Fear Factor Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

Traverse Dam/Bee Headed/Water Coffin

Mon, Oct 7, 200244 mins

Are you worth a Dam? Suspended high over a dam is a 350-foot long tightrope with flags attached. Contestants would have to cross the tightrope and collect flags while holding on to a higher tightrope for support. The two men and the two women to collect the most flags in 5 minutes would advance to the next round. Stunt 2 is a real Bee. The ones left are covered with over 200,000 honeybees. Once covered, they would have stand for 2 minutes covered in bees. All contestants who completed this stunt would advance to the finals. For the finale, contestants are locked inside a Plexiglas box full of holes and submerged underwater. Once a red light came on, they would have to figure out which of 2 keys unlocked the coffin and swim to the surface. The contestant to complete this stunt the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion.

Episode 2

Counter Balance Beam/Weenie Roast/Swinging Rope Bridge

Mon, Sep 30, 200244 mins

For the first stunt the six have to release up to 12 flags from the edges of an 8-foot by 24-foot see-saw platform over 100 feet in the air. The two men and the two women to release the most flags the fastest before falling would advance. Next stunt is to eat a penis, within 5 minutes, of either a deer, elk, bull, or water buffalo. In the finale contestants would have to cross a series of wooden swings suspended over 100 feet high. The contestant to make it across the 'bridge' fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion.

Episode 3

Celebrity Fear Factor 3

Mon, Sep 23, 200265 mins

This episode has six celebrity contestants competing for charity. The winner receives $50,000 for their charity and the others receive $10,000 for their charities. In the first stunt, contestants sit in a car at the end of a line of junkyard cars. As a monster truck drove over the line of cars, they have to find which of six keys started the car and drive over a finish line. If their car was crushed, they could still continue if the car would start. For the second stunt, contestants have to swim to the bottom of a water tank with over 1,000 snakes. They dig through the snakes and place as many of 100 yellow pucks as possible into a bucket in 90 seconds. Those left in the finale are hung over 200 feet above a dam and have to transfer flags from one corner of a Plexiglas box to the other. After 30 seconds, the floor would drop out and the contestants would bungee drop. The celebrity to transfer the most flags would be the Celebrity Fear Factor Champion.

Episode 4

Triple Beam Walk/Glass Walking/Magnetic Car Drop

Mon, Oct 28, 2002

Episode 5

Stage Coach Drag/Cod Stew/Pipe to Pipe

Mon, Oct 14, 200244 mins

The first stunt is a real drag as contestants hold onto a cargo net being dragged behind a covered wagon pulled by two horses. They would have to pull themselves up the cargo net and get inside the wagon. It's a fishy dinner for the second stunt as they have to reach inside a dead 15-pound cod fish and pull out a numbered chip. The number on the chip would determine whether they would have to eat cod liver, cod sperm, cod egg sacs, or a combo plate of all three. For the final stunt as water rained down on them, contestants would have to walk along three large pipes over 100 feet in the air. To get from one pipe to the next, they would have to jump the gaps. The contestant to make to the end the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion and win 50K.

Episode 6

Speedboat to Heli/Worm Transfer/Car Thru Building

Mon, Oct 21, 200244 mins

For the first stunt contestants ride on the back of a speedboat as a helicopter flew overhead. They would grab a 20-foot rope ladder hanging from the helicopter and climb it. The two men and the two women to climb into the helicopter the fastest would advance. Worms are in stunt two as they have to eat two shots of night crawlers and then use their mouths to transfer night crawlers from a box to a scale in 3 minutes. Heaviest worm load wins. For the final, contestants would have to race a car up a ramp and crash it through a small house. The contestant to launch their car their furthest from the building would win $50K.

Episode 7

Burning Building/Scorpion Pit/Rotating Climbing Wall

Tue, Nov 5, 200290 mins

It's hot for the first stunt as contestants climb a ladder, enter the fourth floor, follow a hose line to a room they put out a fire, rescue a dummy, and get out of the building. The two slowest are eliminated. In the second stunt, they lie in pit with over 3,000 scorpions. They wait 30 seconds, then use a joystick to pick up scorpions with a robotic claw and transfer them into another pit in 3 minutes. In the finale, contestants have to stay on a climbing wall over 8 stories high as it repeatedly as it is flipped end over end as the wall would spin faster. The one to stay on the wall the longest before falling would be the Fear Factor Champion and win 50K.

Episode 8

Dog Attack/Gas Chamber/Car Carrier Drive-Thru

Mon, Nov 18, 200244 mins

Stunt one is for the dogs as contestants make their way through an urban assault training building and press buttons to raise 6 flags. Along the way, they would have to get past 4 trained attack dogs. Stunt two is a gas as they have to stay inside a room full of CS gas (tear gas). The three contestants to stay in the room the longest would advance to the final. For the final, they start driving a car next to a moving car carrier going 40 mph. When a horn sounded, they would have to drive their car up a ramp and into the back of the car carrier. The contestant to do this the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion and win $50,000.

Episode 9

Helicopter Slalom, Piercings, Maggoty Cheese, Flag Snag

Mon, Mar 3, 200390 mins

This was an extended 4-stunt episode. For the first stunt, contestants have to hang by their ankles from trapeze hanging from a helicopter that flew over 20 flagpoles. The have to release as many flags as possible. In the second stunt, they are strapped down and their left arm would be pierced by 10 needles which would get progressively thicker. In the third, it's eating 4 ounces stinky cheese crawling with maggots. For the final stunt, contestants shimmy out to the end of horizontal pole 10 stories high, grab a flag, and clip it on to a rope hanging overhead. The fastest would win $50,000

Episode 10

Drowning Closet/Ostrich Egg/Merry-go-Round

Mon, Dec 2, 200244 mins

In the first stunt, contestants are locked in a Plexiglas cell as it filled with water. They have to find which of four keys unlocked the two locks at the top of the cell and open the hatch to escape. Eggs for the second stunt as the ones left have 20 minutes to drink a three-pound raw ostrich egg. For the final, they would have to walk a balance beam as it spun over 100 feet high. They have to take flags from the center and clip them on flagpoles at the end of four poles. The contestant to complete this stunt the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion and win $50K.

Episode 11

Christmas Fear Factor

Mon, Dec 9, 200244 mins

Ho Ho Ho first contestants ride a motorized scooter across a 60-foot, 12-inch wide beam over 100 feet in the air. Rudolph hates stunt two as they have to eat between 5 and 10 reindeer testicles and glass of 100-year-old eggnog. Everyone who finished within the time limit would advance to the finals. In the finale, in a pool layered in Plexiglas finalists have to climb though holes and swim down through holes to retrieve a large candy cane at the bottom and then get back up thru the holes. The contestant to break the surface with the candy cane fastest would be the Christmas Fear Factor Champion and gifted 50K.

Episode 12

Heli Flag Snag/Slugs/Build a Bridge

Mon, Nov 11, 2002

For the first stunt contestants have to hang from a helicopter skit and drop into the water below as the helicopter flew over a buoy. Once in the water, they would have to retrieve a flag from underneath the buoy, swim with it to a platform, and clip it on a flagpole. Stunt two has them slug it out as they have to eat 10 live slugs and drink a shot of cow bile. For the final, contestants have to build a bridge on two cables from the top of one building to another and climb across the wooden slats provided moving them along the way. The contestant across the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion and win $50K.

Episode 13

Inverted Helicopter/Horse Rectum/Sky Walker

Mon, Jan 6, 2003

For the first stunt, contestants are tied by their ankles and hung upside-down beneath a helicopter. They would have to find which of three keys unlocked the lock to their shackles and pull a release cord to drop into the water below. It's horsing around for the second stunt as they have to eat horse rectum. They would toss horseshoes on numbers to see how many inches of rectum they would have to eat. In the final stunt, contestants have to navigate a rectangular balance beam over 100 feet above the ground. The contestant to get all the way around the structure fastest would win $50,000.

Episode 14

Barrel Rolling/Rat Transfer/Car Into Pond

Mon, Jan 13, 2003

A barrel of fun for the first stunt as contestants have to stand on top of a large plastic pipe and use their feet to roll it across beams from one rooftop to the other. The four that complete move on. In the second stunt, going two at a time, the four would use their mouths to pick up dead rats from a table and toss them into a bucket behind barricades. In the finale, they have to drive a car off a ramp and into a pool. Once submerged, they would have to grab a flag, exit the car, and swim to the side of the pool to post the flag on a flagpole. The contestant to do this the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion and win 50K.

Episode 15

Spin Cycle/Breakfast of Champions/Stilt Walking

Mon, Jan 20, 200344 mins

In the first stunt, contestants climb a rope ladder hanging from a spinning girder and cross monkey bars from one end of the girder to the other and release a flag and drop into the water below. It's Breakfast of Champions as they have to eat balut eggs (eggs which contain a partially developed duck embryo), silkworm moth cocoons in brine, and liquefied pig liver. A slingshot determines the amount. In the finale, contestants have to cross a narrow 60-foot long catwalk over 100 feet in the air, while wearing stilts. The contestant to make it across the fastest would be the Fear Factor Champion and win 50K.

Episode 16

Couples Fear Factor #1

Mon, Feb 10, 2003

Time to save you spouse first as one is locked in a Plexiglas box in water. Their partner dives in, unlocks three locks, and opens the door. The person trapped in the box swims to the surface and pulls a flag. For the second stunt, one gets mouthfuls of roaches and transfer them to their partner by mouth. Their partner must spit the roaches into another box. The most roaches in 3 minutes would win $25,000 and everyone goes to the final for the remaining $25,000. For the final stunt, the men hung upside-down over 100 feet in the air while holding on to the women's hands. The couple to hang the longest before falling would win the remaining $25,000.

Episode 17

Blizzard Fear Factor

Mon, Jan 27, 2003

Wheel of misfortune as in the first stunt contestants run on a narrow wheel spinning high above ground. Pizza Pizza in the second stunt as they have to eat a slice of pizza with bile-based crust, coagulated blood sauce, and stinky cheese. They would toss pizza pans to see if toppings of red worms or fish eyeballs or both added. For the final, those left are chained to a platform and submerged in cold water. Once under, they would have to free themselves by finding which of three keys unlocked the two locks and swim to the surface. The fastest would be the Blizzard Fear Factor Champion winning $50,000.

Episode 18

All Gross

Mon, Feb 3, 2003

GROSS OUT! First, contestants bob for plastic rings in a vat containing cow's blood. The two men and the two women to retrieve the most rings in 2 minutes advance. For the second stunt, the four use a blowgun to shoot two darts to find out how many tomato horn worms they would have to eat. For the last stunt, contestants crawl through a pitch-black drainage system containing roadkill skunks. Only one pipe leads out. The one to bag 3 dead skunks and reach the end of the exit tunnel fastest would be the Gross-Out Fear Factor Champion and win 50K.

Episode 19

All Female Fear Factor

Tue, Feb 4, 200343 mins

For the first stunt, the ladies have to traverse two sides of a rotating square-shaped beam structure. Once they reach the end, they have to crawl on a rope down to a lower platform and release a flag. The second stunt is shocking as the women have to reach into a divided tank and transfer 6 electric eels from one side of the tank to the other. For the finale, hanging onto a rope, the ladies would have to ride a barrel as it pitched and swung beneath a helicopter. The lady who could stay on the barrel the longest before falling into the water below would be the Female Fear Factor Champion and win $50,000.

Episode 20

Flatbed to Flatbed/Worm Coffin/Tumbler

Mon, Feb 17, 200344 mins

In the first stunt, a semi hauls two flatbeds drives down a runway. The contestants jump a car off a ramp and clear the gap between the two trailers. Their car has to stay on the second trailer, which was oiled and slick to continue. For the second stunt, breathing through a narrow tube contestants would lie in a coffin and be covered with 500 pounds of earthworms. While buried, they have to untie a knotted rope in three minutes. In the final stunt, a tumbler with large holes rotated over water, contestants would have to transfer up to 14 flags from one end of the tumbler to the other with falling out into the water. The contestant who could transfer the most flags the fastest wins 50K.

Episode 21

Heli Boat Drag/Bull Buffet/Window Washer

Mon, Feb 24, 2003

For the first stunt, contestants ride a raft behind a speedboat. They climb a rope hanging from a helicopter and release 6 flags before dropping 20 feet into the water. If contestants completed this stunt, they would win $1,000. In the second stunt, the players must ride a mechanical bull and the amount of time they stayed on dictates what bull parts including spinal cord, spleen, and hairy snout they have to eat. For the finale, contestants have to stand on a beam as it dropped down the face of a 12-story building, stopping at each floor to release flags from the building. The most flags one released before falling would be the Fear Factor Champion and win $50,000.

Episode 22

Go Cart Chicken/Fear Factor Basketball/Water Rotisserie

Mon, Apr 7, 2003

For the first stunt, contestants have to race a go-kart on a track over 100 feet in the air and must stop their front wheels between a yellow line and the end of the track. Round ball in stunt two as the players have to shoot basketballs from four spots. If they miss, they have to drink an 8-ounce glass of blended night crawlers, red worms, super worms, and Madagascar hissing cockroaches. For the final stunt, those left are shackled by one wrist, both ankles, and waist to a Plexiglas platform. As the platform spun, dunking them in and out of the water, they have to unlock themselves and swim to the side of the pool. The contestant to complete this stunt the fastest would win the $50,000.

Episode 23

Las Vegas Show

Mon, Mar 10, 2003

Phantom Swing, Slot Machine Eyeball Buffet, Luxor Slide, Blackjack Bet

Episode 24

Miss USA Fear Factor

Mon, Mar 24, 2003

Inveted Water Hang, Fish Quicksand, Tanker Truck Surfing

Episode 25

Semi Finals: Part 1

Mon, Apr 28, 2003

This semi-final round featured 12 of this season's. For the first stunt, contestants are inside a Plexiglas box over 100 feet above ground. Going two at a time they search through 20 keys and find the key to unlock a box and pull a ripcord that drops the bottom out from their opponent's side of the box. The dropped one leaves. The second stunt has contestants use their mouths to milk a goat and spit it into a glass of 6oz. and then drink it. In the final, those left are handcuffed and locked inside a Plexiglas box is it swung and spun beneath a helicopter. They unlock the handcuffs and then use a set of three keys to unlock the three padlocks, open the door and jump into the water below. The two fastest win a brand new 2004 Mazda RX-8 and advance to the final.

Episode 26

Semi Finals: Part 2

Mon, May 5, 200344 mins

This semi-final round featured the other twelve season winners. In the first stunt, two at a time, contestants hang under a helicopter, drop around 12 buoys and find a colored flag under the buoys. When they found it, they swim to the matching color-coded platform and post the flag. The winner advances. For the second stunt, the men go to a table with 13 holes; each hole contained a disgusting food item that had been featured this season. Each man reaches into 4 holes and guess what was inside. Guess right, they don't eat it. If not they eat it. For the women's second stunt, they are in a water tank full of dead mice. With their mouths they transfer only the black mice into a box. The least mice leaves. For the final stunt, those left have to, under rain, get flags from the edges to the center of a large square-shaped Plexiglas platform with large holes in it and it would be pitching and rocking the whole time. The two to transfer the most flags the fastest in 2 minutes win a 2004 Mazda RX-8 and advance to the final episode.

Episode 27

Fear Factor Finals

Mon, May 12, 2003

It's the Grand finale of the Fear Factor Championship. For stunt one, contestants swim a 50-foot hallway submerged in freezing cold water. As they went though the hallway they unlock three doors and collect 9 flags. There would be three air pockets. The one that gets the least flags are eliminated. In the second stunt, they have to eat a shot of night crawlers, and then transfer 7 pounds of night crawlers from a box to a scale. Then to a box of Madagascar cockroaches and transfer 1 pound of roaches with their mouths, then with their mouths toss ten dead rats into a bucket from behind a barricade. The slowest is eliminated. The two left race a car toward a pipe ramp and flip it off the roof of a three-story parking garage. The contestant to launch their car the farthest would be season three's Fear Factor Grand Champion and win $100,000.

Episode 28

Animal Themed Clip Show

Sat, Feb 22, 200321 mins

This 30-minute clip show had highlights from animal stunts featured in the first three seasons of Fear Factor. Clips included worms, rats, snakes, bulls, bees, attack dogs, alligators, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and scorpions.

Episode 29

15 Most Outrageous Moments

Mon, May 19, 2003

Joe Rogan, in a crowd of fans, counts down the top 15 stunts from all the shows up till this point.