Turd T-Shirt Thursday: No One Leaves The Temple Alive!

The 90s was an excellent decade for game shows targeted toward kids. If you ask any kid who grew up during that golden era, they wanted to be on Legends of The Hidden Temple. No one cared what team made it to the final challenge, as long as you got to see a scared and confused as all fuck kid get screamed at and then jumped by a temple guard. A timeless piece of history is presented before you, and you want to see a little kid in an oversized silver snake shirt not leave the temple alive.

If you know, you know.

Legends of the Hidden Temple was one of the best kids-themed game shows offered by Nickelodeon at the time because it was a test of everything a kid doesn’t have perfected as a preteen. You started with a physical and mental challenge that always involved water. And under those hot studio lights, you’re figuring out how not to drown in front of a live audience and crew.

Six teams begin, and the first round would end with four to continue to the next round of trivia questions. If you weren’t already in hysterics from watching some poor kid with zero upper body strength do an unedited spaz out, you were in for a treat when Johnny doesn’t know basic history.

The four teams now become two, and they have a dance battle or something to make it to the final round to enter the temple for its treasures. This is when the show gets really good. All the while, the kids get to collect “immunity tokens” to give the temple guards in exchange for their lives if they enter a room a guard is hiding in. The way these guys would jump out and scare the hell out of a kid was more legendary than the show itself. Forget wanting to know if Nancy and Jeff get those Huffy Bikes, L.A. Gear’s, or a 6-month supply of Pop-Tarts; you wanted to see a kid shit himself because his ass was Mayan grass.

That’s one legend you don’t want to fuck with.

The shirt is from ToySnobs
It was a pre-order and not actively available.
For your consideration