History YMMV / TakeshisCastle

* FountainOfMemes: Just about every line from Craig Charles' commentary. "Oh you wazzock!", "Can they avoid the black-handed, black-hearted Emerald Guard?", "Ladies favourite General Lee", "Back to the funny farm with you!", "As my old man used to say", and as ever "No winners tonight on Takeshi's Castle!"

* ValuesDissonance: As continental Spain doesn't have much of a history of social racism, at least compared to countries like United States where it is instrumental to their history, racist jokes weren't a big deal there until years into TheNewTens. Making humor about LGBTI people wasn't also weird either due to the long countercultural tradition of said collective in Spain since eras like La Movida Madrileña. For those reasons, many of the jokes of both types present in the 2006-2007 Spanish GagDub of the show, ''Humor Amarillo'', would be considered from offensive to downright ''horrifying'' today.

* FountainOfMemes: Just about every line from Craig Charles' commentary.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio (which can also still be heard) and given the jaw-droppingly racist title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Humor").

* BrokenBase: Challenge viewers got a version of ''Takeshi's Castle'' that's much more faithful to the original product than ''Series/{{MXC}}''. It's understandable, then, that many of Craig Charles' fans loathe the American dub.
** Of course, the reverse is also true - many fans of MXC loathe Craig's commentary. Go to any MXC forum and you'll understand.

* ValuesDissonance: As Spain doesn't have much of a history of social racism, at least compared to countries like United States where it is instrumental to their history, racist jokes weren't a big deal there until years into TheNewTens. Making humor about LGBTI people wasn't also weird either due to the long countercultural tradition of said collective in Spain since eras like La Movida Madrileña. For those reasons, many of the jokes of both types present in the 2006-2007 Spanish GagDub of the show, ''Humor Amarillo'', would be considered from offensive to downright horrifying today.

* ValuesDissonance: As Spain doesn't have a historial of social racism, at least compared to countries like United States where it is instrumental to their history, racist jokes weren't big deal there until years into TheNewTens. Making humor about LGBTI people wasn't also weird either due to the long countercultural tradition of said collective in Spain since eras like La Movida Madrileña. For those reasons, many of the jokes of both types present in the 2006-2007 Spanish GagDub of the show, ''Humor Amarillo'', would be considered from offensive to downright horrifying today.

* EarWorm: The Spanish version's awesome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuw0ir94Po opening theme.]]

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: When someone beat the maze by climbing on top of it and running over the guards.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When someone beat the maze by climbing on top of it and running over the guards.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Japanese version used several well known scores from TV, Films, Anime and bands.
** Especially with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPSJVo5dJHA the main theme]], which was so good it was used in the Final Showdown as well.

* TomHanksSyndrome: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio (which can also still be heard) and given the jaw-droppingly racist title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Humor").[[note]]Yeah, racist expressions towards Asians in Spain are not a big deal. That many Spanish Chinese people consider it ActuallyPrettyFunny helps.[[/note]]

* SurpriseDifficulty

* BrokenBase: Challenge viewers got a version of ''Takeshi's Castle'' that's much more faithful to the original product than ''{{MXC}}''. It's understandable, then, that many of Craig Charles' fans loathe the American dub.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio, which can also still be heard, and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Humor"). Yeah, racism towards Asians in Spain is not such a big deal.

* MST3KMantra: The 2006-2007 version of ''Humor Amarillo''

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio, which can also still be heard, and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Humor"). Yeah, Asian racism in Spain is not big deal.

** It can also be played both ways, as some prefer other foreigin versions (Mainly the German or Spanish narrations).

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: At several points no matter what version you like.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio, which can also still be heard, and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Humor").

** It can also be played both ways, as some prefer other foreigin versions (Mainly the german narration).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio, which can also still be heard, and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Comedy").
** Not really prejudiced, it's just a pun on BlackComedy (Considering who "dies" OnceAnEpisode).

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a GagDub containg commentary recorded over the real audio, which can also still be heard, and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Comedy").

** It can also be played both ways, as some prefer other foreigin versions (Most prominately the german dub).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a Gag Dub that completely glossed over the real audio (yet keeps it intact), and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Comedy").

** It can also be played both ways

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a smashing success in Spain, even if it was mercilessly edited, given a Gag Dub that completely glossed over the real audio, and given the jaw-droppingly prejudiced title "Humor Amarillo" ("Yellow Comedy").
** Not really prejudiced, it's just a pun on BlackComedy (Considering who dies)

** Of course, the reverse is also true - many fans of MXC loathe Craig's commentary. Go to any MXC forum and you'll understand.

** Not really prejudiced, it's just a pun on BlackComedy
* TomHanksSyndrome (Takeshi Kitano)