Wanna Bet? is an American game show which aired on ABC. It featured four celebrities making wagers on whether ordinary Americans will be able to complete outrageous stunts. An episode of the show began with four celebrities being given $25,000 to wager on the success or failure of ordinary Americans completing outrageous stunts. Show hosts Ant & Dec introduced a stunt performer and the stunt they claim they will be able to complete, and the celebrities then guess whether the performer will successfully complete the stunt or if they will fail to complete the stunt. The celebrities also lock in the amount of money they'd like to wager on performer's ability to complete the stunt, but the exact amount of the wager is not revealed to the viewing audience. The performer then attempts the stunt, and afterward the celebrities' wagers are revealed and the amount of money earned is totalled. The celebrity with the most money totalled at the end of an episode wins that amount for their favorite charity. Due to poor ratings, the show was cancelled after one season.
CreatorFrank Elstner
Episode 1
Jul 21, 2008
A man attempts to hula hoop a tractor tire, a team of women try to pull off a pit stop faster than a professional male pit crew,a man tries to identify the artist and album by licking their CDs, and finally, four men attempt to move a lot of couches into a moving van within a time limit.
Episode 2
Jul 28, 2008
First, a man tries to kick his head 45 times in one minute. Then, two tractor drivers and their coach will attempt to move an uncooked single string of spaghetti into a pot of sauce, which is 20 feet away. Then another man guesses people's weight while they stand on his stomach and finally, a young girl says she can rollerskate both fowards and backwards under poles only 11 inches high.
Episode 3
Aug 4, 2008
Stunts are attempted that includes kicking off 60 lights in 60 seconds with only one foot, identifying the four out of five shoes but while doing it while blindfolded. Finding Ant and Dec's black car in a bunch of other black cars but finding them in less than three minutes.
Episode 4
Aug 12, 2008
The stunts that are attempted include finding vacuum cleaners by the sound only. Second stunt is solving a Rubik's Cube while being blindfolded underwater; having to sawing through three logs being faster than a chainsaw and also a 30-member marching band that has to pile into a van playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" in only under 10 seconds.
Episode 5
Aug 26, 2008
This weeks stunts include a man that shoots baskets from behind his neck. A man has to open Coke bottles with a chain saw, a man that has to skiing over raw eggs but can not break any of them and also a teenager has to remember the audience members' names only meeting them once but having to get a 10 out of 10.
Episode 6
Sep 2, 2008
This weeks stunts include a man who has to Identify 4 out 5 crushed cars, a ping pong blower, someone lighting 100 matches in 2 minutes with a Yo-Yo and a rope climber who aims to climb 200 feet in two and half minutes.
