The Japanese police have been doing anti-terrorist exercises recently. Japanese T.V. makes American reality T.V. look like Masterpiece Theater. It’s a bunch of talking heads yammering on about some pointless bit of trivia like where the best tonkatsu can be had or which idol dances the best.

As Darkelf said, American T.V. is very popular in Japan. The cable channels carry 3 Fox networks (Fox Crime, Fox Life, and Fox), the Sci Fi channel, 2 Disney Channels, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, the History Channel, and a few HBO-style movie channels that feature 90% American movies for content. There is currently more American T.V. on Japanese T.V. than Japanese programming. The big tickets for rental are “24″ and “Lost”. Japanese T.V. bites and even the Japanese people believe that is so.

Also, seriously, the U.S. economy is not as bad as all the big whiners say. Food and gas are still cheaper there than other countries. If you come to Japan, you can look forward to paying $1 per apple and a $1.30 for 3.5 ounces of cheese and that’s when prices are low.

Writers have to stop making stuff up out of thin air about Japan. You think because it’s halfway around the world that no one will know you didn’t do even a basic Google search to check your assertions. At least base your jokes in something, anything, factual rather than making things up entirely.

When the ballon guy shrunk the balloon that was pretty cool.

It was hilarious, apparently the women had to yell out something they hated about themselves, and then kick the guy in the ass. It was just pure entertainment.