MXC--Anyone know about the actual Japanese Show?

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I have to say that show would be funny no matter in english or japenese... I am sure you can find a bit more direct through google.


Couple of fun facts about injuries occuring in these games:

Injury name Number of people who got this injury from playing Takeshi's Castle
Broken ribs 41
Broken jaws 19
Bruised chin 312
Bruised shins 282
Knocked out 9
Concussion 35
Winded 276
Fractured Skull 2
Black eye 112
Torn muscles 62

stats taken from --- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kevin.kempthorne/Takeshi/

 

What network is this on?

 

Spike TV

 

I wish I could find the actual site for the original show but dont have the time at work to do the search.

 

Think of this show as the game show equivilant to Mystery Science 3000. Vic Romano and Kenny Blankenship are actually made up names for the two creators of the show who do the wisecracking. They take splices from the entire Takeshi's Castle series (which I believe aired in the late 80s and early 90s in Japan), and weave them into a show. From what I read in a USA Today article from May, they actually sit with hours of cuts and try different jokes until they find the ones they think work. They actually did do one or two shows using college kids from Florida, I think. Other than that, it is all from the original Takeshi's castle.

You should see if you can find the USA Today article about MXC, which gives a very good explanation about the show.

 

Since I don't know what is ACTUALLY said in the Japanese dialog, I'm referring just to the English dialogue that is dubbed in. Basically, they take a scene, watch it, and make funny comments or play by play. Just as they do in MST3K, or that new sports show in ESPN Classic, the name of which escapes me.

 

Cheap Seats. Great show.

 

We showed an episode of MXC to an expat who works in Japan, hoping he'd be able to explain what was really going on. I was asking him about the group of guys always sitting behind "Kenny" and "Vic". It's almost always the same guys, but you see them go through different hairstyles (sometimes on the same MXC episode, which means they're assembling bits pretty much at random).

Our friend said they were people trying to break into comedy, and this was a good way to get national exposure. I didn't buy it, because it's the same guys apparently year after year, and they never actually do anything, other than react to what "Kenny" and "Vic" are saying.

Our friend claimed that sitting around reacting to comedians *is* a career in comedy. I guess I can't argue with that. So perhaps they're a living, onscreen laugh track.

 

SO, what is the point of the original show? I was just wondering this.

And is the original show based the same, funny dialog and not get yourself hurt?

 

I had heard here on Tivocommunity somewhere that the show was shown dubbed with proper English translations either in Canada or the UK.

 

The UK, according to the first website mentioned above.

 

The rest of the story I read somewhere on this said that there were about 40 events to storm the castle and the first person to ever complete all 40 events won a huge grand prize and the producers of the show set it up that whenever someone made it past all the events, that was the end of the show for good. (I just googled it one day and found that article)

 

What a wonderful Show.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I love Tivo

 

Orome's daily bit o' trivia: Takeshi was the evil crime boss in "Johnny Mnemonic."

 

This show is hilarious ... need to set an SP for it again!