FOX’s strategy is very easy: stick any piece of shit after “American Idol” and it turns into a pile of gold. FOX is debuting “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”, from Mark Burnett, starts on Wednesday, February 27th, and Thursday, February 28th, at 9:30PM ET. These are half hour episodes. The show will then get hour-long episodes, again, post-Idol, on March 1st and March 8th at 9PM ET. Finally, on March 15th and March 22nd, the show will lead off at 8PM ET to see if it can hold its own. Essentially, the show will see if adults can remember things a fifth grader would know by being quizzed from fifth grade material. According to Zap2It, in a press kit, these are examples of questions:

In what state is Mount Rushmore located?
What are the colors of a rainbow?
What are the names of the five Great Lakes?

And most FOX execs were stumped. I’m not calling myself a genius or saying if you make a tiny mistake you’re an idiot, but if you don’t know the five Great Lakes, or where Mount Rushmore is, and especially the colors of the rainbow, I think we may need to put your brain on the side of a milk carton. However, my main issue is with how the FOX execs are labeling the show. They are calling it hilarious. If it was something serious like WinTuition, I think it would be fine. However, you know they are going to capitalize on the stupidity of people on this show by making fun of people who don’t know simple things. The entire show will be “Haha, you don’t know what a 5th grader knows”, and that doesn’t sit well with me.

I shouldn’t say it’s a piece of shit yet, but it’s just looking like it. If questions are this easy, how is it going to be fun to watch? At least “1 VS 100″ throws in some really hard questions as the game goes on. This is just sad. If this is how I think it is, we might have a contender for the Worst Game Show of Revival Two on our hands. But obviously I’ll be giving it a shot, and I hope I’m wrong in saying that it’ll suck.