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Rewatching Wipeout


FYI the first 5 US seasons plus Wipeout Australia are available on Amazon Prime.


As I've mentioned in the other thread I've been productively using the last couple of weeks to rewatch some of Wipeout - watched Season 2 & 3 in full, along with the first Winter Wipeout and Spring Wipeout, and just started on the summer part of season 4.


Nothing has changed my mind about season 2 & 3 being the best series - even the obstacles which were considered below par at the time now seem pretty decent. The smackwall obsession though really begins to creep in with Spring Wipeout and the show certainly suffers for it, and two episodes into the summer series and both opening obstacles have been smackwalls.


All in all though although inevitably each series has it's weaker elements (god, the Coin Toss really was a crap Wipeout Zone obstacle) it's been a joy to rewatch. Have noticed though the tone of some of the commentary might not be considered appropriate even just a few short years later.


Presentation one strange thing is in the S4 Summer series they only use the animation for the breaks - bizarely despite using the new style opening animations for the Winter and Spring series for the summer they go back to a recoloured version of the S3 opener (which IMO looks crap) for the summer series. A minor thing though but just seems odd in retrospect.

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FYI the first 5 US seasons plus Wipeout Australia are available on Amazon Prime.



Of course after I buy practically every episode from the first five seasons emoticon

I have tried to rewatch a couple of episodes from each season, and it's been fun. I still do enjoy watching seasons 5+, but still.

What elements of the commentary exactly? You're probably right though emoticon

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Probably right. emoticon

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What elements of the commentary exactly? You're probably right though emoticon



A middle aged man drooling over young female contestants. Happens here and there over the first few series then just gets very uncomfortable during the first Hotties v Nerds. Thought nothing of it at the time and generally watched it in the humourous way I'm sure it was intended, but a few years later and a few years older and it just doesn't sit as well today. There is the odd inappropriate nickname too like "Downbeat Daughter" - nothing major, but I think today the show would be more self aware of such things.

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I guess it is weirder when you think of John's age for the Hotties vs. Nerds episodes. That's when it stuck out to me that he did it, really.

I'm sure it was the "Deadbeat Daughter", rather than Downbeat. In my mind, it was because she had no money and was living with her parents. Maybe I am being too innocent though.

Of course, Mommy Dearest from season 3 was originally going to be called "Mother Tucker"!

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That's it. Obviously also some things don't translate from the US to the UK, notably the use of "spastic".

Anyway, I'm doing what I hate people doing and going through shows of old picking out all the politically incorrect faults. I guess with a show like Wipeout, just like most comedies, the job of the comedian is to find humour in everything, and that often means you have to go beyond what is inoffensive to get the laughs. The only reason I mentioned it was because it genuinely surprised me to be a factor in a show which to me aired so recently - you expect it when you watch things from the 90s for example, not so much when you watch something from less than a decade ago.


5 episodes in to the summer series now - there is alot to love about that summer course. It generally is one of my favourite zones, and the Towering Flume of Doom I think it one of the best starts to the zone they did and it still baffles me they didn't keep it for Winter Wipeout as the Icy Flume of Doom, especially as they replaced it with the very simple "Killer Luge". Wipeout Playset is probably the last third round too that had any form of variation other than theme, whilst still can't quite work out if Total Carnage was brilliant or terrible.


Backing up one series though to the Spring course and another thing we hated - the Wipeout Kitchen. They used that style of obstacle far too often as the final obstacle in the later series, but can't help thinking here it would have been far less of an issue if it had swapped positions with the Spring Fling, which really is in the style of the classic final obstacles, complete with variations. I think had the Kitchen been after the Big Balls it would effectively have got away with being the equivalent of the Sucker Punch - a regular obstacle that didn't really need to change every week. Must also say dressed as the Laundromat and Chinese Restaurant it visually looked so much better, but overall as well as not being that great an obstacle it's one of the ugliest looking ones they ever had. I think actually that is why the subsequent summer course looks so much better because they went back to a simpler colour pallet, just adding yellows and greens really to the long used red and blue.

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Oh yeah, I remember reading about spastic.

And totally agreed, it's always interesting to look back at old stuff and see just how it aged. Reminds me of Milo and Otis, an animal adventure movie I loved watching as a kid, that I have now found resulted in the killing of 25 kittens and a whole lot of animal abuse. It's interesting to see stuff like that through different eyes.

Well, I know Killer Luge was originally going to be a "ski slope", but wouldn't work so it just became another Killer Surf-type obstacle. But annoyingly, the next course recycled it with the Temple of Flume, which became the third simple slide obstacle, while Towering Flume of Doom only saw 10 appearances emoticon

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So frustrating that Amazon have taken absolutely no care in labelling the episodes. Most of what I've been rewatching are recordings I still have but as one was corrupt I decided to find it on Amazon - episode 23 of series 4, easy enough you'd think. But no, Amazon have the episodes in a completely different order (not even production order as Spring/Summer course episodes are mixed), have a generic description on them all and even though they give them a date they were first broadcast that seems to be made up as some have dates for which the show was never screened. I thought then maybe the episode picture would be a clue with one having two people on rather than one (this was the first Boss & Employee show), but no, that episode was a single player edition. Found it in the end as episode 24. Amazon's Episode 23 was actually episode 27.

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Found out accidently today that if you have a Now TV box or Roku box that Wipeout Canada is available to watch on the Roku app.

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That is annoying. My episodes that I bought years ago are in perfect order though.

$150 well spent by me then emoticon

I liked the dog losing his head in that ep emoticon

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