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"Takeshi's Castle"

Anyone who's got cable will find ithard pressed to miss this golden plum on the Challenge TV tree. It's the most sadistic, cruel, humiliating, racists, sexist programme there is - and it's also the funniest thing I've seen for ages. In a nutshell, 100 crazy Japanese nutcases go about hurting themselves in the most degrading fashions imaginable. Picture if you will, riding a giant lizard rodeo whilst trying to hit a giant pink bat with a water pistol. That's one of the games. Lose and you're out forever! The best one is when they have to cross this wobbly bridge whilst they're pelted with rubber cannon balls. This bloke yesterday got hit in the back of the head, which caused his fdace to smack the edge of the bridge and he fell off. Ouch.

They had a kids special (more like "special kids") the other day...except they played the same adult-sized games as the adults. Those crazy Japs.

Indeeed.

I like the one where they go down the slide in the teacup, only ever seen 1 person not fall out.
Quality program, shows how It's A Knockout should be done

Yea it's quite amusing to see grown people in bird suits but other than that not that funny.

Now Avalance that's a funny game. I couldn't stop laughing for about 5 minutes when the contestant and about 2 guards got rolled all the way back down the hill with about 12 boulders after them. Now that's comedy.

monkey_man wrote:
> Has anyone seen that game where they dress in the bird costume and are
> winched across a pond, whilst simultaneously trying to catch a golden
> egg with their legs? It's as wacky as it sounds, but they only had a
> glimpse of it in the opening credits. It wouldn't surprise me if
> somebody got killed on it...
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Yeah, I've seen it. Once. It wasn't that good really.

Been watching it for ages on Sky and still haven't got bored off it.

Has anyone seen that game where they dress in the bird costume and are winched across a pond, whilst simultaneously trying to catch a golden egg with their legs? It's as wacky as it sounds, but they only had a glimpse of it in the opening credits. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody got killed on it...

I made a topic about this a few months ago. Damn you to hell! :D

I like Rice Bowl Down Hill :D

indeed extremly crazy

Starlight wrote:
> I remember seeing something like this a few years back
>
> One game was getting all the contestants to lie down with the seas
> tide going over them, they then get some nose plugs that pull open
> wide the nostrils while the tip of the seas salty water flows right up
> them.
>
> And there were many crazy others involving spiders, scorpions, horses
> and beer.


That was Endurance i think.



And yes there have been some winners on Takeshi but it doesn't seem like they win anything other than the honour of storming the castle. All that pain and no prize. Crazy.

I first saw Takeshi's Castle in Spain on German TV. It was hilarious and I didn't expect to see it again. It's good they have brought it over here. I haven't missed an episode yet. It is total crazyness.