i’m so ready for my own episode of silent library
If you haven’t seen MTV’s Silent Library, the excruciating reality show based on the UK hit Fist of Zen, I’m going to recommend that you get to Youtubing it right this second because it will make you wet your pants. The premise is simple: Six fine upstanding young gentlemen, with the occasional young lady thrown in for good measure, endure “challenges” – the kind you equate with enhanced interrogation methods – for cash. It’s basically Fear Factor-lite, except that it takes place in a library, so contestants must remain completely silent lest they disturb the crotchety old library patrons.
The challenges are cringe-inducing, but not impossible. I could easily choke down a custard cup full of raw garlic dipped in hot toothpaste (from last night’s episode, challenge called “bad breath fondue” I believe) if a few hundred dollars was at stake. The difficulty arises when contestants who are spectating try to suppress their laughter, often to the point of tears, as fellow players are pelted with giant spitballs or made to wear a blindfold and feed carrots to Ron Jeremy’s disembodied head. I was doubled over in hysterics from the safety of my own couch. I don’t want to imagine how difficult it must be to maintain your composure as an eyewitness to the strange depths of your friends’ financial desperation and the twisted creativity of the show’s producers.
Still, I’d like to give it a try. I’d like to think that even though nothing tickles my funny bone like risky jackassery, especially the kind that takes place at a wildly inappropriate venue, I could keep it together long enough to bring home $800.
Later
Morgan
me said,
01/12/2010 at 6:59 PM
hmm
i would, but i’m on dialup
:/
bowlofpopcorn said,
01/12/2010 at 7:08 PM
That is unfortunate because you’re really missing out. Then again, maybe you don’t care to see grown men humiliating themselves for money. It’s not for everyone. I’m game, though.
me said,
01/12/2010 at 7:10 PM
sounds like a show i saw recently on the animax channel, called solitary … people drinking vile smoothies while in solitary “pods”