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Sniper Prank: your buddies just got murdered!

The TBS hidden camera show “Panic Face King” tricks three comedians into thinking that they are filming a documentary about telephone scammers. Shortly after the interview begins, a gunman attacks, delivering what appear to be horrendous bullet wounds to other people in the room!

Let’s see the hilarious looks on their faces as they contemplate their deaths (First part partially subtitled, the rest is pretty much the same):

This kind of comedy probably wouldn’t work in a country with a lot of gun-related crime . Since firearms-related deaths are so rare in Japan, I am guessing the channel did not receive thousands of complaints about the poor taste of such a prank.
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35 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - October 13, 2009 at 7:04 am

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Dave

This is messed up. The guy looks completely freaked out. I often think tarento are playing along with these kind of gags, but this guy actually looks scared out of his wits. The cop’s arrival blows the whole thing though. ‘Cop’ can’t act.
anti

Maybe this was all “yarase”. From the viewers point we are told that this is a set up but in reality the guy who was being set up was part of the game? There is quite a lot of that on TV.
http://jpop.technotaku.com/ Xacur

Ô.ó
The third guy was going to commit suicide the next day anyway, I guess.
Or maybe he just thought “if this is a joke, where are the guy I hired?”
And they took everything very well, in Mexico you simply can’t do those jokes anymore, the victim will hit your ass out when he finds out for sure, it happens everytime and jokes are not as distasteful like this.
M@m

men the second guy face completely change thats messed up.
the last guy is so relax to the whole thing. LOL
Luke

Hahaha, this stuff is great
Level3

Not cool.

Very not cool.

Hope he’s plotting revenge..but that means at some point, someone is going to die of a heart attack.
anon

vid is roflworthy.

i’d be like the 3rd guy, but be cautious just in case (slip down onto the floor and pretend to be dead).

P Nocturne

You’ll probably be like the second guy but with a lot more urine down your pants.

There is no way to know how you would react to such an event.

snoop

Why do the last 2 celebrities have “tighter” eyes than usual ? are they chinese ?

dave

That comment, sir, was extremely racist. Being Chinese doesn’t have any correlation at all with “tighter” eyes. Please refrain from such distasteful comments. I’ll spare you this time from and give you the benefit of the doubt. And no, all three were one hundred percent Japanese. Everyone have different eyes. That’s just the way things are.

snoop

I see…thanks for clarifying. I aplogize for any inconvenience.
domyoji

tl;tr, sorry
Let me just ask you, sir, what exactly makes his comment racist? I haven’t even watched the clip and I don’t care how tight their eyes are, my Japanese idols have very different kind of eyes and that doesn’t bother me at all. So yeah, you’re right, everyone has different eyes, but how does that make his question racist?
If I watch a Hollywood movie with thousands of white/black actors and one Asian one and I ask “Who’s that guy with “tighter” eyes? Is he Chinese, or Japanese/Vietanmese/Korean/make your pick?” does that make me a rascist? Maybe I was just curious what his nationality was? What if I ask a similar question about European actors: “Who is that guy with long hair and darker skin? Is he Italian?” Is it still wrong? I don’t think Italians would be angry with me for asking such question.
I agree, if said question is using stereotypes that harm people (“Who’s that guy who smells so badly? Is he…?” or “Who’s that guy with ugly eyebrows? Is he…?”) that’s wrong. But Snoopy never said anything about “tighter” eyes being gross, or repulsive. Maybe he actually prefers “tighter” eyes, and he meant to praise those celebrities not harm them?

So, no, mr Snoopy I don’t think your comment was extremely racist. It wasn’t. At all. As for you, Dave, there are hundreds of real racists out there, don’t waste your time hunting the imaginary ones.

fg

You should read more carefully. There is a huge difference between “Why…..than usual,” and “Who….is he.”

Asking “why” someone has certain facial features is often rude, immature, and something a 5 year old might ask.

Asking “who” he is with certain features is a totally legitimate question.
boba fett 177

at domyoji:

dude, read dave’s reply again. you just completely misunderstood. He’s saying that the comment was racist because he equated have tight eyes to being chinese. He didn’t ask who is the person with tight eyes.
domyoji

I meant who as in nationality, so Chinese is a perfect reply here. I still can’t see why question: “Why does she have such dark skin? Is she from Romania?” is treated as a rude one? I agree, question “Why does he look like that? his face is weird, does he have a Down syndrome or something?” is rude and arrogant, but I do not think the OP meant it in such way. Do you REALLY think poster snoop wanted to sound rude? In my opinion he just wanted to clarify if those were Chinese people or not (I too assume someones nationality by looking at their faces/eyes/other features, and it happens I’m wrong sometimes). As you can see in his second comment, he/she isn’t a troll but a normal person that maybe formed his question a bit inappropriate. It could have been formed better (as you proposed “Who are those two celebrities that have “tighter” eyes than usual?”) but it still doesn’t make it racist. Just awkward.

to boba fett 177:
I do not need to read Dave’s comment again. I understood it perfectly. I just don’t think assuming that someone with “tight” eyes is Chinese is racists. Or rude. It may be untrue, I agree, people doesn’t always look the same, but assumption like that was always part of our life. Think about that for a while. Do you not assume that someone has a certain nationality by looking at their features?

~I think we just have to agree to disagree.

pixel_bomber

Please stop feeding the trolls.

pixel_bomber

They seemed pretty scared, I’d say it’s in poor taste in any country. Except for that last guy, he had no reaction.

revil

I think he was thinking, “why are all of these guys putting their hands in to their pockets right before they got shot?”

lovely

such poor taste. sad, really that this king of crap is served up with relish.
Canadian

This is very facepalm-worthy.
http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

I caught the second half of this show and they had some Z-list comedian doing a gourmet report; the first shop asked them to not broadcast as he had hoped for an A-list star, doing the second shop the bus got burgled and his wallet stolen, and just before the third his manager told him his management company would be letting him go at the end of the month…

I thought that was extremely harsh, but getting your pals murdered is a completely different kettle of fish.
helical

I hate myself for enjoying this …

Only in a country so removed from gun violence, could they pull this off and not expect the victim of the prank to not take any action without consequences (i.e. call the cops)
longus dickus

ohohohoh!! i know they should grow up a clone and kill him in the Tv surronded by the family of clones host! coool! and sooooooo funny!!

sarkasm off.. seriously. it sucks..
David

Several comments mention that it’s sad or harsh. But what it’s really sad it’s to live in a country where being killed by a firearm is everyday news
Greippi1

I think it’s harsh but still funny, and since they show these in Japan, it seems to be appropriate aswell. You really couldn’t do this in any other country, which is sad, in a certain way. But anyway, if you think this was distasteful, you should probably take a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAULG_yDnpk

helical

You give the judgment of Japanese television stations WAY too much credit, imho.

himawari

I watch a lot of Japanese TV and have seen a lot of dokkiri pranks, but this was just crossing the line. Nothing funny about it at all.
http://www.japanprobe.com dmcinjapan

Dave
get a grip, that was not racist, oriental eyes are tighter or slanted, just like my hair is blond and my eyes are round, or I am not olny white but really white, I have white people say to me all the time man you white, I dont think they are racist any more then when a black guy says to another man your really dark, this whole racisim thing has gotten way out of hand, we are all different based on our race, I am white, my best friend is black, my girlfriend is oriental and my kids are half, so what, unless some one say something bad about a race because of there race, then that is racism other wise it is certian observations.

The Overthinker

Why is your skin so white? Are you Swedish?

anti

Many people in Sweden and especially Finland have light skin but also tight eyes just like Asians. I heard this was not so rare to Scandinavia but rare to any other part of Europe.

http://www.japanprobe.com dmcinjapan

I thought it was funny, this was similare to prank I seen in american TV some years back, I dont see what the big deal is, it is a prank, and the people watching new it was going to be a prank, so WTF?
http://www.japanprobe.com dmcinjapan

No, just scottish

The Overthinker

It’s hard being subtle, even when I didn’t think I was being subtle.

Montsan

People should make more use of the “Reply to this comment” option when replying to comments.
Ido

That was so funny, especially the second one had such a distorted face, from fear not panic lol. But the third one was also quite funny as he probably figured it out being the “king of something” which is why he got it right lol.

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