#262 - tv giveth...

example 1:
jack-in-the-box giveth...


and jack-in-the-box taketh away...

seriously, how one company can go from the heights of midget campfire to horrific lame-o sing-a-long is beyond me. i've been singing "up in the saddle, herding cows the size of schauzers but they're cattle..." for months now and now i have to endure those dorky normal-sized people motion-dancing (especially that damn annoying haole girl with her annyoing face of annoyingness).

summertime tv can be very good, but also very very awful and make-me-vomit-y. in the absence of real television shows (no more the office, dollhouse, terminator, etc.), there are some gems such as so you think you can dance, reno 911, and lots of great stuff on the discovery channel. of course, wimbledon started today so there goes 8 hours of my day (it's on from 1am to 9am in the morning, which gives me a good reason to routinely wake up at least before 10am so i can watch and get on with the rest of my day), but the rest of the day (y'know, whatever other time that is not spent at the beach) is free for both the good and the bad... here are some examples...

example 2: i survived a japanese game show
man, when this show came on last year with it's embarrassingly ridiculous host (and even dorkier audience members) and "hey, i wanna try that" games it was fantastic. but that was when the american contestants had no idea what they were in for... this new season that started last week seems like crap to me. last year they just shipped those americans off the plane straight into the studio with no idea what they were even doing in japan, but this year the contestants have all watched the show and they even know who all the people are (like judge bob and mama-san). i mean, they've still got the ridiculous games and retarded japanese people, but i don't think this was a repeatable show... oh well, i'll still watch it.

example 3: ninja warrior
this one is all "give" man, in addition to another running of ninja warrior in japan, we also get to see hottie olivia munn (who is actually part japanese and lived in japan before getting her spot on G4TV) run the course too...

Video Games - E3 2009 - Ninja Warrior

haha, and THAT is summertime tv. oops, that was last year's clip.. she went one obstacle further this year, and then fell in the muddy water, heh. anyway, if you've never seen this show, here's a clip of only the 2nd man to ever finish all 4 stages, he makes it look REE-diculously easy, but during most tournaments less than 10 people (out of 100... only 5 people made it past the first stage this year) even make it to the second stage and most times NO ONE at all makes it to the final stage, now that's true japanese style (like how the iron chefs always win on the japanese show but the challengers seem to always win on iron chef america).


one thing about watching a current show from japan... japanese people are ugly man. and so nerdy... even the normal looking ones (and there aren't many of those) are so nerdy! for example... the guy who made it the second farthest this year, he was two obstacles from the end of the third stage and he grabbed a metal support beam (which was technically "out of bounds") and was disqualified... then in his interview afterward he was crying! darn japanese, how can you call yourself "ninja warrior" and then cry when you lose? wuss. sigh, my poor ancestry.

by the way, ninja warrior started in 1997, but i was the ORIGINAL ninja warrior doing the "spider walk" up and down my hallway when i was like 7 or something... i got in trouble for putting footprints on the walls.