The short-lived gameshow "College Madhouse" (which aired from 1989-1990) made a great impression on me as a young teenager. I ran across it while channel surfing. I froze, remote control in hand, at the first glance of attractive college girls covered in gunk. My parents didn't have cable TV, so my only access to it was on weekends when I visited my grandparents. It was on early on Sunday mornings, and I was able to get up and watch it with the sound low while everyone else was still asleep. It was an incredibly stupid and mindless show which attempted to adapt "Fun House" for college students. Teams of four contestants from one university faced another.

One of the most amazing parts of the show was a trivia round where the students faced off, each with a pie aimed in the other's face. The person who got the first correct answer got to throw a pie in the face of the "loser." The first time I saw them lining up at the buzzer holding pies I thought, "No...no...they're not really going to do THAT are they?!" It just seemed so delightfully humiliating. I thought about how if would feel to go on national TV and get a pie in the face like that.

There were other parts of the show that seemed mildly kinky. Girls lay on the ground while the guys lay on top of them, popping shaving cream-filled balloons. Girls collected tokens by putting them in their swimsuits. Guys and girls got into sleeping bags together and rolled around to compete in messy games. Everything seemed to be about putting the contestants in close, intimate proximity where it would be easy to "accidentally" touch the girl's breasts. I'm wondering if this was just "innocent" or if there were intentional kinky undertones to the show? I'm not sure any of this would fly today.

Regardless, I loved it. The camera operators seemed to have a knack for showing beautiful female legs. I would love to hear other thoughts on this incredibly stupid and trashy (yet arousing) show.

Here are a few clips of full shows that have recently hit youtube. If you search for "College Madhouse" you will find many more.

https://youtu.be/K3DZEitre4w

https://youtu.be/f8VuQHYD8a0

https://youtu.be/aCJFrTVCi_4

https://youtu.be/z61LyTRDn-s

A compilation of the pies:

https://youtu.be/r2JdlCTS3AU

Obviously, this show was a classic to anyone who watched it. This was the (last??) Golden Age of Mainstream WAM for America. Eventually this show got cancelled and the various other shows featuring mess (that we can't talk about on the UMD anymore) also faded away. By the mid-to late-90s American TV that this style of gameshow was stupid and it would never return. (Except in incredibly watered-down form, like Ellen's Game Of Games.)

The irony is that the College Madhouse "pie round" was ripped off in Brazil a year later, as the cornerstone of their show called..... Passa ou Repassa. So basically the next 25 years (and counting) of various Latinas pieing each other in a quiz show format are ALL the result of a low-rated Saturday morning show from a country that never attempted anything like this again.

The local indie TV station used to run this right after Fun House. Young teenage me quickly gravitated to this show over its predecessor, no doubt because of the adult undertones, like the host ordering the winner of the pie rounds to "Nail him!" or "Nail her!" I mean...c'mon.

I even had this sorry fanfiction I never wrote where I was pitted against an adorable guy in the pie round, and when he lost I couldn't bring myself to pie him and he was so full of gratitude that we immediately fell in TWU WUV. ...Yeah, I'm relieved I never actually wrote that one in my fanfiction notebook or my folks would've had a field day with it. As it was, they probably had their concerns reading some of the slightly WAMmy fanfiction I did commit to paper.

The show went off the air before I made it to college, so I guess it wasn't meant to be, anyway.

Sure, all us old school mainstream fans remember College Madhouse. As Rich said, it's kinda funny that it pioneered the question pie game that became uber-common in Latin shows.

I'm pretty sure I had my own mental fantasy where I was the adorable guy on the other side of the podium from you...

Yeah, this was must see TV on Saturday mornings. I think I remember in the first episode the pie round had difficult questions, with topics like philosophy and physics, and as a result there were lots of non-answers and neither contestant got pied. After that the questions went to cartoons, sitcoms, and the like and things got a lot better.

Talking about talking about them is talking about them. Somebody ban this guy.

Rich at Slapstickstuff (who just recently replied) has a downloadable clip montage that lasts over 50 minutes featuring several of the female college co-eds that were pied on "College Mad House". Just go to his "Mainstream" page and select the College Mad House clip under 80's Tapes. https://www.slapstickstuff.com/Mainstream.htm

WAMTEC also has several "cliptapes" available for download that feature "College Mad House" clips (like 2222messyB). Go here: http://megastore.wamtec.com/clips.php?catid=4&pagenum=3

Thank you for posting these videos

Let me just clarify that historical discussion about these shows is not forbidden. Just be sure not to encourage people to go watching them now, either directly or indirectly.

Messmaster

Ah yes....another missed opportunity. When I was hiring models from the UK to do my wam shoots in the 1990's I found Tracie and booked her for one month of wam shoots....and Tracie had asked me if I wanted her to bring her best friend, another UK fetish model called Helen Labdon. Helen wanted to do wam shoots with us as well, but I already had 6 models booked to fly over from England so I told Tracie we had no more slots available that year, so Tracie told Helen we would book her the next year.

When next year came I ask Tracie if Helen was still available and Tracie said that Helen had quit doing fetish soft core modelling because she had met some tv guy at a party and was dating him....and then 2 years later we find out that Helen had married that tv guy.....and is still married to him today. That guy she married is Greg Kinnear .....

That is one of those wam opportunities that escaped me......the other notable model that escaped me was in 1999 when we were offered the opportunity to do some fetish shoots with a former NFL cheerleader who was willing to do scenes for us for $300 per day.....and my partner shot several pool scenes with her and failed to tell me she was available to do other shoots that day....so I missed that opportunity, and then a year later she met Hugh Hefner and became Playmate of the Year and landed a starring role on Baywatch Hawaii....her name was Brande Roderick.

I could have retired early if I had done those wam shoots with Helen Labdon and Brande Roderick.....because Greg Kinnear and Baywatch productions would have paid me a small fortune for my footage so they could keep it from circulation.

MK

Actually, the BIG missed opportunity was not having Greg Kinnear ALSO attend the shoot, and recreate his College Madhouse role. "I'm sorry Tracie, that's incorrect! Helen, nail her to the back of the line!!!"

Also, I would've paid good money to watch Kinnear beat the hell out of Lenny for trying to pick up Helen.

And do corporations REALLY pay good money to bury embarrassing footage anymore? I only ask because a far more recent producer wound up shooting a girl who later got hired by the WWE. Instead of offering him $$ for the footage, the girl's manager asked him to delete it from his store... Then when he refused, threatened to sue him.
Then the WWE dropped the girl 2 weeks later as some of the video went viral. So pretty much a "lose/lose" all around.

Oh, you guys think YOU feel like chumps, huh?

About six years ago, my Russian business partner asked me if I wanted to shoot a watersports video featuring a prominent American businessman and some hookers in Moscow.

I was like, "Wellllllll ... Peeing probably IS closer to WAM than a lot of people around here like to admit, but....."

"......... Eh, nah, I'll just stick with Czech models mud wrestling. Thanks anyhow."

Let me tell ya, still kickin' myself over that one!

Shit, I don't recall this and I fuckin try to know the inns and outs of wrestling these days. You'd of thought a WAM scandal would fucking stick out. Ya got any more info on this or is it fairly well known anyway

Thank you!!!!! Just given me the idea for my next messy session!!! Mess filled sleeping bag here we come!!!

How is it that no one has mentioned the cute cheerleaders on the show? Two females that I think I remember getting hit with a pie once and once only. The producers of the show must not have been a true fan of WAM or these two would have gotten a pie more than once. Seems like they may have been twins.

That was Fun House, which was a kids version of College Madhouse.

Here are some more full length episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lgWY9TG-6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARMfhni3wp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2YznpKPLk
and some more freeze-frame pics below.

I don't have a crystal ball that allows me to see into the future...i.e. Greg Kinnear was on College Madhouse in 1988 and I was offered to the chance to film Helen Labdon 9 years later in 1997. How was I to know that 2 years later in 1999 she would marry Greg Kinnear. FYI several of my 1990's models were dating pretty famous UK celebs at that time....3 of them were dating well known British football players and 2 of them were dating Olympic gold medal winning sprinters.

There are plenty of examples where rich husbands have paid huge sums of money to buy up all the old footage of their former ex-adult model wife. For example, English soft porn actress Anouska Hempel made a soft core sex comedy film called "Tiffany Jones" in 1973. She later married a blue blood (Lord Weinberg) and her official title became Lady Weinberg. One of the first things Lord Weinberg did was to spend over 2 million dollars buying up every single master print of the Tiffany Jones film, to prevent it from being released on video or aired on tv stations. His redaction of that film kept it from being shown for over 30 years. He wasted his money though, because he was only able to prevent it from being shown in the UK, but there were still copies in circulation in other countries. Once the internet exploded that banned film surfaced again and today it is widely available on the internet.

Likewise Paul McCartney paid a lot of money to the photographer to remove video and photos he had shot pics of his 2nd wife Heather Mills when she had done nude modelling before she married Paul.

I would not be afraid of legal issues....so long as you have a cast iron model release that the girl has signed you are on solid ground. If it was somebody very big and powerful and you are threatened by their attorney you just hire a notable attorney who likes publicity....like Michael Avenatti.