h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Apparently they're being paid £5,000 for every day that they don't cotton on.

I think I could act quite thick for that rate of pay...

The electric shock experiment was the Stanley Milgram experiment. It's usually in the same chapter in psychology books as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Both make for interesting (and alarming) reading.

The Space Cadets show - like Big Brother - shows little signs of imagination. They had them making balloon sculptures for flibs sake! If it was me I'd be making the 'shuttle' shake uncontrollably and having mission control shouting "You're breaking up! You're breaking up!", having aliens visiting, and causing mushroom clouds from atomic bombs to shoot up all over the 'earth'.

Did anyone else notice a mistake last night? Jonny Vaughn went into the shuttle and said that he had to be very quiet as the walls were paper thin. Yet the actor Charlie goes and talks to camera and his voice is quite loud. It's all odd. I'm expecting either a spectacular denoument or a fizzling out. We'll see. When does it end, anyway?

Last night he said tonight is the penultimate episode.

Which means it finishes tomorrow, but then he could just be kidding us along,

OK, I'm starting to feel a *little* paranoid now.

The first half of tonight's programme was about...Richard & Judy - and Judy mentioned the Queen.

I have two entries in Peer Review, one on Richard & Judy, and the other on the Queen.

*looks around nervously*

I'm sorry, I just don't buy this idea that the joke is on you the viewers.

What the f*ck would the point of that be? Smuggy Vaughn pops up and goes 'HA HA the joke was on you viewers' and nobody ever trusts another word Channel 4 say about anything. Not good for a commercially funded channel, I'd suggest.

Having just seen the ones that didn't get to go in the spaceship for the first time.
They look like they must have been brought up watching nothing but MTV and spent all there schooldays playing truant.No wonder they were duped.
I cant believe the ones on the space ship could have been fooled by a simulated tack off
With no G Force or zero gravity.

What I can't understand is that when the ones who didn't go on the "shuttle" were told it was a hoax, is that most of them didn't say "Yes I knew it was a hoax all along!" so they didn't look stupid (even if they didn't realise it was a hoax). It would be natural to avoid being made to look stupid, but they all said they thought it was a real shuttle programme to go into space.....could it mean that they WERE all fooled, including "shuttle" crew?

I think there have been experiments done where someone is surrounded by people that are saying things that are not true, like there left hand is called there right hand ,and the person being fed the oposite to what they know is true would end up giving in and thinking that there left hand was there right hand .

So I suppose its possible that even given all the factual errors, a group of people in an enclosed space ,surrounded by actors feeding them lies could end up believing it.

Very gullible - which is why they were chosen.
Limited intelligence - i.e. have no knowledge of science/nature, etc.
Can make/take a joke - another reason they were chosen.

Come on peoples - another bit of fun - at least it isn't going on & on & on & ...... like the jungle, etc - none of which I have actually watched all the way through.

I remember calling on a neighbour some time back - they had big brother on in the background - someone was being filmed ... sleeping - brain numbing TV & they keep introducing more channels.

I say: let's all of us fly off into space & get away from it

I'm going out, so I'm going to miss the finale!



Just kidding, honest.

....so it's over.
I was disapointed that they virtually told them it was a trick with the stupid dog ceremony, it meant the ending was valueless as an experiment....

Hmm, agreed, but psychologically much kinder? They can't really win whichever way they finished it!

One point was made, which I thought of earlier in the week: they have had the experience of looking at the earth from space, from believing they were up there, to them it was the real thing at that time, so their feelings will be unique to them for the rest of their life.

You must admit, we will never know that feeling.

flying to Russia to get into training

Looks like one of them rumbled it this morning. Some really sad people were watching it at 5am this morning...people actually watched it?!

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=316963

I think after the idiotic over the top way the cadets that didn't get on the ship reacted When they found out ,They decided to spell it out to the ones on the ship before they were told.
I was watching last night and they thought they could hear talking coming from outside he ship
That was obviously channel 4 deliberately making it clear it was all fake before the end of the show.

...although I have calmed down now, I was quite angry that they seemed to be giving the game away on purpose, I suppose due to the fact that I was genuinely interested to know if I would be possible to trick people like that.
......on the other hand, I had tears running down my cheeks at the botty worm incident, the funniest bit of telly for a long time!

Hmm, as they are getting paid £5,000 p/day till they are "rumbled", then the producers, Johnny, etc., would really try to make "subtle" type things happen - to get them to find out, but not too obvious to the general public ()

Call the whole thing a continuing test of their gullibility & susceptibility.

I forgot to mention some one was telling me a few days ago that the whole program was recorded
And took place over the summer.

none of the footage of them "rumbling" the gig was shown tonight.
the hoax is definately on us then.
ryan has said he was paid £1000 to be in the gordon ramsey advert. that makes him an actor. i think keri rumbled it anyway and didn't want to say to anyone she knew AND that she was an extra.
i don't think the guy playing the russian cosmonaut yevgeny knew charlie was an actor. ryan the us pilot obviously did as vaughny interviewed them both.

I think all the tourists knew by thursaday when super loud vaughny went aboard. the fact that that stupid idiot behind the orange spacesuits kept moving them and NO-ONE noticed? bollocks!

The most humiliating aspect of it for the contestants ,is that they now know they took part in a selection process that involved eliminating anyone with any intelligence.

The first few minutes of the show were actually quite funny. There was a room full of people and every one of them knew that they absolutely positively couldn't laugh one bit and every one of them was fighting the urge to burst out laughing. I thought we might be in for a cracker, but as with a lot of Endemol output the show was pretty much a one joke show.