User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/LTDI Update & Call for Ideas/@comment-2021069-20131103043953

Very interesting challenge that you're setting up for here. I went through a bizarre Greek and Roman mythology stage for a few years but I only remember a little bit about the Labors of Heracles, and that's mostly about the final two tasks. I'm kind of low on ideas for this at the moment considering some of my own challenges are thought up at the last minute, but I'm going to just throw out some ideas.

I'm going to agree with Jay's suggestion to use Sasquatchanakwa and the bear as substitutes for some of the animal-related labors. I think the Nemean lion's armor was sometimes said to be what made up his armor, and I'm pretty sure somebody on the show had shaved Sasquatchanakwa and used his fur as a coat, so I'm kind of associating the two.

For the 5th labor, the only thing I could think of that would be sort of similar to something that would clearly get a person dirty and disgusting while doing it would be cleaning the communal bathroom (which I think the show actually had somebody do at some point). I know the 5th labor is the one where Heracles bargains for the cattle, though, so I don't know if you wanted to include that in the challenge.

For the 8th labor, I automatically think of relating the flesh-eating horses to the giant sharks, who when not serving as comic relief were always out for blood. I'd think for this challenge you could force a contestant to have to smuggle the sharks from one body of water to another without either a) getting eaten and b) disturbing somebody who is guarding the water, who they might have to fight or apprehend somehow [representing Diomedes to a point].

These are really the only ones I can think of anything for, and they're all kind of vague suggestions, but if I come up with anything else I'll definitely tell you.