Att japan är ett land med mycket konstiga saker är väl ingen nyhet, men dom är också väldigt roliga och har en otroligt skruvad men bra humor. Här är en sketch ur en serie med ”Språk-kurser” där idéen var att olika språk använder olika typer av muskler när man talar dom och att genom gymnastiska övningar bättre ska kunna lära sig språket. Såhär skriver Wikipedia om sketcherna:
The program was initially broadcast in the spring of 1992. It occupied an early-morning slot around 5 AM. This allocation itself was probably a move to perfect the parody because the long-running gymnastic exercise program by national station NHK was also broadcast in early mornings (around 6 AM). This early broadcast time was one of the main reasons why the series passed unnoticed to most people in Japan.
It wasn’t until the broadcaster decided to rerun the series from November 2005 on their satellite channels that the program, and especially the Zuiikin Gals, started to attract international attention. One of the clips uploaded on YouTube has been viewed more than a half-million times (as of October 2006). Clips from the show have been featured on radio and TV programs such as The Opie and Anthony Show,The Soup, Anderson Cooper 360, Upload with Shaquille O’Neal and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in America, and Rude Tube and ”8 out of 10 Cats” in England.[citation needed]
The Zuiikin Gals are Maiko Miyazawa (宮沢麻衣子), Reiko Saito (斎藤レイ子) and Takako Inayoshi (稻吉貴子), whose names are displayed at the beginning of each exercise. Inayoshi is still active in the entertainment business as an actress.
