Season 4 · Episode 17 Recent

Couples Fear Factor (3)

Mon, Jan 19, 2004

This episode was part 3 of 7 in a series featuring nine couples competing for various cash and prizes, and a grand prize of 1 Million Dollars. Stunt #1 (Spouse spin) Both partners would be hung by their ankles from opposite ends a spinning girder over a harbor. They would be holding on to opposite ends of a rope, supporting each other's weight. When one person let go, they would both go flying into the water. As time went on, the girder would spin faster. The couple to hang on the longest would get to draw from five Capital One credit cards ranging in value from $10,000 to $50,000. No one would be eliminated in this stunt. Stunt #2 (Pie Eating Contest) Couples would have to use their faces to search for 4 coins hidden among 10 disgusting Fear Factor pies. The pies all had a bile-based crust, and different pies were duck tongue pie, maggot pie, pig stomach pie, and rotten fish pie. After retrieving the four hidden coins, couples would work together to slurp up a Fear Factor s