Coming this Fall: the "Me So Solly" quiz show!

[unbibium]

There's this show called "Banzai" on Fox.

Now, I didn't expect the show to be THIS racist.

Nor did I expect them to skimp on the writing. They seem to be filling the screen with random squarish characters halfway between katakana and kanji. Don't they realize there's a huge contingent of anime geeks and other Japanophiles who know how fake that is? Or do they just want to flush out the people who admit that we can tell it ain't real Japanese?

If they took out that, and the random shots of the Stock Martial Arts Screaming Guy, it might be an amusing show for about ten minutes.

There seems to be another quasi-Japanese game show on TNN. I forget what it was called, or what I saw, but all I could remember was that I could totally tell that it either wasn't really from Japan or the dubbers were making stuff up.

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[doubleonad.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed that Banzai was an entire show of the little games they play. I used to love it when it was on USA. They did it a little differently. It was Banzai Movie Friday. They showed a movied, but before and after each commercial break, they would play one of the games. You could play along on their website, like this one allows you to do, but you actually played for prizes. It was good because it was spread out, rather than just having a half hour/hour of them talking. Plus, it seems as though they made it a lot dumber. :(