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10. And beware a lifetime supply of one specific kind of food, because you might never want it again.
"When my wife was a kid, she won a lifetime supply of Butterfinger candy bars. It was two cases. Not the cardboard flats you can buy at bulk stores, but two actual factory crates like a grocery store would get...so several hundred candy bars. She said when she first got them, she felt ripped off because while it was a lot, she was only a kid, so there was no way it was a 'lifetime' supply.
"She made it through half the first case before she started giving them away to anyone that would take them. By the end of the second case, she was throwing them away.
"Now, as an adult several decades later, she still won’t eat Butterfingers. So I guess it really was all the Butterfingers she would ever need for the rest of her life."
11. Some (possibly all) House Hunters participants have already bought the house before they appear on the show.
"Earlier this year I was on House Hunters, and obviously, everything was staged. You buy the house first and then you get to go on the show. You can always tell what house they’re going to buy because it’s always the empty one. The house touring was fake for us, at least when we did it, because one of the houses didn’t want us filming there, so we had to get a fake house to tour. I remember we were filming us going somewhere in the car, and I was dropped off in a cornfield.
"The filming crew were really nice and took us out for lunch. They were all super fun to be around and made us laugh during cuts. But the filming process lasted over three weeks, and it’s only a 20-minute show, so it was definitely tiring. I remember everyone, even people I barely knew, watched the show, and it was kind of embarrassing, but still a fun experience overall."
21. One kids competition show allegedly sabotaged contestants.
"I was in a sort of 'kids racing game' show. It was canceled shortly after I participated in it. I can't remember the exact details because I was like 6 or 7, but I will never forget how they made me feel.
"Basically, we were a bunch of little kids racing each other to complete the most games in a certain time. If you completed the whole thing (around 20 games or so) without the time running out or without breaking certain rules for each 'level,' you won a shit ton of toys, or something like that.
"They made 'tests runs' that were actually them recording the whole thing without us knowing. I completed the whole thing in like 7 minutes — it was supposed to last at least 15 minutes. The 'level helpers' took me aside and told me it was an amazing run, so I got qualified to appear on the TV show.
"In the actual recording, the level helpers sabotaged me. They grabbed me to prevent me from popping the balloons of the first level, pushed balloons away from me, pushed the correct balloons toward other kids (you were supposed to pop balloons to find a key for the next level), and gave me a 'timeout' for breaking rules that I wasn't breaking.
"I specifically remember running up a ramp, after being sabotaged a LOT by the 'helpers,' to get to my next level. I was catching up to the other kids, and they fucking grabbed my ankle and made me fall off the ramp. I was disqualified because I 'took too long to get to the other level.' They forced me to sit on the losers box and watch all of the other kids — whom I had already beaten up in the test run — finish the thing and win.
"I did not appear in that episode when it showed on TV. Not even me 'failing.'"
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