It seems like the first episode of Double Dare was more of a nightmare than anyone realized. You remember Double Dare right? The kid-oriented game show where kids had to run through obstacle courses filled with various substances like chocolate sauce and whip cream? Well it turns out the first episode didn’t go so smoothly. I can imagine it must have been a lot of work to get everything set up and ready for the first show but the one thing that was so crucial that kept things moving and wasn’t there to start with nearly derailed everything since it forced them to go through four takes where there should have only been one.
For each station there was a challenge that the kids had to complete so that their teammates could move on and advance them through the course. The first station was titled Nightmare, in which the kids had to pull a feather pillow apart in order to find the first flag. Unfortunately on the first take the people in charge had forgotten to put a flag in the pillow, which resulted in the kids never getting past the first stage. Now finding something in a huge wad of feathers might take a little bit of time but it’s certainly not going to take more than a few seconds for someone that’s really motivated to move forward. But not having the necessary flag in the pillow took at least a few takes to get right since they seemed to keep forgetting that the flag was in fact needed.
After that came the unfortunate realization that while it was the kids’ first time on this obstacle course it was also the camera man’s, so when they went on to the next part of the course the camera man forgot that there were actual obstacles in his path and went head over heels as the camera landed on the ground, showing nothing but a lot of floor mat for everyone’s viewing pleasure. By the fourth take they finally got it right and the kids were moving forward at a good clip as they advanced past monkey bars, up a slide that was covered in chocolate syrup, down another slide into a pile of whip cream, and then on towards a few other obstacles that got equally messy.
It was a fun show while it lasted but thankfully the first airing of the show didn’t get released so as to save some integrity. I can’t imagine a lot of people would have been too thrilled to watch any longer if it was discovered that the run-through of the obstacle course wasn’t all done in one take. Cries of being fake and fixed for certain teams likely would have been thrown out and the veracity of the show might have been brought into question at some point. After all most people know that such shows don’t often get done in one take, but it would be nice to know that the parts of the show that are supposed to run like clockwork actually did this without any further difficulty.
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