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Join the discussion… blazelux • 5 years ago
Takeshis castle. Best game show EVER! 68
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IceBreaker
blazelux • 5 years ago
Especially the crazy outfits the contestants are made to wear! Sadly, with all those dirty water mud-holes, this great game show would never make it in lawsuits-happy America. 12
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IceBreaker • 5 years ago
actually, it did. spike channel brought it over, and then dubbed over the cast. and contestants in serious double entendres. they renamed it m x c. the hosts were named vic romano and kenny blankenship. it ran on spike from 2003-2007, the full four years of tekeshi's castle 9
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major • 5 years ago
well it didn't erally happen in america, they just rebroadcast the same episodes. Total Wipeout is pretty similar, although not half as funny as the MXC voiceovers 5
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O.G. McFeeney
w357c0457 • 5 years ago
Right you are, Ken. 3
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blazelux
IceBreaker • 5 years ago
Ya why can't we all be as crazy as the Japanese:-( 3
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Amanda C Owens
blazelux • 5 years ago
Right you are, Kenny! 5
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Marcus
blazelux • 5 years ago
i used to love watching that! :D 1
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Tikus Tycoon
blazelux • 4 years ago
Ahahhahaa yaaaaaa! • Reply • Share ›
strukef
blazelux • 5 years ago
Agreed. I'm always dying laughing of their screaming in japanese and always running like crazy in their crazy suits and suddenly falling.Brilliant. • Reply • Share ›
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blazelux • 5 years ago
I used to love that show - it is addictive. • Reply • Share ›
TyrantRex • 5 years ago
Was it really necessary to put the SEAL's horrible death in this article? What does that have to do with this? 12
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TyrantRex • 5 years ago
In see no problem with the author including this reference to a former contestant in the game show sadly losing his life in a historic event (Fallujah) of the Iraq war. 5
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patrick weidinger • 5 years ago
I agree. The wording is a bit unfortunate but I, for one, didn't know such a thing happened. SInce war is still in people's minds with Syria and all that, these things are relevant in my opinion. 3 Mom424
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TyrantRex • 5 years ago
Agree—although I fully approve of any swipe at Blackwater. Illegal? Immoral? Psychopathic? Blackwater is your go-to guy. Licensed thugs, bullies, and murderers. 6
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JtW
Mom424 • 5 years ago
I don't understand, he was working for Blackwater and the "swipe" at them was the ambush, mutilation and desecration of his body. How can you "fully approve" of those actions? 7
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JtW • 5 years ago
I'm sure that the point of mentioning it was that Blackwater put him in harms way - not that his end was in any way his fault, or any less tragic. ps: And thanks for pointing out how callous the comment sounded; not what I intended. 3
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Mom424 • 5 years ago
OK, I see what you were saying then. I didn't, and still don't, read that passage the same way. But we have already established that you and I are different people. Glad to hear you weren't approving of what I read it as. 1 Jrodickens
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TyrantRex • 5 years ago
Interesting nonetheless, but yes, quite irrelevant 2
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Flash82
TyrantRex • 5 years ago
I second that... Don't really see the relevance. It's quite uncalled for 2
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Arsnl
TyrantRex • 5 years ago
The monkey'll still get you in the end? 1
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Goatee Pikachu
Arsnl • 5 years ago
Although I do still sorry for the SEAL, it didn't need to be mentioned. I do grieve for his family. 1
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Goatee Pikachu • 5 years ago
The mother of the guy said something really poignant in the article: " "Over a thousand people died because of what happened to Scotty that day," says Katy Helvenston. "There's a lot of innocent people that have died." " That shows that the mother is aware of the situation. A lot of people died, it's war. It's tragic for the soldier and for the innocent irakis that died. Lets stop being so US-EU centric for a bit 4
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Peace
Arsnl • 5 years ago
A woman who is saddened by all the deaths that day (and all the mothers who lost children)= awesome mom. I wasnt aware of her saying that. Thanks for pointing that out. • Reply • Share ›
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Goatee Pikachu • 5 years ago
"I do grieve for his family." No you don't. You don't even know his family. Your "grieving" is just you reading about his death, thinking, "That probably hurts his family," and going on with your day without a second thought. Nice try with the, "look at me, I CARE about people," attempt, though. • Reply • Share ›
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TyrantRex • 5 years ago
id say its about as relevant as the host who hanged himself. dont usually hear people complaining about having to hear about the troops too much, sorry if the idea of his death hurt your feelings? • Reply • Share ›
bungalow • 5 years ago
"...Mormon genius..." That is an oxymoron if I've ever heard one.. 42
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Brp Goyo
bungalow • 5 years ago
Peace-loving American President? xD 26
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Some Dude
Brp Goyo • 5 years ago
I believe in Noah's ark, but those Mormon people? Crazy! 2
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Paladine
Brp Goyo • 5 years ago
Better than a cult religion! 4 JtW
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bungalow • 5 years ago
And yet he consistently won. Weird how your prejudices keep you from truths huh? 16
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Culture Vulture
bungalow • 5 years ago
You're absolutely right. He's just as dumb as those other Mormons who invented the TV, artificial heart, stereo sound, electric guitar, repeating rifle, and electric traffic light. THAT RELIGION IS FULL OF ABSOLUTE IDIOTS! 15
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Urban Bee
Culture Vulture • 5 years ago
John Logie Baird (non Mormon) invented the televison...Farnsworth just improved on his ideas. Paul Winchell's (non Mormon) patent caught the eye of Kolff and Jarvik (Mormon), Alan Blumlein invented stereo sound (he was a Presbyterian but later married into C of E), whether he turned to the Mormon religion after development, I can't find out...or whether his idea was further developed by a Mormon...I would be interested to know. Adolph Rickenbacker is credited with the invention of the electric guiter, he emigrated to USA in 1891 to America, and settled in Wisconsin. Did he become a Mormon or did someone develop on a foundation he had already built. I always thought that the Winchester rifle was the first repeating rifle...but it seems that the first was invented in 1779 by Girandoni. Walter Hunt, born in Martinsburg, New York, produced a patent for a firing cock repeating gun, patent no. 6663. I'll give the electric traffic light to the Mormons as it was invented by Lester Wire (good name), in Salt Lake City. Not to sure about the other claims though. 14
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Urban Bee • 5 years ago
See I always thought that Harvey Fletcher invented stereo sound. I know for sure that he invented the hearing aide, but he may have just been the person who made stereo sound feasible for mass production. I remember reading his biography here: http://www.nasonline.org/pu.... He's certainly an interesting guy. As for the electric guitar I have no clue. A Mormon friend just told that to me once. So who knows. For the guns I was thinking of John Browning of M1911 pistol fame. I would assume that he probably just improved and made commercially viable an idea that already was around. I didn't want to start a debate really, I just don't like when people made prejudiced generalized claims about any group of people. "'Mormon Genius' is an oxymoron".. Stuff like that bothers me. You can't just look down on a group of people because they are different than you. Sure Mormon's might believe differently, but it doesn't make them all dumb and doesn't give a person an excuse to put them down. They've made some good contributions to society. 3 cain marko
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bungalow • 5 years ago
Oxy-Mormon, hehe 1
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Anonymous
bungalow • 5 years ago
Romney's not the only Mormon out there... • Reply • Share ›
jo • 5 years ago
unemployed ice cream truck driver.... funny, so driving an ice cream truck is not a job? 9
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jo • 5 years ago
He was a Mr Softee Ice cream truck driver for 10 summers and a part time air conditioning mechanic but was unemployed at the time. Since he was at school he always prefered shady enterprises over gainful employment and lost all his money in illegal get rich quick schemes before dying of throat cancer aged 49. 3
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lotus74 • 5 years ago
A game show aired in 2001 called Murder in Small Town X. The winner was Angel Juarbe, Jr. I watched that show and rooted for him the whole way. He just had one of those personalities. He was a Firefighter in New York. Just one week after the final episode aired, he was killed in the 9/11 attacks trying to help his firefighter colleagues in Ladder Company 12. On their way down the stairwell the structural integrity gave way and part of the stair well collapsed. The firefighters needed rope to propel down to safety. Angel went back in to get the ropes and help his colleagues. He was killed when the North tower fell. He never got the chance to receive the car and the $250,000 grand prize. R.I.P Angel and all those that lost their lives in the attacks as well as those that lost friends and loved ones, my prayers are with you. 8
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willbear
lotus74 • 5 years ago
My husband and I watched that show and like you were rooting for him as well. We were so sad when we heard he had lost his life on September 11th. 3
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QDV • 5 years ago
Tsk, tsk: Richard Dawson should have been in the picture you used. :-) How about the killer who won on The Dating Game? 6
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Maggot
QDV • 5 years ago
Better yet: Ray Combs, considering that’s who the entry was about. 5
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Peace
QDV • 5 years ago
Agreed. I'm sick of the stock photos. They take away from the list. 1
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Saren Nevac • 5 years ago
Oh and Crystal Maze was awesome. 5
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Saren Nevac • 5 years ago
Mumsy.
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Valkyrie
Saren Nevac • 5 years ago
I loved Richard O'brien doing that ,,, I think most of these are american shows though
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BuckT • 5 years ago
Intentionally choosing the wrong answer? What a dick move! 7
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BuckT • 5 years ago
Socialists :D
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Arsnl • 5 years ago
True, I remember reading about the psychology behind that move and it was basically "we are all the same, nobody should get ahead of the others". Or at least that was the reasoning given by whatever "psychologist" I was reading the story from. It fit into my personal world view of socialism so I accepted it. 1
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JtW • 5 years ago
I guess if it had been titled "facts about weird game shows" it could have been an all Japanese game show list! 4
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