Most Extreme Challenge.
Most of us older folk remember at least seeing it advertised on TV or while flipping channels, but how many of you here at RGT actually took the time to sit down, watch MXC and proceed to laugh raucously as you watch contestants step up and either fail hilariously or nimbly succeed getting through some of the most extravagant and bizarre obstacle courses of its time?
The two hosts were Takeshi Kitano, the owner of the castle who must defend it's walls, and Hayato Tani, the general who would lead the army of contestants to invade the castle. There were several other characters in smaller roles, but these two leads were changed to be called Vic Romano and Kenny Blankenship in the American dub of Takeshi's Castle, known to the west as MXC: Most Extreme Challenge. The show featured contestants struggling through various obstacle courses, most of which were extremely difficult with odds stacked against the contenders as the audience and narrators laughed and made jokes about them as they attempt to complete the mini-challenges.
Watching these two goofballs crack jokes back and forth with their voices completely redone had a certain early 90s feel, as the script and audio had been completely reworked for international audiences. They dubbed over the original voices with all-new narration and crude humor.
To some, this may seem off-putting; I can understand not wanting to give the show a chance for not retaining any of the show's original script, but the jokes are flowing almost non-stop and are as off-the-wall as the obstacles courses and mini-games themselves as "they" (technically the two voice actors who are dubbed over them) comment and fling jokes and insults at the contestants as they humiliatingly fall into a pit of thick mud or water.
The jokes could pretty dark and cynical on occasion, as most mid-90s TV shows designed for adults, but usually they were also very funny (subjective). Sometimes the voiced-over contestants would make jokes themselves, the whole thing is basically a huge physical obstacle course styled contest dubbed completely with edgy, 90s humor. And I loved it.
This is back in the days of popular shows like Battlebots, a long-running show where people take their homemade robots and have them battle to the death or total destruction of the other robots in a huge competition to take home cash.
These real-life game shows were popular for decades, and had huge fanbases in the times they ran, but over the past couple decades have sort of faded into obscurity as people oft forget to remember them for the nostalgic piece of 90s history they became.
Since the dawn of game show television, many crazy and ridiculous game shows popped up all over as people would come up with insane ideas for contestants to have a chance at winning big money, big prizes!
The world and it's times have changed. You can still find many older game shows still running today such as Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud or The Price is Right; but most of the more unhinged and entertaining game shows, however, have become a thing of the past.
I've been your host, χKai.
See you next time
Most of us older folk remember at least seeing it advertised on TV or while flipping channels, but how many of you here at RGT actually took the time to sit down, watch MXC and proceed to laugh raucously as you watch contestants step up and either fail hilariously or nimbly succeed getting through some of the most extravagant and bizarre obstacle courses of its time?
The two hosts were Takeshi Kitano, the owner of the castle who must defend it's walls, and Hayato Tani, the general who would lead the army of contestants to invade the castle. There were several other characters in smaller roles, but these two leads were changed to be called Vic Romano and Kenny Blankenship in the American dub of Takeshi's Castle, known to the west as MXC: Most Extreme Challenge. The show featured contestants struggling through various obstacle courses, most of which were extremely difficult with odds stacked against the contenders as the audience and narrators laughed and made jokes about them as they attempt to complete the mini-challenges.
Watching these two goofballs crack jokes back and forth with their voices completely redone had a certain early 90s feel, as the script and audio had been completely reworked for international audiences. They dubbed over the original voices with all-new narration and crude humor.
To some, this may seem off-putting; I can understand not wanting to give the show a chance for not retaining any of the show's original script, but the jokes are flowing almost non-stop and are as off-the-wall as the obstacles courses and mini-games themselves as "they" (technically the two voice actors who are dubbed over them) comment and fling jokes and insults at the contestants as they humiliatingly fall into a pit of thick mud or water.
The jokes could pretty dark and cynical on occasion, as most mid-90s TV shows designed for adults, but usually they were also very funny (subjective). Sometimes the voiced-over contestants would make jokes themselves, the whole thing is basically a huge physical obstacle course styled contest dubbed completely with edgy, 90s humor. And I loved it.
This is back in the days of popular shows like Battlebots, a long-running show where people take their homemade robots and have them battle to the death or total destruction of the other robots in a huge competition to take home cash.
These real-life game shows were popular for decades, and had huge fanbases in the times they ran, but over the past couple decades have sort of faded into obscurity as people oft forget to remember them for the nostalgic piece of 90s history they became.
Since the dawn of game show television, many crazy and ridiculous game shows popped up all over as people would come up with insane ideas for contestants to have a chance at winning big money, big prizes!
The world and it's times have changed. You can still find many older game shows still running today such as Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud or The Price is Right; but most of the more unhinged and entertaining game shows, however, have become a thing of the past.
I've been your host, χKai.
See you next time
, Although the MXC (Takeshi's Castle) TV program did not know him, he looked good at that time.
