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japanese tv [Sun, 15-Jan-2006 11:08 PM]
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You've probably seen "japanese girls in meat hats versus the giant lizard", but have you also seen "japanese girls versus the giant black man", and "japanese girl in seal hat versus the polar bear"?

I don't know what it is that makes these shows more entertaining than the similar crap on TV here. Maybe it's just that I can't understand them. But somehow I think that "Fear Factor" with the sound down would still just be fratboys eating bugs.

Don't hit stop on this homoriffic dance routine before the boys show up. Also here's a fire-breathing fat man doing some candyraver happy-hardcore bullshit, and for some American horror, please enjoy some Hoff and a furry stripper.

Comment below with links to more videos of absurd Japanese game shows. My scarred inner child thanks you in advance.

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[User Picture]From: [info]flipzagging
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 7:45 AM (UTC)

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[User Picture]From: [info]jeresig
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 9:05 AM (UTC)

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Holy crap... that second link is nightmare inducing!
[User Picture]From: [info]drbrain
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 8:42 AM (UTC)

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I dubbed them 'meat visors' since the meat didn't cover the top of the head.

I wonder what cut you'd need to have a full-coverage meat hat.
[User Picture]From: [info]curious_jp
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 6:09 AM (UTC)

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These folks can probably tell you.

I see occasional bits of google video'd Japanese weirdness floating out of my cutup generator but trying to watch it live on television here is just too depressing with my mediocre Japanese! Did anyone tape, what I think was the "God of Entertainment" guys on New Years Day taking turns eating the dumplings full of wasabi, cockroaches, dry flour, etc etc until one of them found the one full of Anko? I could do with seeing that again.
[User Picture]From: [info]biggeek
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 8:49 AM (UTC)

Hard Gay

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May already be passe'. Unfortunately, I can't find the one where Hard Gay is humping the back of the salariman's head.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2109163819240567189&q=hard+gay
[User Picture]From: [info]quercus
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 11:51 AM (UTC)

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Truly Little Britain has jumped its shark.
[User Picture]From: [info]drbrain
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 9:28 AM (UTC)

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There is of course watching The Ring, two clips with drinking alcohol and screaming, a trip through a horror house (that's not as cool as you'd hope), fun in amusement parks (the second one followed by "electrocution"), fun with roosters and a magic trick
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 9:55 PM (UTC)

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Wow, those were about as entertaining as watching a teenager's home movies (aka "the rest of video.google.com"). Bring back the lizard.
[User Picture]From: [info]laptop006
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 9:39 AM (UTC)

Ahh, the Hoff

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So very 80's.

Don't hassel the hoff ;-)
[User Picture]From: [info]malokai
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 10:10 AM (UTC)

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... wtf is wrong with japan?
[User Picture]From: [info]abates
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 8:52 AM (UTC)

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I think they're doing it on purpose. Their TV exec just sit around thinking about ways to freak out the rest of the world.
[User Picture]From: [info]greyface
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 11:47 AM (UTC)

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Just to let you know... the girls in the first two clips (Morning Musume) are a sing&dance crew. Sort of... Japanese Menudo, but instead of kicking members out and ending their lives/careers, members "graduate" onto solo careers...

It's a genius enterprise they have going.

Among the other COPIOUS amounts of TV coverage these girls get they has this segment where another girl in a different group (Ayaka Kimura of Coconuts Musume is Hawaiian which goes some distance to explain why her English is so clear) on the same label teaches them phrases in English. Some of them are really hilarious. There's something like 170 different lessons if you want to look for them, but here's two.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3770371647836016102
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=378000844538085641

I would have a lot more to say... but really nobody cares but me.
[User Picture]From: [info]phenyx
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 11:50 AM (UTC)

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... a pop idol incubator. Genius.
[User Picture]From: [info]kalephunk
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 1:12 PM (UTC)

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http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=video&file=06010103_ffactorjp.wmv

Japanese girls vs eels, then one poor (lucky?) naked Japanese girl vs pigs. Looks like it's on Morning Misume, too.
[User Picture]From: [info]phs
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 3:39 PM (UTC)

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I'm pretty sure this is an ad for porn, sadly. Google "soft on demand", which was in the background at one point.
[User Picture]From: [info]digital_panther
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 1:35 PM (UTC)

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I was under the impression Para Para was dead....apparently not.. Japanese line dancing...oigh...I thought this was dumb when I first saw it a Anime Expo a few years back... I still think it is dumb now.

TIll anon, DP
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 1:40 PM (UTC)

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Dear JWZ people,

please stop exploring the internet's sexuality, It really freaks us out.

signed,
the people who noticed the sex-toy gladiator match involving a 7-pound dildo and didn't mention it.
[User Picture]From: [info]flipping_hades
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 3:45 PM (UTC)

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Wow, it's kinda like Blood of Heroes, but in a high school yard.
[User Picture]From: [info]styroteqe
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 1:57 PM (UTC)

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not a game show.. but.. still disturbing japan-engrish translations of "porn book speak"

http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/newtdr/NEWtdrARCHIVE/6diary/sexbook2/1.html
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 3:51 PM (UTC)

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who can forget yatta


and Japanese Spiderman
[User Picture]From: [info]kolene
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 7:31 PM (UTC)

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You are by far the coolest person on LJ.
[User Picture]From: [info]cactusjack1999
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 8:21 PM (UTC)

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The "Giant Black Man" is Pro Wrestler and K-1 fighter Bob Sapp.

He's pretty popular in Japan for his goofy ways and such. Not much of a fighter though...
[User Picture]From: [info]saintnobody
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 9:27 PM (UTC)

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this is old news, and not a game show, but tokyo breakfast never stops being an uncomfortably hilarious freakshow.
[User Picture]From: [info]pyrop
Mon, 16-Jan-2006 10:46 PM (UTC)

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"Morning Musume all have meat strapped to their heads! It really feels like Christmas now!"
[User Picture]From: [info]cacepi
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 12:01 AM (UTC)

You've Probably Seen This, But...

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[User Picture]From: [info]lord_knusper
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 2:21 AM (UTC)

a friend told me it's a music video

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chichiren
(or, mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile chichiren.wmv -playlist http://61.193.185.133/tma/yokoku/chichiren.wmv)
[User Picture]From: [info]robofigher_zx9
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 2:23 AM (UTC)

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Haw haw, their culture is different.
From: [info]drk_harlequin
Wed, 18-Jan-2006 1:23 AM (UTC)

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Dude, this goes so far beyond "A different culture."

A different culture is "Wow, they wear red at a wedding"

Putting a meat hat on a pop singer, then siccing a komodo dragon on her ass is a kind of screwed up that we can't approach as just a basic cultural difference.
[User Picture]From: [info]triggur
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 3:11 AM (UTC)

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I've begun compiling a list of Japanese WTF.

Natch, it's not entirely work-safe.

Clicky
[User Picture]From: [info]kalephunk
Tue, 17-Jan-2006 9:35 AM (UTC)

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Japanese Up-skirt footage taken by a guy who strapped a camera to a cyooty-wooty widdle doggie's collar. kawaii!

[User Picture]From: [info]gutbloom
Wed, 18-Jan-2006 2:34 AM (UTC)

I'm Kind of Disappointed

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How come nobody mentioned Shingo Mama no oHa?

Someone on my friends page linked to this a long time ago. Everyone is happy to link to the weird and prurient Japanese videos but what about the up-tempo, happy, cross-dressing, uniformed fun fests?

Now, I know the cynics on JWZ's list won't buy my assertion that our culture would be well served by an injection of Japanese cuteness and levity, but I ask you all to ponder one simple question: could American television ever come up with something this frivolous?

The answer is "no" and the reason is that despite our insistance that we have liberated ourselves, the Puritans and Calvanists still have us by the balls.
[User Picture]From: [info]mark_thisorthat
Tue, 24-Jan-2006 4:04 AM (UTC)

Furry Stripper

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There is a lot more American Game Show entertainment that goes with that Furry Stripper mentioned above. Its from This or That! Americas Favorite Burlesque Game Show:

http://thisorthat-video.blogspot.com
[User Picture]From: [info]maradydd
Thu, 23-Feb-2006 8:32 AM (UTC)

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