The Week contest: Reality Show - Apr. 2, 2010

last updated 8 January 2015

Click here for results of last week's contest: Texas Chapter

Results: We asked you to come up with a reality show even more grotesquely compelling than France’s “Game of Death.” You pitched us:

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Going Postal: Players get to fire postal employees by telling them there will be no Saturday delivery.

Tom Fickenscher, Gothenburg, NE

Are You Crazier than a Suicide Bomber?

Ersilia Ash, Austin, TX

You Bet Your Children!

Larry Fish, New York City

Run for Your Life: Contestants are covered in chocolate and locked in a house with “The Biggest Loser” contestants.

Ashley Ryan, Catonsville, MD

So You Think You Can Do Brain Surgery?

Kasumi, Cleveland, OH

America’s Got Typhus!

Paul DeAngelis, Columbia, MD

Win, Lose or Drawn & Quartered

Bethany Wheeling, Finksburg, MD

Beat the Reaper

John A. Kay, Livermore, CA

The Real Hitmen of Essex County

Joel Wagner, Burlingame, CA

Survivor: Walt Disney World – Outwait, Outspend, Outlast.

Jeffrey Contompasis, Ashburn, VA

Survivor: Capitol Hill – Who will be voted off?

Bryan McGrath, Wakefield, MA

Help Me Find My Puppy! From the disgruntled former employees who brought you “Kids Say the Darnedest Things.”

Sarah Bullion, Venice, CA