- Please tell me this is a joke...?!

Please tell me this is a joke...?!

11:37, 20-Sep-2008 .. Posted in TV Stuffs .. 8 comments .. Link

O...kay...

As I mentioned earlier, I can't get a TV signal where I curently reside, so I'm reduced to using the BBC's 'iPlayer' to keep up with my favourite TV. While browsing said site this evening, I came across something that has left me bewildered.

From the network that brought us such greatness as Doctor Who, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Life on Mars, we get d-list (and below) 'celebrities' dressed in silver lycra, trying to fit through a hole in a moving wall, all in the name of charity and entertainment.

Having browsed YouTube for the above - if only to clarify that I haven't fallen into some whiskey-induced hallucinogenic coma - I've found this exists as a Japanese show. No surprise there.

However, I've also found that there are both American and Australian versions of this incomprehensible shit.

I know our respective societies have been spiralling down the pughole for some time now, but I had, in my most fevered imaginings, never thought we'd fallen this far.

Excuse while I assume the foetal possition beneath my bed...
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12:38, 21-Sep-2008 .. Posted by sarai
I had heard of this..and never watched it, thank gawd :/

10:11, 21-Sep-2008 .. Posted by bebbet
Lucky you. I sat through two whole minutes waiting for the 'Mwahaha! Gotchya!' but it never came.

The above clip is from a different episode to the one I saw, which means they actually made more than one!

11:04, 21-Sep-2008 .. Posted by WelshPixie
o.o

*falls over*

11:11, 21-Sep-2008 .. Posted by bebbet
You couldn't get through the hole either?

09:38, 21-Sep-2008 .. Posted by Twist
There's also an Italian version, with girls in bikinis.

I didn't know we'd adopted this terrible show...

*gets on the first ferry back to Holland*

09:39, 21-Sep-2008 .. Posted by bebbet
Welcome back!

And at least a version with Italian girls in bikinis has a certain appeal.

04:31, 23-Sep-2008 .. Posted by annmi
The Japanese version is awesome, the little I've seen. But somehow I have the feeling that the English can't quite duplicate the same level of hyperactive insanity going on in the Japanese clip... aaaand this clip confirms it!
I'd much rather watch it than Big Brother!

04:51, 23-Sep-2008 .. Posted by bebbet
The one advantage this has is that it's shorter than Big Brother.

I can imagine that the show does work in Japan. It's the type of thing they do, and do well. Seeing it anywhere else, and particularly with the contestants they lined up for it, is every kind of wrong.

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