Special Project Team Battle - Bathhouse Battle

I must add a note that this is one of the LAMEST episodes I've seen LOL. They pump it up and call it a special, but it's at a bathhouse!! They're cheap and all over the place! They might as well go to McDonald's or something and call it a special! LOL It's still fun though!

Game #1 - Reverse Crawling Stagecoach (..wtf?)
Each member crawls on their hands and feet, facing up, with a wooden bowl strapped to their stomach, and a rubber duck inside. It's a relay style race. The obstacles are foot massage mats (they have prickly/bumpy things), a bunch of those plastic stools you sit on while showering, and a really soapy, slippery area. For most of the race, both teams were about even by the time they got to the finish, because there wasn't enough space for either of them to pass. But when Masuda had to race against Taiyou, Taiyou's wooden bowl came unfastened! Masuda continued, but..for some reason he went around a second time, so Taiyou won.. next was Kusano and Yabu, and even with the big lead, Kusano caught up to Yabu! But they both had a lot of trouble at the slippery area, and Yabu ended up winning. (I'm sure it was just because he was stupid, but I prefer to think that Masuda went twice to make up for Taiyou's accident, rather than exploiting it.)
Winner: Ya-Ya-yah

Game #2 - Declaration on Your Back Game!
The members of each team lined up, and starting from the back they had to write a word on each others backs without saying what the word was. The last person had to say the word.

Ya-Ya-yah: Tawashi
Hikaru kept messing up when he was writing on Shoon's back, so Shoon's back was all black! LOL. He started writing the wrong word, but people were like "eh?" and Yabu said "I don't remember writing that!" so he changed it, and got the right word. I didn't think that was fair :/ Shoon wrote the right word, but Taiyou didn't understand it.

NEWS: Ofuro
Before he started writing, Masuda was feeling Shige's back LOL. Shige understood it, so they won!
Winer: NEWS

Game #3 - Dive and Hold Your Breath Championship
At the previous swimming episode (2003.07.20) Koyama won this game, holding his breath for 59 seconds. He was playing against Hikaru, who said that he was so bothered by losing that later that night he dove by himself in the bath *g*
(1) Tegoshi (00:37) vs Yabu (00:38) = Yabu
(2) Shige (00:35) vs Shoon (00:43) = Shoon
(3) Kusano (01:12) vs Hikaru (00:52) = Kusano
(4) Masuda (01:06) vs Taiyou (01:18) = Taiyou
Not only did Taiyou beat Masuda, the swimmer, he beat everyone else's records!!

Since NEWS lost, they get the punishment, but it's only for one person so they had to play that form of janken pon where if you win you hit the other person with a (plastic!) hammer, but if they block it doesn't count.
Shige vs Kusano = Kusano
Masuda vs Tegoshi = Tegoshi
Shige vs Masuda = Shige
Masuda gets the punishment!!

Sore yuke!! KusaNO!man
Yabu and Hikaru are sitting on a park bench, practicing castanet because they have a recital tomorrow. (A castanet recital?) Yabu sucks really bad, so Hikaru suggests throwing away the castanets, and starts leaving. Suddenly, a voice--!! "Castanet wo taisetsu ni shinakucha ... NOOOOO!" Yabu and Hikaru look around expectantly ... nothing happens ... Until KusaNO!man pops out of a nearby cardboard box!! He proceeds to explain why castanets are red and blue. "Maybe it's so girls and boys won't fight!" His reasoning? When they were deciding what color to make it, they picked blue (cause boys like it) and red (cause girls like it), so it'd be made of BOTH colors, and neither gender could complain. "I guess!" After delivering his speech, KusaNO!man returned to his cardboard box LOL

Special Live
-Boogie Woogie Cat! (Tegoshi, Kusano, Masuda + Yabu and Hikaru later; Question? on instruments)
I'd only ever heard Kanjani8 do this song, so even though I know (I guess?) it's not a KJ8 song, it still feels like it^^; I just don't feel like they have the right "rock" mentality to do it.. Yes I'm biased^^;
-SHOCK ME (Kusano, Koyama, Shige, Tegoshi, Masuda)
-News Nippon (Kusano, Koyama, Shige, Tegoshi, Masuda, Yabu, Hikaru)

Back to the bathhouse game, where Masuda gets his punishment. He had already predicted what it was going to me: a painful foot massage. All the others held him down *g*