Where do I get more episodes of this Japanese prank show?

NamelessPlayer on 24/6/2006 at 01:08

So far, I can only find (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/rocket-chairs-on-ski-slope-suprise.html) two (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/outhouse-suddenly-transforms-into.html) episodes. The first one involves massaging chairs that can either eject you from the building or send you careening down the slope on a rocket-powered ride, the second involving elevator outhouses and...erm, what should I call this...toilet water-skiing?

I've got to have more episodes of this show to laugh my ass off to!

(Oh, and feel free to discuss anything else you find at tvinjapan.blogspot.com.)

Para?noid on 24/6/2006 at 01:44

Look east.....

metal dawn on 24/6/2006 at 01:50

(http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106732&highlight=bad+smell+air) Bad smell air

...seems like pretty much the same thing. I wouldn't know. All reality shows are pretty much the same to me, especially when I don't know what anyone is saying.

NamelessPlayer on 24/6/2006 at 02:13

Quote Posted by metal dawn

(http://ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106732&highlight=bad+smell+air) Bad smell air

...seems like pretty much the same thing.

Those links I posted sure as hell weren't Silent Library. Oh well, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Xyt4Z7wuY&mode=related&search=library%20japanese) here's an episode involving nose flutes and yet ANOTHER slapping machine! (Sorry, no Ernesto Hoost to shove the poor sap's face into the thing.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8og_iQrwbQ&search=silent%20library) Oh, and do you know that people get teabagged in that show?

Anyway, I think we can make this the official TTLG Weird-Ass Japanese TV Clips Thread. So, to add to this post...

(http://www.zippyvideos.com/4640462704679316/bowling_challenge/) Why the hell do these girls have to bend over and walk around in circles around a baseball bat in a bowling contest? Fan service?

(http://www.zippyvideos.com/4775690664679116/musical_couple/) The faces on these guys freak me out somehow...

(http://media.putfile.com/krazeekontestants1) And, of course, who can resist the perennial favorite, Takeshi's Castle?

(http://media.putfile.com/kkontestant) Some more TC footage-beware of cross-dressing, flashing Native Americans!

(http://media.putfile.com/Krazeee-Kontestant-4) Here, we have a guy who can't stop movin' and groovin'!

(http://media.putfile.com/bestof21) More general TC goodness, notables being guys who get repeatedly stoned, one smart contestant who walks on the walls of the Square Maze, people getting their pants pulled off, and more!

(http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/really-terrible-ways-to-wake-up-on.html) Here's some wake-up calls!

(http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/04/launching-humans-off-dock.html) Another funny thing to do to hapless people, also involving rockets!

(http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/04/after-school-electromagnetic-wave-club.html) More "WTF?" material!

(http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/four-way-ping-pong-plus-silver-suits.html) Finally, we have something that could be potentially hilarious if I could just understand what the hell they were saying!

(*looks back at post* Did I set a record for "most links ever found in a post"?)

metal dawn on 24/6/2006 at 03:52

Quote Posted by NamelessPlayer

Those links I posted sure as hell weren't Silent Library.

I posted that because all reality shows are the SAME to ME, 'K?

Whoa, that's a lot of links. Suddenly I'm compelled to watch now, in spite of myself. Damn.

NamelessPlayer on 24/6/2006 at 13:29

Quote Posted by metal dawn

I posted that because all reality shows are the FUCKING SAME to ME, 'K?

Um, yeah. Still, it doesn't seem that anyone around here knows where to find some more damn episodes of the show I'm referencing. I think I might as well delete the damn topic, since it seems to be going absolutely nowhere.

The only problem? I CAN'T DELETE MY OWN DAMN TOPICS! So I guess this means that this thread will just sit here doing ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING. Oh well.

Myoldnamebroke on 24/6/2006 at 14:38

We could stop that happening, if only we tried

demagogue on 24/6/2006 at 18:58

This stuff is definately on the *love* side of most Westerners love-hate relationship living in Japan (of which I was one).

I remember one, wish I could find it, they gave a guy like 2 weeks to paddle one of those leg paddle boats from the north tip of Japan to Tokyo bay, and they'd give him some huge vacation package. He literally missed it by like an hour. So they gave him another chance if he paddled back to the tip (no time limit this time). So he did it. And the cameras ran up met him, exhausted but his eyes lit up, and they announced this huge vacation package to Korea, with grand hotels, and dinners, and huge shopping vouchers, and cash when he got to Korea, etc, etc...

Then they said: But we weren't able to book any air or boat tickets, so you'll have to paddle yourself there. The guy looked down at his paddle boat and looked so dejected. Hahahahaha!! I laughed so hard. Poor guy.

Another regular show that I liked was where they offer some girl like $10,000 if her boyfriend is able to resist the advances of another woman. She agrees and they hire a hot actress to find her boyfriend and start tempting him, and she's wearing a hidden camera so the girlfriend and host and everyone watching tv can see. First she flirts with him, asks him to coffee, then maybe a little walk, then she has to get something from her apartment, can he help her a little... and at each stage the girlfriend has to watch, so nervous. And literally like 90% of the time the girl invites the guy into her bedroom and he goes in, and the real girlfriend watches in shock and disgrace on live tv and starts crying while the host cracks some joke and laughs. Ha ha!!

Man, US reality shows don't have nothin' on the Japanese.

Also, in case you didn't know Takeshi's Castle has an awesome American dub on Spike TV (cable) called MXC (Most Extreme Challenge). If you do a search for that you might be able to run into a lot of episodes that way.

NamelessPlayer on 24/6/2006 at 21:18

Quote Posted by demagogue

I wonder if he can make it before the vacation package expires...all while he has a big fat "OWNED" stamp on his face! Zing!

Quote Posted by demagogue

Another regular show that I liked was where they offer some girl like $10,000 if her boyfriend is able to resist the advances of another woman. She agrees and they hire a hot actress to find her boyfriend and start tempting him, and she's wearing a hidden camera so the girlfriend and host and everyone watching tv can see. First she flirts with him, asks him to coffee, then maybe a little walk, then she has to get something from her apartment, can he help her a little... and at each stage the girlfriend has to watch, so nervous. And literally like 90% of the time the girl invites the guy into her bedroom and he goes in, and the real girlfriend watches in shock and disgrace on live tv and starts crying while the host cracks some joke and laughs. Ha ha!!

Man, US reality shows don't have nothin' on the Japanese.

I wonder what would happen if that show aired in the US...anyway, since I don't have much to say in response to that, I might as well add (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/puppet-female-host-feel-guests-boobs.html) a video of young girls fondling each other's mammaries, among other things. WTF material, if you ask me(especially if you read some translations in the comments!).

Quote Posted by demagogue

Also, in case you didn't know Takeshi's Castle has an awesome American dub on Spike TV (cable) called MXC (Most Extreme Challenge). If you do a search for that you might be able to run into a lot of episodes that way.

I've seen loads of MXC episodes already, and I'm looking for a change-namely, the original material. I've also seen some bits of UK episodes(which lack the comedy skits)and an episode or two of Humor Amarillo, the español equivalent. Yet after all of this trouble, I've yet to find an original Japanese episode...

That said, I wonder if they'll restart the series or something. Everyone decided to quit while it was still good...maybe-just maybe-it can go for a few more seasons before starting to get boring? (Bah, like it'll ever get boring. Hell, I want to compete, even at the risk of painful humiliation of some sort!)

Now that I think about it, the only problem I see with Japanese TV is deciding what the hell out of all that priceless footage to watch! They have practically everything! People trying to complete challenges and take down the head of some castle for 1,000,000 yen? Check. People in a library taking cards to see who has to undergo some torture and not utter a sound? Check. (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/cute-girls-spelling-out-words-with.html) Girls shaking their assets over a fan that blows up their skirts? Check! (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/hard-gays-weakness-nipple-tweaks.html) Nipple torture of some guy called *cough*Hard Gay*cough*? Check! (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/japans-got-talent-gong-show-physical.html) Talent shows with trap doors instead of talent? Check! (http://tvinjapan.blogspot.com/2006/06/japanese-jackass-lots-of-stunts.html) People being jackasses? Check!

I think it would be best to stop here before I get carried away to the point that the entirety of TTLG is drowned in links to videos of random Japanese TV footage...

demagogue on 27/6/2006 at 16:24

This is going to at first sound totally off topic, but it's sort of funny how it connects, and anyway I feel like telling the story. It's about law though, so if that bores you, now you know.

So Japan is thinking about increasing the passage rate of its bar exam. Until now it's been like 2%, which is absurdly low (to give some comparison, the New York bar pass rate is just under 80%). So the proportion of lawyers to people is incredibly low.

Anyway, at NYU we (profs and a few students interested in Japan like me) just had a round-table discussion with some Japanese professors, lawyers, ministers, etc, involved in the debate. The gov't is trying to keep the pass rate very low (maybe 8-10%), while a lot of us on the US side, and a few Jpnse reformist are trying to push it much higher (60%+). One of the Japnse gov't's arguments is that Japanese people just don't sue very often; it's not their preferred manner of dispute resolution (they like harmony, non-adversarial, etc...), and flooding the market with lawyers would be bad because they'd have nothing to do, no market.

And a lot of the Americans were trying to argue that's bullshit; they don't sue because there aren't enough lawyers to let them know they can. They just don't know it's possible. Get lawyers out there and they are smart people, they'll create new markets if they want work, and see if Kenji doesn't start suing Nippon TV's ass for publically humiliating him.

And then I suddenly thought about all these tv shows. The reason you can't find these in America -- seriously, look at the rocket chair one -- is that an American would sue in a heartbeat. I mean, seriously, a random guy, without warning, naked, suddenly exposed in public, on a rocket chair, that crashes, in the snow... The Jpnse guy laughs it off; never even dreams there is something "wrong" here. And the reason Japan can be so hard core about this stuff is that they put a choke hold on the number of lawyers that give people ideas.

All this makes me wonder if the gov't wants to keep people from becoming lawyers not because they are so worried about the lawyers finding work, but they are actually worried that they *will* find work and Japanese society will be transformed ... no more hardcore reality tv, (no more corporal punishment of students in school, no more boss-style city management, no more...).

But in the case of their reality tv, it's one thing I can admit would be sorely missed. Nobody does public punishment/disgrace better, or makes it more funny.