The Matsumoto Martin James Hypnotism Show!

(I wanted to upload this last night, but stupid YouTube was down for maintenance.)

BlackGaki's "Matsumoto Week" continues with another episode! This time, like the last episode I reviewed, Matsumoto has something he REALLY wants to do. However, being so close as comedy partners, he only tells Hamada. However unlike last time, he wants to try his hand at hypnotism.

Hamada being ever so kind to his comedy partner, he enlists the help of the entire staff to play the victims of Matsumoto's latest venture. Also unlike the "Matsumoto's Challenge" series, this is not Hitoshi doing the High Jump, the hypnotism will be performed by his Japanese-fluent, westernized counterpart, Matsumoto Martin James. But seeing as Mr. James' powers of hypnotism are weaker (read as "non-existant"), the staff will have to play along.


Just like the Matsumoto's High Jump challenge, Hamada makes his entrance into the dressing room before the show in an unusually cheesy outfit. Speaking of cheesy outfits, what the hell is Yamazaki wearing? A shirt with cannabis leaves on it? What are we, immature college students?! Well, okay, I am. But are you, Yamazaki? I bet if someone threw a bag of it into your lap, you'd run off crying.

Aaanywho. We don't care about Yamazaki. He didn't win the poll. Matsumoto did. They've even made him his own set to host this new show, with a bench big enough for all of the prominent staff members to sit on. With Hamada acting as the assistant/announcer/commentator, the other staff members are put into a hypnotic state. The first suggestion which Matsumoto Martin applies is to Heipo, which is that of a chicken. Hilarity ensures. I don't know if did an adequate job translating the misunderstanding, but hopefully the note in the subtitles explains it?



So, the ever-pissed James retires to his dressing room to get a bite to eat. As you'd expect, a few follow to try and get Matsumoto to complete his act. I mean, it wouldn't be funny if they just let him leave and that was the end. So we try it again, with everyone coming to the agreement that they need to understand the damned instructions and do a better job of faking. So Matsumoto returns to the stage, and has to re-hypnotize everyone. However, his return act is to turn several people into Bruce Lee. More hilarity ensues due to an epic failure. However, one hypnotic suggestion does pass, thanks to Endou and his inner pervert.



With one successful hypnotism under his belt, James moves one to another suggestion. This time it's a gorilla, and the one tapped to be made primitive is the already slightly ape-ish Producer Suga. They would have ended the episode by now if something funny wasn't going to happen. And it just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't at least a semi-epic failure. Another apology, another excuse, another hypnotism. The last group hypnotism is fantastic, due to Tanaka's presence.



And Hamada, who is the biggest critic, winds up just ruining all the work. Not all stories have a happy ending for Matsumoto, I guess. I have no clue what I rated this video before, but I'm sure it was high, due to the monstrous amount of failure coming from Heipo and Sakamoto combined with Fujiwara's Bruce Lee face, all topped with a gay Tanaka and a nipple-rubbing Endou. I must say that even though it wound up being the entire episode, rather than the usual 10-15 minute opener, I enjoyed subtitling this release. It was easy since there were several things that were repeated over and over. Ha.