Remember that episode of The Simpsons where the family came to Japan, ran out of cash and had to appear on a local, cruel game show to win their plane tickets home? Of course you do, but if you thought that depiction of TV on this far side of the planet was a work of fiction from the minds of Hollywood writers then I have some news for you. And hey, it turns out that after decades of abusing contestants and just plain normal people everywhere these shows continue their abusive march onwards to find ever more ways to deeply scar the populace...young and old.
This show in particular--I'm afraid I don't know the name of it--seems to specialize in terrorizing the young'uns because I saw another episode where kids come home to find a dead body in their kitchen, with hilarious(?) consequences. So, without further ado, I give you TV hosts traumatizing children for life. $20 says one of these kids goes on a rampage and decapitates scores of "zombies" in a shopping mall within five years time.
PS: The subtitles are fairly accurate.
PPS: The kids' names are all part of the "New Wave" Japanese tendency to impart their kids with needlesly complicated and ridiculous titles, just like you see way too many kids named "Hunter," "Sapphyre," "Chardonnay," "Zane" and the like in America.
--Matt
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