Никелодеон: GUTS – Экстремальные испытания для детей

American children's game show

Nickelodeon Guts (stylized as Nickelodeon GUTS) is an American television action sports competition series hosted by American actor/writer Mike O'Malley and officiated by English actress Moira "Mo" Quirk. The series originally ran from 1992 to 1995 on Nickelodeon. Each episode features three young athletes competing against each other in four extreme versions of athletic events culminating in a fifth and final round which set the three competitors on a race up an artificial mountain to decide the victor.

The series was filmed at Sound Stage 21 at Universal Studios Florida on a set dubbed the "Extreme Arena". This arena consists of a turf playing field, a pool, a racing track, an obstacle course and the Aggro Crag. Season 1 began taping on August 12, 1992. Reruns were shown on Nickelodeon from January 15, 1996, until January 31, 1999, before moving to Nick GAS from March 1, 1999, until the station ceased broadcasting on December 31, 2007 (April 23, 2009, on Dish Network). It has occasionally been seen in reruns on TeenNick since January 1, 2008. Since 2011, those reruns aired on the channel's NickSplat block on an occasional basis. Pluto TV's Nick Games channel showed reruns of 4 episodes in 2019, but Pluto TV removed the channel in 2020 after a major overhaul of the channel lineup. As of 2022, the show now airs as part of a Nick Games block on Pluto TV channel 1016, "No Parents Allowed". In 2008, Nickelodeon produced two seasons of a revival of the program, My Family's Got GUTS.

On each half hour episode, three participants (blue, red, and purple) compete against each other in four events that are based on "extreme" versions of skills in popular sports, such as basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. While most of these events include the use of an elastic harness, others make use of a wave pool, and sometimes a racing track is used. During the show's run, more creative and ambitious events were developed, even including a fabricated ski slope. The competitors are awarded points based on their comparative performance in each event. First place in each event is worth 300 points. Second place receives 200 points, and third place earns 100 points. In general, in case of a tie, the players involved each receive the higher placing and points, however, if two or more players are disqualified, fail to finish, or fail to score, they each receive third place points. The player with the most points after all five events won the game and received a gold GUTS medal and a faux glowing piece of the Aggro Crag. Second place received a silver medal and third received a bronze medal. The contestants are introduced in the breaks between events in a segment dubbed "Spill Your GUTS". The segment was done as an interview with one of the hosts in the first two seasons (O'Malley in season 1 and Quirk in season 2), and was subsequently a prerecorded segment. In seasons 3 and 4, the contestants introduced themselves. During Global Guts, a flag of the player's country was shown, followed by the contestant introducing themselves. Then, the location where the contestant is from was shown on a map, followed by them giving more information about what they do. Non English speaking contestants introduced themselves in their native language, with an English language voiceover dubbed over their voices.

The highest possible score for a contestant was 1,925 points and was attained several times throughout the show's run. On August 21, 1993, at the start of the show's second season, Nickelodeon aired a one hour special known as Nickelodeon GUTS All Stars, where three best contestants from the previous season, Mike "Superman" Schmidt, Jana "The Warrior" Waring, and Kelli "The Maniac" Marchewka, who achieved 1,925 points, competed against each other for a college scholarship and a special GUTS All Star trophy. The one hour special featured seven events plus the Aggro Crag. This special also debuted five new events, which were later introduced in the second season, and an extended version of Basic Training, appearing only in this special. In the award ceremony, each contestant received a Nickelodeon GUTS All Stars plate along with prize money for college scholarship. Third place received a $1,000 college scholarship, second place received a $1,500 college scholarship and the winner received a $2,500 college scholarship. In 1994, Sony Wonder released a VHS based on the special, which featured special guest commentaries by Super Bowl Champion Lawrence Taylor.

A revival of the show, My Family's Got Guts, debuted on September 15, 2008, filmed at Universal Studios Florida as was the original (but due to it already being occupied, not on the same sound stage as the original). This version was hosted by Ben Lyons, along with Australian celebrity Asha Kuerten as the referee. Unlike the original, it followed a bracket tournament format featuring two families competing as teams per episode, with points earned being used to provide a head start for the winning team during the Aggro Crag rather than determine the winners of the episode.

In November 1994, a video game based on the series was developed and published by Viacom New Media exclusively for the Super NES. One or two players may compete in many of the events that debuted in the TV show, including the Aggro Crag. The game is based on the actual footage of the show and contains filmed contestants. Nintendo Power praised the game's graphics, but criticized the poor control.