4. Killer Karaoke
Hosted by everyones favorite Jackass, Steve-O, Killer Karaoke is a combination of karaoke singing and physical torture. Depending on the card they are dealt, contestants enter the stage with a song ready and, while singing, go through a series of terrifying and painful feats fit for an episode of Jackass. Whether it be stepping into various vats of disgusting fish guts and scary alligators or serving Steve-O restaurant style while enduring painful electric shocks, all contestants are humiliated and tortured. There is no saying no to your assigned task and the only rule is to never stop singing. Not all torture shows are dark and scary, which Killer Karaoke demonstrates nicely, though even if its funny, it is still torture. You can not only see the pain on the contestants faces, but you can hear it in their voices, whether they are singing the words to their selected songs or screaming at the top of their lungs to stop the cameras from rolling. Like a roller coaster, though, once the music starts, your experience isnt over until its over, which is always a terrifying concept. Audiences, both at home and in the studio as the show is filming, have very mixed reactions to what they are watching. It is all funny at first, but only manages to get more horrific as the lyrics start to clash with the sound of screams. Once the music stops, audiences are forced to come to terms with the fact that they have just enjoyed watching a person be physically tortured. What makes the show entertaining is the fact that we are not the ones going through the pain. The juxtaposition of an up-beat 80s song set against the scene of a young lady being dunked into a tank of ice cold water completely saturated in boa constrictors is an interesting contrast of good and evil, attempting to make them one in the same. Either way you look at it, people in uncomfortable or scary situations is fun to watch simply for the fact that it isnt us, its them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mao7lRVMgKc