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Scare Tactics on Sci Fi
By Court Sullivan on February 26th, 2008
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Holy shit, am I the last person or the first person in the US to discover the absolute insanity/awesomeness of every episode of the TV show "Scare Tactics" on the Sci Fi Channel?
Each Scare Tactics episode contains 4 prank segments of about 4-5 minutes each, and I just spent the last 3 hours watching segments non-stop on YouTube. The show ran from 2003-2006, but why it stopped, and how desperately fake and insultingly mind-numbing trash like "Flavor of Love" and "Rock of Love" and "Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant" got popular instead, I will never understand. Did you know that after a man turns 45 his chances of conception drop to around 15%? I sure hope they do a C-section 'cause I'd hate to see Scott push that thing out of a fragile, 45+ asshole.
The only thing that runs through my mind after each victim on Scare Tactics fears for their life or undergoes extreme psychological trauma (approximately 75% of segments - RATINGS, PEOPLE, HELLO!) is, "Now tell me again, how the fuck do these producers not get sued?" And the only thing I can come up with is that since they pose each segment as a prank endorsed/authorized by the victim's best friend, somehow all of the liability must fall on that person, and the assumption is that the victim would probably never sue their friend. Can I get a lawyer and a psychologist to weigh in here?
According to Wikipedia, there was only one lawsuit so far against the producers and the Sci Fi Channel (for a girl terrified by an alien) and it was thrown out before it got to court. Apparently the judge had seen one too many episodes of "UFO Hunters" on the History Channel and determined "we should all be terrified of aliens."
But what about subjecting someone to the psychological effects of dying a slow death in a gas chamber? How is that any different from the Holocaust again? Oh right, it doesn't come with a Paul Frank joke.
Observe:
So how many of you have seen this show before? And what do you think it would take to bring it back, 'cause I have a few ideas...
Holy shit, am I the last person or the first person in the US to discover the absolute insanity/awesomeness of every episode of the TV show "Scare Tactics" on the Sci Fi Channel? Each Scare Tactics episode contains 4 prank segments of about 4-5 minutes each, and I just spent the last 3 hours watching segments non-stop on YouTube. The show ran from 2003-2006, but why it stopped, and how desperately fake and insultingly mind-numbing trash like "Flavor of Love" and "Rock of Love" and "Scott Baio is 46 and Pregnant" got popular instead, I will never understand. Did you know that after a man turns 45 his chances of conception drop to around 15%? I sure hope they do a C-section 'cause I'd hate to see Scott push that thing out of a fragile, 45+ asshole.
The only thing that runs through my mind after each victim on Scare Tactics fears for their life or undergoes extreme psychological trauma (approximately 75% of segments - RATINGS, PEOPLE, HELLO!) is, "Now tell me again, how the fuck do these producers not get sued?" And the only thing I can come up with is that since they pose each segment as a prank endorsed/authorized by the victim's best friend, somehow all of the liability must fall on that person, and the assumption is that the victim would probably never sue their friend. Can I get a lawyer and a psychologist to weigh in here?
According to Wikipedia, there was only one lawsuit so far against the producers and the Sci Fi Channel (for a girl terrified by an alien) and it was thrown out before it got to court. Apparently the judge had seen one too many episodes of "UFO Hunters" on the History Channel and determined "we should all be terrified of aliens."
But what about subjecting someone to the psychological effects of dying a slow death in a gas chamber? How is that any different from the Holocaust again? Oh right, it doesn't come with a Paul Frank joke.
Observe:
So how many of you have seen this show before? And what do you think it would take to bring it back, 'cause I have a few ideas...
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that was some of the funniest shit ever -- I need to see more of this show
When that fucking kid drop kicks that wall, I lose it. Every.single.time.
I can't watch it anymore, my stomach hurts.
- J.B. Hour
Scare Tactics is coming back for season 3.
I'm new here, and I just love the show. It kind of reminds me of the show "Punk'd" which i loved to watch, but after viewing some of the different topics, It's kinda making me have second thoughts on whether this show is real or fake. But I have a feeling that it's real. Oh and I've read about how a victim could get out of control...if they had a weapon, wouldn't they just warn the actor like say, "I've gotta stick, and i'm not afraid to use it..."? Has there ever been a time when a scare had failed? If so, I'd like to know how it failed. Has any1 here ever actually set up some1, and get to be on the show? Cuz I'd like to know if this show is real or fake...
umm, wow gold guide, im just saying but if someone was to have read ur comment, i dont think theyd be allowed to say whether or not it is real or not.
They would probably have been on a contract that binds them from telling things like that, you kno wat i mean?
I love this show, but the rumors that it's all fake may unfortunately be true.
In one episode, "Maria" is pranking her friend "Yvette" in the Junkyard scene. But in the another episode, the same "Maria" is being pranked by someone else. She's a distinct looking girl, clearly the same person, and they make no mention of a return.
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