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# Was game show Legends of the Hidden Temple exploitative, hilarious or just schadenfreude?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/game-show-legends-hidden-temple-was-exploitative-hilarious-exercise-schadenfreude/
- Published: 2013-03-08T17:30:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:58:06.000Z
- Description: I actually watched Legends of the Hidden Temple. A lot. Monday through Friday. It was a routine. I desperately wanted to be on the show, to run the Temple Run. It was like Indiana Jones for tweens. What I didn’t realize at my impressionable age is that it was a trial of public humiliation and shame.
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Environment, game show, Sports, temple run, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

I actually watched *Legends of the Hidden Temple*. A lot. Monday through Friday. It was a routine. I desperately wanted to be on the show, to run the Temple Run. It was like Indiana Jones for tweens. What I didn’t realize at my impressionable age is that it was a trial of public humiliation and shame. [Courtesy SB Nation](http://www.sbnation.com/2013/2/27/4028998/legends-of-the-hidden-temple?ref=killscreen.com):

> Emotionally fragile children were prodded through a disorienting maze in which they were expected to fulfill not-specific-enough instructions and complete a ridiculous array of trial-and-error puzzles within three minutes, a time constraint so overbearing that roughly 75 percent of the contestants failed. Also, adults in costumes would jump out and scare them at random, putting a sudden, and completely unfair, end to a strange, televised day of answering trivia questions and completing Double-Dare-ish puzzles that suddenly unfolded into this … this labyrinthine, frustrating, humiliating nightmare, in front of us all.

This has got to be the most unfair, cruel, and hilarious game show ever, and the fact that a host in safari shorts is announcing the kids every misstep makes it worse. The chances are high that every one of those poor kids are now in therapy.