Kings of Pain
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| Kings of Pain | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Adam Thorn Rob Alleva |
| Narrated by | Jim Pratt |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | David Carr Ben Silverman Howard Owens Laurie Girion Brett-Patrick Jenkins J.D. Roth Adam Greener |
| Producers | Isabel San Vargas Lucy Savage |
| Production location | Worldwide |
| Production company | Propagate |
| Original release | |
| Network | History |
| Release | November 12, 2019 – present |
Kings of Pain is an American television series which airs on History. The show features Adam Thorn, a wildlife biologist, and Rob "Caveman" Alleva, an animal handler. In the show, they attempt to get stung and bitten by animals and insects from different parts of the world, in order to measure the amount of pain they each receive from each bite or sting.[1]
Concept
Inspired by the Schmidt Pain Index, biologist Adam Thorn and handler Rob "Caveman" Alleva test the bites and stings of animals with a new 30 point scale within 3 categories: initial physical pain, the duration of the initial pain, and the after effects. The scores from the two are added together and averaged out.[2]
The animal is then ranked among the scale using the honeybee sting as the baseline. Along with creatures from the Schmidt Pain Index, animals from other categories such as reptiles and marine animals are also tested. In addition to testing the bites and stings of animals, Thorn and Alleva have started another pain index which they call the "nature hurts" pain index, which is intended to measure the pain from hot peppers.
Episodes
| Episode | Species | Location | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. "Nightmare in a Box" | Executioner wasp, warrior wasp, and goliath bird-eating tarantula | Bolivia | [3] |
| 2. "Stinging Punishment" | Bark scorpion, uroplectes scorpion and lion fish | South Africa | [3] |
| 3. "Fairy of Death" | Harvester ants, tarantula hawk and crown-of-thorns starfish | Mexico | [3] |
| 4. "World of Hurt" | Nile monitor lizard and the velvet ant | Africa | [3] |
| 5. "Point of the Dead" | Toe biter and the scorpionfish | Baja | [3] |
| 6. "Fire Down Below" | Fire urchin and the rove beetle | Bali | [3] |
| 7. "Big Box of Pain" | Bullet ant and piranha | Amazon | [3] |
| 8. "Execution Day" | Giant asian centipede and reticulated python | Indonesia | [3] |
| 9. "Behind the Bites" | Behind the scenes of the season and hot pepper pain scale | N/A | [3] |
Pain scale
| Episode | Species | Pain scale |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Executioner wasp | 14.5 |
| 1. | Warrior wasp | N/A (no sting occurred) |
| 1. | Goliath bird-eating tarantula | 14 |
| 2. | Bark scorpion | 8.5 |
| 2. | Uroplectes scorpion | 12.5 |
| 2. | Lion fish | 18.25 |
| 3. | Harvester ants | 20.5 |
| 3. | Tarantula hawk | 16 |
| 3. | Crown-of-thorns starfish | 19.5 |
| 4. | Nile monitor lizard | 17.5 |
| 4. | Velvet ant | 13.25 |
| 5. | Toe biter | 12 |
| 5. | Scorpionfish | 20.5 |
| 6. | Fire urchin | 16.25 |
| 6. | Rove beetle | 21 |
| 7. | Bullet ant | 17.25 |
| 7. | Piranha | 11 |
| 8. | Giant asian centipede | 23.25 |
| 8. | Reticulated python | 25.75 |
References
- ^ "Kings of Pain – About". History.
- ^ "Is Kings of Pain science or stupidity? An interview with a History Channel executive". Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kings of Pain". Retrieved 23 March 2020.