2008may30. What I like about Unbeatable Banzuke is the humility. In American reality shows, there’s always a winner, and we have to sit and listen to immature idiots trash-talk and pre-preen. With Unbeatable Banzuke, pretty much everyone wipes out on various obstacle courses (stilts, skateboard, pushing your spouse around in a cat-shaped wheelbarrow, etc), and if someone does succeed, they re-jigger the course so invariably even the previous winner (and in the case of stilts, a Guinness world record holder) can’t complete it. Plus, strutting is almost non-existent. One more nice thing: the age range. So far I’ve seen people from 14 years of age to 68, and I’m sure it expands out farther than that. The shitty thing: apparently Very Smart Marketers have determined that the Unbeatable Banzuke demographic consists of drooling tools who are easy pushovers for stupid “work at home"-type sca – oh, hold on, a talking fox is telling me how to flip houses in my spare time.
