10 Most Insane Moments from Japanese TV
Japanese TV: think people hurting themselves in weird and unusual ways, games in which the only prizes are naked chicks, and panties. Lots of them. Absurdly obsessive amounts of them. We’ve compiled a list of some of the weirdest moments from Japanese TV – although to be honest, there’s plenty that was too fruity for us to show. Says it all about what they like to watch, really. Anyway, check it out…
10. Pantyhose Tug of War
We all know the Japanese are utterly enthralled by anything and everything to do with girls’ underwear. They also love taking simple, innocent enough games and whacking in a pair of panties or a nipple just to spice things up. Unfortunately, the rest of the world just thinks they’re a bit weird. Check out these two meatheads, whose idea of fun is placing pantyhose over their heads and competing in a tug of war. We struggle to understand exactly what the winner hopes to gain. Check out the face of the guy in white at 20 secs – you wouldn’t want him going through your mum’s underwear draw (you probably wouldn’t want anyone doing that, to be honest).
9. Insect Freak Show
Possibly one of the weirdest things we’ve seen all year. Apparently this guy has the ability to make insects perform circus tricks, using… his finger. We’re not sure whether to be amazed or repulsed, or whether we simply don’t care. Knowing the Japanese, what is amazing is that he doesn’t use his powers to magic a pair of panties onto those flies.
8. Dizzy Bowling
A Japanese girl, dressed in maid’s costume, dizzies herself by spinning around on a baseball bat – giving the obligatory glimpse of panties, naturally – before making a pathetic attempt to send a bowling ball down the lane and collapsing to the floor. And it gets weirder: from nowhere an utterly random and insane bunny girl fantasy suddenly appears. Are these people on crack or something?
7. Transsexual MRI Scan
This seems to have absolutely no point whatsoever. A bunch of men, dressed as nurses (why we ask?), undergo MRI scans. But there’s an oh-so-hilarious catch – as they slide into the chamber they are met, face-to-face by… another face. The result? After this side-splittingly unfunny experience, many of these dudes seem genuinely psychologically traumatized.
6. Naked Body Surfing
“Wait. We’ve just had a killer idea. Take one aging, slightly balding, bespectacled Japanese man. Grease him up and get him to run full pelt (which is pathetically slow in his case) towards a line of horizontal bikini-clad babes, before diving on them and seeing how far he can slide across their firm, naked flesh.” Who the hell went through that thought process and came to the conclusion it was a great idea for TV – more importantly, how didn’t the guy in the video get wood?
5. Bikini Balance Beam
We’re willing to bet the guys that dreamed up this one had consumed a fair bit of sake. It’s so cliched it’s actually brilliant. Get loads of hot chicks, whack them in bikinis, and make them fight (or in their case, feebly grapple) to stay on a beam. Simple but effective, this is classic lad’s entertainment at its most meaningless. The winner even gets to pull the string on a confetti loaded exploding ball. Genius.
4. Boob Ringing
You might want to make sure nobody is looking over your shoulder when you watch this one – it basically boils down to a few hyper Japanese guys running around fondling the boobs of mannequins placed in a variety of suggestive poses. Totally inexplicable, but somehow endlessly fascinating.
3. Unraveling Dress
This is definitely an idea we should think about exporting from Japan. A load of men wearing nappies (ok, we don’t need that part) bust their guts turning a giant wheel that gradually, tantalizingly unravels the threads of girls’ clothes, leaving them standing in – you guessed it – their underwear! Just check out the anguished looks of genuine concern from the dudes watching when they fear the guys on the wheel will run out of steam before they get to see the final girl’s hooters. As her naked nipples are slowly uncovered men collapse and are thrown off the wheel in agony, but they gallantly keep going (as any true gentleman would in the situation), using the famous industrious Japanese work-ethic to repeatedly jump back on for one final, kamikaze push. And boy, are they rewarded.
2. Peepshow
This basically just leaves us speechless. The mysterious thought that lies behind putting a man on a giant bungee and getting him to run towards a woman behind a screen and throw balls to knock it down… well, it’s just bizarre. And yes, that’s right, she is in only her underwear. Predictably.
1. Sniper Prank
They say Japanese prank shows are the best in the world. Well, yes. If your idea of ‘best’ means the pranks they play are so disturbingly realistic, their victims have to spend several years in institutions recovering. The look of sheer horror on this guy’s face as his buddies are brutally gunned down is not a pleasant sight – and what’s worse is watching his reaction. Like most of us, he doesn’t try to play the hero, or even tend to his wounded pals, but drags himself into the corner of the room, wetting himself, and thinking only of saving his own skin. This truly is closer to cruelty than entertainment.
Written by Julian on March 24th, 2010 | Tagged as: TV
On March 25th 2010, Gigaelk wrote:
Number 7 is from the Japanese show Batsu-Game (punishment game) shown every new year. The “dudes” are famous comedians, and the nurses outfits are part of the theme for that year. The idea is to make them laugh, and punish them if they do. Punishments range from being hit with a stick, to having a dart fired into their ass.
The show lasts for hours, and I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. :p
On March 25th 2010, Rockstar Sid wrote:
GOD!! Those are some real games ‘we’ really ought to watch.
Awesome list.. am always amused with the Japanese way of living. Must be amazing!
On March 25th 2010, Joe WOods wrote:
Wow, Japanese TV totally ROCKS
RT
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On March 25th 2010, feitclub wrote:
You are fond of describing these scenes as “no point” or “inexplicable” but if you bothered to investigate you’d learn exactly what was going on in at least half of these clips.
And as far as “what they like to watch” on TV, this is hardly a representative sampling. Most Japanese TV is shockingly dull.
On March 25th 2010, ae wrote:
The person making the bug turn upside down is a young girl, not a guy.
On March 26th 2010, Alfred Garcia wrote:
Everyone should understand that the tub of water in #2 is full of VERY hot water
On April 8th 2010, wobbel wrote:
I knew the Japanese are slighly out of their minds, but now they are just sick. How long before they will kill, execute and torture eachoter for fun like the Romans in the Collosseum. What will be their programs for next year? Chop of your best friends arm, cook it and eat it to win 1 million yen? Throw a newborn child the furthest to win a luxurious car?
On April 11th 2010, nin wrote:
@ wobbel
(1) This is fun – your examples are not funny.
(2) It's a selection. This is not what you see on Japanese TV all the time.
On May 6th 2010, microphone wrote:
I think western shows like jack-ass or dirty sanchez are still more sick than these ones. I don’t understand what gives you the right to be so condescending even though you clearly know nothing about geinin or japanese tv.
On September 9th 2010, oinkoink wrote:
Chill out, it’s just done for laughs.
Most of these “game shows” are not the same thing as game shows in Western countries, with normal people coming to win prize money.
All the people who participate in Japanese “game shows”are usually famous, and they are paid for all the stunts they do. It’s part of their job to make people watching TV laugh, so the “game” is made to be funny, not necessarilly to be won