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"Takeshi's Castle; Is it good or bad?"

Has anyone seen this show on Trouble or Challenge? It's a show that they do in Japan and then the executive-producers pull Craig Charles away from his curries and he provides his voice to the show.

It's the best thing to come out of Japan as well as Shigeru Miyamoto!

Hmm i feel as though i may have to watch this..

monkey_man wrote:
> They kind of up-the-ante a bit, once watching adults getting hurt gets
> boring, they bring their kids along. I saw one where they tied 50
> kids up in sacks, and the parents had to find their children by
> running amongst the sacks grabbing the hands sticking out. Scary.

That's how the Chinese psychiatry business will get a predicted boom in about 10 to 15 years time.

It's the greatest

They kind of up-the-ante a bit, once watching adults getting hurt gets boring, they bring their kids along. I saw one where they tied 50 kids up in sacks, and the parents had to find their children by running amongst the sacks grabbing the hands sticking out. Scary.

It has a transitionary effect, thus:

insane > hilarious > stupid > pitiful > boring

Daft and hilarious after watching 10 or 20 episodes, but gets boring after a that.

Ive seen it when ive channel hopped on sky. However never really watched it. is it worth watching?

It's funny because people actually get seriously hurt, but still come away with a smile on their face. I saw a woman almost get split in half by a giant domino, by God it was amusing.

I stopped watching after I saw someone actually win it. It was most disappointing; the program just ended as normal.

I don't think the program was intended to be "good" or "bad", it's just funny and daft.

Touching on what Matt said though, you can watch it too much.