Go get your older brother or sister, mates. Their favourite show is officially comin’ back: Nickelodeon is giving the ridiculously filthy game show Double Dare a new lease on life.
Nickelodeon’s official social media channels confirmed that the 90s favourite will be returning this year, with 40 – yes, FORTY – new episodes ordered to the air.
Double Dare, for those of you not as voraciously horny for the 90s as I am, combined trivia with a variety of very messy physical challenges that threw kids through giant tubs of pudding, with the victor gaining a fabulous prize as reward. It whipped sack.
The US series originally ran from 1986 right through to 1993, with an initial revival series airing in 2000. An Australian version of the show also went to air on Channel Ten from 1989 until 1992, the Family version of the show being hosted by a very young Larry Emdur.
Variety reports that the new series will bring back many of the OG show’s classic physical challenges, like the Human Hamster Wheel, the Gigantic Mouth, the Wringer, and the unmistakable Giant Nose.
The show, which was the longest-running game show in Nickelodeon history, is yet to earmark a host for the revival. But in the meantime the good folk at Nick have gifted us with an entire classic episode of Double Dare to get the nostalgia motors running.
Now then, two questions: Is there an age limit for contestants? And, if so, do you think a 6’4″ man with a full beard could conceivably pass as a pre-teen?
I’ve been training for this for a very long time, you see.
