On the afternoon of December 11, SUPER EIGHT’s Yutaka Yokoyama suffered a fractured right rib and a sprained lumbar vertebrae, resulting in a total recovery of two months, during a location shoot for the program. According to the announcement, Yokoyama was injured while recording a game in which he was to ride on a rotating platform on location for the show. The company apologized to Yokoyama and all concerned for the incident and said, “From now on, we will further tighten our safety control in the production of the program. Yokoyama is scheduled to appear as a main cast member in the TV drama series “Ex Forensic Shufu” (TV Tokyo), which will start in January next year, and it has been pointed out that this will affect the filming and broadcast of the drama, so it is inevitable that his work will be affected. News of performers and staff members being injured during the production of such programs often occurs, and “Dokkiri GP” has received more severe criticism than other programs on X. Fuji TV’s “Surprise GP” never learns no matter how many people get injured. I think there are a lot of projects that are so overdone that it’s almost too much to take. Please don’t make us do dangerous things! Don’t you think of safety first, instead of being funny? I wonder how many times they make people get hurt…” “I wonder how many times they make people get hurt in Surprise GP, that’s why I don’t like it so much…” The show has caused several major disturbances in the past year. On the following day, it was announced that Hiroshi Yamamoto of the comedy duo Time Machine No. 3 had suffered a broken rib during a location shoot on November 5, 2011. During a surprise in which Yamamoto was suddenly doused with liquid by a stuffed bear, a well-known part of the show, he fell to avoid the liquid and suffered a broken rib. In August of this year, popular comedian Yasuko was also involved. In the August 2 broadcast, Yasuko-san took care of the dog belonging to Shinobu Sakaue, but the dog escaped due to the staff’s fault, and everyone went on a big search for it. Yasuko-san was stunned when the dog ran away and tried desperately to find it, but when she could not find it, she became frustrated and started to show her anger by questioning the staff and assuming that an old man who had nothing to do with the dog had stolen it. As a result, Yasuko-san, who had a strong image of a “good person,” came under fire on the Internet for “showing her true colors. However, considering the content of the surprise, not a few people understood Yasuko-san’s impatience, and some questioned the appropriateness of the program’s planning. A TV station official said, “Compliance is becoming stricter and stricter, but just because there have been accidents and disturbances, it does not mean that ‘surprise’ itself is bad. It is a matter of adapting to the trends of the times and adjusting planning and safety management standards. Wednesday’s Downtown” (TBS), which often deals with surprises, has caused some ripples, but it remains one of the most popular shows in the industry. In this respect, “Dokkiri GP” is a show that causes uproar so frequently and over such a short period of time that viewers may think that the show has not shown much remorse.
