Season 7 • Episode 15
LatestWinners from throughout the season compete to be crowned Ultimate Wipeout Champion.
Human cannonballs! Human pinballs! Crashes, smashes and mud splashes! Twenty-four thrill-seekers will compete in the world's largest extreme obstacle course designed to provide the most spills, face plants and wipeouts ever seen on television.
Practical Effects
Those foam obstacles were engineering marvels of destruction.
Production
The Big Balls. That's it. That's the highlight.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wipeout premiered months before Twitter blew up, essentially inventing the 'fail compilation' genre that would dominate social media for the next decade.
The original Japanese inspiration Takeshi's Castle was far more brutal; American producers added padding and the iconic 'Wipeout' scream sound effect that became a ringtone phenomenon.
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