Gutton Bowl was disgusting, obnoxious, incredible.
February 22, 2002 4:02 PM Subscribe
Gutton Bowl was disgusting, obnoxious, incredible. A follow-up from this thread, and perfect Friday fodder. No one who I talked to around the water cooler who saw this last night could stop talking about it. So why isn't it being discussed here?
Because we're all still totally pissed off that Fox cancelled both Futurama and Family Guy to clear the way for more of this lowest-common denominator game-show crap?
posted by MrBaliHai at 4:07 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by MrBaliHai at 4:07 PM on February 22, 2002
JESUS.....GET A FRIGGIN LIFE. i watched funny animal vidios instead. i love my pussy.
posted by billybob at 4:08 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by billybob at 4:08 PM on February 22, 2002
I was waiting to try to be the first to post a link of a review of the fabulous Glutton Bowl, but I have yet to find one...at all. That's why I didn't start discussing it here.
So, since there are no reviews, I'll write my own:
It was fu%*ing awesome! Never have I seen the true filth and poor taste that plagues our country so beautifully celebrated in the broad daylight that is Fox Sports. Much better than watching beautiful people on Temptation Island and the shitty aspiring actors on Real World, Survivor, etc.
GO FOX!
posted by zekinskia at 4:11 PM on February 22, 2002
So, since there are no reviews, I'll write my own:
It was fu%*ing awesome! Never have I seen the true filth and poor taste that plagues our country so beautifully celebrated in the broad daylight that is Fox Sports. Much better than watching beautiful people on Temptation Island and the shitty aspiring actors on Real World, Survivor, etc.
GO FOX!
posted by zekinskia at 4:11 PM on February 22, 2002
Because not everyone is in the US and doesn't have this television programming?
posted by cyniczny at 4:12 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by cyniczny at 4:12 PM on February 22, 2002
...don't give a shit.
posted by Tiger_Lily at 4:17 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by Tiger_Lily at 4:17 PM on February 22, 2002
zekonskia, i too, am amazed at the lack of coverage by this fascinating program. my friend and i were waiting and waiting for the damn skating competition to begin and NBC practically forced us to switch to Anything, and there on FOX was a totally FOX program: completely lowest common denominator, amazingly lowbrow, gameshow, sweeps week, american/japanese reality nothingness.
And i swear it was the best two hours I spent in front of the tv this year.
Of course I'm bummed about Family Guy and Futurama: quality shows, but I was amazed at how they made the Glutton Bowl somehow come off as a sport mixed with BattleBots mixed with Guiness Book...
best line: after the skinny Japanese guy ate TEN POUNDS OF BRAINS, the announcer (in his classicly sarcastic manner) shouted, "He is the best athlete in the World!"
call me crazy, but i ate it up.
posted by tsarfan at 4:21 PM on February 22, 2002
And i swear it was the best two hours I spent in front of the tv this year.
Of course I'm bummed about Family Guy and Futurama: quality shows, but I was amazed at how they made the Glutton Bowl somehow come off as a sport mixed with BattleBots mixed with Guiness Book...
best line: after the skinny Japanese guy ate TEN POUNDS OF BRAINS, the announcer (in his classicly sarcastic manner) shouted, "He is the best athlete in the World!"
call me crazy, but i ate it up.
posted by tsarfan at 4:21 PM on February 22, 2002
I don't watch TV at all. In fact, I don't even own one.
posted by Settle at 4:50 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by Settle at 4:50 PM on February 22, 2002
call me crazy, but i ate it up.
I'm calling you something else entirely.
posted by jpoulos at 5:04 PM on February 22, 2002
I'm calling you something else entirely.
posted by jpoulos at 5:04 PM on February 22, 2002
Wish I had seen it. Sounds kinda like Iron Chef - one of my favorite shows. Isn't Iron Chef gonna be on Fox too?
posted by xammerboy at 5:20 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by xammerboy at 5:20 PM on February 22, 2002
I watch maybe 1 hour of TV a year (apart from hockey), but seeing a grown man, make that 6 or so grown men, chow down on a cow's tongue as fast as they can, man that was funny. The full sticks of butter was pretty good, too.
posted by adampsyche at 5:22 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by adampsyche at 5:22 PM on February 22, 2002
I thought it was hilarious. The butter eating and the profiles had me in tears of laughter. I thought it was great TV, true entertainment.
posted by Dark Messiah at 5:38 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by Dark Messiah at 5:38 PM on February 22, 2002
"I'm so booooooooo-oooo-ooooored with the U.S.A......but what can i do?"
posted by Ufez Jones at 5:47 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by Ufez Jones at 5:47 PM on February 22, 2002
Wrong thread to read while snarfing chinese food from the local take-away.
posted by NsJen at 6:01 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by NsJen at 6:01 PM on February 22, 2002
I just saw the end of it and I laughed at the complete idiocy of the show (especially the announcer referring to the Japanese guy as a "great athlete" - eating 10 lbs of cow brains does not make you an athlete.)
posted by mkn at 6:22 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by mkn at 6:22 PM on February 22, 2002
shadowkeeper: thank you. thank you. thank you for that link! why do people who don't watch or own a TV just love to tell you that? even funnier is when someone enters a thread about a TV show just to say they don't own a TV. =]
posted by suprfli at 7:22 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by suprfli at 7:22 PM on February 22, 2002
That is funny. Clearly they have higher pursuits in mind, like surfing the web.
posted by jeremias at 8:15 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by jeremias at 8:15 PM on February 22, 2002
but they refer to people who ride horses as athletes...
Atleast here the people are actually doing the event.
posted by Iax at 8:42 PM on February 22, 2002
Atleast here the people are actually doing the event.
posted by Iax at 8:42 PM on February 22, 2002
xammerboy, there were slight elements of Iron Chef in the humor/seriousness of the ridiculousness, infact a friend suggested that they should combine the two shows at some point with the chefs making the food for their 45 minutes and the gluttons eating it all in 3 minutes.
I think the American/Shatner version of Iron Chef is doomed to UPN where it is guaranteed not to be seen.
posted by tsarfan at 9:11 PM on February 22, 2002
I think the American/Shatner version of Iron Chef is doomed to UPN where it is guaranteed not to be seen.
posted by tsarfan at 9:11 PM on February 22, 2002
they should combine the two shows at some point
I think I speak for all of humanity when I say: whoa.
posted by aramaic at 9:42 PM on February 22, 2002
I think I speak for all of humanity when I say: whoa.
posted by aramaic at 9:42 PM on February 22, 2002
I'd just like to say (a) I'm pretty sure crashing a television thread only to point out that you don't watch television and don't even own one is comedy gold that unfortunately few past a head or two, and (b) this watered-down rip off of much freakier and more inventive Japanese game shows sucked like the dark, cold vacuum of space itself. And Muskegon is the Oil Capital of Michigan.
posted by dong_resin at 10:05 PM on February 22, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 10:05 PM on February 22, 2002
dong, what part of eating Ten Pounds of Brains is either a) watered-down or b)not freaky?
i seriously want to know, because i seriously want to see it.
posted by tsarfan at 10:52 PM on February 22, 2002
i seriously want to know, because i seriously want to see it.
posted by tsarfan at 10:52 PM on February 22, 2002
You rise the challenge with dong with butter like the demon bettycrocker herself?!
Dong have fear? A thousand times no! You ring like jellyfish pretty soon, now, eh? (scroll down a wee bit to
posted by dong_resin at 12:29 AM on February 23, 2002
Dong have fear? A thousand times no! You ring like jellyfish pretty soon, now, eh? (scroll down a wee bit to
posted by dong_resin at 12:29 AM on February 23, 2002
-the televison bit of the page. That was odd.
posted by dong_resin at 12:30 AM on February 23, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 12:30 AM on February 23, 2002
Ota: "Fukui-san! He's just eaten the fourth octopus tentacle, and... yes, he's vomiting"
Generic Japanese Movie-star Girl: "Oooo how cute!"
posted by owillis at 12:43 AM on February 23, 2002
Generic Japanese Movie-star Girl: "Oooo how cute!"
posted by owillis at 12:43 AM on February 23, 2002
Dong: Swell link.
Looks like when it comes to exploitative trash TV, Americans are running a distant second. Something must be done!
posted by sacre_bleu at 1:59 AM on February 23, 2002
Looks like when it comes to exploitative trash TV, Americans are running a distant second. Something must be done!
posted by sacre_bleu at 1:59 AM on February 23, 2002
tsarfan: american/japanese reality nothingness.
I personally didn't see the show yet upon hearing the description, I thought it sounded like a japanese broadcast. (1, 2)
Maybe this will spawn an american version of "Food Fight!"
posted by modularette at 7:07 AM on February 23, 2002
I personally didn't see the show yet upon hearing the description, I thought it sounded like a japanese broadcast. (1, 2)
Maybe this will spawn an american version of "Food Fight!"
posted by modularette at 7:07 AM on February 23, 2002
Sad to say I missed this - friends have raved - but I have a feeling that listening to the commentators, I would've had the same reaction I did while "watching" the bobsleigh (not -sled, apparently) competition. Namely, "there are experts on this? How?"
posted by Sinner at 8:22 AM on February 23, 2002
posted by Sinner at 8:22 AM on February 23, 2002
For those of you who liked Glutton Bowl (I missed it): would you like to see it made into a weekly show? Does this make you the lowest common denominator?
posted by Hildago at 10:14 AM on February 23, 2002
posted by Hildago at 10:14 AM on February 23, 2002
A special will air on Discovery network on March 3rd, called Gut Busters, that will explore the why's and how's of this "sport." That Kobayashi is fascinating, I'll be TiVo'ing it, that's for sure.
posted by Fofer at 10:39 AM on February 23, 2002
posted by Fofer at 10:39 AM on February 23, 2002
nasubi
"NTV producers have obviously never heard of the Geneva Convention. If they had, they wouldn't have treated poor Nasubi the way they did. They wouldn't have stripped him naked and shut him in an apartment, alone with no food, furniture, household goods, or entertainment. They wouldn't have kept him there for over a year until he had won $10,000 in prizes by sending in postcards to contests. They wouldn't have cut him off from the world and they would have told him that he was on nation-wide TV."
posted by quonsar at 12:59 PM on February 23, 2002
"NTV producers have obviously never heard of the Geneva Convention. If they had, they wouldn't have treated poor Nasubi the way they did. They wouldn't have stripped him naked and shut him in an apartment, alone with no food, furniture, household goods, or entertainment. They wouldn't have kept him there for over a year until he had won $10,000 in prizes by sending in postcards to contests. They wouldn't have cut him off from the world and they would have told him that he was on nation-wide TV."
posted by quonsar at 12:59 PM on February 23, 2002
I've never even heard of television. I once spied a magic lantern out of the corner of my eye, but turned away, afraid the spirits contained within would enter through my pores and control me like a robot slave.
Out-cool that!
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:16 PM on February 23, 2002
Out-cool that!
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:16 PM on February 23, 2002
What's a magic lantern? I only read cave paintings.
posted by dong_resin at 4:31 PM on February 23, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 4:31 PM on February 23, 2002
Crap, it's guy hunting buffalo week again.
posted by dong_resin at 4:33 PM on February 23, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 4:33 PM on February 23, 2002
How can the Glutton Bowl be the lowest common denominator? Can you eat 8 pounds of mayonnaise?
I won't say it is quality television, but I was thoroughly entertained.
posted by LinemanBear at 8:24 PM on February 24, 2002
I won't say it is quality television, but I was thoroughly entertained.
posted by LinemanBear at 8:24 PM on February 24, 2002
US TV is becoming *Mexican* television. We only wish it is becoming Japanese TV.
TV Party Tonight!
why go into the outside world at all (its such a fright) (we've got nothing better to do, than watch tv and have a couple of brews) tv really shows what its like out there (its a scare) you can go out if you want (we won't care) (we've got nothing better to do, than watch tv and have a couple of brews)
posted by artlung at 10:53 PM on February 24, 2002
TV Party Tonight!
why go into the outside world at all (its such a fright) (we've got nothing better to do, than watch tv and have a couple of brews) tv really shows what its like out there (its a scare) you can go out if you want (we won't care) (we've got nothing better to do, than watch tv and have a couple of brews)
posted by artlung at 10:53 PM on February 24, 2002
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