LOS ANGELES — A grown man wearing a diaper is spun around until he can barely stand, then is made to try an obstacle course carrying pitchers of milk without spilling any. Another man, dressed like an insect, flings himself onto a giant-sized “windshield” with a giant-sized “splat.”

Is American television going crazy? No — American television is going Japanese.

With the increasing popularity of YouTube clips from Japanese game shows such as “Endurance,” “Hole in the Wall” and “Human Tetris,” U.S. networks — never shy about imitation — are bringing similar antics to their prime-time schedules.

On Tuesdays, ABC will air back-to-back episodes of “Wipeout” (8 p.m.) and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show” (9 p.m.), with a domestic edition of “Hole in the Wall” coming this fall on Fox.

“It’s going to be like nothing that American audiences have ever seen on network television,” says “I Survived” host Tony Sano.

Indeed, Americans, accustomed to such family-friendly game shows as “Jeopardy!,” “The Price is Right” and “Deal or No Deal” will likely find the new shows somewhat jolting. Then again, that’s the idea.

“There is a great desire to shock over there,” notes “Hole in the Wall” executive producer Stuart Krasnow. “Ironically, we’re more puritan over here. But the Japanese will shock to any extreme.”

Popular around the world, “Hole” pits contestants against solid walls coming at them with odd-shaped openings. They must mimic those shapes with their bodies to allow them to pass through the walls, lest they get knocked into a pool of water.

Physically challenging, for sure. But for sheer zaniness, “I Survived” executive producers Arthur Smith and Kent Weed have gone all-out weird.

“We watched hundreds of hours of Japanese shows and looked for all of the consistent themes,” says Smith, “whether it’s being dizzy, use of treadmills, falling into water. We took those elements and then designed new games around them,” with a little help from Japanese game show producers to make the stunts more … well, Japanese.

“I Survived” moves two teams of five unsuspecting American contestants — who, by the way, didn’t know they were going to Japan — into a house in Tokyo. The teams compete in bizarre games, with the winning crew in each round getting a “reward,” such as a VIP tour around Tokyo, while the losers suffer a “punishment,” such as having to haul rickshaws around Tokyo. They then vote their two worst teammates into an elimination game, such as “Splat On a Windshield.”

By now, you’re probably picking up that the most consistent themes in Japanese game shows are humiliation and embarrassment — sometimes to the point of sadistic — which oddly enough can serve as stress relief for conservative Japanese. “It’s one of the only avenues they have for release, where they can actually let go and not be conservative anymore,” notes Weed.

‘Wipeout’

‘I Survived a Japanese Game Show’

When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays

Where: ABC

When: 9 p.m. Tuesdays

Where: ABC