Here we go with number one of one of my rants. (I know these should clearly be on a site like DeviantArt, but I don't care. (Plus the site keeps asking me for two Email addresses so that clearly means I can't do boo on there ):<
Anyway, I've been wanting to rant on this shit for a long time. This was a gameshow I watched during childhood. The nostalgia I feel for this is at zero. Since I'm the only person who can explain, here we go.
Fee Fi Fo Yum was a British children's gameshow that was shown on CBBC in 2010 to 2011 that lasted two seasons. It was hosted by Les Dennis (The host of Family Fortunes) and featured Nigel Cooper as Brian the Giant. The plot to the gameshow is that a hungry giant named Brian builds a little studio out of a small cardboard box, then he kidnaps Les and forces him to host his gameshow, then in each episode we have two teams of five kids that are dressed in orange or green jumpsuits like little prisoners and then made to play games for Brian's amusement. There are five rounds to the gameshow and the two teams are competing for seconds of time for the fifth round, known as The Great Escape, where the amount of seconds the teams have received will give them the headstart. When the last game is over, the winning team escapes one by one down the freedom chute, while the losing team is eaten alive by Brian and we the viewer are forced to watch him eat the losing kids one by one, not caring for their screams or cries for mercy and we are left having to listen to the gory sound of the children's bones crunching as Brian eats each one whole.
This is exactly the prominent reason why I hated this show all my life since I was a kid. The concept was sadistic. I mean, think about it. A giant who kidnaps children, forcefully selects them to play different games for his amusement and then cannibalistically killing them at the end? It's fucking atrocious!
He also tortures Les, but it's pretty petty. He just winds him up by calling him Des Lennis and making him eat food he hates like cheese pies, semolina and piccalilli (There were some good ones occasionally like cocktail sausages and these little sherbet filled UFOs made from rice-paper named flying saucers)
My main pet peeve is the fact that this was a kid's gameshow that contained fucking child murder!
What's even more sick is how much of a predator Brian is portrayed, he occasionally eats a cameraman and (very rarely (two episodes) a soundman, but to me, the fact he's mostly a predator around kids is, to me, a massive red flag the size of Unicron's ass! Seriously, is child murder the best thing to make a gameshow look good? NO! NO! It is NOT a good idea!
I also remember my brother wanted to go an that gameshow before and he liked it, but I refused the idea because; hey, would you wanna see your sibling eaten and murdered on TV? No, I don't think you would.
(Insult to injury, my brother nowadays won't touch anything vore related.)
I don't even care how bad the effects on this gameshow are, or how many people tell me it's not real, I, in my own rights, am allowed to gripe about it.
I mean I don't even know the BBC were smoking to greenlight this!
There are full episodes on YouTube if you wanna risk watching it, but the episodes have had their comments disabled sadly. (Coppa obviously doesn't wanna have me claw my venom into that old show.)
All the same, I did grow up seeing a couple of other dark kid's gameshows. One of them was good, the other one was okay, but it did worry my autistic 11 year old brain.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading my rant. If you don't have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself.
I hope to do another rant on something opinion based.