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During the live broadcast of TBS’s “All-Star Thanksgiving Festival ’26 Autumn,” gunshots suddenly rang out in the studio, kicking off a surprise segment: the popular “Detective Tsuda” corner from Wednesday Downtown. As host Kouji Imada called for someone to solve the case, a call came in from “Drum,” a character from the drama VIVANT, and a monitor lit up showing Masato Sakai as “Nogi” — who then nominated Tsuda, creating a two-layer crossover stunt. On 5ch’s Geinou/Sports News+ board, reactions split roughly down the middle between “I want to see this as its own standalone show” and confusion along the lines of “the in-jokes went so far I couldn’t tell what show I was watching.” The thread also veered into discussing the historical standings of the festival’s famous quiz championship.
10/10 (Sat) 23:25
TBS’s “All-Star Thanksgiving Festival ’26 Autumn: 70th Broadcast Anniversary Special” aired on the 10th. During the show, “Detective Tsuda,” the popular recurring segment from Wednesday Downtown, kicked off.
Near the end of the broadcast, gunshots suddenly rang out in the studio and one of the festival’s assistants collapsed. As MC Kouji Imada called out to the cast, “Hold on, everyone! We’ve got to solve this! Is there anyone here who can solve this case?”, a call came in from “Drum” of VIVANT, and a monitor lit up showing Masato Sakai as “Nogi.” After hearing Drum out, Nogi said, “That sounds serious. Normally I’d rush over myself, but… is there anyone there who might be able to solve it?” before declaring, “Let’s leave it to Mr. Tsuda! Everyone, please back him up!”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
He was really committed to the role, that was funny.
Getting dragged around like that must've hurt though.
Good evening, this is Hikaru Ijuin. (riffing on radio DJ Hikaru Ijuin's famous nightly greeting)
Maybe that's also why they called in the actual assistant (probably the 'victim') for the Thanksgiving quiz segment over on Lovit!
🏆 Overall Championship Recap
Autumn 2026: Ano (2nd–5th: Fukura P, Nakama, Kawashima, Soshina)
Spring 2026: Junta Nakama (2nd: Takushi Izawa)
Autumn 2025: Takushi Izawa (2nd: Soshina)
Spring 2025: Takushi Izawa (2nd: Kirin's Kawashima)
Autumn 2024: Takushi Izawa (3rd: Kirin's Kawashima)
Spring 2024: Soshina (5th: Takushi Izawa)
Autumn 2023: Soshina (2nd: Takushi Izawa)
Spring 2023: Kirin's Kawashima (Izawa and Soshina did not compete)
Autumn 2022: New York's Yashiki (5th: Kirin's Kawashima)
Spring 2022: Soshina (11th: Kirin's Kawashima)
Soshina and Kawashima are impressive too, always battling the Quiz King for the win — but Ano-chan taking the title as a woman is impressive as well.
Ano-chan:
Wins at quizzes
Athletic as hell
Way too stacked
Minamikawa was actually supposed to go to Taiwan for a different show, but Tsuda showed up at the after-party, turned the Taiwan trip into a quiz, and dragged him off anyway.
I want this as its own show already — two seasons a year.
Do need Minamikawa.
Seriously, same.
It's grating, just swap in Minamikawa already.
Glad I skipped it.
It's the clear #1 on TVer though. If anything's 'gone downhill,' it's the entire Japanese public.
You, maybe.
I haven't gone downhill though.
That skit I can't figure out the appeal of is apparently that popular…
Makes me realize my sense of humor is just out of sync with everyone else's (´･ω･`)
Even 'The Wall' wouldn't want to go up against Kohaku either.
Ariyoshi hosted Kohaku for three years — having him come back the next year to counter-program it would be a betrayal.
#TVer
https://tver.jp/episodes/epseq61inc
They only streamed that part.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
“Detective Tsuda” is a popular segment from Wednesday Downtown in which celebrities try to solve a staged mystery — a format familiar to viewers. This time, the bit was folded into the live variety special “All-Star Thanksgiving Festival,” with an added twist: a character from the separate drama VIVANT calls in over a monitor to Masato Sakai’s character “Nogi,” who in turn nominates Tsuda — a double-layered crossover that’s the real novelty here. The thread split between viewers who praised the segment as “entertaining enough to overshadow Wednesday Downtown itself” and those who criticized it as “so dependent on inside references that it’s meaningless if you don’t know the source material,” with both sides’ opinions hinging on how familiar they were with the original shows. Separately, though not covered in the article itself, the Thanksgiving Festival’s quiz competition has in recent years been dominated by regulars like Takushi Izawa and Soshina, so the fact that Ano-chan won this time was part of what fueled the discussion.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “‘All-Star Thanksgiving Festival’ Live Broadcast Shocker! ‘Detective Tsuda’ Kicks Off! VIVANT’s Masato Sakai Makes the Call — Drum Steps In as Partner.”
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