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Top Shot

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Top Shot	label	Top Shot
Top Shot	page	TopShot
Top Shot	comment	Top Shot is a reality show program on The History Channel, beginning in 2010. 16 people are brought to a California ranch that has been converted into an outdoor shooting range and split up into two teams of 8 to compete for a $100,000 prize and the privilege of being named "Top Shot". Some contestants have military training, some are current or former law enforcement officers, some are amateurs, but all have considerable skill in the use of ranged weapons. They are put through a series of diverse team competitions, and, in addition to the team challenges, each episode has a one-on-one challenge in which a member of the losing team is eliminated. When enough people are eliminated, the teams are dissolved and the show becomes a free-for-all.Most of the challenges focus on guns (from archaic military weapons to specially designed race guns), but other skills such as knife-throwing and archery have been tested as well. Primitive weapons such as blowguns, slingshots, and even rocks have been used as a test of marksmanship. Strategic voting and political maneuvering also impact the outcome of each episode.Has been suggested to be the Spear Counterpart of America's Next Top Model.The second season premiered on February 8, 2011. The third season premiered on August 9, 2011. Season 4 premiered February 14, 2012. Season 5 premiered on May 29, 2013 and featured contestants from the first four seasons who didn't win, competing on an individual basis throughout the season.
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Top Shot / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Top Shot / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Kyle Sumpter of seasons 4 and 5 at 51. In season 4, he was even picked by his team to be the informal leader despite the fact that he didn't think they needed a leader and if they did, he didn't want the role. But when his team picked him, he took the role and ran with it.
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Top Shot / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Top Shot / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Jarrett and Gary of Season 3. They're friendly rivals in real life, and interviewed together in the Behind The Bullet special.
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Top Shot / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Top Shot / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Denny, who was also a Wild West entertainer. Chris Reed in season two.
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Top Shot / int_23eb99cc	type	Voted Off the Island
Top Shot / int_23eb99cc	comment	Voted Off the Island: The elimination challenge. The Nomination Range is where the actual voting takes place. The Elimination Challenge itself is closer to Eliminated from the Race and is that during the entire post-merge phase of Season 1 and the Final Four of Season 2. "You have fired your last shot". Averted in Season 5. No teams, no nominations; a Proving Ground challenge is played among the lowest performers in the individual challenge, with the two losers facing off for elimination.
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Top Shot / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
Top Shot / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: The day of the last Team Challenge of Season 2 coincided with the Marine Corps Birthday. As half of the remaining contestants at the time were Marines, they performed the annual Birthday Ceremonial at the house, inviting the other remaining contestants (1 Navy, 2 Air Force, and 1 Civilian) to witness. Two of those Marines would go on to be the Final Two of that Season.
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Top Shot / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Top Shot / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Season 3's Jake outright says his strategy is to vote for the strongest shooters so that he doesn't have to worry about them later, which is the opposite of the rest of the contestants' viewpoint (in that they want to face the best).
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Top Shot / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Top Shot / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The trailers either paint the show as a serious competition, or completely omit the fact that it's a reality show.
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Top Shot / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Top Shot / int_34dcfc96	comment	The Season 3 Behind The Bullet special elaborates further on how much of an asshole Jake was. He stated that much of his behavior was designed to throw the competitors off of their game, which included constantly waking them up, and impersonating their kids being in danger while they slept to invade their dreams.
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Top Shot / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Top Shot / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Chee mouths the F-bomb over and over upon finding out that he's going into the elimination challenge against Gabby.
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Top Shot / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Top Shot / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Season 4 Behind The Bullet reveals that through out the competition, the contestents occasionally would host impromptu informal challenges. It's further revealed that almost always, it would end up between Greg and Chris. And almost always, Chris would win. The one contest they show, Chris wins by 1. Suddenly, the results of season 4 don't seem all that shocking.
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Top Shot / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Top Shot / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: In Season 1, Red Team fell down to only two members by the merge; the best placement being fourth. In Season 2, the inverse happens; Blue Team is down to two by the merge, and both are eliminated right off the bat. The Behind The Bullet special aired after the finale shows why this happened: Chris Reed was MUCH better at sniffing out quality shooters than Jay Lim was. Whereas Jay would choose members based on how many competitions they had won (leading towards members with only one specialty), Chris chose based on how much they knew about weapons and other things in general (leading towards well rounded marksmen). Nearly every individual/elimination challenge involving Season 3 champ Dustin Ellerman, especially the last challenge in the Season 3 finale. He had a near-perfect run through the second half of the course and finished it while his opponent was still struggling with the shotgun at the third station. The only real exception was the first challenge in the finale, where he lost the first round to Gary, but beat Chris to advance. Due to the way they work, whenever the dueling trees come out, it inevitably turns into this. Season 4, shotgun challenge; red team works well together and has informally acknowledged leadership, while blue team squabbles constantly and openly says they have cliques at odds with one another. In a challenge involving heavy teamwork, things do not go well for blue team. Season 4's fifth elimination challenge. First round ends in, for the first time, a perfect tie (same number of targets hit, same number of shots fired). Round 2 is a different story. Tim Tefrin hit 18 out of 20 targets, while Eric "Iggy" Keyes only managed to hit 8. The elimination challenge in Season 5, episode 10 starts off this way. While riding a zipline downhill, Peter Palma shoots 9 targets out of 10 for a near-perfect run. Then Brian "Gunny" Zins nails all 10 to pull the win out from under him. The last challenge of the Season 5 finale. Chris Cerino reached the crossbow station before Phil Morden, but ran into trouble loading and firing accurately. Phil hit all of his targets, then flew through the second half of the course while Chris was still trying to complete that one station.
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Top Shot / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Top Shot / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The host calls out EXACTLY what is happening, thank you for telling us he missed the target again. USAF Sniper George Reinas calls him out on this during season 2's Behind The Bullet special and also remarks that he had earplugs in and was firing a gun and he could still hear Colby.
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Top Shot / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Top Shot / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Unlike many (if not all) other reality show/competitions, practically every competitor wants the weakest ones off the show so that they can face off against the best. One notable example comes in season 11 during an archery contest; some of the people not shooting actually spot for the person shooting, calling out whether their shot went high, low, and what direction.
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Top Shot / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Top Shot / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Season 3 started and ended with the same challenge - shoot three targets with the Smith & Wesson .500 revolver. Season 4 has a very early challenge between Greg and Chris. Those same two are in the finals... and as in the first challenge, the loser breaks down in concentration and winner takes it by one.
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Top Shot / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Top Shot / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A one-off example in Gabby during the season 11 archery challenge. She scores 10 points shy of someone twice her size that was strong enough to shoot the arrows in a straight line at 100 yards (everyone else had to aim for the sky and arc their shots). Bonus points on her part since her size also meant that the bow string was constantly whipping her arm the entire time (something she noted in practice and so her entire arm up to her bisep was bandaged to avoid injury).
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Top Shot / int_53b39668	type	Reality Show
Top Shot / int_53b39668	comment	Reality Show: Season 5 removes the idea of teams. Instead, people who do poorly in challenges are given one shot in the proving ground to avoid going into an elimination challenge. As a result, the reality TV style alliances, politicking and other such things are all but eliminated save for the confession cams (which are mostly just personal commentary).
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Top Shot / int_5aee9b06	type	Trick Shot Puzzle
Top Shot / int_5aee9b06	comment	Trick Shot Puzzle: Some of the challenges.
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Top Shot / int_5ee13285	type	Reality TV Show Mansion
Top Shot / int_5ee13285	comment	Reality TV Show Mansion
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Top Shot / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Top Shot / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In Season 4's Behind The Bullet, Chee talks about the individual challenge where he eliminates Gabby. Going into the challenge as the last shooter (meaning that either he goes home or she does), he hadn't known that she was in last and so when he realizes he eliminated her, he has a Oh, Crap! moment. He also outright says on camera that, had he known she was in last, he would have thrown his shot. In season 5, Chee gets his wish when he's put up against Gabby in an elimination challenge, though whether or not it's true is left unspoken.
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Top Shot / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Top Shot / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Greg Littlejohn of Season 4 can't bear the thought of voting for anyone based on performance due to his intense love for his team mates, so he ends up voting for Terry (who was already in the elimination challenge at that point), so Terry would be the one to choose his opponent instead of himself, and proceeds to tear up right after and during a cutaway interview. YMMV on how "manly" you consider the tears to be. And rather ironically, he was on the blue team which was rife with cliques and interpersonal problems - himself not excluded from it - so while he may have been close to his team mates, the feeling was not always mutual.
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Top Shot / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
Top Shot / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: Of course.
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Top Shot / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Top Shot / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Greg giving Colin his bandana as a parting gift. He got so much ribbing for it that he vowed never to do such a thing again. The Behind The Bullet special revealed that Colin sent it back to him. As Augie put it:
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Top Shot / int_722a6ef4	type	Game Show
Top Shot / int_722a6ef4	comment	Game Show: 15 of the contestants are eliminated, and the last shooter standing wins the $100,000 grand prize. Also, from Season 2 on, the winner of an elimination challenge gets a $2,000 Bass Pro Shops gift card. Season 4 added a professional shooter contract, again from Bass Pro Shops, for the winner; Season 5 added a speedboat to the $100,000 top prize and awarded small prizes to the winner(s) of each individual challenge.
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Top Shot / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Top Shot / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Jermaine in Season 2. During "Uphill Battle", twice during the team challenge he tried to run the gun himself to each station, despite only having to do so for the first and last stations. Ashley out of the blue deciding it would be a good idea to berate the fuck out of Jamie. He took issue with Jamie claiming to be a Navy SEAL, rescue swimmer, and EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) technician. It turned out that Jamie had never claimed to be a SEAL; Chris and Brian Zins, upon finding out he was in the Navy, dubbed him "SEAL Team" and that he was only attached to an at-sea EOD unit as their designated rescue swimmer. Most likely Ashley took a calculated risk badmouthing Jamie since the rest of the Red Team was not that fond of him; thinking this could save him from being nominated. It backfired in a spectacular way. Season 4's Greg Littlejohn had a reputation for letting his nerves get the better of him in competition. So when he seemed reluctant to shoot his target in "Swing Into Action", it looked like that was happening again. Perhaps nerves played a role, but the bigger problem was that he'd forgotten to set his weapon to full cock, and didn't realize it until a team member pointed it out. Then, to add insult to injury, as he moved to cock his pistol, the musket ball fell out of the barrel. Greg eventually did make the shot, but not before several Red Team members had shot at their targets. The Blue Team won the challenge anyway, as the Red Team missed a few shots and had trouble swinging between platforms. Also, as it was a flintlock pistol, it did require several steps to load and prepare before firing. Subverted in that Greg was sent to three elimination challenges, each of which he won, and earned a spot in the season finale. He came in second to Chris Cheng. Greg plays it straight in Season 5. His nerves again get the better of him, but he's finally unable to pull a victory from his ass in the elimination challenge.
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Top Shot / int_832c1497	type	Non-Gameplay Elimination
Top Shot / int_832c1497	comment	Non-Gameplay Elimination: Tara in Season 1 (her father was dying of cancer), John Guida in Season 2 (double hamstring pull), Billy Rogers in Season 3 (complications with his wife's pregnancy), and Jake Zweig of Season 3 (forfeited due to reasons he never really elaborated on).
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Top Shot / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Top Shot / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Sniper rifles for 1,000-yard shots, howitzers, grenade launchers, 3.2-inch cannons, .500 Magnum revolvers...
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Top Shot / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Top Shot / int_875615dd	comment	This makes a little more sense if you have experience with firearm shooting. Ear protectors don't try to isolate all sound, but rather protect your ears from the immense blast and sound pressure of a gunshot, which can rupture eardrums or at least cause hearing loss over time. While everything sounds distorted with their type of hearing protection, it's perfectly easy to hear a normal conversational voice at a standard distance, let alone someone shouting into a microphone with a stage announcement voice. For a similar effect, cup your hands over your ears and talk out loud.
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Top Shot / int_885a5be7	type	Suffer the Slings
Top Shot / int_885a5be7	comment	Suffer the Slings: One challenge involved slingshots.
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Top Shot / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Top Shot / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: After Jake's forfeit, show rules dictated that the previous contestant eliminated Big Mike Hughes, ironically one of Jake's biggest rivals be brought back to take his place in the elimination challenge, and be given a chance to get back into the house. Mike won, eliminating Phil Morden. Mike ultimately placed second in the competition. Pretty much the concept of Season 5, aka Top Shot All Stars. 16 of the best competitors from the previous four seasons return to compete, while the four champions return as advisers (as they already have titles).
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Top Shot / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Top Shot / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time/Slow Motion: Firearms are involved. It's mandatory.
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Top Shot / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Top Shot / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: A rather twisted example from season 3. At one point, Jake attempted to get his rival Mike ejected by trying (and failing) to provoke Mike into hitting him. Mike was later eliminated in a challenge, but when Jake Rage Quit before the next challenge, Mike was brought back to face Jake's opponent Phil. In other words, Jake's own actions were directly responsible for his rival's return to the show. Mike ended up finishing second place overall.
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Top Shot / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Top Shot / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: All of the contestants in season 5 will be returning contestants from earlier seasons.
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Top Shot / int_95aded7e	type	WildWest
Top Shot / int_95aded7e	comment	Wild West: Several episodes. In addition, one challenge in the final episode of each season begins at a saloon-style bar stocked with weapons and targets.
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Top Shot / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Top Shot / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Jake, who was so fixated on winning, chose to forfeit the competition after getting sent to elimination a second time so as to avoid even the possibility of defeat. He never quite got over his first elimination trip.
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Top Shot / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Top Shot / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: There's a trend of self-taught generalist shooters outperforming champion shooters, who may be world-class masters with a single weapon but haven't proven as adaptable.
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Top Shot / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Top Shot / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Brian Zins made it to the season 2 finals without ever being in an elimination challenge. George Reinas made it all the way to the finals without ever having his nomination range target shot.
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Top Shot / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Top Shot / int_9f7769a2	comment	The Gunslinger: The contestants, duh!
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Top Shot / int_a78aead3	type	Hide Your Pregnancy
Top Shot / int_a78aead3	comment	Hide Your Pregnancy: Michelle's wardrobe is suspiciously low key in the season 4 Behind The Bullet due to her pregnancy.
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Top Shot / int_ab031997	type	Underdogs Never Lose
Top Shot / int_ab031997	comment	Underdogs Never Lose: Kelly. Greg Littlejohn of Season 4, having racked up three elimination wins as the underdog, all of which by two bullets/points or less. Chris Cheng of Season 4 as well. In his elimination challenge, he's up against a former marine and noted competition shooter while Chris himself is an IT guy who only picked up firearms after watching Top Shot. The final challenge itself even goes according to trope. By a few minutes in, the leader has lead of 11 hits out of 15 versus 6 out of 15. And then, while the leader is reloading, the underdog shoots out 5 practically in a row. From there, it's neck and neck with the leader somehow managing to flub hitting the last target long enough for the underdog to reload and fire off a shot to win. Chris Cheng beat Greg Littlejohn by one grenade launcher round, and it was ultimately revealed he shot the round blindly. In Greg's return appearance in Season 5, fate is nowhere near as kind to him. Greg once again lets his nerves get the better of him, leading to another elimination challenge in the very first episode. Involving grenade launchers, pretty much the exact same thing happens to him as it did with Chris Cheng (including another blind shot through smoke by his opponent Gary), and he loses by two shots. The blind shot ended up pissing Greg off so much that he missed every subsequent shot he took.
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Top Shot / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Top Shot / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: As a sort of meta example, Season 1's Red Team. Noted in Curb-Stomp Battle above.
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Top Shot / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Top Shot / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: William in season 4.
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Top Shot / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Top Shot / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: Everyone on Season 5 is a returning contestant who failed to win their season, so this is a given.
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Top Shot / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Top Shot / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Each season ends with a short montage of each competitor in order of elimination with about 2-3 sentences of text on their life as a shooter post-Top Shot.
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Top Shot / int_b7cd068f	type	Skilled, but Naive
Top Shot / int_b7cd068f	comment	The Behind The Bullet special aired after the finale shows why this happened: Chris Reed was MUCH better at sniffing out quality shooters than Jay Lim was. Whereas Jay would choose members based on how many competitions they had won (leading towards members with only one specialty), Chris chose based on how much they knew about weapons and other things in general (leading towards well rounded marksmen).
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Top Shot / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Top Shot / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Jake. He actually requested he be given immunity to make up for being sent to elimination.
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Top Shot / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In the sniper rifle challenge in Season 3, Jake comments that the wind is much harsher than during practice and it's going to be rough since the target is moving. Colby's response is "Let me be the first to tell you. You are fucked today, gentlemen."
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Top Shot / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Jake Zweig of Season 3, after he gets sent to elimination for being an ass, despite not being the worst shooter that week. After he effortlessly won the Cornershot challenge, he went off on his team and moved outside, and subsequently became an even bigger dick than he already was. Ultimately, when he was sent to a second elimination, he chose to forfeit the competition rather than face the idea of losing, which seemed to have finally eaten away at him.
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Top Shot / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: All challenges with the exception of the first team challenge have required some marksmanship feats that are difficult or legendary for shooters with experience with the weapon. It's common for at least half the contestants to have minimal or no experience and they still generally perform competently. Kind of justified as a general knowledge of proper gun handling usually transfers to most gun types despite each gun having different handling.
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Top Shot / int_bd6b86df	comment	Impossible Task: Lampshaded by Brian Zins regarding the 1000 Yard shot during the Behind the Bullet special: Also, as shown in Improbable Aiming Skills below, a number of shots are done with relative beginners for stunts that are hard for shooters that regularly use the involved weapon normally. The "Horse" challenge of Season 4 winds up being this, with the three competitors choosing shots that start each of them off 0/3. Colby does not hesitate to point this out.
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Top Shot / int_c3e4b9fd	type	Final-Exam Boss
Top Shot / int_c3e4b9fd	comment	Final-Exam Boss: The last challenge of the season is always one of these, featuring several of the most prominent challenges of the season.
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Top Shot / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Top Shot / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To William Tell ("Archer Enemies") and Annie Oakley ("Wild Wild West").
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Top Shot / int_ca198bc3	type	Paintball Episode
Top Shot / int_ca198bc3	comment	Paintball Episode: Early in Season 2.
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Top Shot / int_ccf49675	type	Cut the Fuse
Top Shot / int_ccf49675	comment	Cut the Fuse: During "Shortest Fuse", the contestants had to shoot the fuse off of a bomb with a pistol and ten shots. It proved extremely hard, to the point where only a couple of shooters managed it their first try.
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Top Shot / int_cec8b87a	type	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
Top Shot / int_cec8b87a	comment	This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!!: Ashley jokingly tells Joe to remember to "pack up his hopes and dreams, bitch!" before the two go to elimination.
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Top Shot / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Top Shot / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Greg Littlejohn's specialty is the grenade launcher, so much so that he's a world class grenadier. It's the weapon that winds up eliminating him in both Season 4 and 5. In Season 4, he loses in the finals by one shot after Chris Cheng lands a blind shot through smoke. In Season 5, he loses in the first elimination challenge by two shots to Gary Quesenbery. To really add insult to injury, Gary also lands a blind shot through smoke against him (though unlike with Chris, Gary still had one shot to go), and it ends up throwing Greg so far off of his game that he doesn't hit another target.
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Top Shot / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
Top Shot / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Top Guns premiered the same day as season 4 and is all about the firearms themselves, not the competition. It can be found on H2.
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Top Shot / int_dba1f5b5	type	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Top Shot / int_dba1f5b5	comment	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Season 5, aka Top Shot All Stars.
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Top Shot / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Top Shot / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: The show seems to enjoy playing up a tease between Chee and Gabby. That Chee's seemingly so shy about the matter doesn't help things. For instance, during an interview, he talks about making brownies with Gabby and she making him do all the hard work. Cut to a scene of them in the kitchen and Chee insisting he can make brownies on his own.
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Top Shot / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Top Shot / int_dda99fa8	comment	In Greg's return appearance in Season 5, fate is nowhere near as kind to him. Greg once again lets his nerves get the better of him, leading to another elimination challenge in the very first episode. Involving grenade launchers, pretty much the exact same thing happens to him as it did with Chris Cheng (including another blind shot through smoke by his opponent Gary), and he loses by two shots. The blind shot ended up pissing Greg off so much that he missed every subsequent shot he took.
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Top Shot / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
Top Shot / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: Jake in season 3, when voted into elimination (for the second time) against Phil, leading to just-been-eliminated Mike Hughes (the guy he attempted to eliminate by provoking him to attacking him) taking his place for the challenge. Ironically enough, Mike won that challenge and finished the season as the runner-up.
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Top Shot / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Top Shot / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Dustin Ellerman, a completely self taught Christian camp counselor with no competition or military experience, completely dominated pretty much everything he was involved with, and won the final challenge against Big Mike Hughes with ease. In truly ironic fashion, it was due to his perceived weakness and lack of experience that he was sent to elimination in the second episode. In Season 4, pretty much the exact same thing happens. Completely self taught IT professional Chris Cheng comes out on top. Although he was nowhere near as dominant as Dustin was, he was still a natural with pretty much everything.
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Top Shot / int_e2cbeee9	type	Gangsta Style
Top Shot / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: William calls this as part of a game of HORSE in the All-Star season using a Colt Peacemaker. Colby can only grin and comment on how all kinds of wrong it is since William is black. To top it off, William misses the shot while both of his opponents hit.
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Top Shot / int_e4d98039	type	Down to the Last Play
Top Shot / int_e4d98039	comment	Down to the Last Play: The final challenge of season 4. Chris Cheng beat Greg Littlejohn by one grenade round.
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Top Shot / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
Top Shot / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Chris Reed (37) and Brian Zins (41) both look at least 10 years older than they actually are. Season 4's Tim Tefrin also looks about ten years older than his actual age of 34. Season 4 and 5's Chee Kwan (24 as of Season 5) looks a good ten years older than he is.
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Top Shot / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Top Shot / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass Adam, in "The Good, The Rat, and the Ugly." George in Season 2 though he somewhat redeemed himself in the second to last event by purposely missing a shot to allow Chris Reed another chance. Ashley also donned the role in an episode by talking serious shit to Jamie. He was sent to elimination because of it (by people who dislike Jamie, no less), and when he loses, he refuses to shake Jamie's hand when he leaves. Most likely he was counting on his newfound dislike for Jamie to save him from being nominated; something that did not go according to plan. Jake in Season 3, who accused all of his teammates of "conspiring" against him when he was voted to an elimination challenge for his poor attitude, then moved outside the house and told his teammates "If you want my help, ask me...and give me immunity for the next challenge." After the recurve bow challenge which they won, he attempted to provoke one of his own teammates into striking him (which would be grounds for instant DQ). The Season 3 Behind The Bullet special elaborates further on how much of an asshole Jake was. He stated that much of his behavior was designed to throw the competitors off of their game, which included constantly waking them up, and impersonating their kids being in danger while they slept to invade their dreams. While George was at least genuine friends with those in his circle, Jake was friends with no one.
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Top Shot / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Top Shot / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: "The Good, The Rat, and the Ugly." Caleb decides to be honest and reveals Adam's backstabbing, but gets Voted Off the Island for his trouble.
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Top Shot / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Top Shot / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Colby Donaldson's running commentary during the challenges is loud enough to be heard by the shooters. While they're shooting. And wearing ear protection. Sure, he has to be loud enough for the shooters to hear his call to cease fire, but still, the whole time? This makes a little more sense if you have experience with firearm shooting. Ear protectors don't try to isolate all sound, but rather protect your ears from the immense blast and sound pressure of a gunshot, which can rupture eardrums or at least cause hearing loss over time. While everything sounds distorted with their type of hearing protection, it's perfectly easy to hear a normal conversational voice at a standard distance, let alone someone shouting into a microphone with a stage announcement voice. For a similar effect, cup your hands over your ears and talk out loud.
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Top Shot / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Top Shot / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Adam and Caleb's feud in "The Good, The Rat, and the Ugly". Season 2 has everyone pointing out at every possible point that Jay Lim is a golf instructor. Including Jay himself. Season 4's Greg Littlejohn had a knack for letting his nerves get the better of him, and he also had a bit of a tendency to get emotional. Most importantly was his ability to survive elimination, ultimately setting a Top Shot record of 5 (3 during the main competition and 2 in the finals). Season 5 brought Greg's nerves into focus again. He had a lot of trouble on the individual challenge, missed the Proving Ground target by a wide margin, and shot wild on the elimination challenge, causing him to lose and be sent home in the season premiere.
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