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I hate to steal the line that one of the big three networks uses, but Joe Schmo really is "must see TV." I'm convinced, however, that Joe Schmo is really an actor who has been told that the others are real contestants, and the others are, in fact, actors who believe that Joe Schmo is really a contestant. The other possibility is that Joe Schmo is really an actor and knows the score and is playing a part to turn the tale on the other actors who think that Joe Schmo is really a contestant. I just don't think that Joe Schmo is some guy they yanked off the street. No one can be that naive, goofy, and gullible, can they?

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I've read that they interviewed thousands of potential "Schmos" and had them undergo psychological tests just to find the perfectly gullible dupe.

If he's an actor, and really not just a good-natured boob, we have found this generation's DeNiro, Duvall, and Olivier all rolled up into one.

Besides, there would have been legal implications if they actually wrote that part where he launched an unsuspecting actress six feet into the air!