WORD OF THE DAY! 2/2/13.

intestinal fortitude [in-tes-tuh-nuhl-fawr-tih-tewd]
noun
1. Courage; resoluteness; endurance; guts!

EX. Speaking of intestinal fortitude, "D-d-do you have it? Ooh! D-d-do you have it? GUTS!"

NICKELODEON GUTS 1992 THEME

I've talked about the Legend of the Hidden Temple, a Nickelodeon game show that challenged the intelligence, reflexes, agility, courage, and team work of kids from 1993-1995, leaving a deep impression in the collective childhoods of Gen Y. Today, we're talking about a similar program that ran from 1992-1996 and spawned quite a few memories-- especially, the theme (link above) and the Aggrocrag.

Now, while Legends of the Hidden Temple was probably the better show, all around between the historical theme, clever set, and awesome hosts, Guts had something special too; Guts challenged kids with intestinal fortitude to compete in an athletic battle of foam and broken dreams. In each episode, three children or teenagers (represented in Blue, Red, or Purple) competed in four variant contests that borrowed and combined elements from soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, etc. These four types of contests of skill were categorized as Aerial, Field, Track, and Pool events. the final event is a race up the Aggrocrag, a mountain of crystalline madness that only the mightiest warriors will defeat without accidentally violating one of the seven or so possible violations (ex. running across another contestants path).

The winner got to take home a piece of the Aggrocrag! Woo!

Another fun note, was that there was a variant called Globat Guts where teens representing various nations competed for a multicultural Olympicized variant of the usual program: interestingly enough, the top three teams were 1. United Kingdom, 2. Mexico, and 3. United States. But, also interesting, was that every nation represented several times winded up with a total of 12 medals and the "other country category" also had 12. I guess it shows that lots of kids have guts. D-d-do you have it?

GAME GRUMPS VS. GUTS PART 1/4

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