Things about Japanese TV

I believe there is a lot that can be learned by watching a country's television shows. Here are some things I have observed about TV in Japan:

• There is writing all over the place. Hardly anyone says anything that isn't accompanied by some sort of writing on the bottom of the screen. Or the side. Or in the middle.
• Everyone says "ehhhhhhhhhh~" a lot. A LOT.
• There is an ad with some some dude just making a mii on his Wii. It goes for like 30 seconds, and has been repeated several times. The Wii was released four years ago.
• There is a show where people (I assume celebrities?) do karaoke to the themes of famous animes.
  
• Almost all ads in Japan feature women. Most have both men and women in them, but there are almost no ads with only men in them. Many beer ads do not have men in them, which is totally weird coming from Australia. There is an ad for whisky which has a woman being all "whisky~!" and drinking it up, which surprised me quite a lot.
  
• Japanese people love watching shows about food. They seem to be far more interested in watching people eat food rather than cook food, too.
• News and current affairs shows here seem to rarely show graphics. If they want to show a graph or something, they print it out on a bit of paper, and then point at it with a stick. This is one of the weirdest things.
  
• Japanese TV has the worst production values I have ever seen. All TV shows fit into one of the following categories: shows where people make food, shows where celebrities eat food and other celebrities watch them; shows where one celebrity goes somewhere in Japan or somewhere else in the world and does something ridiculous, while other celebrities watch; soaps about samurai that look like they were made by a cable access channel; news and current affairs shows that point at charts with sticks; shows about animals; anime. For this reason I posit that Japanese TV networks are the most profitable companies on the face of the planet.
• In Japan they show advertisements for elevators in primetime television.

Classic Japan