Why I HATE Japanese TV

Japanese TV is beloved the world over. But is it really as good as people think it is? I recount my three most awkward experiences on Japanese Television and reveal my reasons for why I avoid watching it.
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[@AbroadinJapan]

NOTIFICATION SQUAD: For the love of god, don't say this is a pen. In fact, just don't use the letter p from now on. This video is 25% rant, 25% critique, 25% story time and 25% diorama. I hope somewhere in between you learn something of value! BUT what do you think of Japanese TV? Am I being too harsh? Or perhaps too kind? Let me know and enjoy the video! Also, the video starts at 09:30...

[@rickf.4656]

This is a pen

[@brickcity727]

Finally a new video

[@dordur12]

THIS IS A PEN!

[@quartzyfluff7999]

Yes

[@integritycoasters7482]

Yes

[@KaRuNaRuGa]

"This is a Pen". *Blows away half of Skyrim*

[@squishy_thighz]

This is a pen > Fus ro dah

[@littlefishbigmountain]

Jeong MiChaeng They’re both powerless until you reach the final word

[@arnorrian1]

P, K, and T are aspirated in English when starting a word. The gust of air is real.

[@TheAquilaSamurai]

Wonder if anyone's taken a recording of that and modded it into Skyrim yet? :P

[@pennkun]

I need to ask you to stop. That... shouting... is making people nervous.

[@steelfalconx2000]

Japanese word for pen: "pen". English word for pen: "pen". Yep, I can see the dangerous difference.

[@TheChrillestSpot]

Gray Nightz but in Japanese they would look at the word pen like, “pe-n”. Anyway the woman was saying the word pen louder for English resulting more air to come out.

[@arpitkumar4525]

In English the pe is more aspirated

[@scottmckeown1729]

Native English speakers really do aspirate the "p" sound at the beginning of words more than they do in the middle of a word. I'm not sure, but I think native Japanese speakers really don't aspirate their "p"s at any part of the word. You certainly can train yourself to not aspirate your "p"s but it's difficult to imagine anyone bothering to do so. The "this is a pen" test does have an actual valid point to make...it just not very scientifically rigorous enough to really mater....it's just one valid point blown out of proportion.

[@kbriney1443]

@@E.Frey2002 are u questioning nasa rn lmao

[@-A-c]

Please. Permit me to Point out those Pointless Particulars while I go have a Parfait.....Preferably Peach and Pear. Cost me only a Penny. Promise. Excuse me a moment, I think I just killed my English Professor....

[@pillbugm8914]

Somehow Chris' Japanese parody is still not exaggerated enough.

[@johnynoway9127]

needs more sound effects

[@lavalampluva55401]

It's the Japanese game shows. "Your game shows reward knowledge. Here, we punish ignorance."

[@karaokepup]

sugoii

[@201hastings]

The SNL Mike Myers Japanese Game show skit is pretty accurate

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@johnynoway9127 笑 笑 笑

[@kyh148]

About Japanese young people losing interest in watching TV: I had the idea that's more of a global phenomenon, personally I basically never watch tv and even my parents don't besides my mom occasionally watching football.

[@ampoyeta9547]

yeah, thats true, one day when youtube gets significally big, i just stopped watching tv, tv shows are not funny anymore, and a little time later i started to see the enormous amount of propaganda that shit has, literally when i stopped watching tv i lost a lot of stress, they are constantly saying you directly "be like this, not like this", and i am not talking about the publicity or the "they just put thin people to make feel bad fat people"

[@arthas640]

not just young people. My parents dont watch much TV aside from the news, I work construction and tons of my customers (mostly 40+ year old homeowners) dont even bother running TV lines anymore since they stream everything, and most of my friends that are over 30 dont bother with TV either. TV has gotten to be such shit and people dont like bending their schedule to fit set programming that everyones just going to streaming. The fact that cable companies are so corrupt doesnt help, I dont know anyone with a cable package that hasnt been double billed or billed for random BS, like my mom who was billed for a missing router they claimed she never gave back when she canceled her membership which she'd done months before they sent her the bill.

[@DanaTheInsane]

I'm Gen X and I watch Strange New World, Lower Decks, and until recently Rick and Morty. That's it. Not been a regular TV watcher in decades. Before that the only thing I'd watched since the 80s was MST3K. I"m baffled what most people see in TV. @@ampoyeta9547

[@aarona6420]

It's almost as if these young people realize everything being said on these shows is a lie, and they don't appreciate being treated like toddlers that aren't strong enough to withstand even the mildest negative comment spoken to anyone by anyone

[@helelcifer8695]

Agreed, I Gave up watching TV .. not too sure when exactly... 9 years ago, maybe. I'm from Germany. We wished, we had thay quality. German TV-Shows are a aweful.

[@user-sc5xx3rw3o]

Plot twist: He came to Japan to become a star in Takeshi’s Castle program, but it was too late, so he became an English teacher.

[@tdotitan8855]

"I came to Japan to win Takeshi's Castle, but it was too late, so I became an english teacher" sounds like a light novel

[@ryuuteimaru5858]

Twist it so instead of Takeshi's Castle, it's a war, and instead of modern times, it sets in medieval high fantasy setting. Boom, isekai idea.

[@KeulchenGerrit]

Fun fact not plot twist!

[@rachelar]

A common tragedy of gaijin in japan

[@Crocodile_Boatspeed]

Bu shi ni de…what is the last character and what does it mean?

[@PaP384]

Now that Chris has the diorama and a green screen we'll never see him outside again

[@thefirstthrownmolotov6852]

Going outside during the summer is overrated, anyways :P

[@1lamouna]

@@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 *this

[@BrognusBelgen]

Who allowed Chris to get this much power?!

[@sparcsau]

Full otaku mode

[@Redeemed001]

He’ll probably end up cycling through Japan again through dioramas which would be great

[@carlk8308]

I had the pleasure of being on Japanese TV once, in the 90's. A crew came to do a bit on local sites and I was the "tour guide" (this was a very rural area in Hyogo with no other western foreigners for probably a fifty mile radius). I didn't have to say much. Spent most of my time standing near the guy with the mic, nodding and smiling a lot. Our last shot was in a village up on a mountain top, locally famous for the rice fields stepping down the slope. To this day I cannot figure out why I was abandoned there, but I was left behind, in that little village of senior citizens. Wound up drinking and getting hammered in a barn with the village boss and a few farmers before one finally took me back to my place of work in his K-Truck. Overall, a pleasant experience.

[@Gemmycobson]

Village boss? I didn’t know they still used the feudal system there

[@Vespyr_]

You lived the dream man.

[@philip32276]

Yes, it is as bad as you've made out. I've been here 50 years and used to be a regular on some shows 40 years back. I pretty much stunk as a '漫才' stand-up-comedian (looking back on some old tapes), but it was all praise, and no-one ever commented on how bad I was ( partly because my partner was quite famous in those days). When I did stand up comedy (相声） in Chinese in the states once (I speak both Japanese and Chinese), I actually had someone make a comment that I wasn't really very funny (the Chinese are much more direct), and remember how thankful I was that finally someone told me the truth. I remember a Japanese cooking show I was on where they made up that I was a specialist in making pancakes, and the host commented on how delicious my pancakes were (never made pancakes before). A lot of it is just outright lies. Anyhow, the last TV show I was on was in 1983, and after that Japanese speaking foreigners started to increase so I was replaced by better talent.

[@greatexpectations6577]

Man, you have been there soo long. I am sure you treasure your experience no matter what the circumstances were. Do you ever plan to come to the states?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Philip, you walked so that the other Japanese speaking Foreign Talents would run.

[@daltondenun858]

Sounds like you’ve lived a full and interesting life!

[@davidbyrnes8541]

Honestly, very cool! Did Japan have the same kind of Stand-up culture craze in the 70's&80's as there was in the US? Is stand-up mainstream entertainment in Japan today?

[@maxxrenn]

Less young people in Japan not watching tv is not a Japan thing, that’s a global thing

[@mr.boomguy]

Yes. We know where to find better content, like this channel

[@rezkynopri1413]

Yup, indonesian here we also do that too

[@ayylmao4954]

i haven’t watched actual tv in a couple years

[@nvno1943]

Retired American. I haven’t watched TV in a couple of years. I have favorite “You Tubers” I watch to get news and entertainment.

[@Morisu-Chan]

Yea cuz most TV nowadays are only replaying episodes of popular shows or shitty shows noone cares about

[@SgtPotShot]

If anything ever happens to Chris, that picture of him looking like a murderer will be plastered on every screen in Japan.

[@itsdjinane9096]

serial killer

[@nileshmandal1838]

@Zarathustra must be a sarcasm right? Because it's all shortcomings and artificial exaggerations.

[@av4010]

@@nileshmandal1838 superior nippon japanese TV. Broadcast over 1000 times. much better then worthless baka gaijin programming.

[@SQUAD012]

@Zarathustra i'm pretty sure you only watch the Bad Western media/programs am i right. In terms of media there's no superior or inferior, it's whether you like that program or not, that is all. Sure you could put up an argument of saying japanese entertainment are much fun than western but the other side could also put up the same argument and it will end up in a stalemate. That is your preferences. Media is media, be it western or eastern. They're all the same blood-sucking vampire trying to get story or programs go on at whatever the cost is. Try to see it in an open perspective and not bashing one for the other. Ultimately both sucks and both are good.

[@SQUAD012]

@Zarathustra no harm done bro and yup i agree on that, especially on youtube when their algorithm knows you've been watching political channels and they'll start recommend something similar to it. Yes it does plague the hollywood industries as well and i'm kinda tired seeing they tried shoving their agenda down our throat but whenever i see some good quality programs, i'd watch it bro. There are some good programs out there, be it eastern or western, we just have to get out from our bubbles of judgement and discover some great shit out there.

[@CobaltContrast]

Huge increases of people not watching TV. I have had streaming services for 10 years. I don't recall what it was like to tune into a channel and be forced to watch what they were broadcasting.

[@greatexpectations6577]

Same here. I grew up on youtube

[@thatspookagain4030]

And yet streaming services are slowly becoming more and more like cable TV in the sense that you need to buy about 5 of them to watch the shows you want since all are on separate places

[@iris4547]

outside of watching tv every morning before school as a kid, never really did watch much. since like 2003/4 ive just torrented everything i am interested in and watched from my computer. even with the rise of streaming that is far simpler than torrenting, the market is so fragmented id have to spend $150+ a month to watch what i normally do and even then 75% of what i watch would be region locked or simply unavailable and id have to resort to torrenting anyway.

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

@@iris4547 Are you from the Indian Subcontinent, Eastern Europe, the middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, ASEAN, or China?

[@Agent-ie3uv]

Sometimes you got sick because too many choices and you want a background noise like CNN talking about climate change or something. Its refreshing to watch TV nowadays.

[@CatsMeowPaw]

I last visited Japan in late 2018. Upon entering my first hotel room I switched on the TV, and saw a late night TV interview with Kizuna Ai. Very satisfying. But yes, Japanese TV in general is pretty awful.

[@user-nc5wp6bi3m]

I agree

[@nathanpapp432]

As if American TV is any better? At least Japan is still producing good anime. American TV has literally no redeeming value.

[@chumbum3041]

@@nathanpapp432 Tv and cable is dying out, streaming services are gonna be the future so...

[@aubreyhuff46]

@@nathanpapp432 There are still some good shows every now and then, but yeah. On the whole, US TV is mostly just boring and saturated

[@yohei72]

@@nathanpapp432 What a ridiculous thing to say. American TV is in a golden age of creative ambition and variety, even if you don't include streaming services.

[@calebm9000]

"Imagine turning on the TV tomorrow and everyone is...happy" The Briton's worst nightmare

[@MultiLiam24]

There would be rioting in the streets

[@eisenklad]

imagine chris compares Gordon Ramsey in USA vs UK ver. the shock factor in USA is dialed to 100....

[@JT-574]

@@MultiLiam24 "Being miserable matters"!

[@toxicalyss]

We Happy Few

[@joaopedroaguiarfmatos1473]

brazillians, worst knightmare, id be like "were are all the murders and bad trafic?"

[@b2theill14]

After living in Japan for 5 years, I've come to realize that not a single thing he said about Japanese TV is exaggerated. It's 100% true.

[@aclark903]

Been here 20 years, & while most Japanese TV is not worth watching occasionally they do come up with something good.

[@seasnek7024]

I was there for 3 months and saw it all. Exactly as he said it was

[@aclark903]

@@seasnek7024 He's talking about variety shows. I'm talking about #JapaneseTVdrama. Often clichéd, sometimes good.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@Adrian Anikeenko based

[@ZephirumUpload]

@Adrian Anikeenko Yeah I could understand that a lot of Japanese viewers and probably writers don't really see how that's offensive because they probably liken it to Osakans eating a lot of crab or something, instead of a stereotype that's used to mock and belittle black people instead. Which I can fully understand is baffling from an outside perspective, it's more of a 'read the air' thing that must be hard to do cross culturally.

[@ZephyrinSkies]

Yeh I totally agree. In highschool back in the early 2000s, my friends were really into J-pop idols and would watch all the variety shows with them appearing as guests. It was so mind-numbing. The hyped over-reactions over nothing aside, it was also very clearly trying to manufacture parasocial relationships between fans and the idols. The shows were about mundane everyday things so you could imagine hanging out with them, as if they were like your friends or classmates.

[@carinadominguez22]

And are you all Japanese or...

[@simonkhtse]

This is like watching an episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe. Same brilliant jokes and delivery, down to the sarcasm. Fantastic stuff!

[@Applepearcrispy]

Omg I was literally JUST going to comment on how much this reminds me of screenwipe

[@mayhair]

You did a good job editing yourself into the mini-room at the first minute. You really got me there.

[@RS250Squid]

I was really pretty impressed with that :-)

[@JoeVirella]

Same!!! Better than a lot of TV shows

[@ayviondenar3461]

How did he do that?

[@lycorisaylla758]

@@ayviondenar3461 Green screen + close up photo of that mini room.

[@civilstoat]

The placing the potato chips on the table still messes with my head

[@__no_name__]

Takeshi's castle finished in 1989? My life's a lie.

[@xyzen9673]

What, i swear i was still watching that shit on 2005

[@0nizukaS4n]

It is stil running on german television 😄

[@grubbybum3614]

Check out when Dragon Ball Z aired in Japan... Exactly

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

The Japanese one stopped broadcast in the late 80s. They re made '4 special versions' throughout the late 90s hosted in japan. Then created another version in mid 00s filmed in Thailand and Malaysia hosted by a male and female General. Think the last version from Thailand I watched was made /broadcast 2015. I've just had a research and apparently it's coming back to the UK this yeah with comedian Stephen Bailey as voice host

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

@@0nizukaS4n they will be reruns of old episodes. Fun fact about Takeshi is -only 8 people ever won

[@cojinmango]

It's part of escapism. Trying to deal with the dreadful work culture in Japan, this is one of the few instance where they can relax (I'd say it is more targeted towards older generations though). Btw, I watch Japanese youtubers sometimes, and your impression and use of sounds was on point xD the small trumpet sound

[@isabelleboulay2651]

I have done business with the Japanese as they visited Canada. There was an issue with the product that we were going to sell for them in Canada. Upon expressing my concerns, I was told that rather than admit to the potential issue, the Japanese representative would think Canadians as rude and tried to prove at all cost that the product was fine. Asian cultures (generally) are very concerned about "losing face",which is about keeping respectable appearances regardless of the reality. So I'm not surprised how Japanese tv seems almost euphoric and over the top happy and positive. Negative emotions are not accepted in public at all. Any criticism is taken as personal shame and often projects the image of failure.

[@kryts27]

Shame culture face-saving goes to blandness of the most excruciating sort, and (unlike the Chimese) the Japanese are very polite, which makes it sort of worse. It's a kabuki theater of understanding the degree of the bow to discover your ranking in society, and social nicities which kind of make your head impode with it's careful subtleness. Leaving a dead fly on your neighbor's doormat is a declaration of war, yet the Japanese army acted with extreme brutality during World War 2, which made the Waffen SS look like jolly nice chaps. So definitely volcanic level of schizophrenic destruction there if the kill switch is flicked. Incomprehensible, baffling and time-wasting from a more direct Westener point of view (Westerners are bigger on guilt culture than shame culture). Probably the Japanese feel negativity about Westerners being crude and rude peasants in return.

[@aarona6420]

So do they just not value truth when dealing with other people?

[@DeSinc]

a lot of the stuff you see on japanese tv feels like stuff you'd only normally see on those infomercial channels

[@makarovtheplat1805]

Oh shit the real desinc

[@duckmeat4674]

@@makarovtheplat1805 nothing to do with what he said but ok

[@animelover5999]

you know shit's gone down and outright boring ass when DeSinc comments on the videos he watches. But I guess it's true.

[@rgstever]

Wait wut. Why are you here?

[@Corbych]

Is that the real DeSinc fan account?

[@sathwikmalyala886]

“Are you youtubah?!” Chris Broad: My time to shine has come.

[@SlashDashPro]

Just a sec, let me go get my camera and set it in place so you can know.

[@burn_out]

He missed his chance to recite Avdol smh

[@jiunyieephang7014]

I see you're a man of culture as well :smug:

[@camillagomes1010]

"Ayu a yutchubah?"

[@zerodlaw9622]

YESSS I AM!!!

[@YochevedDesigns]

I was 100% surprised that the opening background was a miniature. Extremely well done!

[@mart5610]

As someone from US I always noticed this about TV shows and broadcasts in Japan. it's always happy constantly and honestly im surprised I'm not the only one who was bothered by it. also Ive been to Japan before

[@intermilan9731]

Americans are always portrayed as gloomy and dark and serious tho lol

[@mart5610]

@@intermilan9731 Rather have a balance than fake positivity 24/7 lol

[@intermilan9731]

@@mart5610 That's not balanced lol. Americans are some of the most depressed people on the planet. Rather fake positivity to inspire more positivity.

[@sclarinet9088]

@@intermilan9731 Respectfully I would rather deal with an uncomfortable truth than a comforting lie.

[@intermilan9731]

@@sclarinet9088 Truthfully, most American depression comes from their own mode of indoctrination. There is no truth there, uncomfortable or comfortable.

[@lilpaypal420]

The word pen is attributed to 90% of corona cases in English speaking countries

[@Why_It]

I can attest to this. My entire family was infected once we toured a Pilot pen factory.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

Everyone called me crazy when I claimed Pen Pineapple Apple Pen was a foreign biological weapon in disguise.

[@djsaidez271]

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 genius

[@BigCharlie442]

I agree. I can tell you that in Britain, we have had to ban pens and conversations about pens to protect the people from covid 19. It is now illegal to ask for a pen in the workplace or at school

[@thejumperkin]

PeoPle aPPly sPecific sPoken phrases Producing a P Persistently Pertaining to Pens. Ps are Perceived to Produce a Powerful imPression so Plainly it will Produce more sPit when sPoken by ... Kidding, obviously. What a fucking shit "study" anyway. I feel like I would naturally pronounce their "p" stronger in that sentence than I would pronounce our "p", purely because I feel it has more emphasis in their language on the p in pen than ours does, at least in EVERY spoken pronunciation I've ever heard even from Japenese speakers but also English speakers... The producers of that TV show "study" have definitely lost the thread. I doubt now if I will ever trust any televised Japanese "study"

[@bubble0bill]

There's that old cynical and bitter Chris that I originally subbed for.

[@filmntvguy1977]

Indeed.

[@cadarson]

You forgot a comma there: "There's that old[,] cynical and bitter Chris that I originally subbed for."

[@mahoihei]

Hear hear, I really miss this type of content on the channel.

[@littlefishbigmountain]

Mx House That makes it seem like they’re calling Chris old, not referring to the old Chris which was bitter and cynical

[@cadarson]

@@littlefishbigmountain If you wanna do this, then you could move the "old" or the "Chris", to relate the old to the person. > There's that old Chris, cynical and bitter, that's why I originally subbed for. or > There's that cynical and bitter old Chris that I originally subbed for.

[@b4ttlemast0r]

Phonetically speaking, the word "pen" in English does in fact have a more aspirated plosive sound than "ペン" in Japanese, so the air could actually be exhaled more forcefully in English, though they definitely exaggerated that effect, and it certainly has no measurable impact on the spread of a virus. Also the fact that they used the same speaker for both languages, who obviously didn't pronounce English like a native speaker, makes their experiment questionable.

[@banananer16]

Chris's little potato chip sketch is unrealistically quick. It's supposed to take at least 10-15 minutes from when you first show the food to when you actually taste and react to the food.

[@svenbischoff9769]

You're right. I expect a detailed history of how this particular flavor was made, and it better involves a heartwarming story about how the guy (because women don't invent stuff in Japan) met his wife during the process.

[@kueapel911]

@@svenbischoff9769 what, just that? I expected a history of an entire universe starting from a big bang

[@Brielleing]

I was thinking the reaction was too slow! I tend to see people say "umai!" the moment the food touches their tongue.

[@LamontGilkey]

And with several commercial breaks before he takes a bite. Not a soft fade to black, but a freaking jarring cut into a beer commercial of people doing the exact same thing with foamy beer on their lips. Because that is how people drink beer of course.

[@svenbischoff9769]

​@@kueapel911 You are of course correct. If you wish to make "you" from scratch, you first have to invent the universe.

[@ultra_lindel]

the pen girl literally said the pen twice, but only english version was like skyrim shout

[@THBronx]

Skyrim shout 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@junehanabi1756]

I feel there was an air machine behind her that blew air on the English part so that her mouth and breathing and stuff would look normal but the cloth would go full-on Skyrim shout.

[@InfernosReaper]

@@junehanabi1756 would explain why it was a bit out of sync with when the air should be coming out of her mouth

[@Asanyal99]

Fus ro dah

[@InfernosReaper]

@Jack Sparrow it looks more like it's between "a" & "pen" though

[@Dancingonthesun]

When I think about Japanese TV, I remember Nasubi, and his cruel, inhumane treatment by the producers. The broadcast still had all the wacky noises even when he was weeping from loneliness/desperation.

[@MultiSciGeek]

Wow the presentation and video editing style of yours is simply captivating! For real. I sat through this like a breeze. I also love the fact that you don't mince words, say things as they are. You earned my trust as a honest source... of entertainment. Subscribed!

[@maven12LA]

A brit having to show an exaggerated amount of emotions on tv? Unacceptable

[@atomictraveller]

foreigners are scrutinised for life. i would anticipate their descendants are as well. nationalism could have been a takeaway but remains superliminal

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@@atomictraveller Good. Every country should be like that.

[@Banana-cc5rx]

Remember when the only effect Chris was capable of was an exploding skydiving jetplane. I'member

[@AbroadinJapan]

And I've yet to top that!

[@Xingmey]

@@AbroadinJapan as chancellor palpatine once said: DO IT!

[@Akinohotarubi]

That was a good effect.

[@thisguy4614]

Pepperidge Farms remembers

[@Friendship1nmillion]

@@AbroadinJapan Haven't ever seen that of you Chris. I loved watching the Iron Chef { Japanese version , Iron Chef America is/was Crap } Pitty for tourists there's no English speaking local News programs of Japan { to watch in Japan } Only other "Japanese TV " thing i know from the West { watching from Sydney Australia } is Japanese Anime : www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk01I04VzPfWyX_50BqrjdByuut6b4w%3A1615628449495&ei=oYhMYOfQHaOC4t4P-82GuAE&q=video+clip+of+iron+chef+japan&oq=video+clip+of+Iron+Chef+&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYAzIGCAAQFhAeMgUIIRCgATIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjoECAAQRzoHCCMQsAIQJzoECB4QCjoECCMQJzoFCAAQkQI6BQgAELEDOgIIADoECAAQAzoCCC46CAguEJECEJMCOggIABCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6BAguEEM6BAgAEEM6BwgAELEDEEM6BwguELEDEEM6CAguEMcBEKMCOggILhDHARCvAToFCC4QkwI6CAgAEBYQChAeULbKAljftesCYJDS6wJoAXABeAKAAfwFiAHza5IBDTItMTcuMTQuNi4yLjGYAQCgAQGwAQbIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f345ad51,vid:4O8c8rtD5wQ,st:0 { Edit* URL to copy & paste of Iron Chef Japan episode } . 👨‍💼🐨🎁

[@lts3248]

The only time I had the TV on in Japan was when I was staying in Kofu, me and a friend initially found it incredibly strange that there was a channel dedicated to just showing traffic cameras with classical music playing. It was surprisingly relaxing though, and I had it on for at least an hour every night, not actively watching it like, but still.

[@thereallogus4174]

I 100% agree with your critiques of Japanese television, however, I did like your take on Abroad in Japan, Japanese television edition quite a lot.

[@VIP88231221]

I'm Japanese, and I totally agree his argument. I feel like the more I watching Japanese TV, the more my brain degenerated.

[@WatcherMovie008]

So it just like us Americans watching American TV, the stupidity and fakeness just eats your brain cells inch by inch.

[@user-ri5oc5rw5b]

Don't ask about Caribbean is like novela and western TV

[@user-ri5oc5rw5b]

@@WatcherMovie008 yeah

[@therealhardrock]

But your still forced to pay the licensing fee.

[@miracleman9150]

*I feel like the more I watch Japanese TV, the more my brain degenerates Or, I feel the more I'm watching Japanese TV, the more my brain is degenerating The first one is better

[@tlam3028]

as a native English speaking I feel nothing but shame when I utter the word “Pen”. Women and children cower as I exhale an incredibly loud and powerful burst of air as I whisper PPPPEENNN

[@Username-1939t9]

the karens are shaken. english was clearly invented to spread viruses and you speak to you mother with that mouth?

[@lucas1309]

THINGS I SHOVE UP MY ASS. P- *Cuts off* "Today, we sadly lost many lives in a sudden earthquake".

[@thatonegooze]

The Blue Moon VIBRATORS

[@tlam3028]

nfw buddy, Nobodies loves an grammer nazi!

[@crazyoncoffee]

nfw looks like a typo man. Calm down

[@CEOofAn]

Takeshi's Castle does give me nostalgia because I used to watch it as a kid at night, because it aired at night for me (I'm not a Japanese btw) but nonetheless I now find Japanese TV quite overwhelming for me, I never knew Takeshi's Castle was a Japanese Show until this video (when I saw it for the first time, this isn't my first time here as of this comment). FYI, it was dubbed in my native language so I never knew it was Japanese + thought that Japan doesn't exist (Basically, what I mean by this is that I used to think this as a kid that there was only one country and that would be where I'm from). Edit: 100 LIKES?! This is my first time getting a lot of likes in a comment, thank you! Note that I watched the reruns of it dubbed in my native language, which I didn't think about it when I originally commented.

[@yiddzin7318]

For real, wasn't expecting this gem to crop up in this random video i just clicked for gags

[@storiabanale]

are u Italian by any chance djhsbs

[@CEOofAn]

@@storiabanale nope, I'm from Asia-

[@le_meme_man8983]

That last bit is so relatable 💀

[@ChimeraLotietheBunny]

same

[@Skgaton]

9:30 あまりにも再現が的確すぎて、日本のTV番組を観ている時の脳が溶けそうな感覚が蘇った…

[@paulm7631]

I honestly burst out laughing watching the "kore wa pen-desu" bit, as the word pen is soooo strong in English, the tissue moved before she even got to say it, like it was fleeing in fear of just how strong the word was....... unreal.

[@agnieszkamichalak6478]

i tried a few more sentences, and tried a bunch in polish too. it's really weird, but english P- words are actually stronger than the other two and i can't figure out why !?!? ... like, i admit as an observation, it's interesting. I tried on purpose to say it with less PWAH power and it doesn't work !!?!? :O ????? i'mm a go check out some other languages now (tho for the novel corona virus, i would also guess not having hugging and kissing cheeks in greetings did a lot more to help than the language did) (also i wonder if that's why english speakers are seen as "louder",maybe the language itself literally has more OOMPH! in the sounds O.o )

[@jacencade4019]

pen in Japanese pen. pen in English. pen. how are people actually stupid enough to fall for shit like this.

[@anikaabdullah8873]

Well, the pen is mightier than the sword and all that.XD

[@heartsmith8658]

@@anikaabdullah8873 lol nice one

[@caitthecat]

@@agnieszkamichalak6478 Sounds like it's just you who speaks English that way because no one knows Wtf you're talking about.

[@MemesnShet]

Wtf I didn’t realise it was a miniature room WTF the hand freaked me out lol Production Quality +10

[@trishayamada807]

I was watching tv at my in-laws in japan and learned that all the garbage dumped on Mount Fuji was from foreigners visiting. So I asked if it was common for foreigners to carry refrigerators and dump them in Japan. Silence.

[@annamuller1666]

If stuff gets broken it's also always foreigners.

[@__umbra]

The tv screen cracking on "This is a pen" is extremely funny😂😂😂

[@joshuadale9655]

Can we just take a moment to sincerely appreciate Chris’ editing skills? Top notch!

[@jacobpeters5458]

absolutely! was just thinking that with the whole mini-TV etc in the beginning. wonder what programs he uses

[@codname125]

@@jacobpeters5458 that's actually a real TV

[@ilkka4716]

You can tell he is clearly a Youu-toobah!

[@cakekuy1318]

he was a former art/movies student in college, I forgot. I think it is in his "Why I came to Japan" video

[@MrDavi2751]

Seriously dude?!? It's just a chromakey!!

[@sorathetroll]

Hmm, I used to watch TV a lot but I noticed I don't watch TV anymore either.. :/

[@billydabomb8669]

it would be more interesting if there are people like you in those tv shows >_< Love your channel btw.

[@akshay4107]

Wow! Hey Sora. I like your channel

[@giboi03]

@@billydabomb8669 Oh no no, Sora can't be on tv Else he'll troll and rickroll everyone

[@kraizerxthesimp46]

oh shit the meme lord himself is here

[@psycheameliorate7446]

That's so true. I don't even have a tv in my house anymore

[@mr1000Cent]

Maybe the dying days of tape trading pro wrestling and MMA from Japan and Mexico ruined what I learned years later about Japanese TV in the late 90s - early 2000s. Outside of the stories of batshit insane New Years Eve specials, K-1 kickboxing shows that were filled with commercials for (what I assumed were) Japanese soap operas, where women would get randomly naked, or a private investigator who would solve a crime via tying someone up with "ancient rope tactics", while probably recorded from off-the-air channels, the channel was most likely a lowly watched cable channel, and the show probably either aired at 3 am, or as weekend TV filler. At least I was lead to believe from the "pieces of napkins" I pieced together from years of falling down "rabbit holes" on the Internet, LOL.

[@mr1000Cent]

Come to think of it, my brief experiences trying to learn a foreign language, if I talk to that language teacher for a little bit, they will tell me how great the country is, how everyone is nice and hospitable, and they take vacations every year to that country, and there is rarely any crime or gang activity (Mexico, Japan, Russia, France, etc.) Very nice place to visit, a paradise, and "don't believe everything you hear in media" type scenario.. Now compare that with my "research", now as a middle age white male, who probably found some crazy shit such as "Takeshi's Castle" (here as MXC in the United States), "Death Match wrestling" (aka, "Strangle-mania"), poor quality mid-90s "hentai" anime (I think you might be seeing a trend with very poor "comedic" English voice dubbing), and the occasional "Yakuza" action film, in my teenage years, that left me with far more questions than answers, and my stereotypes about Japan that may be far different from the language teachers I mentioned earlier, if not somewhat hilarious and a little tragic in hindsight.

[@loszhor]

From a face value perspective, if Japanese society can be very high strung and stressful then I would assume the media they consume would be "calming" or meant to relax in response.

[@Peleski]

I think the tv style is meant to evoke the excitement of childhood, which is very nostalgic for Japanese

[@taterchips69]

Funny, I was under the impression tv is garbage everywhere always.

[@miguelcamara736]

My thoughts exactly!

[@LordMarlle]

I'm Danish, and it's all true. Television is a dying medium, and instead of reinventing themselves, they're pandering to a dying generation

[@edarddragon]

you mean it isnt?

[@rumfordc]

youtube is quickly becoming just as bad as tv tho

[@El_Jefe_Maestro]

@@rumfordc Not really. KZbin will always have more variety than any TV channel. Look at this channel, there would never be anything like this on TV. I agree KZbin has a lot of issues but itll never be as shit as TV lmao

[@CptPatch]

I kind of need picture-in-picture Chris saying "sugoi" at mundane things as a background theme in my life.

[@deus_ex_machina_]

With AR glasses, it can be arranged.

[@randomsandwichian]

Chris: Breathing, すごい!!!

[@theramendutchman]

You might actually enjoy Japanese television then

[@ShinyShilla]

Kinda incredible how in different places, tv can be so different. One of the channels my relatives watch, every sunday during lunch time, has a show that talks about cultural facts, festivities, peculiar towns about our state, mostly food related, and it is also how I found out in one region they have a cheese with live fly maggots inside, and you would think that it's rotten cheese but is not, the way is worked is meticulous and if they notice the minimum of mistake they will throw the bad cheese.

[@daydarasensei12]

I was on Japanese TV once and I hated it so much but always lied about my experience when talking to Japanese ppl lol I thought they'd get upset. But my close jpn friends said that they expected it to be cringy (at least). they made me say so much lies and forced me to exaggerate my reaction to really stupid stuff Like..since I'm from a 3rd world country, they wanted me to be amazed at the skyscraper, like... Wth? I had just landed in Tokyo past midnight after 20h+ flight, was freaking tired, but they still wanted me to act all happy and amazed at stuff THEY get to choose, on our way to the hotel, they opened the car window and wanted me to act all hyped because I saw skyscrapers... I just wasn't, I tried but I was so bad that they gave up but then I saw a really awesome building, probably a sumo wrestling stadium and I was genuinely impressed by it so I asked them about it, guess what? They just started at me and nobody bothered replying. And yeah, they made the audience rehearse "heeeeeee" multiple times before we started.

[@personalname2056]

"Are yoU youTuber?" his voice was so childish and Chris is like *I AM*

[@falken_gt4]

Chris looked like he might have said “Yes, indeed”

[@Jestrath]

The way he said I AM is hilarious.

[@personalname2056]

Oh cool thanks for telling me that 😄

[@Jtucker18Videos]

Like when you tell a child what you do on career day lol

[@BulletHail1337]

I love how when they say "pen (ペン)" in Japanese it's just a normal word but sayint the EXACT SAME word with the SAME PRONOUNCIATION in English the whole word turns into an absolute soundwave of destruction that leaves the whole room shattered.

[@mamutero21]

Probably because you need to pronounce "A" pen which makes you open your mouth a bit more than borupen. Like if you tested with a toilet paper like me xP

[@lobodraco]

Maybe it has a symbolic meaning, like how the English empire created the destruction and havoc all around the ancient world, and nowadays its imperalistic spawn (in the new continent) creates havoc and exploitation in order to continue “the tradition” of military might. Basically the bully of the world 😂 Just maybe that’s why: “this is a pen”... 💥 🔥 💀 LoL!

[@CChissel]

@Dragon Azteca Before English existed it was Latin spoken by the “bully of the world” but China has always been there at the same time, doing their own shit no one seems to address. Before them it was the Egyptians who were the “bullies of the world”, you trying to say that those with power inevitably bully the weak, no matter who they are? Cause you’d be right, no matter their way of forming coherent ideas verbally, nationality or ethnicity.

[@BulletHail1337]

@@CChissel fam. It was a joke.

[@lobodraco]

CChissel Ppfft! 😂 Nope! that’s not what I’m saying, nobody is speaking Latin in the paper test video, besides on a global scale, non of your examples are true. The Chinese back in the day could’ve spread worldwide even before the English. They invented gun powder, the compass, and were great sailors, but choose to mind their own and didn’t have that greedy conquering mentality. Also I’m definitely not saying what you’re implying either, because I would not call Native Americans or any other indigenous culture weak, it’s actually quite the opposite. A great example would be the Maori or Hawaiian people, but the difference with natives cultures was that they were not infected with the virus of greed, and lived in accordance to other principles like respecting nature and living according to earth’s rules. In contrast, certain “other cultures” seems that were (still are) intersted in conquest and control, as if they had an infection in their mind that makes them blind. There are plenty of examples of that still being the case today. You see 👁 there is a difference; cultural and philosophical, but it would be ignorant to say otherwise, that’s what I’m saying 💡

[@AG-rw8qr]

Entertaining and informative 👍🏼

[@impact0r]

The Intro is soooo well done. Impressive.

[@treewizard6484]

Western television has stark contrasts as well. Gordon Ramsay is far more reserved on British television while in the US he goes absolutely ballistic.

[@perlasandoval7883]

in the west shows are willing to dive into a tank full of sharks and maybe carry an ak there to kill the sharks

[@killerbug05]

@@perlasandoval7883 I remember an episode of the show river monsters where Jeremy Wade did something similar, he got into a pool full of starved piranhas, just to prove that piranha attacks are rare 🤣

[@dionaji7677]

@Rusty Gears it's the repressed urges. The country been having low birth rate problems for two decades

[@maximilian6829]

@@vilena5308 Okay.... the wage gap is a MYTH. Any stat you’re looking at is the EARNINGS gap, you’re comparing the TOTAL earnings of ALL men to the TOTAL earnings of ALL women and that’s where that stupid wage gap comes from. Men and women get paid the same for the same job. Women tend to take lower paying careers, it just is what it is, thus leading to the earnings gap. It’s mostly choice. Women could easily become a welder or a plumber or a garbage truck driver, and earn well close to six figures, sometimes even six figures! Women want equality in cushy jobs. I don’t see anyone rallying for equality in trades, manual labor, etc, despite those industries overwhelmingly being male. I guess it’s fine for that to stay part of the patriarchy.

[@jamesgoldring1052]

Yeah u rgt kid, us tv is so much better,

[@IshikaShanai]

Wow the green screen effect turned out better than I imagined when I hearing about it on the podcast! You did a great job with the keying. :D

[@AbroadinJapan]

Even I was surprised to be honest!

[@thefirstthrownmolotov6852]

Had me fooled until the hand transition; quality stuff.

[@misteryA555]

@@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 Yeah I only realized it was fake because I recognized the room was the little set he showed earlier

[@Antiformed]

I was wondering why the retro TV looked like plastic.

[@MainGoldDragon]

Was it really ? I'm not an avid viewer but I immediately noticed he was green screen-ed in. Something about the lighting on him didn't quite look right. Also the hair weren't keyed properly whatever that means because they're the hardest part of a human to cut when you chroma key them..... Also the lighting on the "set". Since it's a miniature, the lighting gets all weird and unrealistic.... hard to explain. Umai effort though !

[@frank327]

The parody video bit explains things absolutely perfectly 👌

[@hfredydl]

Chris! You have to start taking parts of your long videos and making KZbin shorts! You have several memorable snippets that would make hilarious 30 second clips!

[@elnavales]

When I broke my leg in Japan, I had a lot of time to sample Japanese TV. The most common theme in their programming: Food. Cooking shows, travel shows discovering food, game shows where the winner gets a prize: eating food, a famous person going to a far away place to discover...food, debate shows about which city has the better version of their...food.

[@rhyssuy8361]

Did you enjoy any of it

[@matiasrisso5917]

@@rhyssuy8361 He enjoyed the food

[@Zekegedd]

Yes, yes, food very good.

[@stargirl7646]

This is Korean TV too 😂 SO. MUCH. FOOD.

[@OMGulator]

True. We have something similar going on with UK television except its all about homes and houses.

[@teyayaa6392]

Funny how the word "pen" is used in both languages, yet the fact the it is said in such a dirty language as english makes the tissue just blast away in disgust.

[@ArabKatib]

Easy easy, Russian. /:^)0- No need for anger.

[@mmm-mmm]

i want to see her say "anpanman"

[@pandaexpress7673]

ikr lol and it was strange cause when i tried saying it myself, the japanese ver. had more air coming out than the english sentence

[@teyayaa6392]

@@cicolas_nage ooh I see

[@teyayaa6392]

@@ArabKatib lol I was just joking 😅 You almost got it correct, but no, not russian xd

[@user-ng9yy3wl9m]

とても面白く拝見しました♪動画ありがとうございます

[@Mei-kp5wu]

カナダ在住日本人です！9:30　大勢の海外KZbinrさんも日本の食べ物に同じようなリアクションされてると思う...。　でもそうなってしまうの凄く分かるんです、カナダのお菓子や食べ物は日本のそれに比べると（私には）断然安くて美味しくて帰国の度に『超美味しいーー！！』を連発しているので😂　ちなみにカナダのTVも私には相当つまらないなぁ　日本のTVは（当然番組にもよりますが）100％理解すれば、健康維持関係、歴史教養、様々なライフハックやお得情報などなど有用なものも多いです👍

[@CzlowiekDrzewo]

So 'This is a Pen' is basically the Fus Ro Dah shout from Skyrim

[@surajsharma1992]

Nicely copied 👍

[@CzlowiekDrzewo]

@@surajsharma1992 You wot? Who did I copy mate?

[@surajsharma1992]

The one with the most likes is basically the same comment and was posted earlier so don't even dude.

[@CzlowiekDrzewo]

@@surajsharma1992 When I made my comment, I didn't see that one. But hey, there's no way 2 different people could make the same reference, right?

[@GM_Flynx]

And now, the mental image is never out of my head. Thank you. @_@

[@Wimlan]

Your "abroad in Japan as a Japanese tv show" is actually what a lot of Japanese youtuber's channels look like.

[@kaikart123]

It's true, but I see less texts though probably because editing the texts is pain in the ass.

[@Wimlan]

@@Earthchyld_333 Who said I hated it? I just made a statement. I never said if it was a good or a bad thing.

[@tuseroni6085]

some reason i really like hearing この番組はグランドスポンサーの提供でお送りします maybe it's just nostalgia, but it has such a nice ring to it.

[@georgebarrie7826]

This man is a genius set dresser! I was really fighting to figure out if his first set was real or not. I think if it wasnt for the lighting...i would have been completely fooled but something felt off. When i saw the mini set...it took me back to when we had to build one in film school and actually make a short 2 min film about running around in this mini set. Brilliant!!! Such artistic efforts!!! So refreshing

[@yato.692]

Anyone else wondering why the woman said pen harder in English then she did in Japanese when they are literally the same word in both languages.

[@nobacktoyou7285]

Its the pen conspiracy

[@GIOtotheVANNI]

They have literally the same sound and everything lol

[@darkpyrolord1808]

It sounded like "ben", less plosive. I don't know if that's normal or not.

[@Schmidt54]

Because they think that people are actually that gullible, and some certainly are, to believe such nonsense.

[@michaelcallisto]

Racism. That's why.

[@Sdsisdsi]

Brother to experience the lowest levels of T.V serials, you need to see Indian TV serials.

[@definitelynotanAIchatbot]

Do you really want to compare Japan to India, of all places? I'd rather deal with a culture of inauthenticy than one where gang rapes and public defecation are the norm.

[@IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch]

Nah man. The levels they go to are so low, it bounces back to being high. Much more entertaining than the type of Japanese TV portrayed in this video.

[@rosenistudy6142]

Indian tv series in those Last years increase the quality.

[@wibs0n68]

Indian TV is so bad that it becomes good on it's own way

[@CEOofAn]

Yeah, the dramatic-ness of it all is so bad that it makes me laugh.

[@MrAndresm900]

🗣"This is a pen" is like when Draco says the P in Potter 🤣🤣

[@mvl71]

*Hogwarts explodes*

[@freshfrozen7612]

harry Photthah

[@Baard5Szomoru]

Harry PPPPHPHPHHPHPHPothah!!!!!!!!! (solar system explodes, explodes twice)

[@infernoxero2791]

No

[@drey7x740]

who else said potter after reading this.

[@holyheretic3185]

I love gaki no tsukai, so to finally understand why they are always so happy during the food marathons and stuff now makes alot of sense. They literally can't say anything bad! (atleast about the food.)

[@user-yh7ix2ow1p]

I guess this is exactly the reason why terrace house was such a huge hit among western audiences. It's the opposite of loud, in your face tv and the witty remarks of the panel made you see the beauty and drama in the mundane.

[@gaildahlas]

Oh my goodness. THAT'S where the infamous "are you youtuber?!?!" soundbite comes from! I know I'm probably the only one realising this now, but the discovery still feels important.

[@ubayyd]

And I’m just realizing that it’s in fact a soundbite. Where’s it been used?? (That is if it’s not been used everywhere)

[@wombatpandaa9774]

I didn't even out those two together, so you did better than mr

[@joegt123]

@@Kronos0999 Clearly you don't listen to the podcast.

[@gaildahlas]

@@ubayyd Chris and Pete (Donaldson) have a podcast. There's quite a back catalogue if you fancy some lockdown listening.

[@toastedfridge5631]

What the hell that napkin just blasted away before she even said pen. * This is a💥a pen*

[@AbroadinJapan]

The game is rigged

[@sonyaross946]

@@AbroadinJapan Phonetics teacher here: the English /p/ DOES expel air more forcefully than its Japanese 'equivalent' (thanks to the characteristic English aspiration of the sound) but to shoehorn in a conclusion about virus spread is a bit of a reach to say the least.

[@moxellex]

noticed that, too !! but saying 'a' with such force is an art in itself i suppose ...

[@JohnSmith-ox7xc]

Think we now know how the flag on the moon moved.

[@revangerang]

sonya ross doesn’t the Japanese language also resonate more from the head area than the mouth? As a trained singer I notice that when I speak Japanese I feel it more in the mask. But the coronavirus thing is definitely a reach either way

[@Mosscatski]

I just randomly came across this but the imitation and parody is hilarious! Good job!

[@gloober.]

This reminds me of when I would watch Thai dramas with my grandmother and everything was just absolutely exaggerated. She would even translate the more "serious" parts so I wouldnt get lost. It was all fun to watch though.

[@uzochiokeke4328]

To be fair, young people from every country don't watch that much TV anymore. The internet has everything we need.

[@disconnectxd7344]

true it got nothing to do with the tvs content this whte guy is a moron. and im not exaggerating

[@disconnectxd7344]

true it got nothing to do with the tvs content this whte guy is a mron. and im not exaggerating

[@disconnectxd7344]

tes

[@disconnectxd7344]

true it got nothing to do with the tvs content this wh guy is a mroon. and im not exaggerating

[@duckydae]

Disc OnnectxD If you’re going to insult someone for being a ‘moron’, at least sort out your grammar. Pot, meet Kettle.

[@sarge8905]

"The sheer destructive force of saying this is a pen" A phrase I thought I would never hear in my life.

[@AbroadinJapan]

Me neither

[@Sean-qt7og]

Just imagine the sheer destructive force PPAP would have had if it came out this year

[@HenryDube72]

Lethal

[@ShadowKatt]

The pen has always been mightier.

[@Kelvin_Foo]

@@Sean-qt7og Not even Pikotaro's final form!

[@dktk540]

Thank you for explaining something that’s always perplexed me.

[@WickedGamerCollector]

0:45 that is some awesome editing !

[@Mythral]

Commentator: "The secret of these delicious beans is in the seeds" Chris: "sugoi" that knocked me tf out😂

[@masterofnova]

Samee

[@te104163jp]

I'm Japanese. I'm strongly agree with him. 90% of Japanese TV show is called "Variety" show. It means that comedians, celebrities, idols, and actors are watching video in the studio, and they talk episodes related with video after watching it. I hate this kind of TV show. I simply want to watch the video without their talking. And TV companies should spend more cost to the video in order to make it more entertained, instead spend cost to guys in the studio.

[@user-gx9xf2zb6o]

そうは思わないな。しゃべりだけのトークがあってもいいでしょ。西洋とは違うんだし。それが文化でしょ。この外国人は失礼すぎる。

[@thatcanadiangrandma]

It's like that for Terrace House ( i mean it was since it has stopped) but i would often skip the talking of presentators because i couldn't care less about all their mean comments.

[@dekaw9138]

What about Kamen Rider?

[@Hideyoshi1991]

@@user-gx9xf2zb6o ブリタンでは風刺が喜劇の種類です。文化の違いから、失礼を意図しなかった。

[@kdrgaming3344]

Do they not have Graphic Designers for their TV shows? All that text on the screen, all different colors, all different fonts, and sizes all over the screen, and some random face with a TERRIBLE "Clip-art" frame around him... It's awful. That looks just like many of the things our graphic design professors would show us for us to see exactly what NOT to do lol.

[@richardwallace133]

Thank’s for the laughs

[@maxrebo8455]

Thank the stars for streaming services. I was back in Japan in April and I flicked to terrestrial TV for approximately 45 seconds and it’s still dire picture-in-picture reaction of people watching videos, chat shows which feature much of the former, along with eating food and declaring it’s oishi, often combined with the first two formats as well. A few dramas and cartoons for kids during the day but I’ve got better things to do.

[@fanime1]

This makes me wonder what Japanese people think American TV is like.

[@Ihyabond009]

Watches Kitchen Nightmare once, instant PTSD

[@tw4898]

へーーーーこわいーーーー

[@linamyerscough548]

my mum finds it depressing lol

[@normalguy8911]

American TV is depressing

[@rugawakhoidts2947]

sad story we don't watch

[@NasAfter]

I'm 90s kid and Takeshi's Castle was huge part of my childhood.. It's weird that some shows have more impact and nostalgia abroad than their native audience

[@grubbybum3614]

It was such a rare treat to find that show airing. As bad as it seems now, network television + no internet made us even more excited in finding an awesome tv show.

[@ijiwarusensei89]

Anything with Shimura Ken (RIP) was usually very entertaining.

[@blackbloodcell5147]

Tv champion IS better

[@flp322]

Yes! That show was the pinnacle of entertainment as a 13-year-old. I want to say it was on either Nickelodeon or Comedy Central? (which used to be the same channel anyway in my country, Nick in the daytime and CC in the evenings)

[@TomKellyXY]

My wife is Japanese and she remembered it. She’s an 80s kid though. I think the point was *younger* Japanese don’t remember it because it came out so long ago. Same for anime like Dragon Ball that took years to be released in English speaking countries.

[@creativebodyflying]

Haha! This was a fun episode! Especially with chips.

[@74Cheshire]

Quite literally showed this video to my girlfriend yesterday while on holiday in Japan. Today I was in a mountain lodge, where I just hit my head on a low beam, swore on point while my poor girlfriend is lying near my feet suffering from altitude sickness. It is at this exact point a Japanese TV crew asks to interview us as we have dinner. I laugh like an idiot at the point we are asked to talk about how our food tastes and what specific aspects of it we like. You bastard Chris - if I'd never have seen your video, I'd have kept my composure way better. Keep up the good work mate.

[@Nurpus]

09:30 - *not gonna lie, that was the best minute of content you've ever done on your channel*

[@WilliamBrinkley45]

There is footage of Gordon Ramsey on KZbin of him going into a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo and all he did was praise the food.

[@_BeanieBee_]

And he did us all wrong by giving the Japanese chefs pot noodles. POT FRICTION NOODLES. Why.

[@ssjup81]

That I must see. lol I saw a couple of eps of Kitchen Nightmare (UK version....not our overly dramatic US version) where he was nice about the food. The woman who ran it was from the southern US, but lived in Britain and was married to a Brit. Mama Cherri was the name. He liked the food she prepared and even sent the plate back nearly empty. She was telling the cameras that she wanted to take a photo of the plate. lol

[@adwait613]

@@ssjup81 He was Nice About The Food Cause it was Actually Good! I think her Part Time Chef Was Having Issues and It was Mainly a Problem With Debt but Nothing To Do With Food. But When He Goes to Places like Amy's Baking Company (Which happens 99% of the Time) Gordon Goes absolutely Beserk Cause Why Shouldn't He...

[@ToveriJuri]

Well the entire point of Kitchen Nightmares was going into failing restaurants so of course he shits on the food. In his travelling show he was actually interested in finding the good food not the bad. So of course there's going to be more praise than hate.

[@ssjup81]

@@adwait613 Yeah. I like when he goes to a place and can actually say something good about the dishes and it turns out it's something else that's causing the issue. Mama Cherri is a good example of this. Her kitchen was even clean, from what I recall. It's a shame her place closed because of the recession back then. In some ways, I kinda wish Gordon would give more criticisms in like, "This tastes terrible because....but if they would try...it would be better." Offer a negative and a positive...unless there's just no hope.

[@HamburgerHelperDeath]

Man your impersonation, so to speak, of Japanese Tv was hilarious.

[@thacrypt223]

No idea why this showed up in my feed, but I enjoyed all of it. Sick editing, and the end had me dead! "This is a pen!"🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DavidAguilarMX]

This is amazing. I lived in Japan back in 2001-2002, and NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Peak moment for me was some dude tasting raw unseasoned tofu and just going aboslute bonkers on HOW AMAZING IT WAS.

[@thimblina]

Same. I once watched a show on radishes in a very depressing hotel room with everyone sugoiing all over the place. I just kept watching intrigued how long they could keep it up. In the end I cracked and switched off after about an hour before the insanely long ode to radishes was over.

[@briansakurada2823]

Nothing has never not been Oishii in tv.

[@briansakurada2823]

... and it always sounds so oishii thorough their microphones.

[@briansakurada2823]

...same goes for the radio. For god sakes there is no reason to eat and comment on the radio.

[@cdixon5150]

@@thimblina “sugoiing” all over the place 😂🤣😂🤣🤣 ain’t that the truth .

[@rotzloffel]

ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵃ PEN

[@nekolord9134]

I hate that I love this

[@user-ys8jx1qx1l]

これはペンです( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@nater308]

This is a pineapple

[@SovereignSage]

This reminds me of the phrase that the English Language Instructor says to the Japanese kids in Way of The Samurai 4 lol 😂

[@M4NAS7]

@@nater308 this is an apple

[@PallidTrash]

On the American version of Takshi's castle they have the funniest phrases. Like "I HAVE A VD" Before falling down a hill.

[@DontVoteMe]

I don't know about you guys but I tried the "Egg flavored chips" for the first time before they went out of the market (limited edition in Switzerland). At first I was a little skeptical about the egg flavor but for me it was one of the best chips

[@aleksei8884]

TV in Korea as pretty much the same, except 70% of it is people eating food and the "funny" or "surprising" things are just repeated 2-4 times in a row with different effects like in those Bollywood movies

[@nathansmith8883]

It somewhat reminds me of davie 504.

[@user-fm6no9el3f]

As a Korean I've never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.

[@Rakumei672]

@@user-fm6no9el3f Classic Korean experience. "We can hate it, but you're not Korean so fuck you if you criticize it!"

[@user-fm6no9el3f]

@@Rakumei672 Umm... it's a meme response? Google it.

[@KhoiruunisaRF]

진지하게?

[@connorbutters8479]

and now for the weather: it appears to be torrential rainstorms with a high risk of flooding and strong winds... *Ｓｕｇｏｉ*

[@sorestedhebytheTumtumtree]

Lol.. Hahahaha and to think it's the rainy season now in Japan.

[@generallee0178]

Lol Takeshi’s Castle also Known as MXC Most Extreme Elimination Challenge here in the U.S. also streaming on Tubi.