CATHY GROSAM WON $250,000 ON SEASON FINALE OF “I SURVIVED A JAPANESE GAME SHOW” ON ABC

On Wedneday night’s season finale of “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” soccer mom Cathy Grosam (Bartlett, IL) defeated Linda Plaxen (Los Angeles, CA) in a Super Majide and took home the $250,000 top prize.

“I Survived a Japanese Game Show” is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes and ground-breaking show giving 12 Americans a real, life-changing adventure by whisking them away to Tokyo to compete in the ultimate Japanese game show. Each week, a player was eliminated. Rome Kanda (”Pink Panther,” “Saturday Night Live”) was the game show host leading the contestants through all of the zany challenges; Mama-San was the house mother and resident pot stirrer; and Judge Bob was the rarely dynamic, but always entertaining referee of the games.

Here were a few of the games in the season finale:

SMELLY FISH FACE
One contestant dressed as a clown used a nozzle to shoot stinky and horrible tasting fish sauce through holes in a wall, while a teammate behind that wall collected the fish sauce in their mouth and deposited it into a receptacle. The team that accumulated the most fish sauce in the receptacle in 3 minutes won.

BALLOON ASSASSIN
Contestants were dressed in muscle shirts and wore gorilla arms. They jumped on a trampoline and used their gorilla hands to pop as many overhanging balloons as possible in 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

TIME TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS IN JAPAN
Contestants on designated streets had to complete designated tasks in order of fastest possible time. Tasks included: getting a stranger to put lipstick on them and then give that stranger a kiss; getting a stranger to bow 10 times; making a stranger tickle them; borrow a cell phone from a stranger and make a call; and getting 5 strangers to do a chorus line can-can.

The executive producers are Arthur Smith and Kent Weed for A. Smith & Co. (”Kitchen Nightmares,” “Hell’s Kitchen”), and David Sidebotham, Karsten Bartholin and Tim Crescenti for Babyfoot APS Denmark. “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish subtitles via secondary closed captioning.

Source: ABC Press Release