In the vein of the hit show "Dancing With The Stars" FOX took the Teacher/Student relationship to the next level by pairing trained alligator wrestlers with Hollywood celebrities. Ed O'Neil (Al Bundy) was one of the first stars to complete a wrestle for the required 7 minutes. Escaping with only minor injuries and a missing 'you know what' O'Neil told reporters,
"I HAD him I DID, I had the critter pinned before he drug me under the swamp and bit my you know what off."
Unfortunately Gary Coleman, in a grisly episode (not to be aired) was swallowed whole by the alligator he was wrestling in some swamp outside New Orleans. Producers explained,
"We're sorry for the mishap but these stars know what they're getting into before they go out there and wrestle an alligator. Fortunately this gator barfed Coleman back up but still the remains were a bit too Manwich-like to be positively identified. We sent his family a plaque."
What's it like to wrestle an alligator? Larry King spoke with renowned alligator wrestler Winston Reed.
KING -> So. Isn't alligator wrestling dangerous Mr Reed?
REED -> Yes.
KING -> Then why do you do it?
REED -> Do what?
Many physicians agree that most professional alligator wrestlers experience some form of short term memory loss after fighting gators, some of them wrestling for a good 2 even 3 months before getting their heads gnawed off and their hearts ripped out and their torso's snapped in half. One FOX executive said off the record,
"If this Gator gig goes over big we might just begin work on our latest idea, Dancing Around Baghdad With The Stars. See, each week a highly trained U.S. Marine will pair off with some big time Hollywood celebrity, teach them the ins and outs of surviving on the streets of Baghdad without getting blown to smithereens then .. this is the good part, we let the STARS try it themselves, dancing through the streets of Baghdad dressed like President Bush. Are we good or WHAT?"
Emmet Smith, winner of the real "Dancing With The Stars" said that he MIGHT wrestle a live gator if they pay him 80 million dollars. FOX and Smith are currently in negotiations.
