Guinness World Records Gone Wild
{{short description|American reality television series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
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| alt_name = Guinness World Records Unleashed
| genre = Reality
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| presenter = Dan Cortese
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| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 16
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| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
- Jim Berger
- Burt Kearns
- Fred Birckhead
- Rob Molloy
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| runtime = 40 to 43 minutes
| company = High Noon Entertainment
| channel = truTV
| first_aired = {{Start date|2013|02|07}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2014|2|6}}
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Guinness World Records Gone Wild, also known as Guinness World Records Unleashed, is an American reality television series on truTV. The series debuted on February 7, 2013 and is hosted by Dan Cortese.{{cite web|title=Dan Cortese to host truTV's new series 'Guiness (sic) World Records Gone Wild'|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/06/28/dan-cortese-to-host-trutvs-new-series-guiness-world-records-gone-wild/139816/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630012933/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/06/28/dan-cortese-to-host-trutvs-new-series-guiness-world-records-gone-wild/139816/|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 June 2012|publisher=TV By the Numbers|access-date=19 January 2013|author=Sara Bibel}} The series' first season averaged more than 1.3 million viewers and ranked as one of ad-supported cable's Top 3 programs in the Thursday 8 p.m. timeslot with key adult and male demos.{{cite press release|title=Record Chasers Prepare to Wow Viewers in truTV's Hit Series "Guinness World Records(R) Unleashed," Returning Nov.7|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2013/09/26/record-chasers-prepare-to-wow-viewers-in-trutvs-hit-series-guinness-world-records-unleashed-returning-nov7-607412/20130926trutv01/|work=The Futon Critic|date=September 26, 2013}} It was also cable's No.1 unscripted entertainment program in the timeslot with men 18-49 and adults 18-34. It was announced in April 2013 that truTV has ordered an additional ten episodes.{{cite web|last=Bibel|first=Sara|title=truTV Greenlights Three Series: 'Panic Button', 'Big Sam's Kentucky Auction' & 'Cash Dome Pawn'|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/04/17/trutv-greenlights-three-series-panic-button-big-sams-kentucky-auction-cash-dome-pawn/178416/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425023032/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/04/17/trutv-greenlights-three-series-panic-button-big-sams-kentucky-auction-cash-dome-pawn/178416/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 25, 2013|publisher=TV by the Numbers|date=April 17, 2013}} Season 2 premiered on November 7, 2013, and features a title change to Guinness World Records Unleashed.
Premise
The series features average citizens who attempt at breaking records which could allow them to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. Stuart Claxton, Liz Smith and Zach Selwyn are recurring cast members in the series. Claxton is the primary Guinness World Records adjudicator for the series, Smith also works with Guinness World Records and Selwyn will provide commentary. Each stunt is performed in front of a live studio audience.{{cite web|title=Dan Cortese to Host truTV's "Guinness World Records(TM) Gone Wild" As New Series Starts Production|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2012/06/28/dan-cortese-to-host-trutvs-guinness-world-records-gone-wild-as-new-series-starts-production-795405/20120628trutv01/|publisher=The Futon Critic|access-date=January 19, 2013}}{{cite web|title=truTV Goes "Bigger, Bolder and Broader" with Original Programming Slate|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2012/04/30/trutv-goes-bigger-bolder-and-broader-with-original-programming-slate-526315/20120430trutv01/|publisher=The Futon Critic|access-date=January 19, 2013}}
Episodes
=Series overview=
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| start1 = {{Start date|2013|2|7}}
| end1 = {{End date|2013|3|14}}
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| start2 = {{Start date|2013|11|7}}
| end2 = {{End date|2014|2|6}}
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=Season 1 (2013)=
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|EpisodeNumber = 1
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|Title = Leaps and Bounds
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|ShortSummary = Record attempts include candle swallowing, collision avoidance, Rubik's Cube attempt, trampoline jump with fluorescent light tubes, and hammering with the head.
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|EpisodeNumber = 2
|EpisodeNumber2 = 2
|Title = A Big Splash
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|2|14}}
|ShortSummary = Record attempts include a watermelon slicing team, live cockroach swallowing, arrow catching blindfolded, and a diving attempt from forty feet into a small one-foot wading pool.
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|EpisodeNumber2 = 3
|Title = It's A Smash
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|2|21}}
|ShortSummary = Record attempts include a 50 meter dash blindfolded, most self headkicks, destroying the most iceblocks solely by human strength, slicing potatoes with a shovel within a minute, most sausages swallowed in a minute, and most skips of a rope in a minute bouncing off the buttocks.
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|EpisodeNumber = 4
|EpisodeNumber2 = 4
|Title = Viva!
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|2|28}}
|ShortSummary = Record attempts include crushing watermelons solely using the skull, most quarters fit in a nostril, most can pop tops in a minute ripped from the can using teeth, most burst hot water bottles using just breath in a minute, and fastest traverse of a greased pole.
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|EpisodeNumber = 5
|EpisodeNumber2 = 5
|Title = Taking the Plunge
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|3|7}}
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|EpisodeNumber = 6
|EpisodeNumber2 = 6
|Title = Shattered!
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=Season 2 (2013–14)=
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|EpisodeNumber2 = 1
|Title = Bungee Breakfast
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|EpisodeNumber = 8
|EpisodeNumber2 = 2
|Title = Fighting a Jet
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|EpisodeNumber2 = 3
|Title = Ramped Up
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|EpisodeNumber = 10
|EpisodeNumber2 = 4
|Title = Bouncing Back
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|12|5}}
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|EpisodeNumber = 11
|EpisodeNumber2 = 5
|Title = Blast Off!
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|12|12}}
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|EpisodeNumber = 12
|EpisodeNumber2 = 6
|Title = One Giant Leap
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2013|12|19}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 13
|EpisodeNumber2 = 7
|Title = The Blob
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|1|2}}
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|EpisodeNumber2 = 8
|Title = Hanging Tough
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|EpisodeNumber = 15
|EpisodeNumber2 = 9
|Title = Flipper
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|1|16}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 16
|EpisodeNumber2 = 10
|Title = Thrown for a Loop
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|1|23}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 17
|EpisodeNumber2 = 11
|Title = Episode 11
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|1|30}}
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 18
|EpisodeNumber2 = 12
|Title = Wet Suited
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2014|2|6}}
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