Erika-chan on VS Arashi

Erika on the "Falling Pipe" Platform

While I wait for more subbed Episodes of Gegege No Nyobo to arrive, I dug up some of my older episodes of  the Arashi Game show VS ARASHI to wile away the time, and spent the day re-watching some of my favorite ones. By chance one of the episodes I viewed featured the cast of CODE BLUE who dropped in to participate in the "Falling Pipe" segment, and who should be the very first challenger but Erika Toda! Well, I just HAD to screencap her part because it was so funny and as you all know, Erika Toda is just the cutest thang!! 

Hmmm...Will she be alright? asks the Announcer.

The object of "Falling Pipe" is that the contestant stands in a cage of sorts with four poles surrounding them. At one point, two of the poles will drop multi-colored pipes down, and it's the guest's job to grab them as fast as possible before it can slip away! If you grab it at the very beginning of the pipe, you get a golden 100 points. If you're slower and grab further up, you get 50 points, and so on. Unfortunatley, you never know WHICH of the four poles will have the pipes, which the opponent has secretly chosen!

Nino limbers up for the challenge

Erika's first up to bat and is requesting that Nino take it easy on her, sweetly calling him  "oniichan" as if this might sway him into letting her breeze by, but Kazu has no mercy and sets up the pipes ready to win! Soon he's selected the secret poles and Erika tenses up for the pounce...

Which ones will the pipes fall from???!

Nino then begins to randomly ask her about various things to throw her concentration off, and when she least expects it, he releases the pipes!! SWOOSH! Down comes the pipes! And did she get one?

Gak! Here they come! 

YES!!! She managed to grab one of the pipes at the last moment! But looking at WHERE she grabbed, Erika is not so pleased at the low points she scored...a dismal 20 points...

20 Points? Is THAT ALL? Booooo!

And the look on her face as she sheepishly shuffles off the platform says it all! But she shouldn't have felt TOO bad... Later on , RYO did even WORSE!

Ehhhh...I sucked!

The only thing that could have made this episode better was if Aragaki Yui showed up, too, however, she was not among the six guest CODE BLUE actors that evening! Still, it was a very fun and entertaining one, and Erika-chan's still as cute as ever!

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