Look Ma, I'm on TV... Again!

In order to add hilarity to my life, I agreed to participate on a game show being filmed for the local cable channel this afternoon. Featuring early 90's pop culture trivia questions, we were quizzed on Clarissa Explains It All, Step by Step, Rugrats, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and Beauty and the Beast.

My teammate, Alice, and I wowed the nonexistent studio audience with our impressively useless knowledge. Carl Winslow's occupation? Police officer! Where did Home Alone take place? Chicago! Who was the referee on Guts? Mo! Who was Miss December in the girls of Bayside calendar? Mr. Belding!

Truthfully, we missed some we shouldn't have as well. The dog from Rugrats is of course Spike. Uncle Jesse's twins are named Alex and... oh, Nicky, duh. The name of Screech's robot? Inexcusably, it's Kevin. Oops.

In spite of some forgetfulness, we still won by a significant margin. (Hopefully, there won't be lawsuits for spoiling the outcome of this highly prestigious show.) Our victory was largely unexpected, considering one of our opponents was in the 90's movie Heavyweights about kids in fat camp, meaning he probably had all sorts of ties to pop culture of the era.

Winning proved a mixed-blessing, however, because it meant us then having to run the obstacle course. Think of a lower budget Double Dare, but no less messy. I had to search for a trinket in a pool full of apple sauce, hula-hoop ten times, sail down a chocolate-covered slip-and-slide, and score a basket with an oversized ball, all while being shot at close range with super-soakers filled with a green slimy substance.

At the end, we just stood there, covered from head to toe in a brownish-greenish coating, not sure how we could drive back to Pitzer in that condition. Then, for the cameras, we had to jump excitedly for an as-yet-undetermined prize that will be given to us at a later point. Regardless, it was extremely fun and an experience not soon forgotten. Way better than The Price Is Right anyway.