Japanese TeeVee is still really odd

I just watched a show where four guys dressed up in bug uniforms tried to do a backflip on a bar. The bar started off being a meter high, and then with each successful flip, was lowered a couple of centimeters. It eventually got down to 25 cm and one of the guys actually managed to flip through it somehow. Whenever someone couldn't, though, a really weird lady in a bee costume would come out, eat something gross (like fermented soybeans or garlic), and breathe into the guy's nose through a tube while someone else held him down and covered his mouth.

Also, I tried fermented soybeans yesterday. They call it なっと(natto) over here, and I'm pretty sure you'll never find anything in western cuisine that will ever be more disgusting than this. This stuff makes the idea of eating cockroaches (thanks France!) seem brilliant. I seriously don't understand how anyone came up with this idea. The stuff looks like spider eggs with cobwebs still attached. I just don't see how someone would have come up with these things. Either someone just found some soybeans which had fermented and thought "Yes, I will eat those", which is a pretty disgusting thing to do. Or, someone actually thought up the idea of leaving soybeans alone until they had started leaking an extremely offensive substance, then pour some sauce on it and eat it up. I don't really know which is worse.

Pictures for those who really want them (you don't)
Normal and fermented soybeans for comparison
YUM See how the cobweb stuff sort of covers to the chopsticks? Yeah, I had to switch sticks after that to avoid puking because it was still on there and it got over all my other food.