Post by golfnovemberdelta on Mar 27, 2022 11:08:44 GMT
This post is about something that I have vague memories of from the now defunct forums associated with Snopes.com.
There was a discussion on the forum, probably in the late 1990s about a short film clip that purported to come from a Japanese game show. As I remember it the clip had three people in it, a male 'contestant', a female 'host' and a female 'assistant'.
In the scene the contestent is seated, the assistant walks up behind him and vomits on his head. The host then asks the contestant to identify what the assistant had eaten.
I cannot remember if the clip continued beyond that point.
Again, from my memories of the discussion the conclusion was that the clip was fake and probably linked to some form of sexual fetish.
I'd like to know if anyone can identify if any Japanese game show did anything like this, or if not just where the clip might have come from.
This post is about something that I have vague memories of from the now defunct forums associated with Snopes.com.
There was a discussion on the forum, probably in the late 1990s about a short film clip that purported to come from a Japanese game show. As I remember it the clip had three people in it, a male 'contestant', a female 'host' and a female 'assistant'.
In the scene the contestent is seated, the assistant walks up behind him and vomits on his head. The host then asks the contestant to identify what the assistant had eaten.
I cannot remember if the clip continued beyond that point.
Again, from my memories of the discussion the conclusion was that the clip was fake and probably linked to some form of sexual fetish.
I'd like to know if anyone can identify if any Japanese game show did anything like this, or if not just where the clip might have come from.
I’ve heard about this around 2005, but I think it was just a urban legend.
Post by golfnovemberdelta on May 17, 2022 0:47:36 GMT
I've been searching various drives and have managed to locate the clip that was attached to the (now lost) thread on Snopes.com. As soon as I can work out how to do so I will attach it to this thread as the file is larger than 2mb.
Post by golfnovemberdelta on May 17, 2022 9:40:07 GMT
This is an update. I've watched the video and the suspicion that the clip may be some kind of fake can be upheld by the fact that there is a url (deviantclips<dot>com) printed on the footage. My memory was wrong rather than being two females and a male, all three characters in the video appear to be female. The host appears to be dressed in lingerie, which again supports the suspicion that this was made to purpose. Attached are some screenshots from the video which show a sign in Japanese that someone might be able to translate. I've omitted a screenshot that shows the hostess as it's probably not safe for work.
Japanese game shows can be rather extreme. I have a DVD that I haven't watched yet of a show called "Endurance" where they basically torture contestants to see who lasts the longest and eliminate some each round. Apparently, some of the rounds include being made to drink a bunch of beer while wearing nothing but underwear sitting in a swimming pool filled with ice in a snowy alpine area with an adjacent portable toilet (first guy to run to the toilet loses), and being strapped to shiny mirrored pyramids in the middle of the desert while someone concentrates a magnifying glass on the contestants' nipples. They already traveled all over the world to do these challenges, and the prize, kept secret until the winner is chosen, is a trip to Hawaii.
So I don't doubt something like this could have happened, but given the extreme nature of some shows, parodies also exist. I remember a commercial when I was a kid presenting itself as a Japanese game show. I can't remember what the contestant's goal was, but I think he was pulling something, and a tall, wide-trunked tree fell on him, completely covering him. It might have been for insurance.
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Post by thatgamingasshole on Aug 23, 2022 13:26:51 GMT
I don't think it was on Snopes or the Onion or Something Awful or anything like that because I honestly don't go to those places, but I can tell you right now that I genuinely remember this coming up in a discussion, just off the top of my head.
Off hand I would say it was listed somewhere on TV tropes as like some sort of "what the hell is this shit!?" kind of post in one of their pages about like disgusting stuff or "Squick", I think they call it, or something like that.
But regardless I am literally certain I have seen at the very least someone reference and description of this show if not actually seen someone directly name it and I...I cannot remember the name of it no matter how much I try.
But if there's any evidence at all I'm almost certain it's on TV tropes.
If I recall the description was something similar to this or the actual clip where it literally was saying again like "what the fuck is this?", "why would anyone do something like this?", "how insane is this?!" or something like that and it may also have been mentioned on a forum. I used to frequent a forum that, believe it or not, was a Star Wars forum called Star Destroyer.net and it might have been there, we had some odd discussions.
And another one that immediately came to mind was that I saw this clip, or at least a description identical to it, on Tip of my Tongue and it wasn't that long ago, probably within the last year. Unless that was literally you posting, but you know...😅