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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?

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US had Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boww2fJUEHc

strange Poland didn't have one...

Right you are Ken!

Ironic this was posted the same day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016956

In the uk it was Craig Charles of red dwarf fame, renowned funk and soul DJ and robot wars host. It was brilliant.

I can hear his laugh just reading this

We had this in the 80s/90s in Italy within a show called "mai dire banzai", they mixed up clips of Takeshi's Castle and Za Gaman[0], and the commentary was three guys of which two acted as faux Japanese experts and the third acted surprised at the completely made up bits of Japanese culture.

It was incredibly popular back then.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za_Gaman

The dubs for the Spanish version did it too. There were two dubs, one in 1990 and another one for a 2006 re-run. Both completely made up.

Probably unscripted improv, and hilarious. Go chino cudeiro!

It was localized with the name Humor Amarillo ("Yellow Comedy").

I know...

always remember chino cudeiro and his nipones

Yes, it was a deliberate strategy to add localized commentary, as the original context would not apply in foreign markets. An example of Transcreation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcreation

I actually watched it as a kid on Eurosport. It also had the dubbed over commentary. The original has lots of comedy bits between the games, most of them were cut in the German version.

The dubbed Hindi version in India had really funny and entertaining commentary too! My friends and I loved the show.

Italy too

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