Best game show ever!

1. John Giotta
   March 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am

   Are they dressed as Toy Story characters?

2. Aetherfax
   March 17th, 2009 at 11:38 am

   They're Toy Story characters, dodging large objects (aka. Soda Cans) To avoid being plunged into a pool of ice water o_o

   Pretty freaking awesome!

3. Jovenes Jugados
   March 17th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

   Cool! It remins me that Simpson's episode in which they visit Tokyo.

4. Ksawa
   March 17th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

   jjajajajaja, this japanese are crazy, it´s the same crazy stuff like "Takeshi´s Castle".

5. Scotchdrnkr
   March 17th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

   Stange game shows over there.
   I assume its against the rules for them to dive UNDER the big roll. If not they need to position themselves near the ramps that way when the big roll comes down they can dive under it.

6. neuralstatic
   March 17th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

   would be more fun if it were not impossible! every seems to go out at about the same point, which can't be as exciting as if someone wins sometimes and there's a big variance in 'scores'?

7. Evilbeagle
   March 17th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

   I love Japanese game shows. They do not hold back.

8. Oomi
   March 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

   Wish they'd do game shows like this in the US.

9. Brent
   March 17th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

   love the salami!

10. Alex
    March 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Why oh why can't we have something like this in the USA? Why do we have to suffer through that stupid Jackass show instead?

    Let's make our own amateur Japanese Game Show here! Who's with me?

11. Dan0
    March 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Jackass is funnier than this. This was funny, but it doesn't compare.

12. Jim
    March 17th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    I love Takeshi's castle but only the one with the legendary Craig Charles commentating on it as there are about 3 versions...the american commentators ruin it as you can tell they just don't get the humor involved.

    Theres a new one, not long started, in the UK with Richard Hammond (from Top Gear) but its just a bit tame compared.

13. J
    March 17th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Just like the old kid's show Double Dare on Nickelodeon....

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3A en-US%3Aofficial&hs=LI5&q=double+dare&btnG=Search

    only with costumes.

14. renderanything
    March 18th, 2009 at 12:22 am

    Majide!?!?
    I'm with you all the way Alex. All we need is a good legal team to draft up a release form that is completely impregnable, some giant props and a few crazy costumes.

15. Justin
    March 18th, 2009 at 12:35 am

    I only know a couple words in Japanese, but I think at the end when that GIANT roller came out, one of the guys was yelling: "RUN!!"

    It cracked me up!

16. Simmy
    March 18th, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    @neuralstatic

    It isn't really about "winning"...it's about having fun...seeing who can have the most spectacular wipeout...laughing together (or rather, AT each other).

    It's kinda rare that anyone really completes the tasks on these shows, but they don't care. They see an impossible task and run headlong at it anyway. Very different than the kind of game shows we have in the US. And a VERY different mindset about the whole thing.

    Did anyone see the show "I Survived A Japanese Game Show" that aired last year? I couldn't stand watching it because the American participants took everything WAY too seriously.
    I think the show "Wipeout" does a decent job of capturing that sort of silliness. A lot of the contestants don't take it very serious at all...at least until they make it into the later rounds. Then you see their attitude change. They start thinking about the money and start really trying. It's kinda interesting to watch the transformation.

17. Carl
    March 18th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    "It’s kinda rare that anyone really completes the tasks on these shows, but they don’t care. They see an impossible task and run headlong at it anyway. Very different than the kind of game shows we have in the US. And a VERY different mindset about the whole thing."

    This this this, a thousand times this!!

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