Japanese TV Part 3

I recently watched a show where a female pro-wrestler and her goofy, nerdy-looking husband went and ate at various restaurants. They were apparently visiting the ten best restaurants for “nabe”. Nabe is a type of food. It is a bunch of stuff (usually mushrooms, konyaku noodles, cabbage, and chunks of fish) sitting in a boiling, watery broth. It’s pretty tasteless. And it all looks the same. Why spend 5 minutes explaining what’s in this particular nabe? It’s the same stuff that’s in all nabe. At each restaurant, the waiter brings out the pot of bubbling nabe to the odd-couple, and they, without fail, say “segoii!” Like they’ve never seen anything like it before. It looks the same as the last pot of nabe! Why does that impress you? Then, there’s a tense moment where they taste it for the first time. The camera gets up real close as they blow on it and take the first bite of the boiled, unseasoned fish. Everyone holds their breath. And then, “oishii!” Once the tension is gone, the goofy music starts to play as we watch them eat the rest of the nabe in time-lapse (with a timer speeding by at the bottom of the screen – for no reason). It usually takes them about 15 minutes to finish the whole, tasteless bowl.

This show was on for, I kid you not, an hour and a half. How is that an hour and a half show? At most, it should be a ten minute segment.

This is what they put on the TV at the gym…