History Series / TakeshisCastle

* MookFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Toshiaki Kasuga served as one of the knights in the 2023 revival, only to suddenly serve under General Tani in the fourth charge to Takeshi’s Castle from Episode 7.]]
* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: In the 2023 Revival, Henchwoman Kyoko Hamaguchi ended up bending the rules badly in two challenges, only letting a handful of contestants through after her shenanigans.

* ForeignWrestlingHeel: Animal, the lone white guard, also a GiantMook, would often taunt people before easily beating them in Sumo Rings.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Of all the contestants in the 2023 revival, Chiitan the fairy otter. Despite his regular appearances and comedic tendencies on the show, he had managed to finish one obstacle away from challenging both Ueya Castle and Ennosuke Castle, and do surprisingly well in the Loser Resurrection games; he defeated Donguri Takeshi in ''Tug-O-War or Splash'', and [[HiddenDepths guessed correctly that the jackal belonged to the dog family in the]] ''[[HiddenDepths Slip-And-Slide Quiz]]''.

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* RoleReprise: General Tani from the original returns as Captain for the second part of the 2023 series.

In 2014, the show was given a Thai adaptation (''Takeshi's Castle Thailand''). In late 2017, it was announced that Creator/ComedyCentral ([[NoExportForYou with the exception of the American, Canadian and Japanese versions of the channel]]) had obtained the rights to air the Thai version, with Creator/JonathanRoss acting as the UK version's commentator this time round.

As of April 2022, it has been reported that Takeshi Kitano and Creator/AmazonPrimeVideo are working to launch a {{revival}} of the show in 2023.

* HugeHolographicHead: Takeshi Kitano does not appear in-person in the 2023 revival of the show, but he interacts with the other members of his army as "AI Count Takeshi", a giant green (or red when he gets angry) polygonal head who's fond of saying weird things and making awful celebrity impressions, sometimes explained as glitches in the programming.

* AnachronismStew: Appears as the result of RuleOfFun. A Japanese medieval castle, with correspondingly-suited count, his geishas and advisor, plus General Lee/Tani/Tennant; all mixed up with such modern and futuristic stuff like laser guns, karaoke bars and American football fields.

** The first two episodes of the 2023 revival has "Mr. SASUKE", a contestant from the ''Sasuke'' obstacle course (also known as ''Series/NinjaWarrior'') with a boastful and arrogant attitude, who competes in the hopes of winning all the games and get known as "Mr. Takeshi's Castle" too. He invariably fails all the stages, sometimes in quite dumb or humiliating ways, always trying to find an excuse for his poor performances.

* HugeHolographicHead: Takeshi Kitano does not appear in-person in the 2023 revival of the show, but he interacts with the other members of his army as "AI Count Takeshi", a giant green (or red when he gets angry) polygonal head who's fond of saying weird things and making awful celebrity impressions, sometimes explaines as glitches in the programming.

* HesBack: General Tani makes an appearance in 2013's ''Takeshi's Castle Rebooted'' (which is possibly more faithful to the original Japanese show than the original Challenge version). In a ContinuityNod however, he noted he's sometimes known as General Lee.

** "Admiral Guard, highly accurate."
*** Also, for the Honeycomb Maze: "Black-hearted, black-handed Admiral Guards."

* ExcitedShowTitle: The show's original title is known in the original Japanese as ''Fuun! Takeshi-Jo''

* GameShow: Well duh!
* GiantMook:
** Jumbo Max, who (after a couple of weeks) was replaced by Yoroi.
** Funnily enough, the Spanish dubbers renamed Yoroi as "El Pequeño Samurai", which translates as The Little Samurai, and pretended he was as small as his name indicated.

* GreenHillZone: "Leap Frog" (Known in the UK dub).
* GrimyWater: According to Craig in the UK dub, it's from a pig farm in Southern Japan.

* DwindlingParty: Someone is almost guaranteed to be eliminated at each stage, due to [[EverythingTryingToKillYou the way the games are designed]].

* DifficultySpike: Happened when the paper rings and water guns originally present on the go-karts in the final battles were replaced by laser targets. The paper rings usually took several close range hits to pierce (with a larger gun having the potential to pierce a paper ring in one shot), but with the laser targets the contestants could be zapped from the other side of the arena and instantly eliminated.

** In the episode when Takeshi was recruiting monsters and the Guards were dressed up they allowed [[UpToEleven every. single. one]] to take part in the storming of the castle, no matter how many times each of them had failed during the show up to that point. So it was twenty people vs. two hundred.

* DoorRoulette: Often used for various events and challenges.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Real life karate champion Makoto Dainenji and boxing champion Katsuo Tokashiki often were in the show as tag eliminators.

** They subverted it in a special episode where EVERYONE who crashed was called "[Something] Cudeiro", and referred to as being a relative to the real Chino Cudeiro. When the episode ended and one contestant won, the commentators started wondering where the real Chino Cudeiro was and why they hadn't seen him die yet. At that point, the winner reveals himself as the real Chino Cudeiro, [[ThrowTheDogABone finally getting his triumph]] after countless deaths.

* BitingTheHandHumor: During the 2006-07 run of ''Humor Amarillo'', a few episodes featured short interviews with an alleged network executive called Nikito Nipongo. This is a PunnyName roughly translatable as "I neither remove nor put", as if to imply that Nipongo's role within the channel's board of directors was, in fact, [[KickedUpstairs irrelevant]]. His interviews often ended with him encouraging the viewers to watch ''Series/{{House}}'', which was airing in the same channel back then. In another instance, the character of Higashi mistook an in-universe cartoon for ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was also broadcast in the channel at the time.

* DemotedToExtra: Takeshi himself in most of the foreign dubs, to the extent that he practically qualifies as TheGhost. Since his main role was as narrator in the Japanese original though, this was kinda inevitable. In the Spanish dubs, however, he gets ascended to BigBad.

* AwesomeButImpractical: A special edition of the Uphill Garden had the contestants facing a big contingent of Emerald Guards in their usual attire, but now joined by what was called their "secret weapon", a guy in a gigantic, [[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep Ebirah]]-like lobster costume. The monster seemed to be a truly dangerous asset for his side, as although he wasn't equipped with guns, he had no target neither and thus couldn't be technically eliminated by shooting. However, their entire plan failed when the contestants managed to wipe out all the other guards and surround the lobster, because beatable or not, the latter's suit was so cumbersome that he could not maneuver around easily. He tripped in his own effort to move and ended up spectacularly falling down the hill, which incapacitated him and made his team lost the battle.

* BitingTheHandHumor: During the 2006-07 run of ''Humor Amarillo'', a few episodes featured short interviews with an alleged network executive called Nikito Nipongo. This is a PunnyName roughly translatable as "I neither remove nor put", as if to imply that Nipongo's role within the channel's board of directors was, in fact, [[KickedUpstairs irrelevant]]. His interviews often ended with him encouraging the viewers to watch ''Series/{{House}}'', which was airing in the same channel back then.

* DanceBattler: The show once featured a contestant who danced and gyrated his hips during the very challenges. To show how of a battler he was, he apparently went to win the show prize.

* DubNameChange: The Spanish version had a lot of them: "El Chino Cudeiro" (see TheyKilledKennyAgain below), "Pepe Livingstone" (the field reporter with the safari hat), "El Grano de Café" ("The Coffee Bean", the large brown doll), "Pinky-Winky", "El Primo de Harry Potter" ("Franchise/HarryPotter's Cousin"), "Dolores Conichigua" (a PunnyName with the ''konnichiwa'' Japanese phrase) and "Gacela Thomson", among others.

* EvilerThanThou: ''Humor Amarillo'' once ran a storyline in which an evil millionaire named Floran Kagapasta (the surname being translatable to English as "one who shits money") who tried to buy out the show from Takeshi's hands. He was successful, but Takeshi got it back and slapped him away for good.

** The Spanish version, Cuatro's ''Humor Amarillo'' (2006-2007) is an overdub even though the original content of the show remained intact (Including most of the show's audio), but edits out some of the challenges (Including (in a majority of the episodes) the final Showdown).
*** They [[PlayedForLaughs played it for laughs]], saying stuff like "we were going to show you the final Showdown today, but we've run out of budget, so that'll have to be next time".

* GiantMook: Jumbo Max, who (after a couple of weeks) was replaced by Yoroi.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: In the Spanish dub, commentators freely admitted that they knew the contestants were Japanese, but referred to them as Chinese because [[RuleOfFunny they thought it sounded funnier that way]].

* LargeHam: Dolores Conichigua from ''Humor Amarillo'', in which she was a sadistic, loud-spoken contestant advocate. Oddly enough, she qualifies both in the this and the original show, as she originally was a contestant who [[CameraAbuse shouted to the camera]] when interviewed.
** Frankly speaking, almost all the characters in the Spanish version were at least significantly Large Hams, which was part of its popularity.

* LongSongShortScene: The Final Showdown music due to said showdown commonly being a CurbStompBattle.
** Possibly averted though, as the final showdown music is the same as the theme music and/or it depends on how long said showdown lasts, you'd be lucky when the music loops from the part after the beginning.
* LovableSexManiac: Pepe Livingston (see Intrepid Reporter) was a bordering creepy example in ''Humor Amarillo'', as he would always try to invite women to his roulotte without bothering to hide his lubricious intentions. In one occasion, he offered a couple to shoot homemade porn with it.

* NonIndicativeName: The sumo Large Fuji was named "Tiburón" ("Shark") in the Spanish version, but the exact reason was never revealed.

* PunnyName: Dolores Conichigua from the Spanish version, whose last name sounded like the Japanese greeting (''konnichiwa'').

* SmallReferencePools: In the Spanish version, the character Junior (Higashi) often mistook the show's animations with ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which was being broadcast in the same TV channel in Spain at the time ''Humor Amarillo'' was released. Awesomely enough, the Spanish dub of ''Naruto'' returned the ShoutOut when they put Kankuro to utter some of the show's most famous insults.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The Spanish ''Humor Amarillo'' created a character, dubbed the "Chino Cudeiro", who became its staple. The character was a random contestant (usually dressed in red or wearing some red garment) picked by the dubbers each episode that crashed rather spectacularly at certain point, playing this trope at that moment, with tragic ''Titanic'' music montage and all. The Chino Cudeiro would come back the following episode with little to no explanation, although somtimes it was mentioned he had [[AWizardDidIt superpowers that allowed him to come back from the dead,]] or alternatively [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections the executives's preference]]. He had a wide array of variations, but the most of them kept the traits of wear in red and dying in a challenge.

* TravelMontage: During each one of the three New Year's on location Specials (You could also say it was so nice it was done thrice).

* VerbalTic: In the Spanish version, General Lee would always call "piltrafilla" ("little sleazy", a very disrespectful word) to any interlocutor regardless of who was, including Takeshi himself and his mooks.

* BallCannon: The game [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bridge Ball]] features contestants trying to cross a very narrow and wobbly bridge, while the guards fire balls at them.