Nobody watched this show in the West. That's the entire point. Eagle Talon is a Japanese comedy institution that spent years perfecting the art of sketch-show absurdity on public television, building a fanbase so loyal they could sustain 38 episodes of the same joke: a supervillain organization so famous it stopped being secret, so competent it keeps failing anyway. The comedy doesn't reinvent itself, it lives inside that one perfect premise and finds a thousand ways to exhaust it, each one funnier than it should be because the timing and the cast refuse to let it die.

A secret organization plotting world domination has a problem: it is no longer secret. Eagle Talon, headquartered in Kojimachi, Tokyo, has become famous, recognized by nearly every household in Japan after its prime-time broadcast on NHK. The result is a short-format comedy about villains whose cover is thoroughly blown.