Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!: Season 28

A Hamada Bamyu Bamyu special summarizing how the persona was created and the things that happened afterwards.

The gang being shown a VTR that was cut from the no-laughing batsu, taken of Endo and some strange behavior he was showing when recording for a different show.

This week is the 100 Questions segment and the guest for this week is actor Saito Takumi, who made his big break a couple of years ago and is now starring in the new drama airing before Gaki no Tsukai this week.

We finish off last week's 100 Questions segment with Saito Takumi and as always there is a reward from the guest at the end for the victor.

The annual New Year's Party episode is up, as well as the annual Yama-1 Grand Prix, the 10th edition this year. Who will impress the most?

The first Costume Talk for the year features the gang discussing their families' reactions while they watched the recent No Laughing special together, some apparent fortunetelling predicting many things for the gang in 2016, including that Hosei will return to competing in 'that famous battle' and a discussion on the future of Hamada Bamyu Bamyu.

The third in the 24 hour long interview series (previously done by Hosei and Drunk Dragon's Suzuki), this week features one of the favorites of Gaki and former cast member Jimmy Onishi. Always a staple of the No Laughing series, Jimmy has been making more frequent appearances on regular TV, including a guest spot on Suiyoubi no Downtown last year. Having graduated from the show in February of 1996 to pursue his painting career, this marks the first time in 20 years since he last appeared on a we

Continuing on from last week, we see the second half of Jimmy Onishi's 24 hour interview.

Endo's Mori Shinichi character makes a return, this time being the big act at a hotel's dinner show the others are 'invited to'.

This week features no new content; instead the staff are throwing together a 'best of' package of the Strolling to Meet Celebs series.

The 'I Think You Like This Item' series makes its first appearance for 2016. The guest this week is Nakamura Tamao, a veteran actress who mostly interacts with Downtown through their Downtown DX show, where she is often teased for telling ridiculously long stories about her personal life.

This week involves the guys trying to come up with their own renditions of traditional Japanese dancing, despite not having experience in it. They will have to do their own makeup and learn the choreography by themselves.

The 'battle' between these two producers is the theme of this week's episode. As was the case with the previous two installments, the duo compete in random contests and the members act as judges.

The guys dress up as famous singers and 'sing'/lip sync some of their most known songs.

This week the guys split off to various places around Tokyo without their phones. All five members are shown a theme and are challenged to think about what place or object they would associate with that theme. They must then be able to meet up with the other members of the gang at the same places. Until all five are together at the same place, the challenge does not end.

Continuation from last week's episode, where we finish up the challenge with the gang.

A concept proposed by Tanaka for this week's episode. Each member draws two cards randomly from a batch that has a word on it each (for example, maybe a story involving the word 'ghoul' and 'faceless') and from there, they must improvise a scary ghost story using those two words as the theme/basis.

A return of the Kartua competition for this week, with the guest being writer/author Hada Keisuke, who won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for rookie writers together with comedian Matayoshi Naoki of the duo Peace.

We have a special episode to commemorate Hamada's 53rd birthday party with a twist. Keen observers of Gaki will note that Hamada tends to throw around the phrase 'ふざけんなよ' quite commonly whenever someone does a dumb/stupid thing; the phrase roughly translates to 'Don't screw around/be silly'. Well this episode will test the limits of how many times he will say it, with the theme of the episode being the gang and some guests bringing in an assortment of silly presents in an attempt to make him utt

The 39th installment of the Kiki series is tomato juice. Once again, the number of choices has been reduced from 12 to 10 for this week. Wonder how Hamada will go, given he has expressed a dislike of tomato before...

Another edition of Strolling to Meet Celebrities, this time in Shimokitazawa, located in Setagaya, Tokyo.

The legendary Silent Library series makes a return this week, 8 years after the fifth installment with movie director Mitani Koki. This time, actor and friend of Downtown Azuma Mikihisa is the guest participant.

This week concludes the 6th edition of Silent Library.

A spinoff of the Sudden Japanese Dance Competition. This week features 5 more contemporary dances in samba, flamenco, awa odori, take no kozoku and tari dance. Each member gets one and has to do as best as he can.

This week marks the 2nd edition of GOTTSUAN, the sumo wrestling tournament where managers from different entertainment agencies do battle. Gaki's own Fujiwara is once again competing.

This week concludes the 2nd GOTTSUAN tournament. Looks like Fujiwara is once again allowed a saloon passage through to the final battle. Who will he fight? Will he win? How many times do you think he will stutter through his introduction?

A new edition of Shichi Henge with the guest this week being comedian Kano Eiko, who made his first ever appearance on Gaki in the previous Manager Sumo tournament. Matsumoto mentions then that he would like to have Kano on Shichi Henge in the future so it seems like it has been approved.

This week features the 2nd Rendezvous Game.