# Most Extreme Elimination Challenge? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930 "2003-04-20T22:24:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930/1 "2003-04-20T22:24:59Z")
Anyone catch this last night? I think, though I may be mistaken, that it was the first night of this show. It looks like a combination of Fear Factor, Iron Chef, and MST3K. I can’t tell whether it’s a genuine Japanese show that’s been intentionally mis-dubbed, or whether the bits were filmed specifically for this purpose. Either way, I hate myself for considering it one of the funniest things I’ve seen on TV since the Simpsons’ 7th season. I was literally howling with laughter. Am I alone here? – Justin ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930/2 "2003-04-20T22:35:03Z")
I believe that would be William Mulholland’s quote about being asked to run for mayor of Los Angeles. “I’d rather give birth to a porcupine backwards than run for mayor.” As a man, I doubt he used the birthing contrast so often as a scatalogical one. And _that_ would be a Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. ---
**Author:** ![RazzBaronZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@RazzBaronZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RazzBaronZ)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930/3 "2003-04-21T02:23:17Z")
I saw it too… It was hilarious for a few minutes…then it got sorta lame. I guess people getting hurt was funny. The novelty wore off, but I’d watch it now and again (say, once a week for 30 mins or something). If you haven’t seen it though, check it out. It’s worth a gander. I think it was on TNN. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930/4 "2003-04-21T02:30:41Z")
I saw this too and I really want to know if it’s a genuine Japanese TV show or a parody. I’m pretty sure the “addicts” and “organ donors” were fake, though…one guy donated his medula oblongata?!? :eek: Also, the hosts had non-Japanese names…which might have been changed by the translators, who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930/5 "2003-04-21T05:28:49Z")
I don’t know about the dubbing, but it was broadcast in Japan in the late 80’s/early 90’s as “Takeshi’s Castle”. It was hosted by Kitano “Beat” Takeshi, somewhere in between lighting his assitants’ crotches on fire while trying to spank half-naked schoolgirls on _Super Jockey_, and receiving the Palme d’Or for _Kikujiro no Natsu_. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-extreme-elimination-challenge/169930/6 "2003-04-21T05:44:08Z")
They just MST3k the dialogue. Honestly you don’t really need to know what they are saying to understand what is going on, but some of the remarks are really funny.