[karaban]

Very happy with this find - someone on the 'Lost Media Wiki' has uploaded the whole of the US/Comedy Central version of 'Distraction'! This was media that I assumed was lost to the world, possibly on some computer system at whichever company owns them nowadays, never to see the light of day again, but here it is.

A couple of pieces of bad news to start with: the videos are VHS transfers so the quality is pretty ropey, especially with any kind of distance shot. And of course this is the US, so the show was broadcast censored. However, with those acknowledgements out of the way, this is a great find as it's the whole lot, and the US version had a reasonable number of games of possible interest to the forum. I've found and clipped all the moments I think are possibly of interest.

To describe each video:

S01E05 - a nudist race segment (1F, 2M)

S01E06 - the contestants (1F, 1M) nude and covered in balloons which are burst on correct answers - this is actually on Page 1 of this thread in better quality but I include it here for completeness and also as one single video

S01E08 - two male contestants have to get as many scantily-clad models (think negligees) onto a bed as possible (no nudity)

S01E13 & S01E14 - these are the two 'nudist phonebooth' segments in season one, with mostly the same group of nudists in each (5F, 5M in 13, then 4F, 5M in 14)

S02E01 - a 'nudist turntable' game in which the (2F) contestants have to remove stickers from the (2F) nudists

S02E05 - the (1M, 2F) contestants are in swimwear/underwear then covered in chicken feed which is pecked off them while they answer the questions (no nudity)

S02E08 - nudist phonebooth (4F, 4M)

S02E09 - nudist race (2F, 1M)

S02E14 - final episode, another nudist phonebooth. The video quality is better, but alas the nudists (3F, 5M) in this episode are not flattered by this