Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

[Lilifreid]

Ok, who's seen this show? A very small part of me says I should be horrified. The vast majority is too busy rolling around on the floor laughing to argue I just wondered who else might be enjoying the show. For those who haven't seen it:

It's on TNN (which they're trying to rename Spike TV, but they're having legal difficulties). Basically, they got the rights to the footage from a Japanese game show, and they are running English dialogue over it. The English dialogue has no relation to the original dialogue. The show revoles around a bunch of bizarre physical feats. And the end result is hilarious. I am recommending it to everyone I know.

[Lucresia]

Strange, hehe. Never heard of it before. What times/days is it on?

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[Lilifreid]

At least around here, it's on Saturday at 9pm, Sunday at 8pm. 2 half hour episodes each day.

[Lucresia]

Damn, can't check it out tonight; got softball.

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[Pablo]

It's my favorite show...EVER! I laugh uncontrollably every time. I feel like an idiot, but it's freakin' hilarious. Did you see the one with the huge football players?

[This message has been edited by Pablo (edited 06-22-2003 06:06 PM).]

[rlp]

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge? Reminds me of Takeshi's Castle. Another Japanese game show. Perhaps they're the same one, just with different names.

[ctrlaltdel]

i would guess it's takeshi's. we get the show on a german tv, but i have no reason to believe the german translation has nothing to do with original japanese.

my favorite is the rolling cylinders above the river/water pit.

[Lilifreid]

Yeah, it's footage from Takeshi's Castle, but I suspect they cut out almost anyone who is successful in a challenge

[referee]

Is it that show where a typical test is cross a series of rolling logs, and another is an obstacle-course riding on a spinning flamingo?

[Beartalon]

Yes it is.

It's hilarious - both the competitions and the English over-dub.

[EEEM]

I've seen it once and I laughed my ass off.

[ctrlaltdel]

well they begin with some 140 contestants, so you only see the highlights

[Aarondalf]

Nah, the best is when they have to run through the doors. Some are paper, others are wood, or brick or something.

I cry because I laugh so hard.

[Pablo]

Even when they break through the paper ones, they usually end up face-first in the mud on the other side.

[Aarondalf]

*sighs dreamily*

[DrJones]

It's not Takeshi's Castle. Takeshi's Castle is one of the best shows I've ever seen. However, The Most Extreme Elimination Challenge is a sadistic show.

There are some of the challenges:

- Playing table tennis with a bowl ball, with the head.
- Being the last in drop a paper on fire.
- Hug a cylinder that is aboce a river with real crocodriles.
- answer questions with a scorpion in your head.

[ctrlaltdel]

woa.. a scorpion in your head?? as in, inside??

can i chose to hold it in my mouth then? (rather than, creating an improptu hollow somewhere else within my head)

[Lilifreid]

Um... over the end credits, there's big letters that say "Footage from Takeshi's Castle"