6.4 /10 1 Votes
6.4/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of episodes 20 First episode date 12 November 2008 Genre Reality television | 6.2/10 IMDb Created by BASE Productions Inc. No. of seasons 2 Running time approx. 0:22 Network G4 Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Craig PumphreyPaul Pumphrey Similar It's Effin' Science, International Sexy Ladies, Attack of the Show!, 2 Months 2 Million, X‑Play | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Human Wrecking Balls was an American television reality show that premiered on November 12, 2008 on G4 television network.
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Martial Artists and breaking champions Craig and Paul Pumphrey demolish everything from boats and cars to houses using only their bare hands. For each challenge, they join forces with a team of experts in material science and engineering to review the object of their destruction from every possible angle before taking it apart, using physics and know-how to determine the most effective approach. The duo also enjoys a little friendly competition throughout the challenges. Each Human Wrecking Balls episode revealed the final outcome of the Pumphrey’s ripping and smashing, as well as the various experiments they put to the test.
Each episode contained a "Challenge" in which the Pumphrey brothers compete to either do or not do the episode's "Big Break". The big break was what Chad considers to be the most difficult thing for a human to break. The only time the winner of the challenge got to do something other than the big break was in "Trashing Hotel California" when the winner got to throw the television out the window. The first Episode of Season 2 saw a different format, where the loser had to do the "Big Break". (Even though Paul lost the challenge, but due to an injury while breaking the big propeller Craig did it instead.)
The show was renewed for a second season, featuring 10 episodes, which premiered November The show's future was uncertain after the second season. It was ultimately not picked up for a third season by G4.
Filming
Each episode of Human Wrecking Balls takes roughly two full days to shoot, as Dawn Swain said in a 2008 interview with Ken Tuccio that:
"The actual filming of each episode takes 2 full days. There is quite a bit of editing that goes on to condense it to 30 minutes. The episodes that were filmed inside a building, like the office, the hotel, and the movie theater, take much longer due to the confined space. For each new area the guys "break," the cameras have to be re-arranged, the lighting re-configured, and the crew moved to get just the right shot. The office, for example, took just about 30 hours to tape."