You may or may not believe these crazy game shows actually exist and you may or
- may not be right. - Lets talk about that!
♪ (theme music) ♪
- Good mythical morning! - (laughs) As a kid I was obsessed with
game shows, I watched them on the USA network before the game show network exist.
Adults making fools of themselves saying things like
(high pitched) "no whammies, no whammies!"
- On Press your luck. - Oh that was a good one, yeah.
- But thanks to the internet, - (makes beeping noises)
I now have access to a world of ridiculous game shows that put everything in America
to shame and today I have devised a game to test your knowledge--
well, let me be honest. I've devised a game in order to show you
some clips of the craziest game shows I could find
- on the internet. - (whispering) Don't give away the secrets.
Alright, I've made up some of these, Rhett, so if you get--
This is about me, man. This isn't about them, this is about me
- winning a game! - If you get five out of eight of these
- correct you win the mega prize, - ♪ (game show music) ♪
a brand new toaster! Check it out, you win this puppy.
- That's a toaster from the kitchen. - No I just opened it
- so that you could see. - It's got like crumbs in it.
- Yes it's-- okay it's from the kitchen. - I don't want that, I'll just put it back
- in the kitchen. - Well, you already have it.
But you can put it in our office and toast anything you want at anytime.
That's the most ridiculous prize,
- when did you think of that? - five out of eight.
- ♪ (game show music) ♪ - It's time to play...
Can you tell me if this insane game show actually exists or if I made it up from my
head?
So, I see how this works. You're gonna tell me about a game and I'm
- gonna say "that's real" or "that's fake." - Contestants eat as much food as possible
in a time limit and they are subjected to challenges that will make them vomit.
Swimming laps, being spun for five minutes, the person who doesn't vomit
- (both) wins the game. - This should be a game show.
Who would ever wanna watch people retch for entertainment?
- I dunno. - Real or fake?
Boy, this is-- I'm gonna go with real on this one, I feel like this is a real game.
- It is real. - Ha, yeah.
It's called "Hurl" and it first aired on G4 in 2008.
I would be pretty much guaranteed to loose this one.
(host) Oh! (inaudible) Let's see it again!
- (inaudible) - Eugh.
- Ew. Yeah-- That-- - Looks like it was filmed in like a
- parking lot of a Motel 6. - (laughs) Why would you watch that more
than once? Two contestants face each other and
are asked a question. One guys legs are spread eagle in the air
and the other guys head is strapped to a chair.
Each time they don't get the same answer at the same time they're moved closer to
each other until one guys crotch is eventually smushed into the other guys face.
- (laughs) You didn't make this up, man. - Is this game show real or fake?
Your mind is very demented but it's not this demented.
- Is it though? - This comes from a producer in another
country. Real!
- That's right, In japan, it is called (inaudible) - Ha!
from the game show "This is no task for kids!" Watch this.
(talking in Japanese)
- I think I know what happens next. - Yeah, well watch that on your own time
but yeah, there's like a statue picking the guy up and
- (makes machine noise) - No that's a real dude, that's a real guy.
- No that was a statue. - What do you do for a living?
"I hold guy who has his legs
- spread on a game show." Next game show.
This musical themed game has contestants trying to get other players to guess a
popular song but they can only play a randomly chosen, non instrument for each
round. Including spoons, a blender, and
underarm farts. Is this game show real or fake?
- Fake! (makes a beat) - Why you say fake?
Because you can't play a song with a blender.
You can try-- alright it is fake. If it were real it would be referred to as
"That game where people make songs out of underarm farts."
- Oh. - That's what I would call it at least.
Next game. Take a drink there, yeah.
- Gather yourself. - (clicking noises) I'm three for three.
- (laughs) I'm good at this game show! - In this Egyptian themed game
There's no guy with his legs spread anywhere.
contestants have 60 seconds-- actually look at Eddie just off scre--
- Don't do that, stop it! - Eddie, put your diaper back on.
- (laughs) - (laughs) Whatever that thing is.
- Put the pants over your diaper. - Pull your skirt over your diaper. (laughs)
In this Egyptian themed game, contestants have 60 seconds to answer
seven questions while being completely mummified by a scary spider-like machine.
Think Frodo with Shelub the giant spider. Real or fake?
- How many seconds? - Seven questions in 60 seconds.
Seven questions in 60 seconds. This is real. It's called-- Um--
- Based on the seconds? - Yeah. It seems plausible.
- It is real. - Ha! Yes!
(ding sound)
You're good at this. I think you've been watching these
YouTube videos too. Another Japanese game show called Tore!,
- take a look at this one. - (Japanese announcer)
- (Speaking Japanese) - So if you loose, do they bury you?
- Yeah, she died, like, three minutes later. - Oh. Wow. That's hardcore.
I think it's a permeable substance. It's like toilet tissue or something.
I dunno. Pretty cool looking, though.
Contestants are attached to a giant yo-yo like machine and must answer rapid-fire
trivia questions. When they miss a question,
they're yo-yo'ed down towards a tank of gross stuff resembling pig slop.
Miss three questions, you're dropped completely in pig slurry.
- Real or fake? - Hmm.
I know that you're a yo-yo man. You got yo-yo on the brains.
- You came up with this one. - (laughs)
- Fake! - I knew you were gonna say that.
But I had to make it up anyway 'cuz I'm a yo-yo man!
- It is fake! - (ding sound)
- (laughs) - This is not a real game show--
- Five for five! I win the toaster! - ♪ (celebration music) ♪
If it was a game show, it would be called "Ho-yo-yo-yo'ed up! 'Bout to be dropped in
- some pig slop!" - (laughs)
Hey, listen, if I get the next three correct you buy me a for real toaster.
Any one I choose off Amazon.
Okay.
- I want like six slots. - This next game broke down species
barriers pitting humans vs beasts. For instance eating competitions vs bears
and tests of strength between dwarfs and elephants.
- (both laugh) - Real or fake?
Man, I know who wins that. Doesn't seem fair.
Doesn't seem plausible. (whispers) It's fake.
- It's real. - Oh, man, I don't get my six slot toaster!
- Funny thing is I've seen this show. - Really?
Yeah, I'm surprised you haven't seen it. Man vs beasts aired on Fox reality in 2003
and a sequel aired in 2004.
- ♪ (dramatic music) ♪ - The battle of the bar is on.
Mambam's very serious right now, you can see he's swinging back and forth taunting
- the gymnast. - Definitely taunting him.
Kobayashi lost a hot dog eating compitition to a bear, Scott Helvinson, a U.S. Navy Seal
won a race against a chimp through an obstacle course.
- Oh, I would've loved to see that. - 44 dwarfs lost a race against an
Asian elephant to see who could pull a commercial jet further.
- Why is this not still on television? - A world class sprinter beat a giraffe
but lost to a zebra and a sumo wrestler lost a tug-of-war to a female orangutan.
Wow.
A group of five contestants are put inside a giant fishbowl wearing gold fish
- costumes-- goldfish costumes - "Gold fish costumes."
- (both laugh) - and snorkels.
They compete to see who can collect the most fish food in their mouths in two minutes.
- Okay, so are they dressed as goldfish or - Goldfish--
- are they dressed as those gold fish costumes? - Gold fish.
Because there's a big difference.
- If they're dressed in gold fish costumes-- - Shut up.
- Real or fake? - This is definitely real!
- Fake! - Oh man.
- I made it up, dude. - I'm totally off my game now that I've won.
This is not a real game show but if it was it would be called "A failure."
- Oh. - A giant marshmallow eating race.
In rapid succession, everyone on your team must eat
a marshmallow dangling on a string while your head is tied to a wall by a rubber band.
This-- A marshmallow on a string? That sounds like a game you play, like,
- with children at a birthday party. - Right.
Which makes me thing somebody in another country made it into a TV show. True!
- (laughs) It is true. - (ding sound)
- Yas! - I couldn't find out what it was called,
but its on that same Japanese game show, "This is no Task For Kids."
And the footage is hilarious. I had to show it.
Ellen has copied this on her own show because it's so hilarious,
but that doesn't keep me from wanting to share it with you if you haven't seen it.
- It's absolutely amazing. - (whistle blows)
- (cheering and music) - (laughs) Oh wow.
- That is pretty funny, right? - That's entertainment!
So I don't have to buy you a real toaster, but you do get to keep the fake one.
Let us know in the comments. What is your favorite craziest game show ever?
Thanks for liking and commenting on this video.
- It's got four slots. - (whispers) You know what time it is.
I'm (inaudible) and this is my mythical beast, Samson.
This is England! And it's time!
To spin! The Wheel Of Mythicality!
If you're currently in prison and you need to cover up the hole you're diggging out
- of your cell, - (laughs)
we can make that happen with a Good Mythical Morning poster!
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There's no hole back there! It's just a poster on a stone wall.
- Warden's coming! - I got a few more games for
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I got one game. Lots of questions.
- Game shows. - We're selling a lung.
- We're selling a lung, everybody. - Ladies and gentlemen, here it is,
one human lung and I'm gonna resperate it so that it's viable.
- (blowing noises) Tell 'em about it, Bob. - Now it comes-- well listen it doesn't
look real pretty, it comes from a man who inhaled cigar smoke
- (coughs) - for most of his life.
But you know, it makes a nice lamp and you know you can give to a child.
Put some he-liam-- (laughs) "Helium" is what we call it around here.
- He-liam sometimes - Put a little he-liam in there and put a
- (laughs) - light bulb right on it.
- (makes screwing noises) - You put some he-liam in this lung and
a little kid will just go-- it's like he's at Disney world all day.
Don't tell him it's from a man that had emphysema.
[Captioned by Whitney and Hayleigh: GMM Captioning Team]