Japanese TV Part 4

This one might win…

Over the weekend, I was watching TV late one night, and I came across a gem of a Japanese TV show.

There’s this J-Pop singing group (called AKB 48) that consists of about 40 high school girls (in school uniforms). A bunch of them were on this weird show (in their uniforms – of course). They were broken up into two teams, and they were playing a game that I’m going to call “Guess Who’s Being Electrocuted.” The host of this show (with giant Elvis hair) lines up six of the girls from the Red team, and puts little electrodes on the first one. Then he tells his goofy assistant to turn the “switch on.” The girl flips out, shakes a little, drops to her knees, says it hurts, and then they turn off the electricity. He does the same thing with the other five girls – to similar effect. Meanwhile, the Blue team is watching how each girl reacts to being electrocuted. Then, they secretly put electrodes on only one of the Red team girls, and turn the switch on. All the girls react as if they’re being electrocuted – trying to mimic their initial reaction moments earlier – flipping out and such. Then, the Blue team has to guess which one was actually being electrocuted. They guessed the wrong one.

Then, the Blue team got electrocuted and the Red team had to guess.

That’s all I have to say about that.