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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.