History Series / FearFactor

-->--'''{{Creator/Joe Rogan}}''' at the beginning of each episode.

!!GameShow Tropes in use:

** GameShowHost: {{Joe Rogan}}.

* CatchPhrase: "Evidently fear is not a factor for you."

* CelebrityEdition: About once a season

** Inverted in Season 6, when they literally tried things at home by having Capital One sponsor an AudienceGame where Rogan visited a family at their home, challenging them to play a stunt to win up to $10,000

* EveryoneHasStandards: One stunt had contestants transferring worms from a box to a scale using only their mouths. When one contestant thought he saw dirt in the box, Joe told him they would never make them eat dirt because it's gross, it was just worm poop he saw.
** Another time was when Joe Rogan asked a contestant what the craziest thing he ever did was and he said it was doing the running of the bulls in Spain and Joe though he was crazy

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sometimes a contestants strategy bites them in the butt

* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: ThisIsACompetition worth thousands of dollars.
* {{Jerkass}}: We know it's a competition for 50 grand, but some of the contestants go beyond the ThisIsACompetition line into sheer assholery

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: One stunt involved being dragged across a lake by a helicopter, and contestants had to hold on to their rope as long as possible. All three female contestants lost their bikini bottoms while being dragged. The first two were a bit embarrassed by it but the third one, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl didn't seem to mind.]]

* TemptingFate: In a Season 1 episode one female said "There are a couple of martinis with my name on them" after beating the first challenge. The next challenge was drinking a martini made of worms

%%* CelebrityEdition:

* BannedEpisode: One episode included a task that forced people to chug the show's special blend of [[spoiler:donkey urine and semen.]] NBC was displeased with the producers going this far, and blacklisted the episode, so it's never been shown.

Not to be confused with FearFactory, an industrial metal band.

* AllOrNothing: Losers left with nothing, unless they had won a designated "prize stunt" earlier. It was theoretically possible for the prize to be split, if all but one of the contestants/teams refused to participate in a challenge, in which case the contestant(s) who did undertake the challenge would immediately be awarded half of the prize, with the remaining half being left up for grabs. However, this only happened once, and the trope was still played straight since the team ended up winning the episode outright anyway.

** One stunt involved eating 10 slugs and one contestant decided to wipe the slugs on her arm to get the slime off the slug. This only made them agitated and they oozed more slime than she had wiped off, she wound up quitting.

* BonusRound: During the Las Vegas specials, the winner had to play a hand of [[LuckBasedMission blackjack]] with at least half their winnings. After the first hand, they ''could'' keep going, however.

** StudioAudience: Any time the show taped a stunt in a [[VivaLasVegas casino]].

* VivaLasVegas: Several special episodes were filmed in downtown Las Vegas, featuring stunts at its various locales and the winner wagering their winnings at a Blackjack table.

-->'''{{Creator/Joe Rogan}}''' at the beginning of each episode.

* TheBeautifulElite: See Fanservice below. The show seemed to evolve into "good looking people doing crazy things for money".

* CelebrityEdition: All too often.

* DontTryThisAtHome: But that goes without saying, now doesn't it?
** Inverted in Season 6, when they literally tried things at home... by having Capital One sponsor an AudienceGame where Rogan visited a family at their home, challenging them to play a stunt to win up to $10,000

* EatThat: The TropeCodifier.

* {{Fanservice}}: Pretty much '''every single''' female contestant from Season 2 onward.
** Not just women. Later in its run, save for specialty episodes like Family Editions, everyone seemed to have to be at minimum 'good-looking'.
* FanServicePack: As the show's budget increased, there seemed to be a large tendency for stunts involving water - meaning we'd get shots of the contestants changing. Or else simply do the stunt in their swimsuit.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Oh, did they. It took the chugging of ''[[spoiler:donkey semen and urine]]'' for NBC to [[BannedEpisode refuse to air an episode.]]

* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: ThisIsACompetition.

* PrimalFear: Exploited thoroughly.
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: One stunt involved being dragged across a lake by a helicopter, and contestants had to hold on to their rope as long as possible. All three female contestants lost their bikini bottoms while being dragged. The first two were a bit embarrassed by it. The third one, however, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl didn't seem to mind.]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Especially in the car stunts.
* TraumaticHaircut: One episode gratuitously featured a challenge involving contestants having one of these randomly chosen for each of them, ranging from a complete head shave to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5mGpQQZo4A "the patch"]]. Previews for future episodes include another woman being shaven bald.
** BaldOfAwesome: Once she got over her fear, the woman in question got the shave and actually looked quite good, rather like what happened when this was done on ''Series/TheAmazingRace''. She and her partner went on to win the whole thing.

* AllOrNothing: Losers left with nothing, unless they had won a designated "prize stunt" earlier.

-->'''{{Creator/JoeRogan}}''' at the beginning of each episode.

-->'''{{Joe Rogan}}''' at the beginning of each episode.

* {{Money Dear Boy}}: On the {{DVD Commentary}} for {{NewsRadio}} Joe Rogan refers to the show as "Joe gets paid."
** Really, really paid. Through some shrewd contract negotiations, NBC agreed to cut him partial ownership of the show when he signed on to host. He essentially never has to work again should he choose not to.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Oh, did they. It took the chugging of ''[[spoiler:donkey semen and urine]]'' for NBC to refuse to air an episode.

A 2011 {{Revival}} currently airs on NBC, still on Monday nights, still with Joe Rogan hosting..