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Blind Date Fear Factor

Season 6, Episode 2, Aired Dec 13, 2005

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This was a special blind date episode. Four single men would be introduced to four single women, and the women would get to pick which man they wanted to be paired up with. The four couples would then compete as teams for the $50,000.

Stunt #1 (Hanging boat) One partner would be driving a boat across a lake while the other partner would grab a hook hanging from a helicopter and attach it to the boat. The helicopter would then lift the boat out of the water and one person would have to climb onto a cargo net on the underside of the boat, release four flags, and drop into the water. The second partner would then have to do the same. The couple to get the most flags in the fastest time would get to choose which couple would be eliminated.

Stunt #2 (Crab Dump Escape) Couples would be locked in a large tank filled with 45 degree water and large Dungeness crabs. As more cold water and crabs were pumped into the tank through two pipes, both team members would have to find which of four keys unlocked caps from the floor of the tank and use the caps to plug the pipes. Because of the dangers of hypothermia, there would be a ten-minute time limit for this stunt. The couple to complete this stunt the fastest would win a twelve-day trip for four to Belize. No one would be eliminated in this stunt.

Stunt #3 (Ice box) Couples would be in opposite sides of a Plexiglas box, separated by a wall. As the box filled with 2,000 pounds of ice, one partner would have to collect pegs from their side of the box and transfer them to their partner through a hole in the wall. Their partner would then have to put the pegs in a box. After they had transferred all 52 pegs, they would have to pull a lever that would open the bottom of box and drop them into the water below. The bottom would automatically drop out after two minutes if contestants had not completed the stunt. The couple to transfer the most pegs the fastest would be Blind Date Fear Factor Champions and win $50,000.

Home Invasion Stunt (Bobbing for hagfish) Competing in this episode's Home Invasion segment would be the Okolowitcz family of Providence, Rhode Island. Two family members would have to transfer five hagfish from a tank to a bucket using only their mouths. If they could transfer five hagfish in one minute, they would win a $5,000 Capital One credit card.moreless

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Fear Factor episodes have been rather bland for the last couple of seasons. This episode was an exception, the contestants actually had personalities and the stunts were new.

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By tv_Rescue911, Dec 15, 2005

Fear Factor episodes have been rather bland for the last couple of seasons. Typical episodes would feature big breasted women and muscle men with no personalities eating rotten squid, worms, and stink beetles, week after week. The stunts would be based more on physical strength and stomach strength than Fear. This episode was an exception. I have been wanting Fear Factor to try the Blind Date concept for some time, and I think it worked out well.

A lot of the contestants stood out, especially Mike, the self-proclaimed "country bumpkin" from Alabama. Another plus to this is episode is that the contestants interacted with each other quite a bit. There was a lot of that in the older episodes, but in the newer episodes the contestants usually keep to themselves and only talk trash behind each others' backs.

Aside from the contestants, I thought the stunts were pretty original. In the first stunt, contestants were in a boat that was lifted out of the water by a helicopter. That looked like a neat stunt, and it was pretty different from all the other helicopter stunts. Instead of eating the same old slop that has been featured on countless past episodes, contestants were locked in a tank full of large crabs. The only other episode that featured a stunt involving crabs was one where they had to eat tiny sand crabs. It is nice when they base the stunts on fear rather than basing them only strength or disgust. The last stunt was also pretty cool, although I did not really see how much fear factored into it. Even so, being buried up to your chest in ice has to be painful. I liked the huge splash it made when contestants were dropped into the water with all the ice.

Overall, I though this episode was interesting and stood out from the more recent episodes. The show has been going downhill lately, but perhaps this episode is a sign that Fear Factor is going to turn things around this season.moreless
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