Wow. This sleazy show makes Blind Date look like Masterpiece Theater.

I hope Mike Judge copyrighted 'Ow, My Balls'.

what the heck is this?!?!?

How do they know the answers are true? Is she hooked up to a lie detector or something?

The poison that's killing America.

She doesn't even win the $200,000 as she 'lied' on the last question. So she did that for nothing. Talk about a horrible show.

We are nothing more than disposable playthings to the financial elite.

Their day will come.

Upvoted to get the insidiousness of this show out in another sift. Of course, by this point anyone who goes on the show should damn well know what they've gotten themselves into.

I suppose the only good coming from this is for her husband to know that information sooner, rather than later.

disgusting...

Sorry for the double-post - but I suppose the premise of the show (getting you to watch any way they can) works since considering being in her husband's shoes and having to endure that experience disturbed me to the point of having to look for follow-up information to see what became of these two.

And DFT, your post is prescient in a way you may not have originally intended.

Look here to a 2/27/08 article by the NY Post that confirms Cleri's gambit was all for the money and fame, if you couldn't have guessed it already.

"Frank Cleri said he had been aware of his wife's cheating but not prepared for the emotional drain of their going public with it for the money."

Chilling.

This doesn't seem that bad to me. It's like Jerry Springer, but in gameshow format. To any degree the contests suffer, its caused by their own actions. And I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it is put on for the show.

Also, they are asked a number of questions before the show, while hooked to a lie detector(which are inaccurate, incidentally), they just don't know the results of the lie detector or which questions will be re-asked during the show. So they know what they're getting into and have a chance to back out before the show.

Having said that, the show is completely uninteresting crap. But I feel that way about 99% of what is on television.

I like that bit
"I am going to carry on because..."

because ... ?

'...because i think money is more important than anything else'

"while hooked to a lie detector(which are inaccurate, incidentally)"

I've heard pro lie detector guys say their incredibly accurate if done by an expert. I think it's one of those things, people want to think they aren't sure-fire when in reality they are.

This rubbish has to be scripted. What a crock of garbage. The premise of the show doesn't even make sense since there is no reason to even lie when they give the answer at the end anyhow. TV is a waste of time. (now it's time for me to get back to the never-wasteful internet)

what the f**king hell was that about ? have we really fallen so far to be making comedy from people screwing around ? - i thought that was bad enough before these tv show was invented ;-/

I can't encourage this garbage.

schadenfreude...one of my favorite words borrowed from the Germans.

wait...why can't she just lie?

Keep it classy fox.

I'm sorry; I should clarify that I think it was chilling in that (considering the NY Post article I linked) this couple would be willing to publicly suffer this shame for the extra money. Sure, it's a lot of money, but should I join the Melt Your Face Off 2009 competition for that kind of cash? Live in a tank with insects for a week? What kind of road does that lead to, and what does it say that that's the only option we're given in the realm of this new entertainment?

Sure, there's American Idol, but even that is laced with vitriol (read: Cowell, Simon). Just a weird world we live in, I guess. I'll stop rambling.

Karma's a bitch.
Instant Karma is beautiful.

Moment Of Truth is the game show.

For the purposes of the next paragraph, the word "fuck" will be replaces with "banana".

What the banana is wrong with these bananaing people. I mean for banana's sake. What the banana do they think they are going to bananaing accomplish by exposing all their bananaing secrets to the whole bananaing world. O look! They'll give me thousands of bananaing dollars to expose all my bananaing secrets all over the bananaing world. Who the banana is actually entertained by this? The answer? The saddest people on this bananaing earth. This show is bananaig horrible, FOX is bananaing horrible, and the people that watch this shit are even more bananaing horrible.

The American dream is no longer a safe and prosperous life. It's now a way to exploit yourself for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Get a fucking grip on reality.

Yeah that one made me cry banana a few times too. Darkest moment in television history?

Lie detectors (polygraphs) are widely condemned in the scientific literature as having little value in the ability to detect the veracity of a person's statement. These devices measure physiological arousal, which may result from a number of conditions (such as appetite, fatigue, excitability, reactivity to the questioner, temperature of the room, etc.) and may have only a passing correlation with how a person feels about the things he or she says. This is in addition to the fact that some people might lie without knowing it or lie so well that it's not detected. As a result, one can easily say that this program is a farce and a spectacle on the order of gladiator tribulations or the minstrel shows of the 19th century.

Here's something worse...

The original Colombian version had been a hit with audiences, but according to an article of the U.S. version, its network, Canal Caracol, had been ordered to pull it off the air when a female contestant was asked "¿Usted le pagó a un sicario para mandar matar a su marido?", meaning, "Did you pay a hit man to kill your husband?" and she answered "yes" to the question.

Sorry, but it's time for one of my rare downvotes. I know I post lowest common denominator shit from time to time, but not when it comes from reality TV. This is pure exploitation TV, like rubbernecking at the scene of a horrible accident. This is not meant to slam the people who voted for this. To each his own. Any one of you could easily call me out on my questionable posts, and that's fine. I can deal with that. Still, I find this to be the emotional version of "The Running Man".

Okay, now I'll STFU.

I like the look on her face when it says its false "Ohhhhh crap wait that's right I hate myself. Damn my forgetful nature!"

I read a story about how a foreign version of this show (columbia?) had a women ADMIT that she had her husband killed.

All this is Who Wants to a millionaire?: Jerry Springer Edition

I was totally waiting for this to happen. I was so excited. I saw the promos for this show months ago. Now that I've seen it, it feels like the refraction period after hate-f@#cking by best-friend's wife (I've never done that--THAT ANSWER IS...TRUE). Awful.

This show makes me sick... Yes lets parade the crappiest human souls around and let everyone know how much money a persons life is worth.

Oh the misery of others sustains my appetite for entertainment!

Oh fox, what wont you get people to do for money

It's silly, really. (I suppose) What they do is trap people: someone is invited to audition for the show. They are strapped to a lie detector and undergo a series of questions. The questions start out mild and gradually get more severe. People will answer extremely personal questions because they are gradually introduced to them and they figure "it's not much worse than the last one." After revealing all this (or lying about it), they are invited back to be on the show. Maybe they are told that they will be recorded and win money, but may not be aired. Maybe they figure they beat the lie detector. Maybe they just need the money that bad. It also helps convince them to go since they have already talked about it all once and feel more comfortable with it now. Once the show starts, they can't stop it because it's always assumed it can't really get worse...

Beware Fox reality shows. Nothing good can come from it.

This show has many 'problems'. It's obvious by its popularity that many people indulge in Schadenfreude, which is left to their own moral compass. And sure, we all think it's despicable for the rich to pay the poor for degrading acts, but that will never stop as long as there is even the slightest differences in pay. After all, people tend to do what they can get away with. However, the real problem here is that people have something to hide in the first place. If the slut had just simply been honest with herself and her husband about wanting to be a slut, and not bended to society's and possibly her religion's standards on what is acceptable, there would be no show with her in it.

My wife and I are a perfect example. We are completely open and honest with each other. The show could not possibly bring any new or shocking information from either one of us. The audience would be snoring in no time.

As a side note, that last question was a trick. Since the question is so subjective and there can be so much internal conflict on the answer, it is ENTIRELY possible that no matter which way the person answered, the lie detector would say it was a lie. It's one of probably a few failsafe questions used by Fox so they don't have to pay the contestants the money.

Now THAT is classy... :-(

The only way to stop shows like this is to stop watching. After all, advertising is their income. Make it known to friends and family that you not only do not indulge yourself in this kind of Schadenfreude, but that you would want them to refrain from it as well.

I personally have never watched this show or any other degrading reality show.

This show makes Jesus cry.

The real game is for the networks to see exactly WHAT level of depravity will entice viewers without scaring them off entirely. I think the way you play it at home is by comparing the contents of the week's episode with its Nielson ratings. I smell a graduate thesis in here somewhere!

I think all these crap shows are just scripted to make them look like reality shows. It's all actors, it's all for ratings and judging by the comments it's working.

Chilling. Happy to downvote this horribleness.

AH HA HA HAAAA!!!!

This show disgusts me.

jerry springer knock off! fox is so creative

Everyone seems so ageless!

The husband looks like he could be the son, the ex looks like he could be the son. The button-pressing girl could be the trollop's sister OR daughter. If that's the Dad he looks like even he could be the trollop's husband.

A bad day for Frank.

As mentioned by Wax66, that last question was a load. I seriously wonder how many people who aren't cheating sluts, or some other form of degenerate could answer that "truthfully". Compared to that lady I'm a saint, and if asked that question I'd say yes as well, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be some level of self doubt, especially if there were a line of questions before hand that would make me doubt my answer. Have you ever talked bad about a friend, have you ever declined to give money to a charity, have you ever cut someone off in traffic even by accident, etc etc etc. Ask people those questions, then ask them if they're a good person and see if there isn't enough doubt to set off on a lie detector.

* sigh *

I believe that contestants are given a polygraph test prior to being on the show that contains a larger number of questions than they are actually asked on the show, so there's a level of surprise and dread for them. No matter what they answered on the polygraph, whether it was true or false, they would have to answer the same way on the show. Yes, the show kind of sucks like that.

This is what happens when we take the worst of japanese game shows...

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An extended version that builds up to greater and greater shame:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyFmlP5CX0w

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