Wow, if you thought kids' game shows could not get any crazier, here is Scratch 'n' Sniff's Den of Doom, a trivia show that is crazy and filled with attitude
Hosted by Scratch 'n' Sniff, a duo of hyena puppets who first appeared in Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown (formerly known as Ministry of Mayhem), this game show pits five kids in a trivia game of survival, as the hyenas are hungry. To survive, the kids must answer questions correctly. If they get it wrong, they must take a step forward, while getting one right allows them to nominate another contestant, who then has to take a step forward himself. Three steps puts him or her on the drop zone, where they have to answer an impossible question, where a wrong answer means elimination and being dropped into the hyenas' Cooking Pot of Peril and are dinner for the hyenas. However, one lucky kid will leave with not only their life, but a trophy of the show with one final question that will either allow it or have them unlucky enough to join the other four as dinner.
Seeing the episodes that were found, I can see why this one only lasted one season, as it seems it must have been a rating failure because kids were scared of it and possibly parents did not approve of a game show where hyena puppets were eating kids (even though it never happened, as that part was staged, as the drops are done via computer animation and the pot was full of green gunge that is safe for kids to be in). Scratch and Sniff, the game show hosts, also double as the show's main antagonists, as they want to eat the contestants, and during the show, they act like antagonists, making fun of the kids when they give a wrong answer or get eliminated. Also, there is some crude humor involved, making this show more for older kids.
