You guys are being so thankful, I'll link what I found last nght (and should have found sooner).

This batsu game is from 2001, before the 24 hour batsu games started. Matsumoto loses a swimming race (which is seen in part 1) and has to spend a night at a haunted hotel.

For some time, this game has been available with subs for about the first half. These links provide subs for the whole game. Even if you've seen the first half of subs before, you'll see new material. These links appear to be from a DVD version which has extra material in the first half.

Matsumoto Haunted Hotel, Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11

If you watched the "22+" and "23+" links above, you'll have already seen what's in the official subber's part 23. However, new materal starts in part 24.

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 23
Part 24

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 25

Funny, I'm in Japan and can't watch the fricking Hulu links. Thanks, this is all great stuff. Wish I knew how to watch this stuff locally.

The Hulu links are dead.

You should be able to find all the batsu games on You Tube or Veoh.

arigatou gozaimasu!

We must be very near the end.

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 26

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 27

was introduced to downtown years ago by my bro, been a fan from day 1.

glad to see others here

Already taken down.

Shibatabread's You Tube account got axed.

He's already said he will be reuploading to You Tube and another site (possibly Veoh which could be back in business).

Apparently, some guy named Kelvin ratted out shibatabread's videos and other Gaki videos. In response, some people posted Kelvin's e-mail on 4chan.

Part 27 is back up. I'm sure all the other parts will be up eventually.

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 27 (reuploaded)

Why would someone rat out shibata's account?

Can you not say "beer" on Japanese TV?

Why would someone do that? Regardless, I feel like there is no wrongdoing in watching these videos since they were never intended for an American/English speaking audience. I would watch these types of shows over 90% of the crap on TV today.

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 28

ty ty ty so much dynasty for linking those sick shows
you earned yourself this great gif:



i got it from this site, a forum for downtown fans.
there also are a ton of links to their other shows (a lot of them subbed).

I'm a member at that site. This is what I use as an avatar there.

The end is here.

These are Veoh links. I'm sure Shibatabread will put the videos on You Tube shortly.

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 29

No Laughing Hotel Men, Part 30 (2:48)

Big ups to Dynasty for keeping this thread updated.

Just finished No Laughing Hotel Men, and it's ****ing great. Next is policemen. Matsumoto is by far my favorite. Endo and Tanaka don't do a lot imo, except it's very lol when Tanaka gets scared.

There hasn't been much Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! material being subbed lately. So, I thought I'd create a tangent for this thread.

Downtown hosted another show in the '90s: Downtown no Gottsu Ee Kanji. Gottsu Ee Kanji was a show in which Downtown gave younger comedians a chance to work with them, primarily in sketch comedy.

Five Rangers
These episodes have been linked before, but they're probably the most memorable from the show. Hamada players a villian (translated as 'Skeleton Mask') who is challenged by the Matsumoto-led Five Rangers. However, Hamada refuses to fight due to a reoccuring gag. The episodes parody a classic Japanese show, Gorenger.

Five Rangers, Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13


Here are other skits. They are almost always outrageous.

Downtown's Future- in 2014

Murder File: The Long-Armed-Bat-White-Flying-Squirrel

Confined Space Man

Christmas Eve

Oyassan!

Giant Hero

Sho-Ta!, Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Shortsighted Family

Threatening

Spawning

Is That Alright?

The Inn

Can't wait to watch these. In Japanese related news, I am climbing Mt. Fuji tomorrow

Anyone know if the "5 Rangers" sketches were partially improvised?

I've watched a lot of this stuff and I'm sure there's a fair amount of improvisation going on. In fact, I think a lot of these sketches don't actually have endings planned out (Confined Space Man). The performers keep going as long as the laughs keep coming. When the sketch loses steam, they simply end it.

In the later episodes of Five Rangers, I think Hamada may have been unaware of what costumes the rangers were going to appear in. He seems genuinely surprised a lot towards the end.