The Craziest Show on Television , Check Out Fox's Show Prison Break

There are a few shows on television these days that strain the boundaries of believability to the breaking point. One of my favorites is “Lost” which just keeps getting stranger and stranger and there isn’t any end in sight. But for me, these shows hold a kind of an appeal. I get caught up in them. I was a huge fan of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “The X-Files.” There is a show on right now, however, that I can’t stop watching even though it is, without a doubt, the most ridiculous show on television. I am talking, of course, of “Prison Break.”

There isn’t a single thing about this show that could actually happen in the real world. The sheer plot outline is so ridiculous it cannot possibly be described a way that would really make any sense. For the main character to have accomplished as much as he has he would have had to plan for about four hundred thousand years and he still probably would have left out a few things.

Michael Scofield is our main character. His brother, Lincoln, is on Death Row for supposedly shooting and killing the Vice President’s brother. Instead of using the system to get his brother out, Michael hatches a plan. First, it turns out, his brother happens to be housed in the prison Michael knows inside and out because he helped redesign the place, or something. So he conceives of a way to get into the prison and then get out and in order to find his way around the prison and make all of his plans he plots out a tattoo.

Yeah, I know, it really doesn’t make any sense. Even the tattoo is so elaborate it would take dozens of years to complete. It covers Michael from his neck down to his waist and all across his back. It turns out the designs are actually an elaborate map of the entire prison. There are combinations he will need to open things tattooed in there. There are actual roads tattooed on him that will help him get around when he gets out.