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Who else enjoys watching this funny tv program?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle

i do but nobody has ever won

GOLDEN WING wrote:i do but nobody has ever won

I saw winning once. They were like omg wow.

I use to watch it with friends on challange TV...the hour before Dreamteam kicked off on Skyone...us to love both shows
Craig Charles was the best bit...taking the pi$$ when ever he could.....Also i saw a few people win that crazy lazer/bumper car thing a few times...fun times

yeah I saw this show before it's great but in America is called XMC. I would love to take a run on their course. It seems that the U.S. has run out of ideas for tv shows so we just steal foreign shows.

wipe out is a lot better lol

i been watching them over and over nobody has won yet

used to watch it as a kid, was quite funny...watched it just before the cartoons kicked in

Nitro

Love it. It screams 'Japan' at you from start to finish.

Hate it. Screams 'Japan' at you from start to finish. Every. Bloody. Time. The Same.




It's interesting to watch once, to observe the cultural differences echoed in television.. but anyone who can watch that show more than twice and say "wow" the next time he sees it, might as well go run a marathon in a treadmill. It is the antithesis of interesting and re-watchable television.
Hell, I'd rather subject myself to the mindnumbing idiocy of South Park or the Simpsons.

Juliette wrote:Hate it. Screams 'Japan' at you from start to finish. Every. Bloody. Time. The Same.




It's interesting to watch once, to observe the cultural differences echoed in television.. but anyone who can watch that show more than twice and say "wow" the next time he sees it, might as well go run a marathon in a treadmill. It is the antithesis of interesting and re-watchable television.
Hell, I'd rather subject myself to the mindnumbing idiocy of South Park or the Simpsons.

Well, about Simpsons..

[spoiler]The Simpsons has won dozens of awards since it debuted as a series, including 25 Primetime Emmy Awards, 26 Annie Awards and a Peabody Award. Time magazine's December 31, 1999 issue named it the 20th century's best television series, and on January 14, 2000 the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest running American primetime entertainment series. Homer's exclamatory catchphrase "D'oh!" has been adopted into the English lexicon, while The Simpsons has influenced many adult-oriented animated sitcoms.

This development led US producers to a 1990s boom in new, animated prime-time shows, such as South Park, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Futurama, and The Critic.[6] "The Simpsons created an audience for prime-time animation that had not been there for many, many years", said Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.

In a 1998 issue celebrating the 20th century's greatest achievements in arts and entertainment, Time magazine named The Simpsons the century's best television series.[148] In that same issue, Time included Bart Simpson in the Time 100, the publication's list of the century's 100 most influential people.[149] Bart was the only fictional character on the list. On January 14, 2000, the Simpsons were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[150] Also in 2000, Entertainment Weekly magazine TV critic Ken Tucker named The Simpsons the greatest television show of the 1990s.[/spoiler]

In other words the incarnation of success for animated tv show.

I've watched Takeshi for years and I find takeshi castle funny..

Well.. it's true. There isn't like.. a decent alternative. Except .. oh! Theatres, Opera.. i.e. 'culture' is a good alternative to 'animated sitcoms'.
And if I'd have to watch television, which, thank God, I don't.. why would I watch a few drawn figures, when I can watch good series with live actors?

I mean, allowing cartoons their niche and all is fine, and I'll even buy into that whole 'is part of culture' nonsense.. but there is so much that is better. A tree, for example. Cartoons can NEVER beat a tree in complexity and fun.

Juliette wrote:Well.. it's true. There isn't like.. a decent alternative. Except .. oh! Theatres, Opera.. i.e. 'culture' is a good alternative to 'animated sitcoms'.
And if I'd have to watch television, which, thank God, I don't.. why would I watch a few drawn figures, when I can watch good series with live actors?

I mean, allowing cartoons their niche and all is fine, and I'll even buy into that whole 'is part of culture' nonsense.. but there is so much that is better. A tree, for example. Cartoons can NEVER beat a tree in complexity and fun.

You have to pay for a great amount to go in Operas (my ears don't like any kind high pitched sounds, it's always been the case anyway, so it's rather a problem for operas), and theatres don't really interest me. I also had my share of museums for a little while with my travel to Greece. (spent hours and hours on museums in a quite short period of time, I liked it, but not really in need to go to a museum for now). When WC is gone, I will probably going to classical concerts people in my family want to bring me to, because i can see the interest in it.

I like watching tv because most series, movies and sport I watch is there. Cinemas offer one or two at best four movies I'd watch a month, so it's not like it fills in time.
Animated sitcoms make me laugh, "culture" doesn't, because it's not really meant to, it's meant to be serious (tragedies and all that stuff). One (wo)man humorous shows in theatres (the only thing that could interest me there) aren't even considered as "culture" anyway by the purists. And I like to laugh, so..
Not to mention world cup is coming, so it's going to be tv, because after all, I don't live anywhere near SA to go watch matches for real. I also don't see the point in going to a football bar unless my team gets far in the competition, and the cup didnt start yet, so who knows.

Of course such cartoons are part of culture (well, not for purists, but I don't care about purists opinion), culture isn't limited to few things. Sure, Jackass stuff and tv reality are anti culture, and I personally dislike those. But there's much culture on tv, I know that well, given I watch it regularly..there's even the things you called 'culture' on tv.

I don't know how people can do without tv by their own decision, that's beyond my understanding..

Haha haven't watched this for a long time, but when I first saw it watched it all the time.

Craig Charles is hilarious. Love it when he calls them a "wazook" (sp?)