My Family's Got Guts
2008 American TV series or program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2008 American TV series or program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Family's Got Guts is a family game show that aired on Nickelodeon. It was a revival of Guts, and aired from September 15 to September 27, 2008. The show was taped in Sound Stages 23 and 24 at Universal Studios Florida, housing the Extreme Arena and the Aggro Crag, respectively.[2] Stage 21, where the original Guts program taped, was most recently occupied by production of Impact Wrestling. This version is hosted by Ben Lyons and officiated by Australian celebrity Asha Kuerten. It was the first (and only) Nickelodeon production to be produced at Universal Studios Florida since the closing of Nickelodeon Studios in 2005. For unknown reasons, season 2 never aired in North America. However, the season would air in its entirety in other countries.
| My Family's Got Guts | |
|---|---|
| |
| Presented by | Ben Lyons Asha Kuerten |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Production location | Universal Studios Florida |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera setup |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production companies | Worldwide Biggies Five Alts Productions, LLC. Nickelodeon Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nickelodeon |
| Release | September 15 – September 27, 2008[1] |
| Related | |
| Guts | |
The show is unlike the original Guts as it follows a tournament-style structure of twelve teams being narrowed down to six during six preliminary episodes, and then three in three semifinal episodes, with the final teams competing in an hour-long "Aggro Bowl". The preliminaries consist of two events and then the Aggro Crag. Points also do not determine the winner. Each point a team is ahead of the other is worth a tenth-second head start (10 Points equal 1 second, maximum: 7 in the preliminaries, and 10 in the semi-finals and the Aggro Bowl for Season 1) in the Aggro Crag. In the semi-finals, there are three events before the Aggro Crag that are more difficult than the previous round. The Aggro Crag is also more elaborate and challenging and the maximum head start is 10 seconds.
This takes place when the families must climb a 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) mountain to taste "My Family's Got Guts" victory and win the competition.
Preliminary episodes required two players to climb the Crag - one team had to climb up their respective side of the mountain through the "Ice-Surfin' Switchbacks", a set of wobbly wedges that players needed to maneuver around, climb over the "Skeleton Stalagmites", and activate three actuators including one at the end of this first leg, "Avalanche Peak" with a "frozen lava storm" raining down on contestants. This in turns opened the Ice Portal at the base of the Crag, where the second player awaited. Players then had to cross some stepping stones across "The Glacial Gorge" and climb two vertical rock climbing walls dubbed "The Vertical Freeze", to reach the Crystal Peak and hit their final actuator to finalize the results.
Semifinal episodes then required all four players to climb the Crag. A new section was added, "The Mad Mesas", which was a path of boulders that the contestant needed to run over to reach the second player at the base of the Switchbacks. Their final actuator would open up a trapdoor in Avalanche Peak that lead them to a spiraling "Swirling Vortex" slide that lead them behind the main facade of the Crag and to the third player, who had to navigate the "Crag Caverns". Once they had maneuvered this maze, they needed to traverse the entire Glacial Gorge around the entire mountain and reach the base of the mountain, which would finally open the Ice Portal and allow the fourth player to climb the Vertical Freeze to victory.
In Aggro Bowls, a control panel had been placed at the start of the Crag Caverns, where the third player from each team could control additional snow and hail that could challenge their respective opponents climbing the Mesas and Switchbacks. Once the second player made the exchange with the third, he or she could take over control and release "Arctic Steam" in the Crag Caverns and drop an avalanche on the fourth players climbing the Vertical Freeze.
For each victory, teams received a white "piece of the Aggro Crag". The champions of the tournament received all three, including a considerably larger third piece, which could be put together to form a miniature Aggro Crag as a trophy, along with the grand prize of a trip on the Nickelodeon Family Cruise.
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