Viva Escapism!
If you're older than me, you probably hated this, but if you're younger than me, you've probably never heard of this, and I want you to imagine how confused the people of 20 years ago would be by a simple, irreverent audio dubbing. It was lovely.
MXC was that marvelous inflection point where people went from mocking Japanese television to emulating Japanese television. It's worth reading up; the pitch to re-voice Takeshi's Castle for absurdism never would have flown if culture wasn't at an absolute nadir caused by the arc of Running Man: into the hangover of seven years of American Gladiators: And the trainwreck that was the XFL: MXC allowed people who were embarrassed by television to mock television, and it was awesome. But, just as Iron Chef started out as something to laugh only to become something hosted by Alton Brown, Wipeout and American Ninja Warrior soon followed.
dude there is a guy at work, and he is so identically the voice of Vic Romano... I've been waiting for right about now, he just got promoted to Mr. bigbig manager on the engineering side of our operation. I don't think he knows how much he sounds like Vic, but I do think he knows about the show. What should I do?? loll