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Halfunit
Member
09-02-2001
| Monday, February 02, 2004 - 6:08 pm
Is anyone, other than Unit and myself, watching this show? There really isn't much to talk about it, but I wanted to post this so that you remember to watch it, if you can. It is one of the funniest shows we've ever seen - we howl in laughter everytime it's on!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:48 am
}At first I thought it would be great to watch with kids....you know, like Funniest Videos! Then I started noticing the "american soundtrack" and the sexual and semi graphic language. This show is very clever the way it has taken the Old Japanese game show Takahashi's Castle and changed it into a hilarious SPIKE TV show. The jokes are fast paced and the "IMPACTS of the DAY" are Great (even in painful slow-mo) I am thinking that no one is discussing this show here because it is not really "reality" TV
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 11:42 am
I've only been watching Spike TV for Slamball, so now I'll have to record a few episodes of this and see how I like it. Sounds like it has potential, but is hidden on a channel that many people either don't get or don't usually watch.
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Gemma120in2002
Member
07-05-2003
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 12:01 pm
We watch it, and I have to say that the American soundtrack is too nasty for kids. It is hilarious, but I don't want my daughter going to school repeating any of that! LOL! I get enough phone calls from school already! Last week we were watching it and my husband asked me to rewind a scene (Thank you DVR) and I did. It was the giant log rolling thing where people are running across these spinning logs. This poor guy fell and his arm broke in several places! It just accordioned under him! The voiceover may not be real, but these people really get hurt badly.
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 12:14 pm
Yeah, I've seen a bunch of episodes of this. I am just astounded by how dangerous the events are. It is hard to pick any one event to hold up as an example, but just for example, the one where they are hopscotching across the pond, and some of the platforms appear to be...oh, I don't know, concrete, and some are floaty things. Watching them bound across, stumble, then do a face plant, or a rib crunching into the stationary platforms is stunning. I have it on sometimes at night as a distraction when safely surfing the web, it can be amusing when you are not cringing from either the danger, or the voiceovers. 
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Halfunit
Member
09-02-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:02 pm
Crossfire - that game is called "Sinkers and Floaters", and you made me LOL with your paragraph.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:48 pm
my husband watches this all the time. you ever watch 'em do "sinkers and floaters" when they're in their costumes?? i worry about some of those people drowning! i have to say the commentary sometimes is pretty dang funny compared to what they must really be saying!
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Crossfire
Member
08-07-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 1:55 pm
Yeah, that's the one Half. Crazy crazy program...its hard not to look. Hehehe.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - 2:22 pm
I watched this one man do "Sinkers and Floaters" he he face planted (luckily) on a sinker... If he had landed on a "floater," I don't think he'd have a face anymore I love MXC!! It's hilarious, and I always cringe at least once every show. My favourite game though, would have to be "H*nd Job" (Just in case that's on the list of bad words ) the people running around in the giant hands is hilarious. Also, the one where they're "bombs" and the game's like "red light-green light"... I'm not sure what they call that one..
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 5:18 pm
This is my favorite show - I must be totally sadistic to enjoy this so much! I love "Dash to Death", it reminds me of a video game with real people. I also like the one where they splat like bugs on the house-like thing after swinging over on a rope. I guess they have velcro on their outfits to stick like that. The red light/green light thing where they look like big blueberries is pretty funny as well as that horse race thing.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, February 06, 2004 - 11:26 am
Oh heck, this show is hilarious! The voice overs are something else! Definitely not for kids, but then what on Spike is? I too like the splat thing and the log roll thing. Where do they get this stuff? ROFL!!
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Pantageas
Member
02-05-2003
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 2:32 pm
I admit it. I watch it every time a new one is on. And I laugh hilariously every time. And give credit where credit is due - as funny as it may be to see someone fall and crack their tailbone( ), it wouldn't be half as funny without the commentary from the voiceover artists and what-I-have-to-assume-is-a-permanantly-intoxicated group of writers!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 4:18 pm
AW Darn, BIG SURPRISE!! I just searched Takeshi's Castle and found that the American's stole the UK's Craig Charles idea.(Lister from RedDwarf and ROBOTWARS spacechannel) HE is the one who had put an english soundtrack to the show years ago. http://www.count-takeshi.tk/ HEY, it looks like there are sites with games etc
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Cancunkid
Member
10-01-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 1:25 pm
I admit I watch it and even worse I watch it with a friend long distance over the phone. Bless SWB for that all the calls 29.00. She used to live here and we would watch tv together all the time so sometimes we can watch hours of the goofiest stuff. This is a favorite, along with Jackass and Wild Boyz. I love when they wear the horse costumes with the roller skates humiliating yes but not as dangerous. The Japanese have always had game shows that just seem so extreme. I had a friend who used to send me videos from Japan because he just couldn't believe the things people would do for money. I remember one where people were strapped to the paddles on the back of a paddle wheeler boat. Around and around through the water....ugh how do you not drown?
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Halfunit
Member
09-02-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 1:49 pm
C-kid, that is soooo sweet to laugh long distance like that!! Reminds me of myself and Unit before we co-habitated. He'd read me true crime stories over the phone, rotfl!
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