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Tackling the tough questions

Enough of the Middle East. Via Undercover in Japan, TV in Japan found a show that settles another age-old debate. Namely, who's better at trampoline-jumping: guys in leopard costumes with fake boobs, or guys in baby-blue policeman outfits with vinyl diapers?

Actually, neither of them is very good at it.

Posted by GaijinBiker on 07.24.2006 at 1:36am
Topics: Japan, Teh Funny

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Mordwyn (mail):

Um, WTF?!?

7.24.2006 3:53am

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Dangerous Dan (mail) (www):

Ya know, I watch clips like this and of some of the Japanese shows ported over to America, I've watched anime and played some video games with a Japanese bent... and I can safely say that I will never understand what's going through the Japanese mind when it comes to entertainment. While I find some or even most of it highly amusing and/or creative, I can't help but think, "How in the world did they come up with this?"

7.24.2006 6:33am

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langtry (mail):

Are they jumping into a pool of battery acid? And what's with the bowls of ice they are wiping all over themselves when they jump out of the pool?

I would actually watch something like this "if it were on American TV. "Jackass" is in the same vein, isn't it? And I think that's a whole lot funnier and more creative than yet another knock-off of "Friends", which I could never stand anyway.

7.24.2006 11:42pm

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GaijinBiker (mail) (www):

The water is painfully hot. The ice is there to cool them down.

7.25.2006 8:46am

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langtry (mail):

"The water is painfully hot. The ice is there to cool them down."

Now that is twisted.

7.25.2006 11:04pm

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DavesWagon (www):

Wasn't there some Japanese gameshow where the host ladeled boiling-hot water onto women in bathing suits or something? You really need to do a post explaining this kind of thing. YouTube is rife with examples.

7.31.2006 7:38am

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GaijinBiker (mail) (www):

There is a longstanding tradition of Japanese game shows that submit contestants to treatment that would make the Abu Ghraib guards cringe. I believe this genre was the inspiration for America's "Fear Factor".

7.31.2006 8:36am

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DavesWagon (www):

Japanese Gameshow Host: "Your shows reward knowledge; we punish ignorance."

Homer: "Ignor-what?" (flames shoot from his microphone)

7.31.2006 10:24am

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