Heidi's Fascinations

I watched it for the first time tonight and laughed so hard that I had to put my drink down so that I wouldn't spill it. I highly recommend it, but only if you generally can appreciate somewhat low-brow humor (this is on SpikeTV after all). You can check for your TV listings (in general) at Zap2it.

Here are highlights of a summary:

'MXC,' wacky reality on Spike
Japan import pits goofy teams in goofier contests
By A.J. Livsey

Combine the voice-over commentary of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” with the dubbing technology of classic kung-fu movies, add the action of “American Gladiators” and 75 enthusiast Japanese contestants, and you get the idea behind Spike TV’s “Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC).”
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Unlike Food Network’s dubbed Japanese import “Iron Chef,” “MXC” doesn’t offer valuable cultural lessons or demonstrate any marketable skills. Instead, this wacky game show from the Far East provides a half-hour of entertainment and laughs, thanks to the ridiculous competitions and eyebrow-raising commentary dubbed over the original Japanese.
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“MXC” seems to loosely follow the format of elimination to find a winner, but no final victors are ever announced. Unlike American reality shows, “MXC” doesn’t require contestants to live together, date one another, or undergo plastic surgery. Instead, viewers can delight in the perils of hopeful contestants who eagerly slide down muddy hillsides and crash into walls with no particular incentive.

Each episode pits two teams against one another. In any given half-hour, viewers can watch fabricated match-ups between civil servants and computer geeks, inventors and former child stars, or meat handlers and cartoon character actors.

These contestants have such elaborate job titles as bubble wrap inflator, plasma donor for flat-screen TVs, instruction complicator for the IRS, inventor of the trucker’s friend “wine in a sponge,” star of “My Teacher’s a Good Kisser,” and the public service employee who patented the overused government phrase, “Not my department, can’t help you.”
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Despite the show’s humorous voiceover and colorful cast of characters, the real focal point of “MXC” is the outrageous competitions.
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“Wall buggers” requires teams to dress in Velcro suits and butterfly wings, swing across a pond, and stick to a spider web wall.
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Many of the games involve either the threat of falling into murky water or mud or getting knocked over.
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Each episode also contains the “MXC Impact replay” of a particularly good collision as well as the top 10 “Most Painful Eliminations of the Day.” While the humor skews toward the sophomoric, the combination of the comical voiceover and the ridiculousness of the games makes “MXC” the funniest reality program on television.

I have to agree with that last statement. I especially enjoyed the random topics of the contestants' voice-overs and that they match the mouth movements better than MST3000.