Comments on: Best game show ever!

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:49:05 +0000

“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!!

By: Simmy

Simmy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:34:12 +0000

@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.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:35:52 +0000

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!

By: renderanything

renderanything — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:22:44 +0000

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.

By: J

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:13:36 +0000

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.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:02:54 +0000

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.

By: Dan0

Dan0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:10:09 +0000

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

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:11:03 +0000

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?

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:04:54 +0000

love the salami!

By: Oomi

Oomi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:30:51 +0000

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

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:58:20 +0000

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

By: neuralstatic

neuralstatic — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:48:26 +0000

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’?

By: Scotchdrnkr

Scotchdrnkr — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:20:18 +0000

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.

By: Ksawa

Ksawa — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:38:17 +0000

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

By: Jovenes Jugados

Jovenes Jugados — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:09:01 +0000

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

By: Aetherfax

Aetherfax — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:38:45 +0000

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!

By: John Giotta

John Giotta — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:36:50 +0000

Are they dressed as Toy Story characters?