This Japanese Game Show Clip is the Most Frustrating, Compelling Viral Video on the Internet
can someone explain why japanese game show ‘slippery stairs’ hasn’t made its way to our part of the world yet pic.twitter.com/cd1BHvvoKl
— juan (@juanbuis) November 20, 2017
The game — ever so maddening, ever so simple — is called Slippery Stairs. The premise is this: Six contestants try to make their way up a set of stairs which are covered in a slick oil.
The resulting footage? Equal parts frustrating and compelling. It’s impossible to stop watching as the six unlucky players tread carefully on all fours up the slippery stairs.
And they fall. Over, and over again.
The sequence at the 31 second mark is particularly compelling, as a chain reaction results in four of the players taking a tumble. And at one minute 29 seconds in, the red player comes so close to reaching the summit.
The video of this Japanese game show has made its way across the Internet over the past day, and people just can’t get enough.
can someone explain why japanese game show ‘slippery stairs’ hasn’t made its way to our part of the world yet pic.twitter.com/cd1BHvvoKl
— juan (@juanbuis) November 20, 2017
I’ve watched this like 18 times https://t.co/fgTSWYMTiv
— Alexis Levinson (@alexis_levinson) November 21, 2017
life: https://t.co/yuL6ieZeKc
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) November 21, 2017
Can’t tell if this is amazingly cool or the first step toward that dumb TV game show in the first Robocop movie… https://t.co/nSqFT0hljV
— Eric Deggans at NPR (@Deggans) November 20, 2017
Finally a game show that really is a perfect metaphor for life #SlipperyStairs https://t.co/5k1nQlyX4Q (via @elvis717)
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) November 21, 2017
I haven’t stopped thinking about Slippery Stairs all day
— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) November 21, 2017
Watch above, via Twitter.
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