It's on a big English country estate, they constantly wave around "hints" that he's a prince, and these girls who are not given the allowance of a simple google search start tearing each other apart not for love but to become a literal princess because they deceive them all into thinking he's royalty. This aired before he was married, and oh dear god did no one come out looking like a good person.
Yeah.... And they had a "therapist" come on the show to tell the women who could tell that he wasn't actually Prince Harry that they had trust issues and needed to calm down. The "therapist" was one if the producers.
Woah
@@wjsnactivist6141 shit that sounds illegal but so does everything in opppsite worlds lol
@@wjsnactivist6141 Lol sounds like the producers watched Shutter Island and were like "This needs to be a gameshow"
I remember seeing ads for that when it came out.
How did the creators not get sued to the oblivion? I get that there are contracts against injury responsibility and so on, but there must be some limits and job descriptions, right? Some of these are just physical torture and completely unprofessional, dangerous stunts that the contestants are thrown into like lab rats.
They might have, I doubt it'd get much publicity because this show doesn't sound extremely popular
Cuz its fake yo
@@suicidebyfema4767 you think someone pretended to break their leg or get a huge cut in their face?
Waivers are a hell of a drug
@@suicidebyfema4767 cause they wanted miserable ratings?? 😂
Wow, I feel so bad for the military guy that broke his leg. Seriously, what were the people who made this show thinking??
they weren't
Keychain696 How do you think he felt?
Eighteen years in military service, surviving some of the harshest conditions a person can be subjected to, gaining intense survivalist training and physical versatility, for what?
To be critically injured by a pretty boy tool on a game show, and need to leave before the first contestant was disqualified.
That’s gotta be demoralizing.
Vincient Jackman Probably. But, y’know, his survivalist knowledge probably would’ve helped Epoch not be half as malnourished.
Seeing that small clip when he visited he really seemed to feel bad about leaving his team mates behind. He obviously had a gag clause to prevent him from speaking up in his contract, but he looks sad.
They weren't.
Can't believe she didn't mention that when Frank won, he was clearly trying to take his shirt off so he could scream bare chested, but he couldn't get the shirt off over his helmet, nor could he take off his helmet, so he just kind of awkwardly dances with his shirt kind of off, lol
21:45
Frank should play Jake from Trigger Warning in a film adaption
kittysrock16 Frank is certainly b i g e n o u g h
yes. please
@@elvellarambles9151 you sure? from the description of the book, I don't know if he's big enough...
I'm dying
I don't know, he might need to get a little bigger for that.
One team is literally just living with modern technology and furnishing while the other was stripped of everything they knew and forced to suffer
They should have 1) Put people more inclined mentally in the "future" house and more physically able people in the "past" house to begin, 2) filmed in the summer in a place with little humidity, 3) make pros and cons for each house. For example, those in the future have to eat dehydrated food or rations or something, like an astronaut would. Those in the past get fresh ingredients to eat and attempt to make food with. Everything in the future could be purely efficient too, so it would be less luxurious and more having to make certain sacrifices to keep up the efficiency of the future. It will probably still be favorable to the past, but it will be closer to equal that way. There could also be incentive to switch where your team stays after winning a challenge if you get a different reward for each place. What I mean is, for example if you chose to be in the past, then you would get a hint as to what the next challenge is and be able to prepare. If you chose to be in the future, then you could call and chat with family or friends. And the prize for each will be different every challenge. 4) SAFETY PRECAUTIONS OBVIOUSLY! HOW DID THEY FUCK THAT ONE UP?? 5) make the challenges half physical, half mental, and some with overlapping qualities of both. Knowledge of history and evolution should help you in these challenges. Again: No one should be in harm's way for any of these challenges.
I know, right? Who would ever choose the cave side of the house? WHO? They have to give a little incentive to want it.
They should've swapped the teams over every week or two, to balance it out
Where the heck were you when they were planning this show?!?! Except then we wouldn't have gotten this awesome video.. Well now we need a season two but you need to be there or better yet, make your own and act like you've never heard of this one or something. Be like , "I was thinking like a Total Drama vibe, but more humane and in the future a little bit. Like a Total Drama: Time Swappy Thing or Time Force!!" And yea that's what I was thinking, there needs to be incentive to want to swap, no one wants to freeze their butt off for free! Same with the other stuff, except I'd make it more around mid-spring-ish so that it can be cold but sometimes warm. Change when they put the actual seasons out too for a weather challenge.. Maybe they just threw the show together to get it out before someone else or something and paid off safety people, because there is absolutely no reason reason for the lack of safety, honestly even the thought of safety really. She said the mats weren't even big enough to even be ready for any kind impact really!! I honestly wonder how they felt when they were editing this for tv..
They could have made the future house sleep in those tiny pods they make for living in areas with high population density. Just adding to an already stellar list.
and they should have brought heaters for the outdoor people. Making them sleep in the cold is way too cruel. It's like they thought "we're gonna make the futuristic people do whatever but the people in the past have to live EXACTLY like someone in the past would!!!"
That maze with Frank wasnt even a "maze". It was just like...fluffy bumpers that frank shoved over lmfao
Yeah that through me off too! I thought they were like tight pillars that she could hide behind to avoid him
jesus christ. How does a show like this get green lit?
No safety measures, completely stacked, not an ounce of awareness.
It feels like a fucking live action remake of Total Drama Island.
It even includes the random last second rule changes.
+The Blarggle Welcome to Hollywood!
You know what's worse? That this show format was bought and remade with local stars in my country, Chile. It was one of the most successful reality tv show here ever, with a rating point of 31,4 in average...and it was just as shitty as this one. The female contestant that won this show was a Justin Bieber imitator. I honestly don't know what's worse.
+Look at this cute kitty c: The tragic thing is what that says about the human race.
I love how both Steve and someone who knows steve personally are in the comments talking about this show.
It seems real...do we know if it was real?
@@OtterMunchy Do we know if anything is ever real?
@@cam4636 giggle! Nope! The murkiness makes things more interesting!
"They had whole fish in the past" -Jenny Nicholson
“how do you feel about that, man?”
“I kinda feel bad.”
truly riveting television. a twist at every turn.
y o u m a y n o t e a t f o r t w e n t y f o u r h o u r s
But at least in THG you could at least, like, hunt a squirrel. Food wasn't being held from you, it was just hard to catch. (Not that I'm arguing it's easier, lmao)
@xoxoBumble Eh, you know what I mean. I'm not very familiar with all the ~Hunger Games lore~, but I don't remember there ever having been no food (besides donations.... tributes, shall I say) at all. It's just the closest comparison I had. I'm also still mildly embarrassed by my use of 'at least' twice and so close together. It hurts me to look at, argh.
@@tungsten_talons From what I remember, there was one Hunger games held in the Arctic. It lasted all of an hour.
BUT, if everyone hadn't frozen to death, food would have been an issue
Peter Mendez “hey so you were last in the poll so you’re deprived of something you need to live”
Oh my god it's me from the past how the f did I get 2K likes
i like how jenny’s initial reasoning for why it’s so bad is bc a producer didn’t take madam zeroni up the mountain
Deep deep 4th grade cut!
@@ruthantunez92 good ol' Stanley Yelnats
#Holes2forDisney+
_and you will be _*_cursed_*_ for always and eternity~_
If only, if only, the woodpecker cries...
"Who will win between this team that's forced into horrible conditions where they can't sleep or eat and this team that had actual working plumbing and the strongest competitor on the show?"
I guess the answer was the one guy who was given literally every advantage possible.
It was rigged to "prove" exactly that. They never tested Frank on his obvious weakness: intelligence. Which you need in order to survive from cave people to modernity... Living rough can make you strong too, if you know how to do it. There is a decent concept buried here I think. Just ineptly carried out.
My idea for how to improve this show involves past and future having different playstyles to navigate during the week. Make the past an agrarian commune and the future a competitive consumer economy. Different skills help in different times. Then at the end of every week the teams compete and get new captains who choose their teammates for that week so you never know which time you’ll end up in. Solo players might thrive in one house but struggle in the other, while team players might do better in group tasks and you still need to monitor social dynamics to win over team captains.
The Minotaur from the Future.
@@nintencat I was just re-watching this today. That guy they tied up got it ROUGH, like holy shit, he flung the crap outta that apple!
@@KrazyKelor : hope you get a job writing for one of these shows, some day. Good ideas.
I think it's hilarious that they thought they were setting up a "brains vs brawn" thing where the primitive group would be stronger but the modern group would be smarter. Like why would being deprived of food and the standard of living you're used to make you physically stronger.
I mean you couldve easily set that up in a way it works: have the "future" side be a dystopia with a house with no windows, no recreation and have all their food be tasteless stuff that only gives good nutrition. Meanwhile the "past" team whilst living outside would have access to regular food and yk a non depressing environment.
@zawrator4457 I'd have gone with future: all food delivered but is trash fast food and microwave meals. TVs, computer games, Internet, etc for entainment but limited access to the outside.
Caveman: Food is plentiful fresh fruits, veg and meat but requires physical tasks to get (particularly so for meat). Unlimited access to the outside but no entertainment items unless they make them themselves.
They should have given one group access to a gym and lots more protein, but also the protein is laced with ketamine so they're can't think at 100%
You better believe that the show didn't pay for Charle's surgery, either. I feel for him so badly as someone who shattered an ankle and severed my Achilles tendon a few years back. You never really recover, it affects you heavily for the rest of your life. I still wear a leg brace and can't work in most places. Having to cover the expenses yourself while still injured is hell without help.
that is infuriating to find out. I guess contestants signed a waver for that kind of a thing, but the show was hot garbage and unethical to begin with so you'd think the least they could do is pay for his medical bills that were caused by their shoddy production. I'm surprised he didn't sue tbh even if just to pay off the bills - I think there'd be a case there. the losers didn't even get an inexpensive simple reward after having dealt with being on this kind of a show. I mean, nobody's surprised and that's reality TV for you but I hope the guy is doing alright now. wishes for the best to you too, OP.
If they didn't I would sue hard. The fact the cushions weren't in place is textbook negligence.
@@washedblue according to Steve, the guy pelted with tomatoes (check the pinned comment chain for this), they just didn't think of it in time. Another comment mentioned the statute of limitations there for personal injury claims runs out after a year and aside from that, the company producing OW shut down shortly after the end of season 1
Why do people ever participate in dangerous activities in a country without universal healthcare. I mean, what the fuck?!?!
Imagine going through a war mostly physically unscathed and then suffering a debilitating, life-altering injury the first day you join a shitty reality show.
"you have been eliminated, and you have to leave right now" *claps*
oh ok
Upchuck Downchuck and everytime the contestants are like thank you thanks
They're so grateful that they can leave
Upchuck Downchuck pee
Can't even quote right smh
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
In the UK, we had a reality show where people were basically chucked on to a remote Scottish island and left to fend for themselves, and there wasn’t half the injuries there was here. This is truly the most cursed show.
Name of show ?
Kostis Afouxenidis i think it’s called the eden project ?? something like that ?? it failed cos everyone got cliquey and refused to keep doing it and then they made a series talking about how it failed
it’s called Eden
Also Castaway 2000
and when you consider it was 50ish people, kids, a gun for the deer, a pregnant pony, and some foul weather....no serious injuries I remember its more remarkable.
Except everyone wanting to punch that one guy in the face who would whine all the time.
Then again less blood possibly came from the no prize money or eliminations to drive people to do stupid things
and that was Castaway.
The amount of times Frank injured someone…. I do not think he’s as innocent as it appears
I know i’m really late to the party, but while i did find his gloating after winning in 12 seconds funny, it was definitely a sign that he’s not the NICEST guy in the world. Who the hell gloats like that after winning a game of what is basically tag?
That player will be *"SAFELY"* hoisted up into the air
Lil Snuggly Mane oh my god, I was reading this comment the moment the guy said that
It's Krusty the Clown's bestest friend in the whole wide world *"Mr. Black"*
ur username is really good
@@melxb Yeah, suffering is extremely entertaining... especially when the competition itself is extremely biased
Thrilling.
I feel like frank had some kind of life threatening disease and his dying wish was to win a game show so the whole show was designed to be in his favor
Julia_aaa ye
so basically Opposite Worlds predicted Squid Game
“You have been eliminated”
*“Awesome”*
Imagine being on the past team and, if you're female like me literally wearing a bikini, in freezing temperatures while the camera crew is dressed in coats and warm clothing. Plus nothing to make a fire. And knowing that some of your fellow contestants are sleeping in heated rooms and warm beds. I'd be pretty pissed.
My instinct would have been to ambush a member of the crew while they were alone on a smoke break and steal their warm clothes, any food they had on them, and their lighter/matches
I don't play by your rules, Luke Tipple!
@@AuDHDarling Smarter move would be to steal their keys and get tf out of there, though
The furkini thing still gets me, like, wtf, the past team is already primed to lose but then the girls have it even worse with their clothes not even being functional
There was likely an idea in mind by the show runners to make the cave girls dependent upon the generosity of the men to provide warmth (to create weird situations).
I expect to see Luke Tipple on the news screaming "I'm a scientist! I'm a scientist!" as the police drag him from his home after finding his basement full of kidnapped people he's been torturing.
The victims are all the contestants that didn't make it and had their scenes taken out.
....isn't that just this show?
I love that Frank tries to take his shirt off in victory, but forgets he’s wearing a helmet so just awkwardly stops.
Frank: "Victory is mine!" *instantly defeated by a shirt*
@@scipioafricanus5871 That should've been the real final challenge
This is insanity
hey rc it's cool seeing you here.
Yay! You watch these too
Huh, what are you doing not proving yourself wrong on your channel?
Your avatar paired with your comment is perfect.
Luke could've had some cool line for when players got eliminated like "You have to return to the present" instead he goes with "Good luck, but, you have to leave" 😂
Imagine being the guy that made it all the way to the end and not winning. Like at least with amazing race and stuff you get to go somewhere neat, but this one you're just like "great, I was cold and hungry for 3 months and I get... oh, nothing? yeah, awesome"
“Second place” really is, irrefutably, “first loser” in this case
Luke Tipple, bending down to speak to Charles' leg: Congratulations on making it this far, but you have been eliminated. Goodbye.
"Good luck"
Charles' leg: *strained, polite smile* "Thank you"
So I watched this monstrosity, and there's even another injury in the first episode. Lauren shows up after the challenge when the winners are being announced in a sling. The show doesn't even acknowledge it, because they got enough drama from Samm and the Charles(?) getting injured. Half of epoch gets injured that first night. Jesus.
The fact the primitive mab group got the most injured, is the only realistic thing in this entire show. Honestly the only thing that wouldve made it more realistic is if they got the plague or scurvy
@@kaygon.5202
... or malaria ...
... or smallpox ..
... or cholera ...
That list is endless ...
@David Vazquez Hmm yes I also enjoy people getting smashed to bits in a reality show whose health and safety regulations couldnt even reach the lofty heights of limiting how hard you can throw a tomato
@David Vazquez Neither, I was just being silly lol
The closest I know to this show, in terms of just torturing the contestants, is the Japanese 'Za Gaman'. It is very old, 80's/90's old, and absolutely insane.
Basically, a bunch of college kids were put through a series of increasingly more dangerous and humiliating 'challenges'. One of these included the infamous 'starvation booth', which is exactly as the name states: two kids were locked in a see-through cube-like booth placed by a river. They are to be held there 24 hours without eating. If they can refuse the food that will be offered them after they have been starving for close to a whole day, they win. If they eat, they lose.
It actually gets worse: Given the closeness to the river and the fact that the flooring was sheer concrete, the booth was terribly cold. Then, the food they were offered was cold noodles introduced into slots...so that they inevitably fell on the floor. Yes, these poor starving, cold numbed and by now hardly coherent boys had to scoop their noodles from the floor and eat them!
While the host cackled manically and let them know what LOSERS they were for not hanging in there a little longer. Starve like men!
These kids went from being really happy-go-lucky to sniveling, shivering messes, unable to shake and crying.
And I am not sure 'starvation booth' was even the worst 'challenge'. Another one is close to water boarding: they'd bury the poor guy all the way to the neck, by the sea so that the incoming waves would submerge his head for quite a while. Or they would use the same setting but would pour pepper into the eyes and mouth and in order to make sure they didn't close the eyes, a 'Clockwork Orange' like device was used!
In yet another, they tied them to a water wheel...and yes, the wheel was working.
But perhaps the most infamous challenge was the electroshocking one...Here, two guys were sat across from each other with electrodes attached to their naked chests and took turns taking shocks! I can't recall if they shocked each other or if someone from the show did it, either way, the voltage would climb each turn until they would writhe in pain.
The first person to tap out, lost.
ARE YOU SURE THIS WASNT JUST A PSYCHOPATHS VIDEO LOG OF HIS VICTIMS LEAKED TO THE WORLD ACCIDENTALLY.
@@ThatDurre You're not entirely wrong. The host at the starvation booth, in particular, was enjoying himself way too much, laughing and cracking jokes at the poor kids who hadn't eaten in 24 hours.
"Za Gaman" came out at a time when non-American entertainment was not readily available in the States; it became known because a late night show host- I forgot who it was- found a VHS tape and decided to do a skit about it.
His first reaction was, "Is this for real?", and who can blame him.
Nor was this show unique either. Other Japanese "prank" shows around that time included staging a terrorist attack, in which a poor guy thought he was being gunned down; toilet seats that were dragged out to sea and massage chairs that were tossed down snowy slopes; and in one particularly egregious example, an escape artist who was made to think he was about to burn to death, while his family watched.
@@Nocturnalux holy shit I remember seeing that one with the drive by during Japanese class in high school! It had a live studio audience laughing at this guy lying prone thinking all his coworkers got gunned down
@@NateCooper111 Yes! Absolutely insane. I don't think I ever encountered anyone else who had seen it.
Mario party.
I looked up Charles to see what he's doing now and apparently he was a stunt performer in an episode of Marvel's The Defenders. So that's cool.
That is cool.
fun fact: when frank and his babies greet each other, they flex aggressively and scream
I like that this implies frank has a large nest of baby franks somewhere on the side of a cliff like a pterodactyl
Only he can reach them
@@Lucifersfursona He feeds them raw meat and protein shakes like a mother bird feeds her chicks.
A devil costume av _and_ 666 likes? I see. I'm onto you Lucy-fer!
fish bodies didn't exist in the past, they are a modern invention
Yeah also cattle prods existed in the past but there was no cattle so people had to use them on each other.
Ever wonder why we've only ever found the *skulls* of Dunkleosteus?
8:11 'he's just a big, dumb, lumbering, smiley, well-meaning monster' is literally my favourite sentence of all time congratulations
Peek himbo energy 😂
Except noy himbo energy or well-meaning at all 😩 the guy's sociopathic tendencies came out in competitions and he got a MAJOR ego after the show
Peak mastiff or Rottweiler energy
@@madeniquevanwyk It's always such a shame when that happens :'y
Lord, give me an incorruptible himbo
I started the video and before she said the show I thought “no reality show she names could ever be worse than opposite worlds” because I thought I was the only one who remembered it
Ironically, the original version of this show, aka the chilean version, was actually pretty fun and well made, mostly because it was recorded on summer on a relativelly dry area and with acrually good inteligent creators who created interesting competitions... There were even cooking competitions and shit like that...
idk I remember it being pretty bad, but yes there was definitely less suffering involved
Yeaah, I remember the chilean version. It was super popular for a couple of months. Idk about the "good intelligent creators", but it wasn't as bad as the US one
that wasn't the original version it was definitely a remake, but they made it better
@@LoveMarsPierii No, the Chilean version (Mundos Opuestos) premiered in 2012, while Opposite Worlds premiered in 2014.
Can you imagine Cooking competitions on this version of the show?
Hearing this physically hurts. Like, I've never heard of this show and I want to sue the hell out of them.
It's ashamed the network pulled the plug so early. The second season the contestants were supposed to escape a mine field and hunt a grizzly with a spork.
Imagine if in survivor instead of the host saying, "The tribe has spoken." then snuffing out their torch, he just said. "Nice knowing you, bye now." And the person wandered off aimlessly.
Sooooo they tortured team Epoch. Like, thats just torture.
I think it was a front to get the competitors when in reality, its a comfy hous3 vs a torture house.
Which is fine but at least they should be honest about it.
Your profile I can't
"i have a porn addiction so intense other people notice, but im normal, lets talk about something normal, i expect you to just ignore all this"
Mngalahad so basically total drama island except that one team bribed the host for better living conditions?
@@wurdnurd1 stop
They wasted so much potential. They could've made cooking challenges, programming challenges (it would be pure gold to watch Mr Muscles rip his hair out reading a book on how to program), sharp shooting challenges, butter churning challenges, building challenges, even magnetic hoverboard challenges. Since it's the future, they could've made all meals astronaut dried block food, short and efficient lunchtimes, and chopsticks only, which would make the future jealous of all the raw resources of the past while the future had all the ac they wanted. Hell, they could've even put in a tech guy/survivalist on each team to help fix broken tools so nobody would want to eliminate them. There was just so much cheap potential, all wasted om just 3 time periods.
urastupid333 maybe they should be putting you in charge of reality tv shows.
"I have to have surgery, yeah"
"Well how do you feel about that, man?"
Bruh how do you think he feels about that.
I fucking love how when they get eliminated they look happy and say something like “thanks” or “awesome”
ok but I found it SO funny when Frank wins at the end, he tries to take his shirt off in celebration to show off, but he can't because he has his helmet on?? ahaha :') He really is all brawn and no brains huh
Right? I thought he was just gonna rip that fucker off but nope, he just kinda awkwardly stands there with his shirt up
Can't even be smart enough to take his helmet off
LOL all that power, and defeated by a shirt.
Professional Himbo
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle Nah himbos are supposed to be nice, he just acted nice sometimes... (no srsly a nice person wouldn't ever think "I'm gonna bullrush this guy off this 10 feet tall platform I'm sure he'll be fiiine")
I feel SO BAD for laughing at “please don’t say crutch...”
I died XD
That's not something to feel bad about.
18:03 “Week seven, they remind the contestants that they hate them by having the challenge where they dig through a giant mountain of horse manure to find explosive charges.”
I genuinely can’t stop laughing at this, Jesus Christ
Right? I crack up every time she just drops that line and keeps going
Why explosive charges??
They were cursed for a thousand years, but they only were in production for a year or two (id assume), so that thousand years of curse were put into one year of one thousand percent power curse
One hundred thousand percent. One thousand percent would mean ten curse years condensed into one
Luke Tipple is a time traveler. The show has nothing to do with this, of course, he just came back from the future to punish the ancestors of everyone who wronged him in his own time. These being Team Epoch.
So, Frank is his own gran-granpa ?
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@@TheFiresloth No Frank is LUKES Gran-granpa. That is why he was allowed to live in Luxury and win the game
This seems like a black mirror torture episode.
"you don't get to eat for 24 hours"
littleferrhis lmao
Isn't Black Mirror that new Brit Sci-fi anthology series? Like Twilight Zone, but British....er, right?
I screamed the whole time watching this. Also my mom worked on multiple reality shows behind the scenes and can confirm reality show runners are some of the cruelest and ruthless people out there. They will always put entertainment before the safety of anyone
Yeah Jenny was being weirdly nice to the producers of the show. They seem evil, they were torturing people.
The producers knew what they were doing when they gave Frank access to those tomatoes
cahoots 😂 He immediately went after the dude tied up, like he was in such a craze, thinking about pelting the defenseless person, he was deaf to the actual point of the challenge. I wonder how long it was before they realized it was t just tomato pieces running down the guy's cheek? 😬 Frank was savage.
CorbCorbin Frank is the best reality show contestant. All the shows plans laid to waste by one dumb, competitive beef lord.
I'd love to see a reality show with only big dumb burly guys. And then most challenges would be intellectual, of course.
cahoots they imagined the tomatoes would splatter, using fresh tomatoes, unaware that you're supposed to use rotten ones
Redmar Kerkhof it's called Ultimate Soldier Challenge and it's... Not great.
I remember Survivor tried a similar idea one season. They made it rich vs. poor. Only instead of having actual rich people face actual poor people they gave one tribe a better shelter, more food, while the other tribe got nothing.
Spoilers:
The tribe with tons of advantages dominated.
Ironically the one on the poor tribe won
I don't remember this which season was it?
Jare7d Survivor: Fiji season 14
"Jesse looks like a rich guy that owns a boat. And then he uses his boat as a workshop to kidnap people and cut them open and look at their insides to amuse himself"
-Holy Crap, I laughed out loud for 3 minutes at this.
I know that was hilarous!
I just related to it
It's like they saw: "Who would win in a fight: a caveman or an astronaut?" and took it WAY too seriously.
Astronauts should not be fighting _anyone._ I'm sorry -- they're amazing people, and they go through things most people probably can't, both physically and mentally, but their bones are made out of rainbow nerds and plaster of Paris. An astronaut might actually be in serious danger from getting rushed by a sickly toddler in a wheelchair. Nope. Just nope.
@@eyesofthecervino3366 that is if they stay in zero gravity for to long with no exercise
@@pandorasangel2747 but what if the fight is IN ZERO GRAVITY?
@@Skull35 if the Astronaut has his jetpack or a gun then the caveman is a sitting duck in this instant. If he doesn't then the fight will be awkward and probably be a draw xD
@@pandorasangel2747 what jetpack? These things aren't in use outside of wacky gimmicks. If anything you'd just wait for the jetpack guy to collapse and no way anyone is going to shoot AND HIT anything from it. Also ancient people were really tiny and had lower muscle mass, anyone who is cleared to go to space would be physically overwhelming against any BC warrior and would floor them boxing or wrestling.