It's your 'Moment of Truth'

By Andy Grieser

January 27, 2008 2:00 AM

Time to come clean: While watching Wednesday's first The Moment of Truth, I sneered at the contestants. Come on, when there's that much money to be had, dignity and other peoples' feelings can be damned. Our first contestants looked so very pained while they admitted to fake hair and possible infidelity, while I gleefully shouted out (my own) answers at home.

Look at those suckers, I thought, grimacing with each question like they're in pain. Admit to having checked out other football players in the shower, personal trainer dude! Ten grand (the prize for that round) will ease a lot of shame.

That was before I took a gander at FOX's starter questions. Some of them are simple -- and so vague that it's hard not to sound like a criminal. Lied to get a job? Yep, I told Six Flags of Texas I had my own car, way back when I was a teenager. Some of them were difficult even considering societal norms in the Facebook generation. Posed nude? Heh, well, yeah. Sorry, mom. Some were just odd. Is that your real nose? Trust me, only Gandalf can make a shnoz like this look good.

I can only imagine the pressure when questions are tailored specifically to the contestants' lives.

Now you're in the hot seat. From FOX's original list of 100, I culled 20 Moment of Truth questions. I answered them with brutal honesty, so you've got to do the same. Even with the anonymity that comes from an Internet poll, doing so is surprisingly difficult. Then come back here and we'll lie to each other about how pretty and popular we all are.

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Actually I found these questions surprising easy. The only one I had to think about was the police one and that would come down to what kind of crime but since they don't specify, I would have to say "no". Guess I'm not the demographic this show is looking for.

Dawn | January 27, 2008 7:57 PM

Even if the questions are difficult (though I didn't find those questions that hard), the contestants already answered them during a polygraph test before the show. So all the grimacing and squirming is done purely for the cameras, and thus is ridiculous.

melissa | January 27, 2008 8:27 PM

I agry with Melissa. All the grimacing and squirming is done purely for the cameras. I can offer you a hit show that isn't fake and is going to be the show of the year!! Check this out!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCrJr_xJ_mE

Quest | January 30, 2008 4:41 PM