Dog Eat Dog

Dog Eat Dog isn't what you call a grown-up version of Double Dare or another American Gladiators rip-off, it's a show where you either play with pride or money with 6 people. 1 day before taping, they were whisked away to camp where they had to learn their Phys. Ed. skills and when it was over, it was time for the game to start. Once Brooke Burns describes the challenge to the contestants, it was time to vote who would end up failing this challenge and if so, he/she got sent to the "Dog Pound" where it didn't involve you catching a dog with a butterfly net, but if he/she won, then he/she will pick who got sent to the pound by the person who voted for him/her and that, my friends, is simple.

When it was down to just 2 players left, it was time for a Head-to-Head challenge where it was either a scoring competition or mostly an endurance competition, the winner became Top Dog and went to the final round in a best of 5 contest. If the Dog Pound wins it, 5 members will each get $5000, but if one person wins, he/she alone will win $25,000.

25k is a measly amount of money, especially losing it to the Dog Pound, but the stunts were harder and it might be difficult to complete it, but Dog Eat Dog in my case, is a best in show winner all-around.

I used to like Television until the whole Reality TV trend. As mentioned so many times before, the bar for quality and decency is lowered with every new show. "Dog Eat Dog" is a reality show where men and women slug it out against each other in physical and mental challenges, most of them involving a huge pool. The rules of the game are unimportant because `in reality' they are just an excuse to show wet chicks in bathing suits. The show's contestants are aspiring stars (Waitresses & Personal Trainers) who want to get in some time behind the camera and hopefully get discovered. Designed for the 18-24 year old male audience, it's so blatantly contrived that most of the time only the girls end up in the water doing challenges. Before that, though, they have to strip down to their suits in front of the camera as it pans up and down their body. Watching this and countless shots of contestants' hooters and crotches as they frolic about in the pool makes one feel like some pervert at the beach. If you like to check out women in swim suits while they're not looking this show is for you. Now I don't mind a little harmless eye candy, but I'll stick with "Wild" on E! or Baywatch reruns.

You know exactly why you tune into Dog eat dog each weekend on GSN - Brooke burns is a sexy lady and watching women swim in their bikinis (and if you're a lady, watching all the fit and thin guys go shirtless.) generally, the only reason Dog Eat Dog was so popular, was it's sex appeal. You cannot deny it.

And if any of you caught my older review of this, I wrote it at the tender age of 14. I was a stupid, brainwashed, sheltered teen who should've had a less radical Christian upbringing.

The game goes as follows - 3 guys and 3 girls are sent to a camp to get to know each other in multiple categories, and the next day they're brought to the studio to play the game. depending on whom they believe is weak for the challenges that are laid out for them, they must vote out a specific person for that challenge, until it is down to 2 of the contestants, who go head to head, in which the winner faces all the eliminated contestants in the "Dog Pound" and he or she must pick the eliminated contestants to answer the questions. if the dog pound gets 3 questions right, they each win $5,000 where if they get 3 questions wrong, the last contestant standing wins $25,000.

Back when the show debuted, I had just turned 12 and pretty much went bonkers over the show. any 12 year old hitting puberty would love to watch women 10 years his senior strip down to bikinis (and even less on the strip-games.) but of course the same went for girls watching guys 10 years their senior doing the same.

Bottom line, Dog eat Dog is on GSN on the Weekends.

The show does some challenges like the football one, There's also A challenge where you have to run on something and if you get a question wrong it speeds up to the next level. Then at the end the winning contestant and the dog pound get A chance to win $25,000. There sent to a camp where they face challenges and before the challenge begins the contestants vote for who is least likely to complete this event. And if they don't make it they're sent to the dog pound but if they do they get to choose one of the guys that voted for that person to go to the dog pound in their place.

While Brooke Burns is certainly enjoyable to look at sadly she lacks what it takes to be the host of a game show especially one of this caliber. The show while it appears to have everything to make it interesting seems to fall flat. In one episode one of the female contestants was banished to the dog pound (which is nothing more than a bleacher seat) almost as soon as the show started where she remained for the bulk of the show and then in the final round was asked a trivia question to which she giggled and said `I don't know' and sat down again. The shows title gives the indication that the viewer is in store for some real tough physical and back stabbing competition but it doesn't deliver. A change of host could however turn this show around.