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Go behind the scenes of making the Las Vegas episode, including how the stunts are tested, who thinks of those yummy treats, and preparation of stunts happens.

Stunt #1: Go Cart Chicken Contestants would have to race a go-kart down a track suspended over 100 feet in the air. They would have to stop their front wheels between a yellow line and the end of the track. If they stopped short or went off the end, they would be eliminated. Stunt #2: Fear Factor Basketball Contestants would have to shoot basketball from four predetermined spots. Each time they missed a basket, they would have to drink an 8-ounce glass of blended night crawlers, red worms, super worms, and Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Everyone who drank their respective amounts of blended worms and roaches would advance to the finals. Stunt #3: Water Rotisserie Contestants would be shackled by one wrist, both ankles, and their waist to a Plexiglas platform. As the platform spun, dunking them in and out of the water, they would have to unlock their shackles and swim to the side of the pool to stop the clock. The contestant to complete this stunt the fastest would win the

This semi-final round featured twelve of this season's 24 winners. The two contestants remaining at the end of this episode would win a new 2004 Mazda RX-8 and advance to the final episode where they would compete with the two winners of the next semi-final episode for the title of Fear Factor Grand Champion and $100,000. Stunt #1 (Head-to-head floor drop) Contestants would be inside a Plexiglas box over 100 feet above the ground. Going two at a time with a divider between them, they would have to search through 20 keys on the wall and find the correct key to unlock a box and pull a ripcord. The first contestant to pull the ripcord would drop the bottom out from their opponent's side of the box. The winner of each race would advance to the next round, the loser would be eliminated. Stunt #2 (Milk the Goat) Going two at a time, contestants would have to use their mouths to suck milk from the udder of a live goat and spit it into a glass. Once they had filled the glass to a line,

This semi-final round featured the other twelve of this season's 24 winners. The two contestants remaining at the end of this episode would win a new 2004 Mazda RX-8 and advance to the final episode where they would compete with the two winners of the previous semi-final episode for the title of Fear Factor Grand Champion and $100,000. Stunt #1 (Double helicopter drop) Going two at a time, contestants would be hanging by trapeze bars under a helicopter. As the helicopter flew over a group of 12 buoys, they would have to drop into the water and search under the buoys for flags. There was one yellow flag and one orange flag hidden among the buoys. When a contestant found a flag, they would have to swim to the matching color-coded platform and post the flag. The winner of each race would advance to the next round and the loser would be eliminated. Stunt #2-Men (Pot Luck Dinner) The men would be eating at a Fear Factor buffet. There was a table with 13 holes; each hole contained

Grand finale of the Fear Factor Championship Stunt #1 (Underwater hallway) Contestants would have to swim the length of a 50-foot hallway submerged in freezing cold water. As they went though the hallway, they would have to unlock three doors and collect 9 flags. There would be three air pockets in the hallway, but only the three contestants to collect the most flags the fastest would advance to the next round. The slowest person would be eliminated. Stunt #2 (All-Star Transfer) Contestants would have to compete in a gross relay race. They would first have to eat a shot of night crawlers, and then transfer night crawlers from a box to a scale. After transferring 7 pounds of worms, they would move on to a box of Madagascar hissing cockroaches. After transferring 1 pound of roaches, they would have to use their mouths to toss ten dead rats into a bucket from behind a barricade. The two contestants to complete this relay race the fastest would advance to the final stunt. The s

In this season finale episode, Joe Rogan counts down the top 15 Fear Factor moments from the past three seasons in front of a live audience.