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Hello, Child Protective Services? Yes....bring the striaghtjacket, and the tazer. Make sure it's got a full charge.

The kid CLEARLY enjoys it.

They're playing "Spiderman" together! It's cute!

............ (Yes Malloy is speechless. Call Guiness. And not the BRILLIANT one either.)

What the frell? Or is that frack?

-Fred

Eh..I think you've had better.

Reminds me of that game where you wear a velcro suit and stick yourself to the wall.

DrPaul wrote:Reminds me of that game where you wear a velcro suit and stick yourself to the wall.

That game is in Takeshi's Castle, where they have to swing on a rope then let go and splat themselves against a wall and hopefully stay there (or fall into muddy water and get sprayed by white dust). Weird and wonderful Japanese gameshow.

It's at about 2 minutes into this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ifyzymks9M4

There's lots of clips on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=i_C2b6KnrmE

Takeshi's castle?! I always thought that was called Most Extreme, or something. They show that Japanese gameshow here in the states on Spike TV, only they redub it in English. I'm pretty sure that they don't say the same things the people on the screen did. Which makes it that much more funny. (Oh god, it's hilarious)

It's called "Takeshi's Castle" in Germany. Since this is an English title (and not German) I guess this is the original title of the show in Japan.
Even the clips are from the German television in case you didn't notice. Japanese sounds a little bit different than German.

It's shown on Challenge here in the UK and is called Takeshi's Castle (yeah I think that's the original title). They don't dub it here, instead they get Craig Charles (Dave Lister from Red Dwarf) to add commentary, he's pretty good The American version, Most Extreme, is also shown at a different time slot on Challenge here. I've not yet seen it. I heard mixed opinions from UK viewers on the dubbed version, some didn't seem to really like some of the humour, others thought it was hilarious. It is supposed to be totally different to whats actually being said for comedy yeah. I need to see it for myself, but the time slot has never been convenient, I think dubbing it sounds fun. I love watching decent parody dubs and if you've ever seen Whose Line Is It Anyway, my favourite games are the dubbing ones like Film Dub and Sound Effects.

I've never heard of or seen that show, but has anyone seen Ninja Warrior? It's aired on G4 here. Now THAT is great programming.

I'd love to see the original Takeshi's Castle. I've seen many episodes of MXC, which is an amusing show. However, MXC splices segments from different Takeshi's Castle episodes together. I'd just like to see a Takeshi's Castle episode from start to finish.

Can somebody describe this program?

Well, MXC is basically like this.

The show usually opens up in some dojo, where the japanese announcers for the show are redubbed to say some funny stuff.

Then you go to a group shot of all the competitors, (Who usally have funny group names) and they all get redubbed to say funny stuff, then they all run down a hill.

Then from there basically it's a competition between the two teams doing outrageous and zany stunts for points, in an effort to try and beat the other team. Such activites are like the above stated fly on the wall, a game where you try to reach the top of a mountain area, while they're rolling these huge balls down the mountain in effort to stop you. A game where you get into a teacup, and they push you down a very steep cliff into water, and you try not to tip the cup over all the way down, or after the landing. A game where you try to run across a stone laden path over water, only, some of the stones sink, with disaterous results. It's really funny to me. Basically just a whole bunch of people getting pwned, and then one schmuck finally wins. It happens like that for almost every event. On MXC anyway.