Ah yes. Leave it to Fox to take an extremely simple one-off concept and squeeze its shiny, spandex-covered balls until the delicious money-juice comes flowing forth.

Last year, a series of "body" or "human" Tetris clips started popping up on the Intertubes. In them, variously sized people are challenged to contort their bodies into increasingly odd and impossible shapes. These shapes are carved out of a wall that slowly moves toward the player. If the player can't squeeze their body through the hole, they are dumped into a pool of water, with hilarious results. I posted something on this back then and then totally forgot about it. I mean, crazy Japanese TV shows are ten yes a dozen. Sure, it's funny, but even four minutes is pushing it.

Well, now Fox is turning the quick funny-fix into a 13 (as in a baker's dozen) hour (as in sixty minutes) long series. Thirteen hours! Apparently this might not be as totally fracking insane as it sounds on the surface. The original Japanese show has been exported to 16 countries by the same company that does that American Idol thing. What do they know?

You know how I feel. What about you? Could you watch a bunch of people in skin-tight suits get hit by a wall over and over and over and over again until your eyes fall out and mice make nests in your hollow sockets?