When you find yourself atop a high dive this summer, racing toward the edge and staring into the lukewarm, chlorinated water below, remember: now is not the time for second-guessing.

Wipeout is a game show on ABC in which contestants tackle "the world's largest obstacle course" in the hopes of escaping with $50,000. More often than not, though, they leave with nothing but bumps and bruises. Watching these poor saps fall down in every way imaginable is the most entertaining thing about Wipeout,…

Winter Wipeout is embarrassing for everyone involved. Watch this clip where the contestant, on location presenter, and commentators compete to make you wince. It's a shame the contestant, Fruitcake (yes, Fruitcake) is the only one who falls on his face.

You probably already met him this summer in Inception, but meet him again! And again! Also today: Fox is really happy about a new Alien script and hopes Natalie Portman will be too, and Real Housewives of Rock 'n' Roll?

Watch as Wipeout contestant Catherine Thoma shamelessly puts herself out there, for all the eligible bachelors watching (and presumably to Catherine, wanting), on one of America's time-tested and most respectable programs to date.

Elizabeth Mitchell grills Damon Lindelof for killing off Lost's Juliet, Jimmy Fallon talks about the Late Night Wars on Larry King Live, the top 10 Wipeout spills, and a Cee-Lo/movie mashup to end all mashups.

In case you're unfamiliar with it, Wipeout is a game show in which people attempt obstacles for money. Oftentimes, they fail (and wipe out, har har). It's funny! Here's a video of the 10 best, most ridiculous Wipeout moments.

Today at Gawker.TV, Never invite Glenn Beck to a party, Stephen Colbert goes off on John McCain's flip-flopping ways, David Archuleta pops up on Tosh.0, and Drew Barrymore reveals the pet names she and Justin Long have for each other.

Common sense says that people don't go on national TV to embarrass themselves or their loved ones. They also don't volunteer to get smacked in the face either. Wipeout seems to be the exact opposite that.

There are a number of ways to celebrate winning $50,000 on Wipeout. For reasons unknown, this contestant decides to express his joy with an earth-shattering yell. Video inside.

This former football player turned Wipeout participant doesn't look graceful. That doesn't stop him from attempting a spectacular dive towards the platform.

Today at Gawker.TV, Stephen Colbert is back from vacation and is not happy about the oil spill—which Mario Cantone has quite an interesting solution for—and Conan O'Brien's very famous friends show up for support at Radio City.

Summer is basically here. Your kids are more wild-eyed by the day, that tiny swimsuit seems tinier and tinier, and the television has begun to fizzle and fall quiet. Except it doesn't have to! There's so much summer television to be watched and absorbed. Why, enough for a listicle, even.

Chalk up another victory for the creative class: ABC's obstacle-course competition hit Wipeout will return for two episodes on Super Bowl Sunday, directly challenging both NBC's halftime show featuring Bruce Springsteen and a special postgame edition of The Office. It's the biggest such counterprogramming battle in…

Bad television is still recognized as "intellectual property" no matter how stupid it is, as ABC has discovered in recent months with its hit Wipeout. After some vocal complaints from a producer who claimed the network not only ripped off his "inbreds on an obstacle course" idea but conspired with YouTube to pull…

There was a time when the aesthetic of the Japanese game show was thought to be too bizarre to translate to America, but the times, they are a-changin'. Hot on the heels of the summer hit Wipeout comes Hole in the Wall, a Fox remake of the Japanese show in which contestants contort their bodies to pass through a…