I pick this one. :eek: Yikes!
Reminds me of that old SNL sketch with Alec Baldwin (I believe) and Chris Farley as this clueless American tourist on a Japanese game show with all sorts of nasty penalties for answering wrong. By sheer dumb luck he makes it all the way to the bonus round with the electric chair (I think), and tosses out a bunch of random Japanese-sounding syllables for the final question, only to get it wrong by one syllable. 
That said, ouch!
Wow. I’m surprised mo American network has picked up on this concept.
Among the older shows, The Price is Right is highly unappealing to me, even
tho the contestants aren’t much smarter than lobotomized cows when it comes to
winning strategies…
Is Fear Factor just too obvious? You want me to eat what for a chance at how much money?
Swim the Crocodiles, Treadmill to Bucks, and especially…The Running Man
All three proposed by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman
Well, you never said they had to actually be on the air 
Total Carnage – IIIIIIIIIIIII Love It!
If you’re playing like that, I’d like to opt out of the game shows on the the Dr. Who episode Bad Wolf.Contestants are randomly selected from among the entire population of earth and teleported into the studio where they have to play modern game shows (including Big Brother and The Weakest Link) for their lives.
Takeshi’s Castle (recut as MXC on Spike TV). The show from the OP was worse than some of their games, but at least it doesn’t stand a good chance of crushing your spine.
To be fair, if you exclude the game MXC calls Log Drop, the two most serious looking injuries I can think of happened because of contestants showing off - both involving backflips, IIRC.
Though yes, it generally DOES look pretty painful.
If I remember correctly, I don’t think the OP’s link was an actual game show. I think it was a one-time thing for some comedy show or something. That still doesn’t negate how painful it is to watch.
The UK show Distraction is pretty bad. One episode I saw featured a round where contestant could only answer a question after peeing into a toilet (males and females - they were in stalls onstage, with just a small privacy door at groin height). In another round, every correct answer resulted in the contestant receiving a piercing. The first person to get five metal spikes in their body won the prize.
The pee buzzers are nothing - those are the least bad distractions on the show, followed closely by the gross foods and ugly nudists.
The piercings, the tattooing, the electrocution, the injur-yourself-to-buzz-in (clothes pegs, mouse traps, large elastic bands stretched to a foot in front of your face), the shooting with shit, paintballs, and rotten eggs…those are the bad ones.
My favourite bit of Distraction was when a girl won a car…and then had to answer questions, and for each wrong one, her dad vandalised it. IIRC she ended up with no wing mirrors, and “I 
dogging” sprayed across it.
Can’t remember the name of it now, but there was a daytime quiz show on the Beeb a few years ago with really hard to answer questions and prizes like a mug, or even gasp a BBC tea towel…
The presenter looked mortified
The worst “hurt yourself to buzz in” that I saw was: contestants were shown their buzzers, which were on a small rotating platform, closely surrounded by several varieties of cactus. The contestants were then blindfolded, the platforms rotated, and the questions started flying. Pretty well no way to buzz without impaling yourself on a cactus.
I once saw a Japanese game show on an old episode of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not where contestants had to run through these filthy obstacles, have snakes and scorpions poured all over them, and eat really disgusting foods…only to win a trophy. A big-ass fancy trophy, but just a trophy nonetheless.
I’ve watched this about a dozen times–you know, it never stops being funny!! The look on that last guy’s face…utter panic as he realizes he’s muffed the tongue twister!
My husband just about died laughing!
That doesn’t look so bad to me. Granted I’m female…
Anyone who’s read the Jack webcomic should know why I never want to be on the stage of Musical Holes