Nightscoop - My New Favorite Series on Japanese TV
The last few clips I’ve posted, including the one below, are from a show called Tantei Night Scoop (Detective Knight News). Which to me seems a lot like Fear Factor without any sort of prizes involved.
Wikipedia is of no help on this one so please, if you have info, drop it.
Now, check out this amazing clip where a woman who is deathly afraid of roaches is brought to a roach farm. And forced to put on a Roach suit. Then brought into a room full of what must be 100,000 of the buggers.
Of course, she is scarred for life.
Luckily, just a little later, the man with the sweater tied around his neck, takes her and her husband to witness an albino roach shedding it’s normal roach skin.
Or there’s this clip, which, as far as I can tell, is about how to open a giant sake bottle with the least amount of spill. Using a giant funnel. After, of course, covering the entire room in plastic.
All in a days work. On TV. In Japan.
X-TREME DRINKING!
May 27th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
apparantly this brand of sake explodes when you open it. they called the maker, and he explained how to open it with it exploding, which pretty much didn’t work. maybe her lazy husband could get off his butt and help the wife out. maybe.
May 27th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
The roach farm was actually a pharmaceutical company. The roach room is said to host 1 million roaches. o_O The roach in the jar is actually a normal nymph (young) molting into an adult; it’s white because its coat is new.
May 27th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I can tell you a little about Tantei Knight Scoop because it is also one of my favorite shows that I watch on Sundays and more than once it has made me cry. Basically people write in “onegai”s [wishes] and then the hosts go about trying to make those wishes come true.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:35 am
Interesting, so NightScoop is kind of like Extreme Home Makeover, except with some Fear Factor mixed in.
Fascinating.
So Abbot, what’s the deal with the Cockroaches then? Is that for the woman to get over her fear?
May 31st, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Instead of fear factor I thought it was more like a show where they help people to overcome there fears or help people to realize their sometimes wacky dreams. In short a show where people call in with a goofy problem and the tantei help solve it.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:43 am