BuddyTV’s very own Gina Scarpa recently evaluated the poorly received I Survived a Japanese Game Show, which airs its season finale tonight at 9pm on ABC.  We already know that the show received poor ratings due to the lack of dynamism of the show and the contestants in it.  Nonetheless, some contestants seemed to have enjoyed the show.  Take for example Mary Greenawalt, the 23-year-old gym membership sales representative from North Carolina, who admits that she was a Japanese game show geek even before entering the competition.

"I actually had an advantage because I am a total You Tube fanatic and I had watched Japanese game shows via You Tube or even on 'Ellen'," Matthews confessed.  "So I already had an idea of the madness we were about to get into and the silliness, but you know, you can only imagine so much."

I Survived a Japanese Game Show, the program that attempts to lure American audiences by inflicting pain, suffering and humiliation for a laugh, kicked off its first episode last month with unsatisfactory reviews and mediocre ratings that are gradually going downhill week by week. Hopefully, tonight's new episode will perk up the show and attract more viewers as I Survived a Japanese Game Show introduces two new games.

For those who are not familiar with the program, I Survived a Japanese Game Show follows 10 Americans as they compete in the ultimate Japanese game show in Tokyo.  Each week, a player will be eliminated and the final winner will take home $250,000.  So far, Olga Medvedev, Ben Hughes and Darcy Sletager have already been axed from the competition.

When I first heard about I Survived A Japanese Game Show, I called dibs in a BuddyTV meeting to cover it.  Not that many people cared or argued anyway.  Still, I couldn't wait for tonight to come, with the double premiere of ABC's Wipeout and I Survived A Japanese Game Show.  I, Gina Scarpa, am a huge fan of Japanese game shows.  I watch MXC, Ninja Warrior, Unbeatable Banzuke, and as many YouTube clips as I can get my hands on.  If you haven't watched Human Tetris, stop everything and head to YouTube.  Actually, finish reading this.  Then you can go look it up.  Unfortunately, all the shows and clips I just mentioned are about 75 million times better than tonight's premiere of I Survived A Japanese Game Show.

Yesterday, we reported on ABC's newest reality game show offering, which will send ten Americans to the Eastern lands of Japan to compete in absurdly crazy games to win a total of $250,000.  These ten Americans will be grouped by pairs and will have to endure hilarious and at times pointless challenges to bag the price and eventually claim “I Survived a Japanese Game Show!”

Read on to meet the cast of the newest ABC comedy-meets-reality offering, in which contenders will have to eat food off each other, make scrambled eggs with their butts and act as a human stuff-toy-collecting crane.

If you think you’ve seen the world’s wackiest game shows on television, think again.  ABC is now gearing up for their wackiest offering ever, and it comes by the name of I Survived A Japanese Game Show.  ABC has gathered ten Americans, most of which has never gone out of the country, for a grueling feat in Japan, where they will compete in the funniest and craziest games ever.  ABC has already begun shooting for the reality competition, which challenges contestants to vie for the prize of $250,000.

Also appearing on the reality competition is host and interpreter Tony Sano.  An American actor who is fluent in Japanese, Sano has previously worked on Touch Wood and Beating Vegas.  Mamasan, a house mother and resident pot stirrer, will also be leading the contestants alongside game show host Rome Kanda, who was previously seen on the Pink Panther and Saturday Night Live.