Reality TV idea no. 2: only in California

Dec 18, 2007 at 9:31 PM
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Death row. Twelve prisoners. One grant of clemency by Governor Schwarzenegger.
   This seems less bad taste than the transplant one where a dying woman would decide whom to grant her kidney to. Well, OK, that show never happened. It was just reported as having happened. (When revealed as a hoax, not as many media outlets were willing to report that.)
   Each week, the Governor chooses who will be electrocuted, after a round where the prisoners are judged on various labour tasks that they may find out of the ordinary (e.g. baby photographer, maître d’hôtel) and attempts to escape are dealt with by immediate dismissal from the show, also by electrocution.
   The show is best known for the Governor saying, ‘You’re fried.’

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LOL Jack! First California didn't use the electric chair it used cyanide gas. I'm not up to speed but I would guess that today it would be lethal drug injection. Personally I think that it should be nitrogen asphyxiation.

In that case, we can shift this to a state that does use electrocution, just for the catchphrase!

Try Florida! See link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sparky

It would have been more fun with J. E. B. still there. Then we could have got the President making a guest appearance, like that time the First Lady appeared on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Zak Klemmer replied to Jack Yan’s comment:
Dec 20, 2007
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Crank up Old Sparky! LOL

This is terrible, Jack...

but let me add that one of their competitive tasks should be making shivs out of flour, water, bark, and the Wednesday edition of the New York Times.

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Ooh, I like that task. We need to add this to the pitch.

Reality TV idea no. 2: only in California

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