haha, this video is a classic... i have this on vhs as part of this compilation called japanarama from the mid 90's...

if only we knew what they were saying.

they are saying "you have to act like you are sleeping a little longer, its not funny unless you look like you woke up on the water slide..."

Geez, you know. I would probably still sleep through these attempts if they were on me.

i slept through a sizable earthquake once. stuff all over the place when I woke up.

my Dad said he had a soldier in his A-team camp in VietNam who slept through an attack on the camp

Well, this is my first comment on Videosift, and I'm still not sure of the protocol. (Though I've been watching videos here and reading your comments for a while, so I feel I know you all oh-so-well.)

This clip brings warmth to my heart. When I was in boarding school I fell foul of a mildly similar prank: my bed having been taken to the middle of the lawn in front of the girls house before I (or, more importantly, they) wakened. Thank God there were no waterslides in the immediate vicinity.

More importantly: has anyone ever had a heart attack and/or stroke on one of these insane Japanese shows?

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Thanks for coming out of lurk mode dee. I used to be a hardcore lurker on sites like metafilter.com. It's interesting though, how much the dynamic changes when you change out of the passive mode. I think it's hard for computer nerdy males like myself especially, but it's pretty cool when the 2-way communication thing finally gets turned on.


I know we have a huge lurker quotient - I think I'll start a blog post to encourage de-lurking.

Also, I think that Japan is not nearly as litigious as the US, and it's more difficult to bring civil suits.

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OK - I've created a de-lurking post here:
http://www.videosift.com/blog/story.php?id=4559

I've never met a suit I would ever consider civil. However, my question was if anyone knew if anyone had ever had a heart attack/stroke as a result of one of these extreme pranks? Those of us on a certian age in the UK might remember the Noel Edmonds saturday night show debacle.

...Lurker?

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Wikipedia to the rescue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurking

dee, my first thought was also "Jebus, you could seriously not live too long after a wake-up like that", and I'm sure there must have been at least one instance of someone croaking on these kind of shows. If someone creeps up behind me and pops a balloon I have to hang out my trousers to dry.

The most amazing thing for me is that UK telly has always gone out of its way to portray Japanese, Chinese and Korean gameshows as being repulsively cruel to the participants, and yet you just have to scan the pages of any Radio Times to realise we're now just as bad -- actually, a lot worse -- than have ever been. I'd not be surprised if Japanese, Chinese and Korean telly portrays us as sadistic westerners.

Anyway, as a certified non-lurker of a certain age I too remember the Noel Edmunds 'incident' to which you referred. Here's something quite similar from a more recent time, you may have seen it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4819094.stm

I dread to Google for the video but reckon it's out there, somewhere.

There was a spate of "haha people throwing up!!!" videos a short while back, and unlike the majority of posts here these are not the kind of thing you want to share with your kids or watch over a meal. VideoSift is, on the whole though, very palatable.

Though I dare say that the people-eating train will appear some day...

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Does anyone know the name of this programme or who makes it? I want to get in touch with them. Any help appreciated.

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