Couture Productions together with Bull City Aggies hosted the A & T version of MTV’s Silent Library in Exhibit Hall on Feb. 17.  

MTV’s Silent Library is a game show based in a mock library, where a group of six friends try to be silent while performing funny and absurd tasks—on each other and to themselves—in an attempt to earn a monetary reward. The members of the group are seated at a table where they draw cards to determine who endures the task.

From this point on the entire group must be silent; which is much easier said than done. Making noise and laughing reduces the score and reward amount. In the end the money is divided among the group members.

There was an admission fee of $1 for the audience and $20 per team. “The money raised here tonight, is a fundraiser for the mute charity; children who can’t talk,” said Jeanette Evans, President of Couture Productions.

Silent Library: Exhibit Edition, was constructed with these same guidelines, but with a twist.

Instead of just one team trying to increase their reward amount, it was made into a competition. Five teams [Tunasub, Team Couture, Team Official, The Omen, and Top Chef] of five people competed for the money during five rounds. For each round, groups received one point for every task successfully completed without making noise.

However, if a team member spoke while on stage, the group was disqualified and received no points for that round.

During the first round players had to consume a cup of condiments such as relish, mayonnaise, horseradish, and olives with cottage cheese. In this round, Team Couture was disqualified for talking on stage.

In round two, Tunasub was also disqualified for talking on stage and the tasks became more physical.

Groups endured arm waxes, plucked nose hairs, putting make-up on their group member with puppet hands, and holding a whiffle ball in their mouth with closed lips for 30 seconds.

During round three, no teams were disqualified, but the tasks went back to consumptions.

Cheetos with honey, olives with cottage cheese, and marshmallows with horseradish were eaten after being smeared on a male student’s stomach.

After partially cleaning his stomach, the remaining two individuals had to scoop tartar sauce and mayonnaise off of his stomach.     

By round four Tunasub and Team Couture did not have enough points to catch up, so they were eliminated from the competition.

Everything done in this round had to be endured for 30 seconds. A bowl with yellow contents was brought to the stage with a plunger.

A member from Team Official had to get sucked in the face with the plunger. However, the contents turned out to be yellow colored water. A member from The Omen had to be plucked in the face with the string from a birthday hat, and four members from Top Chef had to put balloons in their shirts and hug each other to pop them.

Round five was the challenge round. Whoever ate two cupcakes with mayonnaise icing first won the competition.

In the end The Omen won $200 as a team and $40 per person.  

Quayshaun Hall, a freshman Professional Theatre major, was a member of the winning team. “I think we had the hardest tasks,” said Hall.

“When I had to eat the cup of horse radish, I was really about to throw up.”

Miranda Stanfied, a senior International Studies major stated, “It [Silent Library] was great in theory and should be done again.”

• Deshawn Fleming