Lives will be ruined: Moment of Truth

Erik Lund · January-24th-2008, 04:53 AM

Anyone watch that new game show Moment of Truth tonight? For those not in the know (I wasn't - just sort of stumbled upon it after basketball) the contestant has answered 50 questions while hooked up to a polygraph and the producers pick 21 of them that you have to answer on a stage. The contestants don't know the outcome of their polygraph, and they answer these on national television and they have 3 friends in the studio with them (or wives/husbands/bosses/etc)

You answer 6 questions to get $10,000 and then 5 to get up to $25,000 and so on and so on for up to $500,000. You can back at before a question is posed by the host - and if you lie (based on the polygraph from earlier) then you lose all of what you had won up to that point.

First guy answers "Yes" when asked if he had kept from having kids with his wife (of 2+ years) because he had doubts that she was his "life partner". (She was one of the 3 in his panel)

The panel can have a question skipped if they really don't want to hear the answer but can only do it once.

If I were on this show, I would try to bring 3 friends who would think my devious behavior was "awesome" upon learning about it - and would be ready to cut any ties to any of the ladies in my life. I'm not sure if the show makes people bring their significant others, but holy crap this show is gonna ruin some people - which is awesome.

The first guy didn't make it too far 'cause according to the poly - he HAD touched some of his female clients (personal trainer) more than the job had required and he got busted. When he went over to his wife and two friends, he went to kiss her and she turned her head so he could kiss her cheek (He also said "Yes" when asked if he'd done anything that would make his wife not trust him had she known...Sweet)

I don't think this is a show that I would clear my schedule to watch - but it *was* pretty interesting and some of the questions are great. I hope there's some spouses rushing the stage to beat the shit out of the contestant at some point.

Anyone else watch it?

Jimmy Cantiello · January-24th-2008, 05:53 AM

Yeah, I watched it for about a half hour then I turned it off and went to bed. It's amazing what people will do for money or to get on tv. I guess some people just don't have any respect for anyone including themselves.

Jon Abbey · January-24th-2008, 05:57 AM

this one does look kind of interesting in a gawking at the accident by the side of the road kind of way, but I'm sticking to my vow made during the first wave of reality TV to try to never watch any of it. I waste time in plenty of ways, but reality TV is one I've pretty much successfully avoided so far.

Erik Lund · January-24th-2008, 06:02 AM

I made a similar vow (starting after Real World 2) - this seems like a hybrid of "gameshow" and "reality TV" - They probably won't ever do something like this but a month after someone's been on it'd be fun to check back in on them with a 30 second "Here's what's happened since"...

"My wife left me"

"My friends hate me"

Woo hoo!

Rob C · January-24th-2008, 07:50 AM

Sounds like Maury Povich for the middle class!

Jon Abbey · January-24th-2008, 10:17 AM

Erik, are you aware of this?

"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 ha empleado siempre a alguien para matar a su marido?", meaning, "Have you ever hired someone to kill your husband?" and she answered "yes" to the question."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mom...S_Game_Show%29

Jimmy Cantiello · January-24th-2008, 10:31 AM

I'm not sure of the country, I believe it's somewhere in South America. The other night I saw a clip from a tv show that's similar to "Punk'd". A mother wanted to play a "joke" on her daughter so she arranged to have a couple of men "break" into her house, tie the daughter up, drag the mother into a nearby room , within earshot , and proceed to "rape" and "torture" her. All the while the daughter was bound and gagged and made to listen to what was happening in the other room. I'm sure when it was all over the daughter thought the whole thing was hilarious.

Mike Schwartz · January-24th-2008, 11:02 AM

I've seen a promo for this a few times....
The host is asking a guy ,as the camera pans back & forth between he and a woman who is obviously his wife, " Would you cheat on your wife if you were sure she'd never find out?"

The way that Oprah would bring out Dr. Phil when she had a guest undergoing some crisis for FREE therapy sessions, they'll probably have divorce lawyers and other *help* professionals on the show, and spin them into new shows.

That's Ent-er-tain_ment!!

Lenny D.Guitarist · January-25th-2008, 02:27 PM

Because of this tv show, I see dead people, lawsuits, broken marriages, subsequent Mafia whacks, Jenny Jones murders, dogs and cats fornicating,Taliban lap dancers, bin Laden sightings, Paul is dead, runaway brides, Rod Stewart and Kenny G albums galore, Ringo walking off Regis and whatever her name is, more grassy knoll confessions, more runaway Marines who killed their fellow non-consenting Marines, Dennis Kucinich as President, more murderers named Peterson, Barry Bonds doing magnums of the Clear, NY Giants giving New England their first loss, the Monkees 2008-09 reunion tour, OJ Simpson informercials, and a dead partridge in a pear tree.

shrugs · January-25th-2008, 02:44 PM

thank god for netflix

Scott Dolan · January-25th-2008, 02:48 PM

Really.

Right now TV is as vapid a wasteland as it has ever been in its history. Nobody can write real shows anymore, so we just submit completely to voyeurism.

Hell, Kelly used to be hooked on TV. Now she spends her time reading. I never had much use for it either way except for sports and the occasional program on the Travel Channel or Discovery.

Noj · January-25th-2008, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Jon Abbey

this one does look kind of interesting in a gawking at the accident by the side of the road kind of way, but I'm sticking to my vow made during the first wave of reality TV to try to never watch any of it. I waste time in plenty of ways, but reality TV is one I've pretty much successfully avoided so far.

Same.

Congrats on 20,000 posts, Jon.