Ridiculously awesome

vagabondjonson

This show is so ridiculous it's maybe the most entertaining show in syndication.

This show has everything that you love about a good pretentious meaningless contest like the Superbowl or meetings of the House of Representatives. The best thing about this show is when the gladiators get beat. While it's extremely hilarious to see the gladiators gloating over their rather teenage-looking opponents, it's also funny to see the gladiators get beat because to hear them talk they are very close relatives to God himself and these puny contestants don't stand a chance in hell of beating them. And occasionally they would cut to them lifting weights and working out in the training room to emphasize their extreme bodily tautness. And while we all got the impression that the gladiators were using performance enhancing drugs that didn't stop us from enjoying the good old-fashioned pretentious fun.

The nature of the competitions also lent to the humor. These contests weren't designed so that the skills that regular people develop in real life would help them. "We won't just have them run, we'll have them run inside a huge hamster ball that they have to power with their own momentum and try to get the ball to stop on top of a man hole." I suppose this is what generated the fun.

So anyway, if you like bulky man-parts in tight fitting clothing or bulky woman parts in tight fitting clothing for that matter, it's in syndication on ESPN classic.

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vagabondjonson 4 December 2007

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