Shows Cancelled After the Pilot
These are game shows or reality shows that were cancelled after the pilot episodes and they are definitely NOT silly titles I just made up.
- Great British Snake Off (Contestants handle king cobras while being nice to each other).
- Ostrogothic Beauty (Contestants compete to do the best Theodoric the Great makeup tutorial).
- Edmund Spenser's Drag Race (Contestants recite stanzas of The Faerie Queen for food).
- Real Accountants of Cedar Rapids (Self-explanatory).
- Say Yes to the Watercress (Contestants compete to make the most boring sandwich).
- Rice Paper Truckers (Truckers attempt to wrap delicate confections).
- Alpha Bros Macrame Hour (Self-explanatory).
- Hell's Little Closet Under the Stairs (Self-explanatory).
- Mark Price is Right (A former NBA guard mansplains things to experts).
- Empire Forever! (Contestants try to remember how many feet in a mile).
- Who'll Never Be a Millionaire? (Rich people explain to poor people that they chose the wrong parents).
- Project Runaway (Contestants try to escape a pack of feral pigs).
- Hydrogen/Shmydrogen! (Contestants compete to blow up the biggest dirigible).
- Name That Baboon (Contestants try to correctly guess the name of large primates).
- America's Next Top Model Builder (Shy retired people show off their tiny trains).
- Washing With the Stars (Contestants are paired with people you may or may not recognize and they run a laundromat).
- Persimmon or Potassium? (Contestants choose to swallow capsules filled with either persimmon pulp or potassium cyanide until one guesses wrong).
- Let's Bake a Seal (Contestants roast endangered species).
- Shank Tank (Millionaires stab contestants with improvised knives).
- Hollywood Uniform Honeycombs in Hyperbolic Space (minor celebrities tell jokes and try to guess the answers to trivia questions while arranged in Coxeter group families of compact convex uniform honeycombs, generated as Wythoff constructions, and represented by permutations of rings of the Coxeter diagrams for each family).
- Endangerment! (Contestants try to remember trivia but all answers must be in the form of a conditional sentence).
- American Glad Wrappers (Muscular people struggle with cling film).
- Are You Smarter than a Cheese Grater? (Self-explanatory).
- Battle of the Network IT Guys (The only people who know how the computers work arm wrestle for money).
- The $10,000 Ziggurat (Self-explanatory).
- Celebrity Family Feud (The Hatfields and McCoys try to kill each other).
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