I Survived A Japanese Game Show Is So Year Of The Sheep
Next week, ABC is premiering a new reality show called I Survived a Japanese Game Show, in which a group of would-be American reality stars get on the bus to go to STD Mansion only to find out they're being flown to Japan. Once there, they will compete in "OUTRAGEOUS" events that involve jumping over water in velcro bodysuits, eating rice on treadmills, and healthy doses of benign Xenophobia (Their culture is so weird! I love it!)
Never a group to be outdone, however, the Japanese television programmers were like "we will see your gently mocking and crudely uninquisitive reappropriation of our work, and we will raise you fourteen degrees of insane visual stimulus and impenetrably obtuse cultural signifiers."
(via Boing Boing)
I take back all that stuff I said about ABC's show being unmaliciously Xenophobic, the Japanese are nuts, and I'm pretty sure that the only reason the Alien creatures who are living among us, studying our ways until their ships arrive to conquer our planet haven't decimated us yet is because they're also trying to figure out what this shit is supposed to mean.
Posted by Gabe at 4:56 PM in Reality TV, Viral Video
Tags: I Survived A Japanese Game Show
Whatever the inverse of xenophobia is (if that qualifies as being so willing to embrace and be unafraid of a culture that you forget to understand it first), that's what Japanese game shows are.
Still holding out for the Hole in the Wall game show.
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man soo lame, stop with the lame competitive game shows and just filter everything into america's got talent. they have everything. check it out.
nbc.com/americas_got_talent/video/index.shtml#mea=262137
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spoiler alert: america does not got talent
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That little red cartoon cowboy hat they've added to the guy in the bottom-left corner is what pushes this clip out of the realm of casual whatthefuck and into slack-jawed amazement.
Well done.
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