Here’s a clip from one of the more bizarre game shows Jonno and I witnessed on late-night Italian TV. The next morning, we weren’t entirely sure we’d actually seen it, but the YouTube don’t lie:
Basically, it’s a beauty competition between black girls and white girls. An audience packed with horny and possibly drunken Italian men choses the winning team. Check the look on the black girls’ faces when the winner is announced. Just check it.
The next night, the same show (it’s called CIAO DARWIN) continued the black vs. white competition with a Jeopardy-style trivia showdown. Except the contestants were sealed in watertight tubes, and every time they got an answer wrong, a little more water was added. We couldn’t bear to watch the end.
(I can’t find a clip from that segment, but apparently, the Q&A thing a standard part of every CIAO DARWIN competition. You can see the set up about two and a half minutes into this clip, in which the “veline”–which translates loosely as “bimbos”–go up against the “intellettuale”.)
Of course, all Jonno and I could wonder is how the hell you’d go about adapting this for American TV? But perhaps it would’ve been better to ask: how long until Fox adapts this for American TV?
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