Scare Tactics TV show

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Okay, so there's this TV show on the Sci-Fi channel that I saw the other night, and it features pranks involving people who are made to think that they are either going to die or have accidentally killed someone.

Is it just me, or is this completely despicable?

I mean...Tom Green and Jackass have pranks that are certainly annoying, very annoying, and somewhat troubling...but "Scare Tactics" is on a whole other plane - what are they thinking?!

So. Is this show defendable in any way? Is this a new low in television?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i heard somewhere(possibly one of those trashy entertainment tonight-type shows)that the creators of this show are getting sued.
i guess one of the unwilling contestants got pissed and claimed they suffered emotional trauma...not sure if this is true or not.

― Grell (Grell), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been watching it and on the whole the pranks are incredibly absurd - mostly of the "dress a guy in an alien costume and have him pound on the side of a RV" variety that would make for good MST3K fodder.

Still, there have been a couple of pranks (thinking of the serial killer hitchhiker one) in which if I was the victim I would have gone into a complete adrenal frenzy and pounded the hell out of someone. Yeah, real funny...

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

new season premier tonight with tracy morgan hosting. so far the first bit has a girl fooled into thinking she delivered satan's baby. lol

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

o shit i must watch

― deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

i only ever saw this one but serious lolz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVT1-xz5LM

― and what, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

'do you need help, little man?'

― and what, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

ok wait so did thse guys go stephen baldwin - shannon dogherty - tracy morgan??

can whoever is running this shit possibly be getting paid enough

― deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0AH5p_HGBg

lmao

― and what, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:14 (seventeen years ago)

ok wait so did thse guys go stephen baldwin - shannon dogherty - tracy morgan??

nope, it was shannon dougherty, stephen baldwin, now tracy morgan

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

so in other words, what i said but even better

this shit is hysterical btw

― deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

lol what u wanna be in saw 5

― deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:27 (seventeen years ago)

only ever watched for shannon doherty tosses, channel surfed during actual show

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:28 (seventeen years ago)

I saw a German version of this once where they got somebody up in a light aircraft and the pilot faked a heart attack and put the plane into a nosedive. That was wrong.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

crazy krauts

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 July 2008 03:10 (seventeen years ago)

omg human rat

― latebloomer, Thursday, 10 July 2008 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

holy shit@ human rat!!!

― czn, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:42 (seventeen years ago)

Infarto (Spanish for heart attack) is a hidden camera show on TV Azteca / Azteca América. People appearing on the show have been subjected to pranks such as the victim believing that they will be sacrificed in a cult ritual or believing that they will be murdered by axe-wielding neighbors in the midst of a blackout. Because of the extreme and traumatizing nature of the show's content, the authenticity of the show is heavily debated. This is similar to Sci-Fi Channel's original show, Scare Tactics.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

Room 401 on MTV with the lovable Asthon Kutcher totally rips this off. There was a fun episode where a stoner lugging stuff for an ice-carving company barely notices when someone gets cut in two with a chainsaw - but then this girl gets really upset when she thinks she sees someone sucked into a jet engine and killed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLccwNCr3VY

― ledge, Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:04 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

So Tracy Morgan is the new Exec Producer/Host of the show and the bumps are actually pretty fuckin funny now.

They're doing a marathon on SyFy all day, u should watch imo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)

hahahah the new disclaimer tracy reads

LISTEN.
THE SCARING ON THIS SHOW
IS DONE BY PROFESSIONALS.
DON'T COPY US.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)

this is so much better than it used to be

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:10 (fifteen years ago)

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