MXC

MXC (Most eXtreme elimination Challenge) is the best show that almost nobody knows about. I mentioned this show in my last post when I talked about The Office. I said how The Office had become my favorite show, but this is for only one reason- I never see MXC anymore. I used to watch it all the time, it was on when I came home from school, and it was on later at night. They used to have MXC marathons on the weekends and I would watch that show for hours. But now, it’s almost never on. So I did some searching, and I found it on Spike TV at 1 or 2 in the morning on Friday or Saturday. It always changes between those days, so I just have to guess when it will be on. It sucks.

MXC was my favorite show because I never stopped laughing. I would laugh at the opening commentaries, at Guy LeDouche, and at Captain Tenneal. I would laugh at the stupid games, at the names of the people, and at what the people said before they went to play. But most of all, I would laugh at the un-athletic, and un-coordinated Japanese people basically hurting themselves on a game show. They jump and run and fall into “today’s mystery septic sludge” and in doing so, they would make me laugh even harder.

For those of you who have not seen the show, you are missing out. It is witty and off-the-wall. Its humor is not only in the stupid people, but it’s in the dialogue of the commentators as well. The show is a real Japanese game show, which a couple of guys re-dubbed into English. They talk over what is really being said, and say completely random, completely sarcastic, and completely side-splitting comments.

They games are my favorite part. They are pointless and always very difficult, even for athletic people. They require skill that most people do not have. It is these people, who wipe out, that are the substance of the show. When they don’t succeed, they get eliminated. At the end of the show, there is a Most Painful Elimination segment, where the people who wiped out the worst are featured.

All I can say is that if you have not seen this show, you don’t know what you are missing yet. You need to stay up late one night and watch it, if anything, just to say you have seen it. But I promise you, it’s definitely worth it.