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64 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 24 comments

alexpotato 39 minutes ago

I was involved in pro paintball for several years and at the start of every one of their matches, one of the pro teams would chant:

"DON'T. GET. ELIMINATED."

huhtenberg 5 minutes ago

Right you are, Kenny.

sunaookami 3 hours ago

I only know the German version from RTL2 which had funny commentary dubbed over it with made-up names and stuff. Curious, did the dubs in other countries do the same? Were there languages with the original commentary translated?

rimeice 2 hours ago

In the uk it was Craig Charles of red dwarf fame, renowned funk and soul DJ and robot wars host. It was brilliant.

oakesm9 53 minutes ago

I can hear his laugh just reading this

jareklupinski 2 hours ago

US had Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boww2fJUEHc

strange Poland didn't have one...

riffraff 2 hours ago

We had this in the 80s/90s in Italy within a show called "mai dire banzai", they mixed up clips of Takeshi's Castle and Za Gaman[0], and the commentary was three guys of which two acted as faux Japanese experts and the third acted surprised at the completely made up bits of Japanese culture.

It was incredibly popular back then.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za_Gaman

danirod 2 hours ago

The dubs for the Spanish version did it too. There were two dubs, one in 1990 and another one for a 2006 re-run. Both completely made up.

altmanaltman 51 minutes ago

Yes, it was a deliberate strategy to add localized commentary, as the original context would not apply in foreign markets. An example of Transcreation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcreation

jttnr 3 hours ago

Back in the early 2000s, I always had a good laugh whenever I was flipping through TV channels and stumbled upon Takeshi's Castle.

grimgrin 3 hours ago

You can watch some English subtitled rips here:

https://archive.org/details/takeshis-castle-with-english-sub...

The other archive link shared here, it's to another set of rips that appear to lack subtitles.

rdtsc 3 hours ago

“Right you are, Ken!”

(From MXC, based on footage from Takeshi’s Castle)

Still remember that phrase from years ago.

beej71 2 hours ago

Kenny Blankenship and Vic Romano! The names so discordant with the visuals...

haunter 3 hours ago

https://archive.org/details/003-1986-05-16

prominent660 2 hours ago

IRL OG Fall Guys

pimeys 2 hours ago

His movies are also worth a watch: Hana bi, Sonatine, Brother, Dolls, and Zatōichi are all amazing movies.

Should do a rewatch again, it's been a while...

prominent660 2 hours ago

Getting Any, a total Takeshi movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Any%3F

grunchie 2 hours ago

absolutely blowing my mind to realize vic romano and detective nishi are the same actor

klocksib 3 hours ago

wait did you see that microsoft execution container (mxc) article and think "oh wow remember the best show that was on spiketv"? :D

tosh 3 hours ago

I don't know about spiketv but yes @ microsoft execution container post

Fervicus 3 hours ago

Wouldn't have expected this on Hacker News. Used to love watching this as a kid!

dfxm12 2 hours ago

Most of Beat Takeshi's work is amazing, from this, to his films, even his infamous Nintendo game.

jauntywundrkind 3 hours ago

Thanks! Someone once told me about this, told me MXC is actually Takeshi's Castle, but I forgot, long ago. Fun fact.

racl101 2 hours ago

"Right in to the mud!"

Remember watching this as a kid after school eating my bag of chips I'd been given for lunch which I'd save up so I can eat it later while watching this. In Canada, it was aired as MXC.

sudo_navendu 3 hours ago

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