Any UHF fans out there? I can’t help but think of the game show “Wheel of Fish” where the contestant has to pick her prize, either a red snapper or what’s in “the box”. She picks the box and wins…nothing.

To me, that perfect represents the hit ABC series “Lost,” which sold the audience on a pretty spectacular box of surprises, only when opened revealed nothing but hot air.

The producers, including outspoken Damon Lindelof, have always maintained that this was the plan. We all know they’re lying, except for those folks who actually fell for the sappy bullshit finale that used death and the afterlife as a way to pull on our emotional strings. Cheap, cheap move, guys.

But we’re not here to start a new debate on the merits of the finale, where here because we’ve learned the alleged truth behind it, and how we were all duped.

Uproxx unearthed a Nerdist podcast from last November, one that carried a reveal more shocking than the non-reveal on “Lost”.

Nick Santora -“Prison Break” writer and executive producer – joined the Nerdist Writer’s Panel Podcast and talked about his writer’s room. In speaking about their show’s design, he had this bombshell to drop:

We had an expression in the room and which was, “No Polar Bears,” which was a reference to Lost. I had friends that were writing on Lost, I can’t say who they were. And I was watching football with one of them and I was telling them how much I loved the show…and I’m like, “How are you going to pay all this stuff off?” And he looked at me and goes, “We’re not.” And I go, “What do you mean you’re not?” He said, “We literally just think of the weirdest most f*cked up thing and write it and we’re never going to pay it off.” And I look at him and I’m like, “That’s such bullshi*t! You are completely f*cking with the audience.” I want to bring a class-action lawsuit on behalf of everyone who watched Lost all those years. Nina Hartley jerked people off less that Lost did.

If true, holy fucking shit, guys. Lindelof and company, who gave us a purgatory ending after constantly maintaining the show wasn’t based in purgatory, also lied about their own grand design. Once the writers had decided that the “Lost” crew were basically dead, the rules went out the window, and they started just writing any old weird shit they could think of.

Thoughts? It’s years later and I’m still furious. Yeah, there are better things to spend my rage on but let’s not forget the several years worth of television we dedicated our nights to. And don’t give me the ol’ “but it’s the experience that matters.” No, I didn’t play “Rampage” for 12 straight hours just to get a “congratulations” to pop on the screen…