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Has anyone else heard about this Iraqi TV show? Probably the classiest TV program since that Dutch one where the winner of the show wins a kidney!
Metro wrote:Put Him In Bucca – named after the US military’s Camp Bucca prison – features stunts including planting a fake bomb planted under the cars of local celebrities.
On the way to the Al Baghdadia station studios, the hapless victim is waved down at a fake checkpoint, staffed by actual soldiers. When the ‘bomb’ is discovered, they react with anger and disbelief – then shout abuse at the victim while threatening them with jail and even execution.
‘I expected it to be a candid camera show but didn’t expect all the army facilities and this level of acting,’ said one target, actress Asia Kamal.
‘God bless them, they have good acting skills and they were patient and helpful.’
Inevitably, the programme has attractted criticism in a country where suicide bombings remain frequent.
But host Ali al-Khalidi is unrepentant: ‘Yes, there have been a lot of things said about it in the newspapers and on radio and television – but it will go on until the end of Ramadan.’
Albatross wrote:Isn't the threat implied? It's not like they'd say 'IED? Carry on, sir.'
Very true, but it all seems very staged and the 'victim' is incredibly nonchalant about it. That's a far cry from "shouting abuse at the victim while threatening them with jail and even execution."
It all seems like a bad practical joke that the victim doesn't care too much about.
Albatross wrote:Isn't the threat implied? It's not like they'd say 'IED? Carry on, sir.'
Very true, but it all seems very staged and the 'victim' is incredibly nonchalant about it. That's a far cry from "shouting abuse at the victim while threatening them with jail and even execution."
It all seems like a bad practical joke that the victim doesn't care too much about.
Well, we haven't seen all of every show, have we? Not that internet naysaying isn't fun, mind...
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IAmTheWalrus wrote:It all seems like a bad practical joke that the victim doesn't care too much about.
Maybe because by arab standards it's a fairly tame joke. At least by this evidence it is...
Also there used to be this russian tv show called The Intercept where they would put someone in a car transmitting a signal to the cops. They then had to flee from them live on tv across the streets of russia. If they went more than an hour they won the car.
They need to rig up some sort of IED that covers people in slime.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
That show needs some dubbed in sounds like giant 'boooiiinngg' sounds and the like. It would make it seem a little more wacky and a little less...disturbing...
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IAmTheWalrus wrote:It all seems like a bad practical joke that the victim doesn't care too much about.
Maybe because by arab standards it's a fairly tame joke. At least by this evidence it is...
That is awesome.
Also there used to be this russian tv show called The Intercept where they would put someone in a car transmitting a signal to the cops. They then had to flee from them live on tv across the streets of russia. If they went more than an hour they won the car.
And if you got caught the police sent you to prison. Because the police were not playing the game.
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Orkeosaurus wrote:They need to rig up some sort of IED that covers people in slime.
...And they could name the network that airs it "NickolodiAllah."
Sorry, had to.
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