29 points tosh 1 hour ago 11 comments

jauntywundrkind 1 hour ago | parent

Thanks! Someone once told me about this, told me MXC is actually Takeshi's Castle, but I forgot, long ago. Fun fact.

klocksib 58 minutes ago | parent

wait did you see that microsoft execution container (mxc) article and think "oh wow remember the best show that was on spiketv"? :D

tosh 51 minutes ago | parent

I don't know about spiketv but yes @ microsoft execution container post

grimgrin 44 minutes ago | parent

You can watch some English subtitled rips here:

https://archive.org/details/takeshis-castle-with-english-sub...

The other archive link shared here, it's to another set of rips that appear to lack subtitles.

jttnr 25 minutes ago | parent

Back in the early 2000s, I always had a good laugh whenever I was flipping through TV channels and stumbled upon Takeshi's Castle.

Fervicus 16 minutes ago | parent

Wouldn't have expected this on Hacker News. Used to love watching this as a kid!

rdtsc 12 minutes ago | parent

“Right you are, Ken!”

(From MXC, based on footage from Takeshi’s Castle)

Still remember that phrase from years ago.

sunaookami 11 minutes ago | parent

I only know the German version from RTL2 which had funny commentary dubbed over it with made-up names and stuff. Curious, did the dubs in other countries do the same? Were there languages with the original commentary translated?

riffraff 5 minutes ago | parent

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