That was a stupid show and I normally like Roadkill....they should have looked to see if it had an oil pump drive shaft in it. If it was missing, I doubt that motor was already junk, they could have fished one in and got it running. FB was clearnly tired and done and started the "we ruined this one" chant
However, even the one that was in it before the swap, if they pulled the valve covers, cleaned the returns and put a set of pushrods in it, it likely would have kept going.
I hope that car got some love somewhere, road worthy original 4 speed 2 door car, not a lot of them left