This show started out good, it really had stunts that people would fear to do and fear while doing them.Today, this show has bad stunts that are not scary, they are just extremely ugly and nasty to do.It's not interesting to see someone eat a brain, old fish, bugs and you name it, it's just ugly to watch. In the first episodes it was only 1 round when you see ugly stuff, but now they sometimes do it 2 rounds, one you have to eat something ugly and the other just do something around ugly stuff like taking a tongue from A to B with you mouth.I could sit and watch people eat the nastiest stuff in the world, but why should I? After 3 times I watched this show seeing more and more ugly stuff in each episode I decided that it's just too ugly for me to watch.Therefore they should rename the show from Fear Factor to Nasty Factor, because these show stunts are not scary anymore, their either just hard to do in the first round and ugly to do in the other rounds.Personally I don't like watching ugly stuff so I just see the first round and then I see something else.

Dumb, fake, useless garbage for no brain idiots. The penultimate Hollywood farce ! Do us and yourselves a favor and get a real life ! People that subscribe to this type of sham have way too much free time on their hands, Buy any book and read it. Stay away from this putrid piece of fantasy in hopes that it will die a quick death ! Could be rated along with Blind Date, 5th Wheel, and Regis and Kelly as some of the worst TV shows of this century, or all time ! Well, according to Garp, these comments must be at least 10 lines long whether it deserves it or not. How is that for Hollywood crap? The worse it is, the more you need to shoot it down !

This has to be probably one of the worst shows to ever be produced by the "Peacock Network". This show is even worse than "Pink Lady and Jeff". The only reason this piece of crap is on the air is because it is cheap to produce and even if it does badly in the ratings it won't cost the network all that much money. But the main problem with this show and other shows like it is that it caters to the lowest common denominator of human beings. Anyone who would look at people humiliate themselves eating and drinking disgusting concoctions or willingly put themselves in danger just to earn a few bucks tells you how greedy and stupid people are just to gain attention. I wonder how they will feel when someone becomes seriously hurt or, worse yet, even killed. Then maybe this garbage will go off the air.

Network: NBC; Genre: reality/game; Average Content Rating: TV-14; Classification: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4);Season Reviewed: SeriesDo people really watch this garbage? Who? Do people gather the family around the TV and turn on 'Fear Factor' or is it the cliché lonely guy with the TV tray in his 23rd story apartment building hoping to scope out some booty as the women crawl out of a vat of bugs or cow's blood? Do people not understand that there is a vast middle-ground between 'Masterpiece Theater' and this? It's a common critique of reality shows that they pander to the lowest common denominator, but even that doesn't do justice to 'Fear Factor'. A show that hearkens back to the days when critics were screaming that Chuck Barris was turning the TV landscape into a sewer. Where are all those people now? Cowering in the corner at the sight of this show's monstrous ratings, afraid to say anything negative for fear of loosing their own readership. 'The Gong Show', by comparison looks like modernist high art . It, and other reality creations, can even be looked at as a so-bad-it's-good cult quality to them. But 'Fear Factor' isn't played for camp. It positions it's 'dares' or 'stunts' in morgues, on rooftops, in oceans with a seriousness that has a sense of purpose. You have to feel sad for the contestants on this show. Are people really this desperate to be on TV or is this just how desperate TV has indoctrinated them into being? Is it, like alcohol, merely a scapegoat to free one's inhibitions regardless of whose watching or how you'll be mock, ridiculed and treated like garbage the next day? Is it worth it to people? I guess this is what happens when entire sections of the population grow up without shame. There's nothing wrong with a little shame. 'Fear Factor' manages to denigrate it's contestants worse than any other of these reality show. While holding people up to ridicule is one thing and in many of those cases the people have asked for it - such as with the sly, rightly harsh treatment Simon Cowell dishes out on 'American Idol'. The contestants on 'Fear', however, aren't bad singers with over-inflated egos, they are just sad people who desperately want to be on TV or win some cash (what is it - only $150,000). So much so that they'll eat a tarantula or go over a bridge into a lake while inside a car. We used to watch what essentially was "Fear Factor" when it was a Mexican game show years ago on Telemundo. We used to watch this stuff - without any regard to what they were saying - and laugh at the absurdity of a it thinking that this kind of mind-numbing entertainment was safely contained across the border. At the time it seemed like a world away. Who, after all, would aspire to put on the networks something like this? Who would think it was a legitimate contest to strap someone to the roof of a Volkswagon and see how many windows they could knock out with a rubber mallet while it drove back and forth across the stage trying to knock them off. Who would think that crawling through a pit of snakes and tarantulas and electrified wires was great entertainment. Yet, here it is. Right here at the top of the charts on NBC. The bloody, sadistic focus of the show is rivaled by the sheer lack of any - at all - creativity in the stunts. The insulting way it denigrates it's audience and it's contestants with shock value gross-out gags almost masks how tedious and repetitive it all is. The show's original theme - watching people be tormented while facing their fears - has largely been ditched in the last few years for a gimmick the show has sunk both teeth into and won't let go: bugs. Watching this show you'll see how many different ways we can put bugs on people. We can put them in a sack and dump bugs on them. We can put them in a coffin and dump bugs on them. We can put them in a vat of water and dump bugs on them. When that gets so old even the show has to admit it and spice things up a bit, we are given "theme weeks": 'Couples Fear Factor', 'Twins Fear Factor', 'Swimsuit Model Fear Factor', 'Victoria's Secret Model Fear Factor', 'Cheerleader Fear Factor'. Hey, I'm all for more hot babes in skimpy clothes on TV, but how many people out there really have such a bug fetish they want to see these women covered in bugs. Oh yeah, and let's not forget 'Family Fear Factor' where mothers and fathers allow their children to be covered with bugs and drink pigs blood.Amid it all stands host Joe Rogan. Rogan's biggest claim to fame is being a part of the brilliant 'Newsradio'. That show with it's big and talented ensemble effectively masked what an obnoxious sleaze-ball the guy is. Now he's left to his own devices without any script or talent to prop him up and the resulting product is like watching a frat boy stand over pledges during Rush Week. One thing I'll give them, Rogan on 'Fear Factor' is a perfect mixing of content with host. 'Fear Factor' is what people love to legitimize their liking for by slavishly saying it's "like a car-wreck" or "bad but you have to watch anyway". Come on. 0 stars