Gaki no Tsukai Ya Arahende/YMMV

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  • Nightmare Fuel : Some of the Squicks can fall in this area.
    • While the horror-themed segments of the Hospital, Newspaper Agency and Hotel batsu games, Matsumoto's haunted hotel batsu game (especially the creepy spirit photos that the 'ghost expert' gives to Matsumoto) and Yamasaki's haunted school concert batsu game are obviously all Played for Laughs, some moments in particular could be used as this.
    • Oshima in the 2009 Hotel Batsu is Nightmare Fuel.
  • Crosses the Line Twice : Occasionally - not as often as one might think, and it tends to be funny enough when it happens. Hamada has used these sort of motivations to drive his more extreme Jerkass or Comedic Sociopathy moments however, and some scenes in the batsu games count to the extent that even the cast sound somewhat appalled. It's even humourously pointed out in the song and the cast at the end of the 2009 Hotel Man batsu game that Oshima of Morisanchuu making an appearance pretty much in the nude might've reached this sort of level... though some may argue that the line-crossing came even earlier in that batsu game.
    • Some would argue that the continue cameos of Chiaki for the Batsu games count as this for Endo.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse : Jimmy Onishi, and possibly Itsuji Itao.
    • Shin-Onii gets a lot of love from the fans, though the actor playing him actually appeared before the character did.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight : In the 2007 No-Laughing Hospital batsu game, Tanaka wonders whether the cast would be able to redo the 2000 batsu game where they (with the exception of Matsumoto) spent 24 hours dodging attackers in a gym; he is immediately shot down by the others, with aging and so on being cited. The gym batsu game format makes a return for a potion of the 2010 Spy No-Laughing batsu game, again without Matsumoto.
  • Magnificent Bastard : Or rather, bastards. A more recently aired segment, hosted by Yamasaki, has Downtown, Coq Au Rico and two other comedy duos competing against each other to win a prize of some sort. Downtown generally fall behind before resorting to dirty (also hilarious) tactics and using their influence to steal the game.
    • If this troper remembers correctly, the games have pie launching as punishment. In the last punishment, Hamada inadvertently gets some of the pie on him and went fuming. Naturally, Matsumoto followed suit. In a true Laser-Guided Karma style, the hand that threw the pie so that the fragments landed on Hamada was... Matsumoto's
  • Most Annoying Sound: To the cast, the forfeit sound that plays in a few batsu games, most notably the No-Laughing specials.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: To the audience, the forfeit sound that plays in a few batsu games, most notably the No-Laughing specials.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks : When transferring the batsu games over to DVD, the producers don't often maintain the rights to some of the music used and are forced to use a cover track instead. This is seems to significantly irk a part of the fanbase (the English-speaking fanbase at least), though it's not always very noticeable. The most obvious cases are in the Yugawara batsu game due to the extensive Star Wars Shout-Out / Running Gag and the use of the theme to the The Godfather in the original broadcast.
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