Hit the brakes

Finally got around to watching an episode of Brake Room, Discovery's new game show for gearheads.

Okay, I watched the first segment of an ep on the network's web site. That was plenty enough to give me the idea. A couple of motor sports guys - who I had never heard of, but they've never heard of me, so we're even - watched videos of people trying really stupid stunts with cars, trucks and motorcycles. The videos stopped just before the stupid stunts were complete. Then the motor sports guys guessed whether the stunt nuts finished the attempts successfully.

In the videos I saw, everybody wiped out. So it would seem logical to guess "wipe out" every time. But logic doesn't have much to do with this show, which is all about videos of people doing stupid things. It's sort of the gearhead answer to GSN's Caroline & Friends.

One of the gearhead contestants on the episode was wearing overalls with no shirt underneath (see screenshot). This was not a good fashion statement. But maybe you should wear dumb clothes to watch dumb videos.

Brake Room won't be around for long. It wiped out with the Nielsen Company. The beancounters knew it was a bomb even without watching the videos all the way through.