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From Takeshi's Castle to Guacamole Bombs: TV's Weirdest Contests
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What happens when two podcast hosts decide to explore the strangest game shows on television with absolutely no preparation? Pure comedy gold.
When Hannah spontaneously suggested weird game shows as a topic mid-recording, neither of us expected to dive into such a bizarre world of entertainment. From the cult classic Takeshi's Castle with its absurd obstacle courses and foam boulders, to the ethically questionable Russian show where contestants allegedly steal cars and evade police, our reactions range from "I'd do that!" to "absolutely not."
The Japanese clearly dominate this category, creating concepts that push boundaries in ways Western television wouldn't dare. Would you participate in "Candy or Not Candy" where you bite objects to determine if they're edible? How about "Silent Library" where you perform bizarre stunts without making noise? Or perhaps "Dero" where the floor literally drops beneath you as you solve puzzles?
Our conversation weaves through physical challenges, embarrassment for entertainment, and the cultural differences in what's considered acceptable TV. We debate which shows cross ethical lines and which ones we'd actually be willing to participate in (spoiler: Hannah's fear of spiders would definitely rule out certain Australian adventures).
This completely impromptu episode captures our genuine first reactions to some truly outlandish entertainment concepts. Have a game show we missed? Or want to suggest a topic for us to discuss completely unprepared? Reach out through our social channels – we might just take on your challenge next time!
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Speaker 1Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad . Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me , davy , where we discuss our differences , similarities , share a few laughs and stories . Within our ever-changing and complex world , Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email , instagram , facebook or TikTok links in bio .
Speaker 2Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad , bonus Daughter
Introducing Weird Game Shows Topic
Speaker 2. Today we're going to be talking about weird game shows , weird game shows , weird game shows .
Speaker 1We had this idea as we Mid-podcast , mid-podcast . Hannah mentioned it and was like stop talking , let's do this as an extra podcast episode . So I have very quickly done something , whipped it up Very quickly , whipped it up in the last few moments .
Speaker 2So let's see , this is the first time we've ever done one on the fly .
Speaker 1Yeah , this is completely both of us on the fly . I don't even know what's in here . I've just done a Google and just like copy pasted and whacked it into a , into a document so this could go one of two ways this could go one of two ways , because I even I've not read this and I know you're not normally prepared , but now I'm going and completely unprepared as well .
Speaker 2So this is welcome to this very , very special episode of bonus dad bonus daughter , where neither one of us are prepared for what's going to happen yeah , this is . This is proper on the fly and we're gonna have the most outrageous reactions , I guess , yeah we should have people write our episodes we should , we should does anyone want to write an episode for us ? And we will do it completely on the fly , but it has to be appropriate yes , it has to be this is the problem ?
Speaker 2we ? We would need someone to like check it through just to make sure it's not some sort of political agenda .
Speaker 1Exactly .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , it can't be on politics , it has to be lighthearted , funny obviously , and something we can react to .
Speaker 1I've just scrolled through the document . I've just seen one on here . Oh my God , Is that actually a game show ?
Speaker 2Okay . Okay oh my god , really , is that actually a game show ? Okay , okay , from the top , then from from the top .
Speaker 1First game show that you are you . You did have an idea about doing a live stream as well , didn't you ?
Speaker 2I did . I just don't know how to do that . I was thinking instagram and instagram live of some sort complete lives there .
Speaker 1We would have to because of hannah's filthy . There would have to be a swear warning on that one .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean , I also have the ability to not swear . I just want to make that really clear , Although I do have a potty mouth and sometimes I do forget where I am when I know that I'm not allowed to swear . I would never swear at a wedding or a funeral or anything like that I'm pretty good or around children . The only time that I swear around children is if I've hurt myself or at them never at them , never at them unless they deserve it okay , so I've I've got 15 15 15 game shows let's see what they are and see , and let's go through them and a little bit of reaction to see what they're like .
Speaker 1Have you not got your laptop ? No , no , obviously you're going to be . I'm blind , blind , you're blind , blind .
Speaker 2And oh no , I have got contact lenses .
Speaker 1I was just about to say I'm not wearing my glasses . Okay , so the first one , triple blind , the first one I have heard of and I have seen it and it proper makes me laugh .
Takeshi's Castle and Physical Challenges
Speaker 2Okay , Takeshi's Castle .
Speaker 1Takeshi's Castle . Yes , I'm familiar with this . Yeah , absurd obstacle courses , giant foam boulders and slapstick chaos as contestants storm a castle . It's hilarious .
Speaker 2It is so funny . The presenters are funny .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2The contestants are funny .
Speaker 1The things that come up on the screen are funny . It's almost like reminds me of batman , like in the 70s .
Speaker 2Yeah like pow , yeah , it's very , very funny . Basically , you're watching people's uh , people failing , and I think that you know other than that . I mean , they chose to be on the show , yeah , so their embarrassment is our amusement , but they consented to that , so I feel like embarrassment is our amusement .
Speaker 1Yeah , and I feel like they consented to that .
Speaker 2Their embarrassment is our amusement , yeah , and I feel like they consented to that , so it's all good . It's all lighthearted fun , isn't it ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I'll just have a quick scroll .
Speaker 2We've got something similar in the UK called although I haven't seen it in a while Total Wipeout .
Speaker 1That's exactly where I was going with it , but it's not on the list ?
Speaker 2Yeah , which is a very similar thing , but a bit more serious , I would say um , and often the people that compete on it were like athletes , weren't they ? Generally speaking , it's a bit like ultimate ninja , but that which I think is even more serious than total wipeout , because they did get the odd random non-athletic person on total wipeout as well they had a nice mix of both athletic and balls on total wipeout the balls , I think , are the most famous part of people get completely hammered by them balls .
Speaker 1I've seen bodies fly all over the show across them .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah I think a lot of people think , oh , we'll leap across them . But then the little like frog jumps seem to work for a lot of people yeah yeah , very cool . Um , I would love to do it .
Speaker 1There's a part of me that's like I love the fact that they actually film it in argentina , because our health and safety laws won't allow it I didn't know that did you not know that ?
Speaker 2no , I remember richard hammond used to yeah , he used to present it with with someone else , like a lady in the in the green room . Yeah , yeah or no . The lady no , no , no . The lady was there in argentina .
Speaker 1He was in the green room I can't remember what her name was though just sounded like chit then oh really uh-huh yeah , uh-huh , yeah , yeah , yes .
Speaker 2So Takeshi's Castle , sorry , yes , very funny , highly recommend watching it , it's brilliant do they still show it reruns ? Yeah , that'd be so good .
Speaker 1When you're inebriated , it's so funny to me it was always a Sunday morning .
Speaker 2Just got up you know , just put that on and just like have a laugh yeah , it's very funny , it's really funny . Good show , good show .
Speaker 1Yeah but it is . It says it is a cult classic . I can 100 confirm that's a cult class , that is a cult classic . That is a cult classic , this one I would like to see okay okay , this is russian Right and it's called the Intercept .
Speaker 2Ooh , I think this is worth a discussion .
Speaker 1About ethics on this one as well , okay , because
Ethically Questionable Competition Shows
Speaker 1I've only got a one-liner on each of these , so I don't know . I haven't got much into detail , but I think questions are asked about this one . Go on then . So this is called the Intercept . It's from Russia and essentially what the premise is is that a random has to steal a car , get chased by real police and if you evade them for longer than 35 minutes , you keep the car . It's like real life GTA . Nah , that's got to be staged .
Speaker 1It's got well . The thing is , you can't just go for a second .
Speaker 2You can't just steal someone a second . You can't just steal someone's car and keep it .
Speaker 1I'm thinking . I'm thinking that the car isn't actually just someone else's . I'm thinking the car has got to be they have to steal that car .
Speaker 2They have to steal that car there's got to be that and then maybe , if it's the dramatics of people going no , my car in Russian , oh my car . Why do we always go Transylvanian yeah , Transylvanian Dracula . Where's my car ?
Speaker 1Where's my car ? Yeah , I mean okay , so take that car . Out the equation that the car is staged .
Speaker 2I don't think we can it is a real car .
Speaker 1It's not someone else's car . It's a staged car , but it's the evasion of 35 minutes that person is going to be driving around like an absolute lunatic , surely ?
Speaker 2also another thing as well . One how the police alert ? Two are they real police and we'll be wasting police time , real police , the real police .
Speaker 1We're wasting police time . Yeah , for a tv show , yeah yeah , I'm not .
Speaker 2I'm not keen on this yeah they got plenty . They've got too much to do .
Speaker 1I'm just thinking how many accidents road accidents would there have been Exactly ? Is it just high speed chases through Russia ?
Speaker 2It's got to be staged , it's got to be .
Speaker 1There's no way that's real . Do you know what some of these I . This is just literally what Google has told me . I can't be real .
Speaker 2It's got to be staged like carpool karaoke staged .
Speaker 1It's got to be , hasn't it ? It's got to be ? There'll be so many accidents . Yeah , we need to look into this , okay .
Speaker 2What's the next one ?
Speaker 1We still need to go to look at the Black Shook as well . Oh , I knew you were going to say that , yeah , one that I did put , one that we've we have seen , because we mentioned this hole in the wall .
Speaker 2Hole in the wall , go on , take the wall on the wall is basically , um I uh some . I guess you could call it an obstacle course , but basically it moves . A a foam wall moves towards you and you've got to get your body into a shape that will fit through the hole in the wall , and the shape could be like an egyptian shape , or it could be a literal shape , like a circle or a square , something like that , and you , you might have to do it solo , you might have to do it in a team and basically , if you don't , oh I know what happens . Now you've got a pool behind you .
Speaker 1I remember that . How do ?
Speaker 2you get here yeah so if you don't make the shape you fall in fall into water behind you because you're on like a on a thing . As the walls come into water and I think as the game progresses , the speed is quicker as well .
Speaker 1It's like human Tetris .
Speaker 2It's human Well the shapes ?
Speaker 1Well , yeah , ok , it's a bit like human Tetris , isn't ?
Speaker 2it , but yeah , you got to make a shape .
Speaker 1And if you don't make shape , you fall into .
Speaker 2Joe Swash was on it , I'm sure of it really . I'm sure it was Joe Swash . Swash yeah he's married to Stacey Sullivan .
Speaker 1Stacey Sullivan . Yeah , yeah , but yeah , was that a Saturday night thing ? Yeah , something like that Saturday night . So apparently it was originally Japanese yeah , originally Japanese and then the UK adopted it . I think a lot of the weird game shows are Japanese to be fair , they do have their .
Speaker 2they're known for their weird game shows .
Speaker 1The one that I looked at , which I'm not even sure we could even read it out , is Japanese . Well , we can read it out we can read it out .
Speaker 2We'll read it out , and then not comment on it .
Speaker 1Perhaps there'll be comments , okay . Okay , I think there'll be comments .
Speaker 2Next one yeah , next one is japanese , again standard oh my god , go on then .
Speaker 1Oh , this one is called candy or not candy ?
Speaker 2oh , no I . What could the candy possibly be ?
Speaker 1well , arsenic , it says contestants bite objects to determine if they're everyday items or sweets .
Speaker 2This is like cake or fake .
Speaker 1It is fake or cake or fake . Yeah , sometimes they'll have like a pair of shoes and they'll have to bite the shoes to determine what do they do . Do they like look at them and say , yes , it is or yes it isn't ?
Speaker 2I assume . So they commit , and then they have to bite , and then they have to bite , and then they have to bite . Yeah , yeah . If I didn't like the look of something , though I probably wouldn't bite it I would not be a good contestant on this game .
Speaker 1No , I wouldn't want to put any of that in my mouth . Actually , have you seen that video with the girl with the cockroach as ? Two girls one on the side of a tube and there's a cockroach in the middle . What are you talking about ? And they blow . They have to like and blow the cockroach into the other person's mouth . Have you not seen ?
Speaker 2that , no , that's horrifying .
Speaker 1That's Japanese as well . I'm not going on that game show either .
Speaker 2See , I would happily go on . Hole in the Wall as a contestant , that's fine . Takes there . Yeah , see , I would happily go and hole in the wall as a contestant , that's fine to cash his castle again .
Speaker 1That'd be a right laugh . It would be , wouldn't it ? What was the other one ? You said , uh , to cash his castle . What was the middle one ? Oh , the intercept yeah , no , I'm not doing that yeah , no , not stealing the car and driving around russia . No , lots of it on you yeah , I'm not .
Speaker 2I'm not eating . I'm not eating objects . Any show that contains ian , not for me no , you , you don't fancy that . No , I do not want to . If there's any scouts listening , TV scouts listening right now , I'm not doing it .
Speaker 1Careful .
From Silent Library to Human Tetris
Speaker 2I'm trying to be . I'm just making it clear what I don't want to do To no one in particular .
Speaker 1No one in particular at all um , sorry , that was an inside joke . That was , that was a really inside joke . Yeah so , you so , you so , actually , yeah so let's just go back to the beginning , right , right , definitely takeshi yes , yes , yeah , intercept no , no hole in the wall .
Speaker 2Yes , yes , candy eating no .
Speaker 1No , okay , next one Okay , this one is a UK one . Ooh .
Speaker 2But I don't think I've seen this show . If you are about to explain to me Tipping Point , I will absolutely end your life .
Speaker 1No , no , no no no , no Distraction . Ooh , okay , this immediately intrigued yeah , it says you answer trivia while enduring punishments like getting zapped , slapped or covered in paint sounds like a good show , does , doesn't it ?
Speaker 2zapped and covered in paint is like not that yeah , I know there was .
Speaker 1I don't want to add 10 cats . Jimmy carr's done a few silly things like carrot in the box , carrot in the box . What a legend yeah , that's brilliant , and the other one where we said how to determine which one was getting the electric shocks oh , yeah , yeah , yeah yeah , but so you answered trivia whilst being distracted by getting zapped , slapped or covered in paint . What do you think to that ? That , bobby Dazzler ?
Speaker 2I mean , it doesn't seem that bad . Yeah , yeah , I'd do it .
Speaker 1I'd do it . I suppose I'd have to look at the voltage first .
Speaker 2Yeah , look at the voltage , Maybe the paint colour might not go with my eyes .
Speaker 1And what exactly are they zapping ?
Speaker 2Yeah , well , part of the body , that is true . Actually , if it was my arms or finger or anything , that's fine , but anything else perhaps not .
Speaker 1No , maybe not .
Speaker 2Especially not my heart .
Speaker 1I'd have to be reading the small print on that one .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , definitely definitely . Do you have a pacemaker ?
Speaker 1No , I mean to be fair . We could play something like this , because we often play a lot of games , a lot of board games and things .
Speaker 2I'm not being covered in paint by you . No , no , not covered in paint .
Speaker 1But we could do like a thing . Actually , is there not a game where it's like a board game , where you can get zapped ?
Speaker 2I don't want to do that . I think there is . I'm not nominating myself for that one , I think it's called Zap or something like that . I don't know . I don't know .
Speaker 1The next one is called oh , it's Japanese , oh , okay , it's Japanese . It's called Silent Library . Okay , okay .
Speaker 2I'm already intrigued .
Speaker 1Players perform weird , often painful , stunts silently in a library . I love the premise of this If you make a noise or laugh , there are penalties .
Speaker 2Yeah , this sounds funny , but also I wouldn't want to get hurt .
Speaker 1No , oh , I think that's Mitchell back . It might be . So yeah , do you fancy that ? Yeah ?
Speaker 2Yeah , I think so . Again , it would depend how extreme they go with the .
Speaker 1With the stunts , because it does say , yeah , weird stuff would be good , but not so keen on the old painful side of things , I don't mind doing weird stuff .
Speaker 2If they were like bob , like a chicken , through the library , I'd do that .
Speaker 1I have no problem , but you have to do it silently .
Speaker 2I could bob like a chicken through a library silently . You have little faith in me . No , I could all the way through the library , fine okay , hmm , yeah , japanese .
Speaker 1Japanese again sounds japanese . Do you know ? The japanese come up with some great concepts . They do , they really do , they really do . Uh , the seventh one yeah wow , this is . This is a uk one , all right one . This is called man versus fly .
Speaker 2I thought you were about to say man versus food . I was like I don't know what that is . Yeah .
Speaker 1Man versus fly . Fly , it's one fly . One person , one room , one minute to kill the fly with an object . What , what ? Welcome to man versus fly .
Speaker 2By the way , my mother-in-law would be so good at this .
Speaker 1One person , one room .
Speaker 2I fly , by the way , my mother-in-law . One person , one room . I've never seen , uh , someone take out a fly with a , with a tea towel .
Speaker 1She's really good at it . Oh , do you know the amount of flies that were in the house yesterday ?
Speaker 2really are . They're driving me nuts yeah , don't have them doors we have a a shield yeah fly shield I was fly net I was sky net sorry , terminator , I was .
Speaker 1Um , I was so tired yesterday it's like the week had finally caught up on me and I was sitting watching . I was watching the recruit on netflix which is quite good , quite like that , okay and I paused it when I could feel my . I was about two o'clock in the afternoon . I could feel my eyes starting to go . I paused it and I thought you know what ? I'm just gonna lay on the sofa and I'm gonna have a doze . I'm gonna have a nana nap . I don't have naps . Right , I am not a nappy person , as we discovered in the dna , but I was like I was so done .
Speaker 1After the week I laid there on the sofa and the second I closed my eyes . I really really annoying really , and they were everywhere in the room .
Speaker 2So you're saying you would win this game or wouldn't win this game ?
Speaker 1Oh , I would win it . It would be annoying .
Speaker 2Yeah , it would be annoying . Only a minute , though , that's not long , that's not long .
Speaker 1No , it's not long .
Speaker 2What do you win ?
Speaker 1Say Doesn't say Also , do you . And I saw one on the wall , on the wall .
Speaker 2On the wall .
Speaker 1Gecko , nope , I don't know , we live in England . We don't have geckos . Well , we have newts , but Gary Spider .
Speaker 2You've never seen a spider in your house before .
Speaker 1Nope , not , not never seen one . Our house Bullshit . Seriously , I think , lily , I proper shat myself .
Speaker 2RIP Lily the spider catcher .
Speaker 1Yeah , wow , I proper shat myself . I was out that room like a shot . One of them big old , bloody house jalopies .
Speaker 2How big .
Speaker 1The size of a fist .
Speaker 2No , it wasn't how big it was about that big . A two pound coin . Yeah , that's pretty big to me . Yeah , I don't like it I don't like it .
Speaker 1Um so back to the game shows . Sorry so man versus lie davy would not go on .
Speaker 2I'm a celebrity absolutely not .
Speaker 1I wouldn't even go to australia . There's a whole big thing with us at the moment .
Speaker 2I know , I know there's that your mum wants to I've heard yeah , your mum was a bit of a point of contention in your marriage , to be honest .
Speaker 1Yeah your mum wants to go to Australia and I ain't going , because everything there wants to kill you everything .
Speaker 2I don't think in like the main cities . That's the case , this . But have you seen the size of this ?
Speaker 1I have but I mean , the spiders are that hide under the door handles ? Why , why , yeah , but it's Australia , man , I know it's where they put all the dangerous animals in the world . They put them on one continent .
Speaker 2Do you think that's really what they did ? Yeah , maybe someone to have a back in time and did that for the rest of humanity . It's a terrifying place and you have to go over the Bermuda Triangle to get there .
Speaker 1It's a beautiful , beautiful , beautiful country and I would love to go there , but there's just too many things there that want to kill you . Okay , I mean any sharks in the water or lavia and everything on land . I mean even the kangaroos . Have you seen them ?
Speaker 2they're jacked yeah , they are jacked .
Speaker 1They are absolutely jacked . Yeah , so , but no , so it looks like your mum's gonna go with anya and I'm gonna to stay in England .
Speaker 2Genuinely , that's fair enough , that's fair enough , they're basically a couple . Anyway , it's all good yeah .
Speaker 1So anyway , man Vs Fly , would you play ?
Speaker 2I think I'd play , but I don't think I'd do . Well , I'd like to see my mother-in-law in that room .
Speaker 1She'd do very well , the next one it had to be , is it throwing up ? Yeah , no not for me , it is eat a ridiculous amount of food , then spin or bounce until someone throws up and is it the last one standing ?
Speaker 2absolutely disgusting , I would not even watch that there would be .
Speaker 1No , I couldn't watch that I wouldn't do it or watch it .
Speaker 2I cannot stand being sick now .
Speaker 1I think there's almost like a what's it a ? Ripple effect there . I think once the first person goes , they're all going to go , aren't they ?
Speaker 2Yeah , because you would smell it . Oh no , I can't even think about it . It genuinely makes me . Let me move on .
Speaker 1Shall , we move on . Yep , yep , yep yep , yep , whoa , okay . Poor reaction Okay Am .
Speaker 2I going to have the same reaction .
Speaker 1Boom , this is an American one as well , boom , okay , cut the wrong wire on a trivia bomb and you're blasted with guacamole or slime thinks jeopardy meets nickelodeon whoa , whoa . Well , I just saw the word bomb . I was like where's this going ? I ? Was gonna make a school shooting joke .
Speaker 2And I'm not gonna don't , don't , I'm not gonna do it don't um .
Speaker 1I I wonder , I wonder with this one . If so , it says cut the wrong wire on a trivia bomb . So do they ask a question ?
Speaker 2I reckon it's a question A , B or C , If you get it right , you cut the wire , yeah you have to cut a wire . Cut a wire and it will then , yeah , yeah , yeah . I think guacamole to the face doesn't sound that bad . No To be honest .
Speaker 1No , it's the same as slime . It's Nickelodeon , I get it . I get it .
Speaker 2Well , I get the thing . Yeah , I'd do it .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , although it's not on Nickelodeon , it says think Jeopardy meets .
Speaker 2Nickelodeon , but I'd still do it .
Speaker 1Yeah , you'd do that . Oh god , okay , I'm ready . It's japanese , okay , okay , it is . Oh the . The title is called orgasm wars . I know I can see by your face you're already like what the hell is this right ? And this is the premise male , female
Testing Personal Limits for Entertainment
Speaker 1. Yes to carry on if anybody's listening . Uh , and they might have a child , I would probably say not safe for work , no , this might have a child , I would probably say not safe for work .
Speaker 1No , this is definitely not safe . I would probably say skip the next couple of minutes on this one minutes minutes or yeah , maybe a couple minutes . A gay adult actor tries to arouse a straight man who tries to resist . I know , hold on .
Speaker 2That is , that is not . That's not cool .
Speaker 1That's not why . Where in the world is this Japan ?
Speaker 2What Well ? I guess they think about it a bit differently .
Speaker 1It does say it says extremely not safe for work . And then I like the next bit . It says somehow aired on TV .
Speaker 2Even wherever you Google that from thinks that's ludicrous . I honestly don't have any words for that .
Speaker 1No , I've got nothing . That's just wrong on so many levels .
Speaker 2The concept of it in itself is wrong .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2I can't . I have no comment .
Speaker 1Shall we just move on . Skip that one . We'll skip that one . We'll move that one .
Speaker 2Yeah , no comment .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Ridiculous .
Speaker 1Okay , In the UK they create a game show called Banzai and I have seen this Banzai Banzai and it is a parody of Japanese game shows .
Speaker 2Right , okay .
Speaker 1Where viewers bet on bizarre things like which granny will shop will cross the street the fastest .
Speaker 2Oh , okay , okay . I quite like the sound of this . Yeah , it's all , it's all luck .
Speaker 1Yeah , on how long will the monk meditate for ? So you just see something random and you bet , you bet on it .
Speaker 2I like the sound of this . Yeah , it's just it it's people watching essentially yeah , yeah isn't it ?
Speaker 1hey , hello , mitchell . Hi , how are you cares to say hello ? Have a lovely shower . Enjoy your shower , sir . Um . So it does say oh , okay , okay . I just read the next bit , maybe not so good , because when it came out it did seem that it was mocking cultural stereotypes ah so there is there is an issue there yeah , I guess , I guess , I guess , betting on a which granny would cross the road quicker .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't know who that's hurting . No , no .
Speaker 1Really .
Speaker 2If the grannies had consent to being on the show , then yeah , well , no , I don't think they are .
Speaker 1They're unaware what would be CCTV . They'd be unaware . Yeah , there's ethical issues there .
Speaker 2There's maybe a slight ethical . It depends on what they're showing . I think showing I think it does a monk meditating again . Again , if they filmed that monk meditating , they were just betting how long he was going to be . He probably consented to that video being on there .
Speaker 1It is my thing , yeah you'd have to be , you'd have to get consent yeah , and I think I don't know .
Speaker 2I think you can go a little bit too snowflakey with that if you wanted to , but I don't think there's too much harm in that , but from , I guess from . If it's taking the piss out of japanese shows , then yeah , I can kind of see the cultural issue there . Oh , depending on the subject of the matter .
Speaker 1Okay , oh . So what was the show which Bob Mortimer just recently won , the laughing show with comedians Last one laughing yeah . The next one . I can see where they got the idea from there .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , there were loads . I can see where they got the idea from , though . Oh yeah , there were loads of people .
Speaker 1There's a Japanese game show called apologies , gaki no Saki . It's the no laughing batsuit game . Yeah yeah , contestants are placed in a themed scenario and must not laugh for 24 hours or they get smacked with a bat .
Speaker 2I feel like Japan just takes it to the extreme , like you could just eliminate them from the game , no , smack them with a bat . Like I feel like there's just like they just go that step further , like go hard or go home . Japan , like it literally is that I would be rubbish at this game . I laugh at everything and anything that their show . Richard aoradi is probably one of my favorite comedians . I think he's just so funny , he's so dry . Everything he says makes me laugh without fail and I think I know that's kind of his character and stuff .
Speaker 2but even when bob mortimer got him yeah , got him twice actually I've got him both times , yeah and it's just funny when he also laughs like it's just yeah yeah I remember when bob mortimer come into the room and richard aardy was like , oh no , I've lost the game . Like he instantly knew that he was just going to try and get as far as he could .
Speaker 1Um , and he did a crack do you know how I think he would have won that game ? No , sean lock oh , sean lock would have I think if sean lock was alive and he was in that room .
Speaker 2He would have done it as well .
Speaker 1He would have won .
Speaker 2I would be surprised if he wasn't there . Yeah .
Speaker 1He would have won , he would have tranced them all , because even other comedians say he's a comedian's comedian .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , I watched on YouTube a couple of weeks ago the bit when , on 8 Out of 10 Cats with the Jimmy Carr's tax returns yes . When that happened , they said what are you talking about this week ? And literally they just , and everybody just . Looked at Sean Locke . He didn't have to say or do anything , he just sat there and just just the smallest smile and that was it , and everybody lost it .
Speaker 2Yeah , lost it . Yeah , absolutely lost it . He's just , he was just so unapologetically funny at everything and it just he's such such a sad loss . He really is community because gosh , he was uh what , what legend .
Speaker 1When he said that , uh , they said oh , you know what ? What ? What word would best describe you ? And he said sean lock said well , it's a four-letter word . There's a c in it , there's a u in it , there's a t in it , and that word is cute . And he goes on . He says , in fact , it probably wouldn't be a word . It wouldn't be a word , a more of an idea , a fragrance . He said , you know , someone would walk past and go . That's Sean Lock .
Speaker 1He says that smell of hot tarmac and a vet's flannel just off the top of his head .
Speaker 2He's just yeah , what a legend that guy .
Speaker 1I miss him so much never knew what was going to come out of his mouth and he was just an absolute genius at comedy .
Speaker 2Yeah , he really was , yeah , sad , sad loss for the cancer that took him uh , I think so .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I think it was I think it was yeah , uh , so we are now on , uh , number 13 .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , sorry , oh , we we've kind of already had this . Okay , uh , it's human tetris , japan , and it does say the original version of hole in the wall , right , oh , oh , here we go , here we go , but even more surreal , oh gosh . It does just say contestants dress up in costumes and try to fit through ridiculous moving walls . Why is it strange ? Even more costume based chaos than the international version . I'm surprised they didn't have like piranhas in the pool or something . Yeah , yeah , I was thinking that ?
Speaker 2why is it strange , even more costume based chaos than the international version ? I'm surprised they didn't have like piranhas in the pool or something .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , I was thinking that like oh , they fall into like knives a vat of acid . Yeah , oh , yeah and again , we're still in Japan right , okay for number 14 14 , we've got two . We've got two more penultimate ones this is the penultimate one . Let's go , and this is called Dero . Dero and this is Japanese . Okay , contestants solve puzzles in rooms where the floor literally drops beneath them or the walls close in oh shit , like an escape room yeah , it says it's like . Saw , but as a game show with traps and all okay .
Speaker 2I'm kind of on board for this yeah I would like I've always wanted to do the crystal maze
TV Game Show Ethics and Boundaries
Speaker 2, like anything like that . Just very , very cool any physical activity of that nature , especially if there's some sort of trivia element to it as well . But yeah , oh yeah , I'm all over that shit yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 1So there , that's dear . Oh , and the last one . Oh , I think we should give an honorary mention to one at the very end just Just quickly discuss one other game show . Okay , this is called the Moment of Truth . Oh , and this is American . And contestants answer personal and often humiliating questions while hooked up to a lie detector .
Speaker 2Oh , no , no , no , no . I don't like that .
Speaker 1Wow , it says here for money , so I beat a lie detector . Oh , no , no , no , no , I don't like that . Wow , it says here for money , for money , so I beat the lie detector .
Speaker 2I guess it's like what are you willing to embarrass yourself ? How far are you willing to embarrass yourself for some money ? That's what it sounds like to me .
Speaker 1It says here people confess to infidelity , theft or worse while their family watches .
Speaker 2No , I have nothing of that nature to confess , but I would be shit on the show because I've got nothing like nothing scandalous , yeah , but wow , yeah , I don't .
Speaker 1But the thing is it's . It's what gets me is like , yeah , I mean , I , I haven't got anything like that . I would like there's nothing that in my life that I wouldn't confess to anyway . Um , but how arrogant would some people be who would probably do that and then go on to a game show to try and beat a lie detector ?
Speaker 2and ruin their own lives . Yeah , that's weird idiots .
Speaker 1Yeah , absolutely so . Let's just , let's just start the back , but go through them all and do a yes or no okay yeah , well , I know we started doing it , but yeah , yeah , this is what happens when you do it on the fly .
Speaker 2Let's see if I can remember them . Takeshi's Castle was the first one .
Speaker 1Yeah , I'll do like .
Speaker 2Yes or no ?
Speaker 1Yes or no ? Okay , takeshi's Castle , yes , yes .
Speaker 2Inception the .
Speaker 1Intercept . Oh the Intercept . Sorry , no , I hole in the wall . Yes , for me , yeah , candy or not candy , no , no , I wouldn't do that . No , no distraction possibly remind me what I was . That is the one where you get zapped yeah , I'm okay with that , yeah you're okay with that um silent library yeah , I'd do that .
Speaker 2Yeah , I think it's funny man versus fly yeah , I'll give it a go .
Speaker 1I won't be any good , but I'll give it a go it was one man , one fly in one room who will win ?
Speaker 2tune in at nine , hurl no no , no no boom was that the one being smacked with a bat ?
Speaker 1uh , no , that is , they cut the wrong wire , oh yeah , trivia , yeah trivia , I don't mind uh , number 10 ? Definitely not . We'll move on from number 10 oh , yeah , yeah , sorry I just remembered what number 10 was . Banzai ethically questionable , but yeah , would probably go on it as long as it was done correctly . Yeah , gaki or no , saki .
Speaker 2Yes , yeah , I would go on that one .
Speaker 1Human Tetris . Yes , yeah , that's fine , dero , yes is yes .
Speaker 2Is that the one with the bat ?
Speaker 1Yes , no , it's the one with the floor .
Speaker 2Oh , yeah , yeah , yeah , definitely would do that one .
Speaker 1Sorry , I can't continue and the moment of truth .
Speaker 2Yeah , no , there's no way I'd do that .
Speaker 1But there is of course one other game show that is Korean , which I hope isn't real Squid Game , squid Game .
Speaker 2Yeah , there's some ethical boundaries that I'm not willing to cross , yeah , squid game , yeah , um , yeah , I don't . Yeah , I'm not would ?
Speaker 1would you ? Would you play squid game if there wasn't the risk of death ?
Speaker 2yeah , I mean there's some elements of it that I would .
Speaker 1I would be okay to yeah , because essentially they are just childhood games , aren't they ?
Speaker 2Yeah , exactly , and I could do some childhood games .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , for money .
Speaker 1For money , for money , as long as you don't die at the end of it .
Speaker 2As long as I don't keel over at the end .
Speaker 1How well do you think you could do the licky one ? You know where they've got the sugar .
Speaker 2Well , it depends on the shape . I've got a pretty steady hand because I do a lot of sewing .
Speaker 1Yeah so .
Speaker 2I think I'll be all right , because you get a needle , don't ?
Speaker 1you , you get a needle . Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2I might be all right . You might be all right with that . Yeah , I might be all right .
Speaker 1Have you seen the last series of Squid Game ? No , no , you haven't . No , oh , it's very good , is it ?
Speaker 2good , right okay yeah , and . I don't think we've watched since the first season yeah , I don't think , oh , it's brilliant .
Speaker 1Yeah , well , because the second season and the third season pretty much are the same season oh , I see , because it does follow directly on . So it's just , it's not like we've only seen season one . I think it's not like there's three games , there's only the two times . But the second season it ends at a very crucial point and then follows on Dun dun dun .
Speaker 2Yeah , I can't wait for Stranger Things , the last Stranger Things .
Speaker 1Oh , I know I'm excited for that .
Speaker 2I know , I want to know if Eddie survived ?
Speaker 1I don't . The thing is , I think they're going to have to do something with him because he's such a good character .
Speaker 2I hope he survived . I don't think he did .
Speaker 1Maybe we get an upside down Eddie version this is what I'm thinking maybe he's the big boss at the end no , I don't think he'll be the big boss , but they've got to do something with Eddie . Have you seen the trailer ? No , I'm trying to avoid all trailers and spoilers oh sorry , I sent you something the other day , didn't I ? I sent you an image from the trailer , sarah O'Connor oh yeah , but that's fine . Yeah , that's fine , it just shows that she's in it .
Speaker 2She's not doing it , it's just an image , yeah , that's fine that's okay , so there you go cool . Well , if you enjoyed this episode of Weird Games that we come up on the fly , let us know if you want to write us an episode that we can also do on the fly , because we're uh , we're definitely open to that , but it has to just be .
Speaker 1We might have to get someone to look over it first before we well , there is also the option if we don't , if we record it , we don't have to wear it that is true , that is true , that is true .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , that is true um , yeah , if you want to create an episode for us , we're happy to do it , but also , if you enjoyed this episode , we've got plenty more in the bank , unless you have been avidly listening up to date . Thank you so much for being here .
Speaker 1Also , can I just jump in as well ? Just very quickly . Sorry , hannah , but are there any other ideas that anybody would like to see us do as well , like the live streaming version ? You know any other things , actually , yeah , drop us a line .
Speaker 2If that's something you'd be interested in , we would only do it based on interest , I guess .
Speaker 1And if we could . And if we could yeah , and if we could .
Speaker 2I know we could definitely live stream on Instagram and that would just be having another phone which we can set up .
Final Thoughts on Weird Game Shows
Speaker 1Yeah .
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