Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

[dr_mabeuse]

Am I the only one in the world who thinks this show is a scream? Who would have thought that watching Japanese people falling down would be so much fun?

Vic Romano and Kenny Blankenship rule.

---dr.M.

 

[cloudy]

I with you, Dr. M. It's probably one of the funniest shows I've ever seen (I dearly love the professions they state for the contestants).

Some of my friends don't quite get it, but I watch it every time I get the chance, and laugh until I cry almost every time.

(did you see the one where all the contestants were either porn stars or directors? )

 

[Boota]

I love MXC! Or as my nieces say, "Let's watch the idiots!" It would be funny even without the great commentary of Vic and Kenny. Somehow I don't think those are their real names, though.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

I love that show. Sometimes it's amazing they don't get hurt. But to watch them fall and make fools of themselves is great.

 

[Guest]

I do not know what you are all talking about, but I'm happy for you.

Perdita

 

[doormouse]

I'm with you perdita.

Just nod and smile, nod and smile.... backing away slowly...

 

[minsue]

I do not know what you are all talking about, but I'm happy for you.

Perdita

I'm with you perdita.

Just nod and smile, nod and smile.... backing away slowly...

Thanks goodess for you two. Glad to know I'm not the only one without a clue as to what they're talking about.

 

[Seattle Zack]

Has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen on my television.

What makes it even more hilarious is the incessant surfeit of 'reality' programming on network TV ... and some of this stuff looks like it was filmed twenty years ago. The commentary is MST3K caliber. Abolutely flawless garbage television. Two thumbs up.

 

[doormouse]

Edit: eep!!!

 

[impressive]

My kids LOVE the show. I usually hear, but not see, it 'cause I'm here -- on my computer -- out of eyeshot of the TV.

The dubbing is a riot. The sight gags I can live without.

 

[impressive]

DAMNED DOUBLE POSTS. Sorry ...

 

[SensualCealy]

Its a hit around here too!

My son's camp (12-15 yr olds) even made a ragotta ( I hope I spelt that right) as a MXC challenge. That was until one kid did a back flip off the hill that had the water slide going down it. They were to climb up the slide, but the hard part was, it was covered in dish soap, water and had someone at the top with a hose shooting water at them as they climbed. The kid got a concussion, so he was sent home for the day, he came back the next day to get hit in the head with a basket ball, he blacked out so away he went again!

The challenge was the very first thing my son told me about when he got in the car as we were leaving.

There is even talk that the kids are bringing stuff next year to make it even better.

Cealy

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I LOVE that show!

I laugh till my sides hurt most of the time. But my wife doesn't get it at all. She sits there for a minute watching it then turns to me and says, "You actually like this?" I guess it's not for everyone.



"And here's little Mari Bobaganushe. She's a former White House press secratary who got fired for giving out the First Family's dirty laundry."

"Yeah, I just bought Laura Bush's thong on ebay."

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Jeez, I don’t know if I can explain what it is. It’s a TV show that appears on the Spike Network, and what it is is clips from a Japanses game show called “Takeshi’s Castle” that requires contestants to compete in a bunch of inane stunts: running across across big rollers over a pool of water, swinging over a muddy pool to try and land on a platform, jumping onto a rotating surf-board. A lot of mud and total stupidity.

All this is overdubbed with typical earnest TV sports-type commentary by two Japanese commentators: Vic Romano, the strait-laced play-by-play man, and Kenny Blankenship, the idiotic, mind-in-the-gutter color man. In the background you can hear the crowd cheering and whistling as if it were a real sporting event and any of this stuff mattered. The commentary is in the worst juvenile gross-out tradition, with silly names, dirty references, freeze frames and replays to see girls’ underpants as they fall into the muck.

The commentary, for all its inanity, is brilliant. A guy leaning between two giant rollers on his hands and feet with his butt in the air is described as performing “a scary uncle”. An event where contestants slide down an inclined plane in a giant Japanese rice bowl is called “Irritable Bowl Syndrome”. The contestants inevitably include "Taboulie Babaganoush" and Hot Carl Jr., (who, we're informed, is the son of Hot Carl Senior)

The show is somewhere between slapstick and flat-out absurdity. I can’t do it justice. It’s embarrassing and funny at the same time.

---dr.M.

 

[CharleyH]

I am not sure if I have seen this, but I have certainly seen other Japanese (game or joke type?) shows and they have all been hilarious, as have a variety of commercials and yes, even the introduction to the Iron Chef is so fromage as to make me smile every time I see it. While nothing will replace Iron Chef, I was amused by the American version for the simple fact that producers decided to use William Shatner. Apropos. Very.

I will look out for this one though.

 

[impressive]

The commentary, for all its inanity, is brilliant.

Right you are, Ken!

 

[McKenna]

The show is somewhere between slapstick and flat-out absurdity. I can’t do it justice. It’s embarrassing and funny at the same time.

I'm amazed and fascinated at this part of Japanese culture. Granted, for all we know these are the "rednecks" of Japan out there making asses of themselves, but somehow I don't see Americans as having that ability to totally, utterly let go of their inhibitions enough to provide entertainment for the masses like that. What does it say about our -and their- culture?


On second thought, we might not have MXC, but we have people who insist on telling us what a tornado sounds like on national T.V. Or how about the cop shows with the idiot criminals? Oy.

 

[shereads]

Dammit, my cable provider doesnt carry Spike Network and I can't complain because the installers from Best Buy accidentally tripled the number of channels I receive when they delivered the TV.



Is it funnier than Iron Chef? I've tried to like Iron Chef and I think you have to be watching it with a group to laugh out loud. Like Austin Powers, it's not a solitary pursuit.

I have to agree that Vic Romano is the coolest name for a Japanese game show host ever.

Irritable Bowl Syndrome is also worth knowing about.

Now if only I could complain to Comcast without losing my extra channels...

 

[Just-Legal]

DAMNED DOUBLE POSTS. Sorry ...

Yeah, but think of the good its doing your post count. Yer nearly at the 100 mark now... start picking an AV!

 

[shereads]

Has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen on my television.

What makes it even more hilarious is the incessant surfeit of 'reality' programming on network TV ... and some of this stuff looks like it was filmed twenty years ago. The commentary is MST3K caliber. Abolutely flawless garbage television. Two thumbs up.

Zack: off topic for a moment, is the maid in your AV wearing garters or stay-up stockings?

Just wondering.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Vic: They worship Judy Garland and Judy Tenuta.

Kenny: Yeah. It's a religion known as Judy-ism.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

Mab., I don't get the Spike channel or know this show but I do know about Japanese TV from my brother who lived there for 18 years. He could make me laugh aloud merely by describing their commercials and game shows. I say without prejudice, and even some admiration, that the Japanese are among the most creatively perverse people on earth.

I hope you will continue to post descriptives for those of us outside your cable world.

Perdita