...mindless, witless, hapless, frivolous diversion that might, nevertheless, almost by accident hit the funny bone on occasion.
18. Can you beat a Breathalyzer? Can you beat a cool mint?
17. How can you defend yourself in a barroom brawl?
16. How tough are implants?
15. How can a guy get high legally?
Bonus: Which animal farts the most?
OK, you're getting the idea, so I'll skip ahead; namely, to the number-one question. You guessed it: Given the program's obsession with female breasts, it's "Who has the biggest boobs in the world?" The show is relentless.
Only two questions, one dealing with "The Dump of Death" and another with bestiality, were genuinely offensive. The program means for the majority of the questions merely to be empty-headed. And it is a TV show, after all, so you'll find no outright nudity, no overt sex, and no hard obscenities in it. Just lots of girls in bikinis and a few light profanities.
I'm sure I could be kind and say the program is essentially harmless--simple, dumb fun. I mean, some of the questions are so inane and the answers so obvious, they beat watching a really bad movie. But I can't help thinking about the corrosive effects the show probably has on an otherwise sound and rational brain. I'm already wondering how to survive an attack in my backyard from a wild, frenzied doe.
Video:
Remember, the video engineers made the transfer from a television broadcast. What do you want? Most of it the filmmakers probably shot with a relatively inexpensive video camera, so that's the kind of quality you should expect. The 1.33:1 ratio picture is mainly soft, sometimes jagged, often blurred by the best photographic standards. At least most of the color is natural enough...except when it isn't.
Audio:
Although the Dolby Digital 2.0 audio displays a decent two-channel stereo spread, it doesn't have much frequency range or dynamic impact. Of course, it doesn't need much. Worse, there seems nothing one can do about the grating voice of the series' writer-narrator, Matthew Short, who sounds as though he were hawking a miracle cleaner or trying to out-annoy pitchman Billy Mays.
Extras:
The only extras I could find were an opening menu page and a list of chapter selections. There may have been a host of Easter eggs somewhere, too, for all I know, but I doubt it. And I wasn't about to go looking.
Parting Shots:
The real question almost anybody would want answered is the one this program never addresses: How stupid can a TV show get before it fails to attract an audience? Apparently, the answer is that it cannot get too asinine for today's public. People get what they deserve.
17. How can you defend yourself in a barroom brawl?
16. How tough are implants?
15. How can a guy get high legally?
Bonus: Which animal farts the most?
OK, you're getting the idea, so I'll skip ahead; namely, to the number-one question. You guessed it: Given the program's obsession with female breasts, it's "Who has the biggest boobs in the world?" The show is relentless.
Only two questions, one dealing with "The Dump of Death" and another with bestiality, were genuinely offensive. The program means for the majority of the questions merely to be empty-headed. And it is a TV show, after all, so you'll find no outright nudity, no overt sex, and no hard obscenities in it. Just lots of girls in bikinis and a few light profanities.
I'm sure I could be kind and say the program is essentially harmless--simple, dumb fun. I mean, some of the questions are so inane and the answers so obvious, they beat watching a really bad movie. But I can't help thinking about the corrosive effects the show probably has on an otherwise sound and rational brain. I'm already wondering how to survive an attack in my backyard from a wild, frenzied doe.
Video:
Remember, the video engineers made the transfer from a television broadcast. What do you want? Most of it the filmmakers probably shot with a relatively inexpensive video camera, so that's the kind of quality you should expect. The 1.33:1 ratio picture is mainly soft, sometimes jagged, often blurred by the best photographic standards. At least most of the color is natural enough...except when it isn't.
Audio:
Although the Dolby Digital 2.0 audio displays a decent two-channel stereo spread, it doesn't have much frequency range or dynamic impact. Of course, it doesn't need much. Worse, there seems nothing one can do about the grating voice of the series' writer-narrator, Matthew Short, who sounds as though he were hawking a miracle cleaner or trying to out-annoy pitchman Billy Mays.
Extras:
The only extras I could find were an opening menu page and a list of chapter selections. There may have been a host of Easter eggs somewhere, too, for all I know, but I doubt it. And I wasn't about to go looking.
Parting Shots:
The real question almost anybody would want answered is the one this program never addresses: How stupid can a TV show get before it fails to attract an audience? Apparently, the answer is that it cannot get too asinine for today's public. People get what they deserve.
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