Adam Richman has posted the following on his twitter: "RIP: MvF & MvFN 2008-2011. Due 2 desire 4 change NOT health concerns"

February 7, 2012 at 12:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Man vs. Food | Permalink * Comments (16)

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  1. anonymous said

    February 7, 2012 @ 1:00 pm

    who the hell cares he can’t eat for shit. If he was ranked in the IFOCE he couldnt crack the top 35

  2. Naader Reda said

    February 7, 2012 @ 1:20 pm

    It’s interesting how the defensive angle over health concerns keeps getting repeated.

  3. Holy cow shit said

    February 8, 2012 @ 7:26 am

    Naader should have his own version of man vs food. He would tear it up bigtime!! He’d make Adam Richman pee his pants in fear of how much this man can eat. lol

  4. Anonymous said

    February 8, 2012 @ 8:14 am

    IMHO the selling point of MvF wasn’t the superlative status of the eater (Adam), but the fact that he represented a person with an average or above average appetite with superhuman desire. That’s that was was attractive about the show—-that the challenger was someone most viewers could associate with.

    You could certainly market an eating challenge show using an elite eater like Joey, Pat, Koby, Matt, Naader, or Pete (and others), but that would be something different. Not too many viewers can identify with eaters who can eat gargantuan quantities of food in mere minutes.

  5. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    February 8, 2012 @ 9:18 am

    8:14 is me.

  6. foodisgood said

    February 8, 2012 @ 9:29 am

    Going off what Rhonda said, in addition to that, what made the show exciting was the fact that there was a possibility that Adam could lose, and lots of times it came right down to the wire and he really had to struggle to pull out the win. Guys like Joey and Kobe can easily eat l20 pounds of food, and I don’t think there are any challenges out there that would even make them break a sweat. Watching them just dominate challenges every week would lose any excitement pretty quick. It would be like watching a game that is a complete blowout; not that exciting.

  7. foodisgood said

    February 8, 2012 @ 9:30 am

    And I meant to say “20 pounds.”

  8. FOS said

    February 8, 2012 @ 10:51 am

    Foodisgood, good points! And, there in lies the failure of Suzilla. She tried, falsely, to portray herself as a super, top four in the world eater with an expectation of kicking everyone’s butt in competitions. When people learned that wasn’t case, she didn’t meet viewers expectations. A case study of how not to do an eating show. In addition tying your wagon to anything having to do with Dale Boone doesn’t help either. El Wingador’s obviously sending out feelers for his show, and if he’s reading this don’t portray your eating capabilities to something they’re not. He comes dangerously close to doing that when El Wingo pads his Nathan’s numbers.

  9. foodisgood said

    February 8, 2012 @ 11:54 am

    Thank you FOS. I never got the chance to watch Suzilla, is it still on? Does anyone know what her record was, or any examples of challenges/challengers that she beat or lost to?

  10. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    February 8, 2012 @ 12:26 pm

    Dale doesn’t bring it up anymore, so I doubt the show is still on.

  11. joe said

    February 8, 2012 @ 12:46 pm

    show was one and done , she beat an average joe but lost the challenge

  12. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    February 8, 2012 @ 12:57 pm

    The average joe surely wasn’t the 12:46 joe. 🙂

  13. Watch close said

    February 8, 2012 @ 2:20 pm

    The show is still on . Dale Is filming his own show right now in India. And will Air later this year.

  14. FOS said

    February 8, 2012 @ 2:57 pm

    I’m confused. So Dale had to send poor Suzy to India to find some eater she could beat? Clearly Suzilla’s no longer on Planet Green. They obviously dropped her once the media and studio realized Dale’s league was a bunch of crap. What’s going to air next year? Hungry Indian people eating against Suzy? Well there’s must see tv. I’ll bet studios will really start a bidding war over the rights to that production. Move over “American Idol” here comes “Who Want’s to be An Obnoxious American?” or “The 10,000 Rupee Pyramid.” Forget “Jeopardy” Dale’s going to offer American viewers “Leprosy.”

  15. foodisgood said

    February 8, 2012 @ 3:23 pm

    I just watched part of Suzilla’s show when she tried to eat the Fat Sal, it was terrible. For one thing, it could not have tried any harder to be like Man v. Food, from the camera shots, transitions, music, food descriptions, everything. I understand most shows like that are similar but this was ridiculous. Plus, she was not entertaining to watch, or listen to, she came off cocky, and didn’t even come close to finishing the challenge. The “average joe” only lost by a pound of food too! That show was bound to fail.

  16. Sad day said

    February 9, 2012 @ 9:41 am

    Sorry to see this show go. It was a median between what we do and avg. Joe’s. It was doing a great job opening the doors of understanding to avg ppl. I think it helped us on our way to be considered a legitament sport.

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