Surprisingly few people ever questioned the popularity of a show whose episodes lasted only a minute and a half before turning into a savage bloodbath. Frankly, it was refreshing for a program to just cut to the chase and give the public what they wanted: to see stupid people culled from the population. Sure, the actors lived in a constant state of terror. Certainly, the janitors tired of “Evisceration Wednesdays.“ And of course, people began to wonder why there were so many mysterious open cages set around