While we Americans get all riled up for the airbrushed action of American Gladiators, the Japanese one-up us with their true-blue displays of athleticism and pure entertainment.

As I explained in my Knight Rider review, the majority of American television producers spend far too much time bolstering their production when they should be giving us…I don’t know…what we want?

To make my point clearer, let’s compare our TV shows to Japanese TV shows.

Would you rather watch this:

Or this:

Does this interest you:

Or does this:

Would you rather see 1 vs. 100:

Or 100 vs. 1:

Oh, whatever - we know which ones are more entertaining overall. Keep ‘em coming: