Scare Tactics - my new favorite TV show

[Kai Lord]

Me and a couple of friends actually did the "killer out in the snow" one back when I was in high school. Damn that show is funny. Bigfoot was priceless.

 

[Uzumaki]

I watched this show for the first time a couple of days ago. The best one I saw wasn't a real scare fest, like the murderer in the woods, or the bloody campsite, but this guy who had signed up for a lab study. The doctors and other patient were in on the joke,
which was to give the girl a fake flatline for a minute, then have her start bleeding everywhere. The guy was so unnerved. He peeled his electrode off when the doctors left, then put it back on real quick, until it finally just fell off while he tried to talk his way out of it. Very funny.

 

[Kai Lord]

That one actually borderlined on just being evil. They need to be careful that they don't get one of their actors killed by a panicked "victim". Did you see how hard the fake hitchhiker killer got wailed on by the dude in the back seat?

 

[Jamdin]

I actually enjoyed "Scare Tactics" but some of those were pretty evil pranks. I thought the hitchhiker getting hit was the highpoint of the show. I heard one of the "victims" sued the show but I don't know if it's true or not or which prank backfired.

 

[Uzumaki]

I guess in the case of the hitchhiker, since that guy's sister was in on it, she must've signed a waiver that covered both of them. That was pretty bad, but I guess that's a sort of the humor in the show. You never know if people are just going to sit and scream, or start wailing on their attacker. Fight or flight.

I thought it was interesting to note that a few times the victim stayed pretty calm and apparently tried to think their way out of the ordeal.

 

[Umbran]

I guess in the case of the hitchhiker, since that guy's sister was in on it, she must've signed a waiver that covered both of them.

One adult cannot sign a waiver that covers another adult. Being a family member only helps if you are physically or mentally incapable of giving consent. Otherwise, what sis signed doesn't hold for her brother.

In addition, no matter what you may think, you cannot sign away your right to sue. Ever. A waiver stands as good evidence that you were made aware of the risk, such that you have a hard time making "I didn't know that would happen" stick. This doesn't cover negligence, or hazard not explicitly covered in the waiver.

It's this last bit that sometimes makes waivers a liability. Unless it is very carefully constructed, it may very well be useless.

 

[Uzumaki]

Okay, then. I guess he should sue.

 

[Pielorinho]

I heard that on an episode in which a rubber monster attacks some folks when their car breaks down in the middle of the desert, the victim of the prank sued.

I've not seen the show, but from the reports I've heard, I'd love for it to be sued off the air.

Good prank shows are a marvel. Trigger Happy is sheer genius, and even Crank Yankers is sometimes funny, when the joke is something a little more complicated that "Poop! Penis! Hee hee hee!"

But good prank shows rely on introducing an element of surreality into the victim's world, something that makes thier world a little more inexplicable. It sounds like Scare Tactics relies on introducing fear into the victim's world, and that's just mean.

What next? Punch-in-the-face pranks?

Daniel

 

[Hand of Vecna]

Scare Tactics -- it's Candid Camera meets Book of Vile Darkness...

 

[thomas121]

I watched only few episodes of this tv show and that was nice.