the game's stupid. the things they have to do r whats funny. it keeps me entertained - i guess that's what matters.
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Silent Library
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Not age appropriate for kids under 12, age appropriate for kids over 15; suggested age 13. -
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Game show contestants silently endure humiliation and pain.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 13–15
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What Parents Need to Know
About Silent Library
Parents need to know that this quirky game show requires participants to endure a series of very strange challenges while suffering in near-total silence; even wincing in pain earns a stern rebuke from the unusually severe host. The tasks can be painful (enduring electric shocks), strange (eating spaghetti shoelaces from a jogger's shoes), or humiliating (being tied to a spit while basted in barbeque sauce). On the up side, there's no sex; though some tasks require contestants to strip to their underwear, it's anything but erotic. And since silence is the goal, there's little salty language to worry about.
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Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the show's challenges. Do you think the tasks are degrading or just silly?
- Would you be willing to be humiliated for money? If so, how far would you be willing to go?
- This series is based on a game show imported from Japan, where embarrassment seems to be a common theme in game shows. Do you think that makes Japanese game shows different from American ones?
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title on for age 12 and give it
stupid yet interesting
- I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
Worst show ever!
This show is so bad it's even worse than I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! No wonder it's a daytime game show. I was expecting something fun and entertaining like Wipeout. All I saw was Fear Factor in a fake "library" where there is supposed to be "silence". Yeah right. The host evaluates the contestants after their tasks, some of the tasks make noise, and you can see the contestants laughing very quietly. Even America's Funniest Home Videos is much funnier than this garbage. I hope this show gets canceled.
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
US version of a hilarious Japanese game show segment. Pretty funny, and excellent by MTV standards
This show, Silent Library, is based on a segment from the Japanese game show "Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!" (translated to "Downtown's This Is No Job for Children!!" or "Downtown's I'm Not An Errand Boy!!"). This Japanese game show's segments (including Silent Library) losing a bet and subsequently being forced to take part in an unpleasant, humiliating, or just plain mean challenge, which is called a batsu (punishment) game. Well, Silent Library is one of these types of segments. In Silent Library, six contestants in a (staged) library are each handed a card, and the contestant holding the yellow card with the skull and crossbones is subject to the batsu game. Some of the games include attaching a balloon to a man and inflating the balloon to bursting, snorting Pixie Sticks, and midgets jumping out of cardboard boxes armed with boxing gloves punching the contestant. You get the idea. True, some of the games are just plain mean, especially the ones involving the electric shocks, but they're not as bad as Fear Factor. Overall, this is a hilarious game show. I hope the people who produced this show do another one based on the "Don't Laugh" segments of the show Silent Library is based on. Now THOSE are HILARIOUS!
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