Fear Factor

This episode featured four co-ed pairs competing for keys to an armored car containing $1 Million in gold. In addition to the money, the winning team would also win a trip to Universal Studios Orlando. Stunt #1 (Helicopter cargo net) As a helicopter flew 400 feet above a lake at 90 miles per hour, the men would have to climb out onto a cargo net hanging off the back, collect four flags from the net, climb back up into the helicopter, and collect a final flag. The women would then have to do the same. The three teams to get the highest total of flags in the fastest time would receive a key for the armored car. The team to get the least flags would be eliminated. Stunt #2 (Tunnel Escape) While chained together, partners would have to make their way through a ventilation system. While crawling through the shafts, they would have to make their way through rats, spider webs with tarantulas, raw sewage, and complete darkness. At two points in the tunnel they would have to pull levers to extinguish fires blocking their paths. The two teams to complete this stunt fastest would earn their second keys and advance to the finals. The slowest team would be eliminated. 

This was a special blind date episode. Four single men would be introduced to four single women, and the women would get to pick which man they wanted to be paired up with. The four couples would then compete as teams for the $50,000. Stunt #1 (Hanging boat) One partner would be driving a boat across a lake while the other partner would grab a hook hanging from a helicopter and attach it to the boat. The helicopter would then lift the boat out of the water and one person would have to climb onto a cargo net on the underside of the boat, release four flags, and drop into the water. The second partner would then have to do the same. The couple to get the most flags in the fastest time would get to choose which couple would be eliminated. Stunt #2 (Crab Dump Escape) Couples would be locked in a large tank filled with 45 degree water and large Dungeness crabs. As more cold water and crabs were pumped into the tank through two pipes, both team members would have to find which of four keys unlocked caps from the floor of the tank and use the caps to plug the pipes. Because of the dangers of hypothermia, there would be a ten-minute time limit for this stunt. The couple to complete this stunt the fastest would win a twelve-day trip for four to Belize. No one would be eliminated in this stunt.

This episode featured four pairs competing as teams. Stunt #1 (Human cannonball) As a truck drove along a pier with a crane hanging off the side, one team member would hang from the crane and drop into the water when they passed a buoy. They would have to retrieve two flares from the buoy, swim to a platform, and use the flares to light the fuse to giant cannon. Their partner would then be shot out of the cannon and into the water. Once in the water, their partner would swim to a boat, climb aboard, and clip a flag to a flagpole. The team to complete this stunt the fastest would get to choose which team would be eliminated. Stunt #2 (Trash Can Scavenger Hunt) Teams would have to dig through two dumpsters to find items including a toaster, a shoe, a gas can, a baseball glove, a hard hat, a tin can, a thermos, and a radio. Another of each item would be hidden among barrels filled with oil, mud, rotten fish parts, and lard. To retrieve the items from the barrels, they would have to unscrew them from the bottom and match them with the corresponding items from the dumpsters. The team to match four items fastest would win a four-day trip to Las Vegas and $20,000. No one would be eliminated in this stunt.

This episode was part 1 of 3 in a series featuring six couples staying at the Bates Motel from the movie Psycho and competing on the set where the movie was filmed for a grand prize of $250,000. Stunt #1 (Buried alive) This first stunt would take place in front of the infamous Psycho house. Going two couples at a time, the women would be locked in coffins with rats and super worms and be buried under two tons of dirt. The men would have to dig them out using shovels and open the coffins. Once free, the women would have to dig through a pile of dirt and worms to find a key. The three winning couples would automatically advance to the next round and get to vote on which one of the three losing couples would be eliminated. Between stunts, the couples would be staying in the Bates Motel. When they checked in, it was not what they were expecting. 

This episode was part 2 of 3 in a series featuring six couples staying at the Bates Motel from the movie Psycho and competing on the set where the movie was filmed for a grand prize of $250,000. Stunt #3 (Psycho Shower Rescue) The women would be handcuffed to the showerhead in one of the Bates Motel rooms as blood rained down on them. Outside, the men would have to unscrew an axe from the bottom of an ice chest filled with disgusting slop and use the axe to chop down the door to the room. They would then have to find a key which would be hidden in a vase, a potted plant, a lamp, or a nightstand. Once they had had the key, they would have to chop down the bathroom door and use the key to free their partner from the handcuffs. The couple to complete this stunt fastest would have two options: They could accept a pair of customized bikes from Metropolitan Choppers or be exempt from the next stunt. They would have to give the prize they didn't choose to another couple. No one would be eliminated in this stunt.

This episode was part 3 of 3 in a series featuring six couples staying at the Bates Motel from the movie Psycho and competing on the set where the movie was filmed for a grand prize of $250,000. At the end of the last episode, the couples were unpleasantly surprised when thousands of Madagascar hissing cockroaches came crawling out of the holes in the walls. At the beginning of this episode, they were informed that whichever couple could collect the most roaches and keep them alive until morning would win a prize. Stunt #1 (Eat the Camel Spider) Both partners would be bound in straight jackets and have to work together to get free as fast as possible. But first, each person would be given the opportunity to eat two live Iraqi Camel Spiders, each worth 30 seconds off their time, giving each couple the chance to deduct up to two minutes off their time. The couple to take the longest escaping from the straight jackets would be eliminated.

This episode featured four co-ed pairs competing as teams. Stunt #1 (Helicopter platform transfer) Both team members would have to leap back and forth between two platforms hanging from helicopters, each person transferring up to 10 flags from one platform to the other and then jumping in the water below. The three teams get highest flag total would advance to the next round. The team with the least flags would be eliminated. Stunt #2 (Fear Factor Barber Shop) One team member would be seated in a barber chair and their partner would spin them. When the chair stopped, they would have to get whichever haircut their head was pointing to. The options were Mohawk, bald spot, patches, the taco, sideways Mohawk, and bald. Teams would advance to the finals if both members got their designated haircuts.

Mother son teams compete in stunts including balancing on a ledge, an obsticle course with aggressive snakes, and positioning a car under a semi truck before climbing out the sunroof into the truck. Fear Factor travels to Ontario, California for a Home Invasion.

Teams do a helicopter/jet ski stunt, transfer objects by mouth while locked up with frogs and alligators, and drive an ATV off a pier. Fear Factor travels to Huntsville, Alabama for a Home Invasion.

Five co-ed teams of reality TV stars begin a six-stunt competition for $150,000. The contestants include Jonny Fairplay & Twila Tanner from Survivor, Jonathan Baker & Victoria Fuller from The Amazing Race, Tana Goertz & Craig Williams from The Apprentice, Carmen Rasmusen & Anthony Fedorov from American Idol, and Mike "The Miz" Mizanin & Trishelle Cannatella from The Real World. In this episode, teams compete in a demolition derby, and then race through a swamp obstacle course that involves entering a tunnel with an alligator. A family is challenged to bob in lard for pig feet in this week's Home Invasion.

The competition continues as teams race to rescue a dummy from a burning houseboat. Then, the women are locked in an airtight box of bugs submerged in water, and the men must swim to the bottom of the tank and cut ropes to bring the box to the surface. A family is challenged to transfer scorpions by mouth and drink a scorpion shake in this week's Home Invasion.

The final three teams compete for $150,000. First, the men must dig for canisters in a tank of ice while the women retrieve keys from a tunnel of tarantulas. Then, teammates must stand on hanging cars and toss balls to each other before the cars swing out from under them and collide in midair. Two families are challenged transfer rotten fish, squid, and cheese by mouth in this week's Home Invasion.

Parent-child teams compete at Universal Orlando in this 90-minute, four-stunt episode. The parents must jump out of a helicopter while their children race down a zip line; pedal an electric shock bike that shoots dead fish at their children; stand on a narrow beam between the two towers of the Doctor Doom's Fearfall ride and swing their children out to grab hanging flags; and drive a van through an obstacle course while their children stand on top of the van and grab flags. A family is challenged to bob for rotten fish in this week's Home Invasion.

Teams representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines compete in stunts on board the USS Hornet aircraft carrier. Stunts include being launched off the deck into a cargo net hanging from a helicopter; eating leeches, pig uterus, chicken feet, and rotten fish; and pulling grenades off the top of a van before it drives off the end of the aircraft carrier. A family is challenged to eat beetle and maggot sausages in this week's Home Invasion.

Teams of best friends must climb a cargo net beneath a helicopter while their opponents spray them with fire hoses; drink blended habanero peppers; and slide down a flaming water slide before swimming under an ice platform. Firefighters are challenged to eat balut eggs in this week's Home Invasion.

This episode features four co-ed teams selected by the viewers through an online poll sponsored by Burger King. The teams must launch each other over a house and into a mud pit; run through a junkyard guarded by attack dogs; and climb out of a hanging bus before it drops to the ground and explodes. A family is challenged to drink blended maggots and cheese in this week's Home Invasion.

Middle-aged couples compete against couples in their twenties. Teams must try to pull their opponents off a building in a game of rooftop tug of war; the men must chew through intestines to rescue the women from a pit of roaches; and teams must a drive a car onto the trailer of a flatbed truck while the driver's hands are restrained and an opposing team throws obstacles at them from the top of the truck. A family is challenged to drink blended sour milk and stink beetles in this week's Home Invasion.

In this disaster-themed episode, teams must scale a ledge while being blasted with wind and water; bob for cockroaches in glowing green sludge; and walk upstream in a flood channel against a raging torrent of water. A family is challenged to transfer stink beetles by mouth in this week's Home Invasion.

Single contestants must team up with a stranger of the opposite sex for a chance to win $50,000. First, one team member wearing weighted shackles is submerged in water with a 30-second air supply, and their partner must dive in and remove the weights. Teams must then dine on disgusting picnic items, such as maggoty fried chicken and rotten squid lemonade; and the men must collect flags while being dragged under a moving train and hand them off to the women, who must then climb atop the train and place the flags. A family is challenged to retrieve keys by mouth from a box of scorpions in this week's Home Invasion.

In this farm-themed episode, teams must bob for pig tongues and transfer them through a pigsty; retrieve frozen chickens while strapped to a rotisserie that repeatedly dunks them in lard; and one teammate must escape from shackles while being dragged behind a tractor that sprays fertilizer and then free their partner from a tank of rotten milk. A family is challenged to eat tarantulas in this week's Home Invasion.

In this ex-couples episode, the women must lean off a balance beam atop a moving boat and grab hanging flags while their ex-boyfriends support them with a rope. Teams are then strapped vertically spinning wheel with their heads trapped inside plexiglas boxes, and they must collect scorpions from the ground and put them into the boxes. In the final stunt, teammates must back cars down ramps on the ends of flatbed truck trailers and drive up onto the opposite trailer from which they started. A family is challenged to eat Madagascar hissing cockroaches in this week's Home Invasion.

Celebrity contestants Leif Garrett, John Melendez, Todd Bridges, Tempestt Bledsoe, Arianne Zucker, Brande Roderick, Traci Bingham, and G. Gordon Liddy must remove flags from their vests while being dunked head-first in water; outlast competitors in an isolation pod that delivers unpleasant surprises, including bugs and electric shocks; and race through a driving course where they will have to crash through an exploding shed. A family is challenged to transfer mouthfuls of stink beetles, super worms, stinky cheese, and rotten meat in this week's Home Invasion.