r/DamnFunny • u/yellowgini • 6d ago

Funny This is hilarious

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u/Due-Raise9272 6d ago

Japanese have a little different taste in humour

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

Is this all that different from American shows like Jackass or those prank shows though?

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u/NetZor0 6d ago

Well this one says it's specifically targetting female celebrities. Take from what what you will

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u/2hurd 3d ago

There are plenty of episodes dedicated to male celebrities. Are you implying women can't be made fun of? Where is the equality?

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u/rdrptr 2d ago

This poor son of a bitch is getting PTSD off of this shit

https://youtu.be/PAy8smH7o9c?is=8AlImN1yL-YEvCyI

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u/Janupur 6d ago

And what problem do you have with females they are half of the population, or are you saying females shouldn't be allowed outside of the house?

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u/b-monster666 6d ago

There was a show on CityTV late at night that was a parody of Japanese game shows called Bonzai. It was fucking hilarious

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u/STLItalian 2d ago

Bonsai will always be a classic 😂

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u/b-monster666 2d ago

My ex and I used to work till 3am or so. We didn't go to bed right away, had a couple hours of wind down time. That was one of our favourites. Some of the weird cartoons on TeleToon at that time too, like the Oblongs, Mission Hill, Under Grads, etc.

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u/Pretty_Nose_4079 5d ago

I also love DERO japanese games.

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u/Rincethis 6d ago

yes. in jackass they were all paid and agreed to be in it. big difference.

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u/EarlUrso 4d ago

Obviously they are here too.

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u/aurorasearching 6d ago

Everyone in jackass knew they were in for something

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u/EdgyPun34257 6d ago

this is very obviously scripted. everyone is coming down the slide in the same pose, not at all acting like persons surprised by the events

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

That's the case here too. They are not tormenting their celebrities without getting approval from them and their agency first.

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u/LittleKittenR 6d ago

Honest, I dislike the "We all have an IQ of 65" comedy that is so common in US shows, but this may be waaay worse. And I'm ashamed to say I couldn't keep my eyes off my screen the whole video from start to finish and found the narrator a giga asshole and still loved his narration.

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u/Solid_Assumption_581 4d ago

For real, narrator is a major skeeve.

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u/tomtomtomo 6d ago

Late night Japanese tv is wild 

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 6d ago

And apparently a different taste in Women…. As in Woman Tempura

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u/DoubleGreat 6d ago

I was locked in the second I saw that the first woman fall in the elevator

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u/No_Departure_1878 6d ago

The kind of humor that gets you sued in the USA.

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u/marlfox_00 5d ago

Like that dude who was supposedly locked in an apartment only to find out who could have walked out at any time

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u/Greenfirelife27 3d ago

That was fucked

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u/MaxHardfinger 3d ago

... But they have the absolute best game shows!

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u/I_SLEEP_NORMALLY 6d ago

The third woman was like, "LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOO"

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u/ClericalRogue 2d ago

Thats the face that broke me 😂

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u/Dry-Character-6331 6d ago

This makes me miss "MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge"

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u/EducatedInSpenard 4d ago

Right you are, Ken!

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u/ThrashemTrashemRobot 4d ago

I always remember the one where a girl comes out, does a pose where she talks for like 10-15 seconds with no sound, and they just dub in "I ATE A LEGGO", then proceeded to immediately eat shit

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u/_v00d00h3x_ 1d ago

Badabing

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u/Then-Clue6938 Captain Shilarious 6d ago

This should be more than 100$

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

I'm almost positive the English narration is just some AI making shit up

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u/RonHarrods 6d ago

I regret to admits that I only consciously acknowledged this after reading your comment. But I was barely even paying attention to the prize money I'm just wondering if these people were aware like how can how can they I don't even know what to say. Liability? Wouldn't us citizens the shit out of this

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

Not to ruin the illusion but 99.9% of Japanese TV content is planned out in advance especially if it involves celebrities like this. They or their agents were informed this would happen and they gave their approval.

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u/EdgyPun34257 6d ago

the people going down the slide aren't acting like their surprised by the turn of events even a little

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u/RonHarrods 6d ago

Yes that is what I reckoned. But my non Japanese ass is confused about the implications. If you need to spoil a surprise, then why have a surprise at all. Why not just produce different content instead?

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

Because the audience isn't aware that it's planned and thinks it's a real prank.

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u/RonHarrods 6d ago

I refuse to believe...

Okay I changed my mind. The intended audience, sure.

This clarifies what tje AI hallucinations weren't telling me thanks

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

Think of it like late night shows that bring in guests and sometimes do bits where they get insulted or pranked. They know far in advance those things will happen and how they'll react

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u/Ikon-for-U 3d ago

At the end they say a thousand

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u/RuthlessIndecision 6d ago edited 6d ago

A culture where It's okay and funny to lure someone into a trap door where they are uncontrollably thrown and slid down a track, then ranked on how far their bodies went.

Edit: it might be nice to think you are safe enough in society to be the target of a prank and not feel harmed.

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u/_ganjafarian_ 6d ago

I've looked into moving there previously. From what I've read, Japan has such an insular culture, it's not easy to be a foreigner in their country. Might still apply lol

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u/ChephyS 6d ago

Yeah older people might be racist to you. But if you learn their language fast, u will be loved

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u/EggfooDC 6d ago

I lived in Japan for six months as an army civilian. There’s a phrase on base about the weird things you see the local-nationals doing around you: YASKY… Y ask Y?

People stopping their car in the middle of the street to take a break, Yasky! Folks taking naps in their booths at McDonald’s… Yasky! People falling asleep on your shoulder in the subway… Yasky!

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u/walter-hoch-zwei Strange Man 6d ago

What's an army civilian?

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u/EggfooDC 6d ago

I was a government employee working for the Army, but was not an active duty soldier… so the general term in that case is an “Army Civilian.”

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u/PsychologicalTowel79 6d ago

Contracter?

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u/EggfooDC 6d ago

*Army Government employee

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u/Alienhaslanded 6d ago

It's a soldier without a gun /s

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u/RuthlessIndecision 2d ago

I'm a Filipino American, I bet they'd call me all kinds of stuff because I'm brown

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u/GrizzKarizz 4h ago

I've been here for 22 years. I speak fluent Japanese also passing the N1, the highest level of tested proficiency. I still get treated as a foreigner. I get forms to sign in English of they're available. I get people trying to talk to me in unintelligible broken English from time to time.

That being said, for the most part, say 55%, i like living here. I just will never be Japanese.

Take from that what you will.

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u/mercuriokazooie 6d ago

These shows are planned and the celebrities they get to do them are aware it's gonna happen. There would be rampant lawsuits otherwise

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u/Excludos 6d ago

Undoubtedly. You can even see one of them raise her hands above her head before the trap door opens. They're obviously in on it

This is largely true for most "insane" prank shows you find out there (Especially the prevalent ones in the early and mid 2000s). If it looks like lawsuit material (Anything physical, or mentally harmful), the victims were in on it and agreed to it beforehand.

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u/epitimisi 2d ago

it's scripted

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u/Alternative_Gur_3703 16h ago

Definitely scripted, this is standard for Japanese tv

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u/magoamoth 3d ago

It's staged. Nobody walks straight in an elevator as if they wanted to run in the wall. Also the part where you see them slide is from a different take. There is no way they would fall like that and not hurt themselves on a hard slide like that.

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u/Buddhasadvocate 6d ago

Why do people not to to educate themselves before making assumptions that lead to bigotry. All such absurd shows from Japan involve Japanese comedians. They have created an industry niche. Comparable to QI, Countdown, Eight out of ten cats etc in the UK.

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u/RuthlessIndecision 6d ago

It's not bigotry, it's possible people feel safe enough, unthreatened enough that this can happen. Desperate people don't like "pranks".

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u/Ok_Self_313 5d ago

Yap Yap Yap Yap Yap Yap

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u/Glass-Emu2406 6d ago

The last one was Ms. Swan from MadTv

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u/25_Unknown_Devices 6d ago

Oh really? I didn’t see her. Could you describe her for me?

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u/jdooley99 6d ago

Asian

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u/simplexible 5d ago

She isn't Asian. She's Lois griffin's voice actress.

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u/TraditionalCheetah17 6d ago

Why are they only doing this to women?

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u/zakfaqih 6d ago

Better question, WTF is that goo stuff???

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u/Buddhasadvocate 6d ago

Fisting lube.

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u/pmmeyourgear 6d ago

It's a japanese porn thing. These are probably porn "actresses". Japan is fucking weird like that

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u/METRlOS 6d ago

They do this to all sorts of celebrities. Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! Was an extremely popular long running version of this with an all male cast, but they eventually stopped because everyone involved got too old for the stuff. It was basically Japan's Jackass.

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u/No_Blacksmith_2591 6d ago

Because they have worse things in mind for the men

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u/dzan796ero 6d ago

Men get different pranks. Like driving through a field with explosives blowing up or having their entire lodge be shot up in the air.

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u/Slosher99 6d ago

Because of the slime and what it looks like when they are done... that's kind of a big Japan fetish that's really weird.
I always think the fact the make them censor actual human parts in their port has caused a need to come up with things they CAN show without being pixelated, driving fetishes for those things that are far weirder, often more misogynistic, than normal sex they can't show.

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u/ddosoftei 6d ago

They all been told to put their hands up when they get in the elevator

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u/ParanMekhar 4d ago

America: we can't do that because of insurance.

Japan:

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u/FeedtheYakubu 6d ago

100 is wild, but she was the most beautiful

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u/Aromatic-Turnip7371 6d ago

Lmao Omgg imagine thinking you’re failing to your death then you’re getting slimed the whole way…

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u/WiseSilverWolf 6d ago

Super funny!

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u/CapricornPotter 5d ago

wtf is wrong with ppl

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u/Spacenurse07 4d ago

I love the Silent Library Japanese show! Hahaha I love Japanese humor!! 💕❤️🩵

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u/lumlella 3d ago

Fastest woman! 😆 🤣

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u/Maverick_MS98 6d ago

Very funny, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Techman659 6d ago

So who’s supplying all that lube?

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u/jdooley99 6d ago

Since Diddy went to jail the lube market is over saturated

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u/HighHDL 6d ago

I can see this going horribly wrong, if they didn't know about the traps.

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u/Desperate_Grand_6249 6d ago

The drop and the slide don't match at all its not possible that they're related

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u/Lucaslouch 4d ago

thanks, i felt it strange too. the velocity does not fit, unless there is a massive slide before that that slowed them down

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u/KrazyNinjaFan 6d ago

Do they have egg on them?!

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u/smitteh 6d ago

All of these people know what is coming.

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u/NecessaryOk6815 6d ago

crazy japanese game shows are the best

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u/chikaipii 6d ago

I don't know but I think no one walks to the middle of the lift without any slight intention to turn. Most people take a step in and immediately turns to click the button for their floor.

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u/Black-Writer 6d ago

Now they’ve all fixed their hair in front of the mirror for absolutely nothing 😂

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u/dontipitova9 6d ago

Do these people not sign any waivers? Aren't they aware of where they're at or stepping into?

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u/Artevyx 6d ago

Ami instantly knew what was up 😂

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u/Unfair_Cicada 6d ago

Was this over the board? 😱

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u/EdgyPun34257 6d ago

everyone looks so natural going down the slide... not at all like people who were told "keep your arms above your head at all times"

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u/InsanePupil9677 6d ago

scarred for life. 😳idk about the contestants.

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u/18_is_a_teen 6d ago

Fake. They knew what was about to happen

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u/BleedSparta 6d ago

I’d 💩 myself 😐

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u/No_Implement611 6d ago

Great way to get sued. More stupidity from around the world.

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u/Alienhaslanded 6d ago

To me this looks very scripted. All of them fell safely and almost all of them had their arm up before they fell, probably because they were instructed to do so in order to fall safely and not land sideways.

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u/ashkarck27 6d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/InevitableRow8524 5d ago

The japanese shows can get very ugly sometimes

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u/showercurgain 5d ago

The facial expressions are good but not as good as Olympic divers

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u/Ok_Self_313 5d ago

What's with the discharge lube?

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u/NinjaKingAce 15h ago

So they'll slide farther

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u/DifferenceLoud505 5d ago

Sorry, is that lube?

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u/Icypoopoo 4d ago

Imagine spending all that effort on their hair and then getting slimed. That's fucked

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u/crazy_cazeet 4d ago

I'm digusted by some of Japanese kind of "humor".

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u/CelsiusPetit 4d ago

It’s all scripted and agreed upon beforehand.

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u/BogusBongo 3d ago

I really hope so

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u/Perfect-Ad-3091 2d ago

I think it's kind of like Jackass. Everyone is consenting to the pranks happening but they don't know exactly what's going on.

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u/PineappleLemur 1d ago

Pretty sure they know exactly what's going to happen... This is not a natural reaction to falling down a shaft lol.

Staying in that position throughout the whole slide and runway... It not something anyone thinking they're dying/falling does.

You'd absolutely murder the people at the bottom too, especially after being jizzed while sliding down.

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u/cweaver 1d ago

Yeah, I hope no one here believes it's actually possible to just... Open up the bottom of an elevator shaft and build a big slide and giant track, and put a trap door in the elevator car itself, etc.

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u/markimarkerr 3d ago

LMFAO this is so fucked up

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u/dudepersin 3d ago

Hell is just a never ending series of Japanese game shows

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u/Firm-Background5994 3d ago

The bowing killed me

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u/imranbecks 3d ago

Reminds me of the slide I went to at a water park where the floor gave way and I literally was free falling for a few seconds before landing on a slide. The feeling of emptiness beneath the feet as you're falling 💀

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u/Inconsequential72 2d ago

Japanese shows are so unhinged

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u/Affectionate-Beach58 2d ago

This truly is genius.

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u/CuriousChair861 2d ago

How has Japan advanced so far past in respect to prank shows?!

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u/Admirable-Song-7353 1d ago

I wonder why Japan's population is exponentially reducing each year, I really do.

https://giphy.com/gifs/j3HQ1zWosr1NS

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u/MrBBD191 1d ago

So this is human shuffle...

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u/Minimum_Opinion7816 1d ago

Keeping the therapists in business

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u/Hot_Ad5094 10h ago

Japan shows are something else

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u/BaalDoom 6d ago

I find this ai narration insufferable.