Japanese Game Shows

I am, completely and throughly amused with Japanese TV-Game shows. In America our game shows often focus on the monetary prize, and the little skill it takes the contestants to get there. For example, I was watching that show Deal or No Deal, where contestants have to first choose a suitcase, which holds a dollar amount between .01$ and a million dollars. Next, they must slowly choose suitcases each round, and eliminate different amounts. Basically, you guess, hope you don't get the million, and at the end of each round the "banker" makes you an offer that you can either take, or keep going, with the hope that the case you chose in the beginning is the million dollar one. This game show, however, is so mindless. anyone can stand on a podium and choose suitcases to open. The only reason they pick the people they do for the show is for the simple fact that they wont stop when it's logical, rather keep going for a dying cause.

Compared to our asian counterparts, our game shows are seriously lacking. Here are some examples of what I mean.

1. This gameshow- (Title of which I don't know, but I've heard it called 'human tetris' pits people on the end of a runway, with a pool behind them. Then, a giant cut-out will slowly start comming close, and the people then have to jump/worm their way through it. If they miss, or get pushed into the pool, they loose. The show, however, is not centered around money, but rather entertainment.


2. On this show... well I don't really know the point, but from what I've percived, contestants run on a treadmill, try to jump over the hurdles, and make it to the end. It looks so terribly exahusting.



3. .....I have no idea what this is. But it's japanese and it's a game show.



(I apologize for their skin-tight outfits.)