Saw a game show on regular commercial tv last night at 11:30 pm called Naked Jungle. Host and contestants are completely naked. All have bad bodies, as in: "Mary is a Janitor and mother of 5. You can bet her children are staying up to root for her tonight."

The host, a blonde man, about 55, wears only a pith helmet. The contestants climb over rocks and rope bridges, and throw spears. It's like Americn Gladiators, somewhat. The naked contestants sometimes wear protective helmets and knee pads. The camera angles are nutshots from behind, etc.

And the grand prize is $7200, which is split between the two final contestants. The other contestants being eliminated in the spear throwing and ladder climbing competitions, but still hanging around (naked) to root the others on as they "take a crack at the cave of the figleafs" or whatever. The banter is typical gameshow.

This was followed (on a different channel) by Tehran Divorce Court, in which cameras go inside an actual divorce court in Tehran, to watch the fun. Abdul escapes a 5 month prison sentence (oh yeah, not only can you get divorced in the court -- if your spouse's complaint against you is bad enough, you can be imprisoned or whipped or fined) by swearing on a document promising to "bring five Elders to the house on Tuesday, and to start a new job on Saturday."

His wife is fat, and wearing the curtain sets they wear. The judge has a turban. The husband is slickly dressed and has red eyes. After the wife withdraws her complaint, she is smiling, because she won. She makes the judge write that her husband will come home right away from work from now on and not go out at night. Her husband must sign the document to avoid jail.

Then there's the Doug Llewellen part, where they interview the wife. She says she was worried about her husband, who isn't such a bad man, but now that the court has made him respect her and bring five elders to her house things will be alright. She says she is a good wife who does the things that other women will not to to please her husband. "Whenever I have some money, I buy him candy and nuts," she says, "because I know he likes to eat them when he watches the TV."

After the judge leaves the court room, (he is giggling as he leaves for some reason) a little girl gets up and takes his seat and starts clowning around. She puts on a ski hat, which she calls her turban, and keeps gavelling for silence. Then she starts sentencing people for hitting their wives.

Our game shows and real life shows in the US are lagging decades behind what they've got here. Not sure if I would stay up till 11:30 pm to watch my mom on Naked Jungle, though. But hey, she could win half of $7200.