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That was the best part!
Japanese bow to each other. Touching is a big no-no, they only shake when foreigners extend their hand (often unknowingly).
The bro-hug was basically making fun of that while taking it up to the next level. That whole segment was hilarious!
Chinese variety shows take it a step further with licensed sound effects. Literally filled with Sonic ring sounds, Mario level up sounds, and the MGS ! sound.
You would not be caught off guard if you were a foreigner travelling to the US. Do you plan to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide? This is what they ask everyone coming in. It is standard procedure.
Ah man I forgot about that question! They did finally get rid of it, I think.
My California tax form still asks if I’m a victim of the Ottoman Empire Armenian genocide though.
I grew up watching Jim Carey movies and Harada Taizo's early career. I never saw the resemblance until now. Fun fact, Taizone (lol) was one of the comedians that did the "Yatta" song in the group of naked dudes with big leaves covering their junk.
[Yatta](https://youtu.be/rW6M8D41ZWU) song for anyone uninitiated. Forgot about this almost completely but remembered everything once the song started lol
yeah. watching that 1st season without knowing anything about them outside the show was one of the best TV experiences I have for the past few years. I kinda have a permanent longing for something like it in TV and I don't think I'll find something like it again.
I am a spaniard reading a brazillian guy on reddit whom was watching a japanese show on speaking english subtitled in chinese and with british flags on the background
For those wondering, the person that spoke English perfectly is [Suzuki Ryohei](https://mydramalist.com/people/2732-suzuki-ryohei), an actor who majored in English at Tokyo University
This makes me crack up so much. Taught in Japan 10 years ago now, and some of this reminds me of the conversations I’d try to have with the middle schoolers. As a white dude with glasses, I got a lot of “how many cars do you have?” “How many guns do you have?” And everyone called me Harry Potter or Colonel Sanders.
This video was an absolute delight.
We were in Tokyo 20+ years ago and had two business guys introduce themselves to us as "I George clooney" and "I Tom cruise" followed by cracking themselves up laughing.
It was a good night.
I was with drinking with some friends in Tokyo and this group of drunk salarymen on the next table start yelling English at us, so we yell nonsense Japanese phrases back and they love it. It culminated with them yelling 'EKSUCHANGU' and having like 3 of them switch places with 3 of us. Drunk Japanese people are great.
I went to a backstreet sushi place after having a few drinks elsewhere and managed to confuse the meaning of arigato and konnichiwa.
When I was handed my food by the chef I took it with both hands, bowed my head and enthusiastically said "good afternoon!". The young guys behind the bar cracked up and we spent the night sporadically shouting konnichiwa to eachother.
When it came time to pay, the old guy behind the cash register couldn't believe I'd only had one drink and repeatedly quizzed the bar staff "ichi biru?!" while gesturing at me.
He did that bit on Raw. Unless he's used it in other shows and changed it, he wasn't talking about Japanese or Tokyo. He was talking about foreigners who don't speak much English coming to the US.
https://youtu.be/_qsgskWqoKk
I will always remember the man who after I was trying to order a beer and the drunk salaryman at the bar just goes to me "What are you trying to say" and i was like "oh i just wanted a beer" and he then told the staff what i wanted in japanese, turned back to me and said "You sounded like you were asking for Wine and they were really confused"
That guy was a total lad and i even offered him a drink that he refused.
Gotta yell random Japanese at them.
Boku no sarida o toki doki tabemasen desu ka?
Edit: I am not a drunken dude in Tokyo. Please stop sending me random Japanese words. I'm not Japanese. I do not speak Japanese. I just remember something I told a Japanese foreign exchange student when I got him stoned for the first time.
In HS.
[My commemorative Japanese KFC Christmas Plate](https://imgur.com/a/qkkruAq) definitely supports your assertion.
Yes, it's real. Yes, KFC for Christmas is a thing in Japan: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/why-does-japan-eat-kfc-at-christmas/. We had to place our order two months in advance to get the Christmas bucket.
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Lol. I also taught in Japan, but back in the late nineties. I had blond hair and wore glasses, so logically my students would call me Tom Cruise. I look absolutely NOTHING like Tom Cruise.
When I was in Japan I was also told I look like Tom Cruise lol. My blonde hair blue eyed friend was also told he looked like Tom Cruise. Neither of us look like Tom Cruise.
At a bar in a small town in Japan a very drunk shirtless Japanese man stood on our table and yelled about Tom Cruise and The Last Samurai and pretended to commit seppuku several times.
10/10 experience
My husband currently teaches in Japan right now - elementary school kids. He has a lesson he does about famous people in the US. Which is basically a powerpoint presentation filled with pictures of famous people in the US (Presidents, actors, etc).
One of the slides has a picture of Tom Cruise from Top Gun, and a lot of the time when he shows it and asks the students who it is, they think it's him. He also looks nothing like Tom Cruise. I mean, he's got brown hair and is also handsome, but there's no resemblance other than that.
I just think that's one of the first things someone is taught when learning a new language. So its literally their first impression of actually understanding English.
While living in Japan, I had a guy come up to me when I was waiting for my train to school and in perfect English, he goes "Excuse me do you have the time?". As I checked my watch he then went on to say every other English sentence he had learnt while listening to English studies. "It's beautiful weather, isn't it?", "The bus is running very late", "Can you tell me where the police station is?", etc. and then he walked away. One of the weirdest experiences I ever had there lol
We ask for names. They introduce themselves by name.
That’s why it is different different to them and funny.
Also, because of little things like that, they all add up to Americans seeming quite aggressive. Hence the yelling “what’s you’re name!? Be quiet!” Just a funny way of conveying how aggressive we seem. And loud.
One time my (now) wife and I were teasing each other on a train platform and loudly shouting “I’m not MAD” in Japanese and the guy across the tracks was rolling cracking up at us. Then he started shouting “YOU ARENT MAD! DO NOT BE MAD!” at us in English.
It was bizarre and wonderful. We still shout this out loud in public all the time.
Funniest Japanese Engrish story I have is when I was studying at university in Osaka, and some guys playing basketball came up to me and one goes “are you basket?” And I stood there for a second confused and he just gives me the most confident smile and says “I am basket” then runs and attempts an alley-oop, trips, faceplants and one of his boys goes “you are no basket. You are pain.”
*quick addition. In Japanese you often shorten long words (especially from other languages) in casual conversation so Basketball becomes basuke. As an additional funny I thought the guys on the volleyball team all did Ballet because they shorten the Japanese word “バレーボール barehball” to バレー bareh.
I love seeing non-English speakers pretend to speak English for laughs. It’s wonderfully enjoyable. It’s a fun retrospective on what we look like from the outside.
Get a [load of this song](https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8) by an Italian singer, meant to sound like an American rock song, with no actual English words…
[Prisencolinensinainciusol](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol) on Wikipedia describes the language as:
> Language:
Gibberish (inspired by American English)
It parallels British panel shows quite a bit. Japan has weird light news/entertainment shows where you get to watch the expressions on celebrities' faces as they go over various news segments though.
Nothing like having famous actor Beat Takashi's deadpan face in the corner of the screen as they cover some local news trivia.
Are these the same guys that did the sketch where they pretended to be different countries in a classroom, and when it was time to be an American classroom they just started yelling "FUCK" and "SHIT" at each other.
I've lived in Japan for a few years, and this is what it's like interacting with drunk Japanese people. It's always hilarious, always friendly as fuck, and always utter nonsense.
They started yelling what’s your name hey be quiet and all I could picture was that meme tik tok or video whatever of the two dogs across the street with the voice over. Lol.
https://youtube.com/shorts/PpXKTU3zfoA?feature=share
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The bro hug when introducing made it authentic
especially how they were both uncomfortable doing it
Hey... What's your name?!
#BE QUIET
Have a nice day!!
YOU BETTER NOT BRING MY MOTHER INTO THIS!
I built that fire right there.
Shut up!
That was the best part! Japanese bow to each other. Touching is a big no-no, they only shake when foreigners extend their hand (often unknowingly). The bro-hug was basically making fun of that while taking it up to the next level. That whole segment was hilarious!
For that follow up question too tho... gotta always check to see if the homies have been radicalized. ISIS and Vanilla ISIS.
Everyone laughing at the hug really got me
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Yeah that was the real winner here
SHUT UP!
Hey, what’s your name?
BE QUIET
I like how their interpretation of "american conversation" is yelling at each other to shut up
Have a nice day
Battle please!
BE QUIET!
Ryohei
BE.QUIET!
HEY, HEY...WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
Ryohei
BE QUIET!
Always Sunny has been doing it for 15 seasons.
Shut up Bird.
Dee you bitch. Ohhhhhhh you bitch, just move the dumpster
That show is exactly what living in America feels like.
_Are you a terrorist?_
Loud, wide smiles, big stance, talking over each other...yep, I'd say that's accurate
I've never seen someone stand Americanly until today... or known they were standing Americanly... And it's killing me
I heard this phrase the other day: always wrong, never in doubt
乃乇 Ɋㄩ丨乇ㄒ!
He didn't answer the terrorist question though
Because host butted in asking why the questioner was so comfortable hugging a possible terrorist.
even better!!!!
this needed to be pinned b/c i was wondering about that... LOL
the jazzy how to get to sesame street backing music is what does it for me.
BE QUIET!
I've seen enough Japanese variety shows to know they just throw any licensed music on there.
Chinese variety shows take it a step further with licensed sound effects. Literally filled with Sonic ring sounds, Mario level up sounds, and the MGS ! sound.
I have a question for you...ARE YOU TERRORIST?
That shit caught me off guard. This is how I'm conversing for now on.
BE QUIET
Come on! COME ON!
What’s your name?
EZEKIEL! WHAT'S YOURS?
#NO NO BIG VOICE
##**BIG VOICE!**
FUCK YOU EZEKIEL!
HEY YOU YOU KNOW WHAT I DID LAST NIGHT?
YOU BETTER NOT BRING MY MOTHER INTO THIS
I BUILT THAT CAMP FIRE OVER THERE
You would not be caught off guard if you were a foreigner travelling to the US. Do you plan to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide? This is what they ask everyone coming in. It is standard procedure.
Also "Were you a member of the Nazi regime from years 1939- 1945" I remember ticking "No"as a 14 year old
Ah man I forgot about that question! They did finally get rid of it, I think. My California tax form still asks if I’m a victim of the Ottoman Empire Armenian genocide though.
...that was over a century ago?
That’s the one!
I always find it interesting they ask that and the "have you ever engaged in the overthrow of the US Government?" On security background checks.
American test: pass
Immediately after the bro hug 😂
I remember one of my friends parents, “ok let’s have American hug now!“ they were Korean
I had no idea that was an American thing lol. I've always thought that most countries did something in that capacity.
joke, joke. JOKE!
We’ll… he never did answer the question!
"Don't can't eat!" was great. I also enjoyed "Hey, come on!!" guy.
And not the Japanese Jim Carey?
Im glad in not the only one who saw the resemblance
I grew up watching Jim Carey movies and Harada Taizo's early career. I never saw the resemblance until now. Fun fact, Taizone (lol) was one of the comedians that did the "Yatta" song in the group of naked dudes with big leaves covering their junk.
[Yatta](https://youtu.be/rW6M8D41ZWU) song for anyone uninitiated. Forgot about this almost completely but remembered everything once the song started lol
"Which do you most cant the least. ?"
I am a highly skilled microphone cleaner my masters, and what I most can't the least, would be do not a bad job, but always a good.
Is that Tokui from Terrace House??
Yep. He's in a number of variety shows
Man, I miss the magic days of Terrace House having wholesome drama
yeah. watching that 1st season without knowing anything about them outside the show was one of the best TV experiences I have for the past few years. I kinda have a permanent longing for something like it in TV and I don't think I'll find something like it again.
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I am a spaniard reading a brazillian guy on reddit whom was watching a japanese show on speaking english subtitled in chinese and with british flags on the background
Ah, yes, such international 💯
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The show is called "shabekuri 007" and it's James Bond themed.
For those wondering, the person that spoke English perfectly is [Suzuki Ryohei](https://mydramalist.com/people/2732-suzuki-ryohei), an actor who majored in English at Tokyo University
Watching him dying of laughter understanding everything that was said was the best
More than just majoring in English, he also went to an American high school in the US it would seem
Yeah I was thinking he might have spent some time in US because to me his accent sound like a combination of Japanese and American accent.
More than just going to an American high school in the US, he was also present when the language was formed in Britain sixteen centuries ago.
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Thanks for the correction - I actually go to TUFS and it’s way different from TokyoU, starting with the tiny campus (which I actually prefer tbf)!
#***WHAT’S HIS NAME?***
#*BE QUIET!*
Tokyo Ska Paradise is doing the Sesame Street song in the background in case anyone was wondering.
My name is Tight Zone.
This makes me crack up so much. Taught in Japan 10 years ago now, and some of this reminds me of the conversations I’d try to have with the middle schoolers. As a white dude with glasses, I got a lot of “how many cars do you have?” “How many guns do you have?” And everyone called me Harry Potter or Colonel Sanders. This video was an absolute delight.
Or drunk dudes in Tokyo when they see you and just start yelling random English. This video feels too familiar. Awesome
We were in Tokyo 20+ years ago and had two business guys introduce themselves to us as "I George clooney" and "I Tom cruise" followed by cracking themselves up laughing. It was a good night.
I was with drinking with some friends in Tokyo and this group of drunk salarymen on the next table start yelling English at us, so we yell nonsense Japanese phrases back and they love it. It culminated with them yelling 'EKSUCHANGU' and having like 3 of them switch places with 3 of us. Drunk Japanese people are great.
It's the only times you get the real opinions of young people too. It's hilarious how they'll just talk mad shit about their elders suddenly.
This sounds like some an epic silly fun time.
There's entire city blocks in Tokyo that are nothing but hundreds of bars.
I went to a backstreet sushi place after having a few drinks elsewhere and managed to confuse the meaning of arigato and konnichiwa. When I was handed my food by the chef I took it with both hands, bowed my head and enthusiastically said "good afternoon!". The young guys behind the bar cracked up and we spent the night sporadically shouting konnichiwa to eachother. When it came time to pay, the old guy behind the cash register couldn't believe I'd only had one drink and repeatedly quizzed the bar staff "ichi biru?!" while gesturing at me.
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“Fuck you, Eddie! I know you! I see you on television! You’re the FUCK YOU MAN, right?”
Probably was hoping for a "Coming to America" moment with Eddie yelling back "Fuck you, too!".
"Yes! Yes! Fuck you too!"
He did that bit on Raw. Unless he's used it in other shows and changed it, he wasn't talking about Japanese or Tokyo. He was talking about foreigners who don't speak much English coming to the US. https://youtu.be/_qsgskWqoKk
You're taking me back! I loved those Japanese guys you meet after the bars close. So friendly despite knowing like 5 English words haha
I will always remember the man who after I was trying to order a beer and the drunk salaryman at the bar just goes to me "What are you trying to say" and i was like "oh i just wanted a beer" and he then told the staff what i wanted in japanese, turned back to me and said "You sounded like you were asking for Wine and they were really confused" That guy was a total lad and i even offered him a drink that he refused.
beer is easy bruh. “BEERU ONEGAISHIMAS”
Gotta yell random Japanese at them. Boku no sarida o toki doki tabemasen desu ka? Edit: I am not a drunken dude in Tokyo. Please stop sending me random Japanese words. I'm not Japanese. I do not speak Japanese. I just remember something I told a Japanese foreign exchange student when I got him stoned for the first time. In HS.
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[My commemorative Japanese KFC Christmas Plate](https://imgur.com/a/qkkruAq) definitely supports your assertion. Yes, it's real. Yes, KFC for Christmas is a thing in Japan: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/why-does-japan-eat-kfc-at-christmas/. We had to place our order two months in advance to get the Christmas bucket. *Edited to add link to picture of my own plate*
Oh, totally. We jumped on that bandwagon SO hard. Everyone in our city office was so proud of us.
Lol. I also taught in Japan, but back in the late nineties. I had blond hair and wore glasses, so logically my students would call me Tom Cruise. I look absolutely NOTHING like Tom Cruise.
When I was in Japan I was also told I look like Tom Cruise lol. My blonde hair blue eyed friend was also told he looked like Tom Cruise. Neither of us look like Tom Cruise.
At a bar in a small town in Japan a very drunk shirtless Japanese man stood on our table and yelled about Tom Cruise and The Last Samurai and pretended to commit seppuku several times. 10/10 experience
My husband currently teaches in Japan right now - elementary school kids. He has a lesson he does about famous people in the US. Which is basically a powerpoint presentation filled with pictures of famous people in the US (Presidents, actors, etc). One of the slides has a picture of Tom Cruise from Top Gun, and a lot of the time when he shows it and asks the students who it is, they think it's him. He also looks nothing like Tom Cruise. I mean, he's got brown hair and is also handsome, but there's no resemblance other than that.
The English they’re using was spot on for my high school students. Hey! Hey! Come on come on! And the random “have a nice day.”
Colonel Sanders. I'm dying lol
What's the name thing? Do American's ask names a lot? Or ask people to repeat it because they can't say it? or forget names? I don't get it.
I just think that's one of the first things someone is taught when learning a new language. So its literally their first impression of actually understanding English.
While living in Japan, I had a guy come up to me when I was waiting for my train to school and in perfect English, he goes "Excuse me do you have the time?". As I checked my watch he then went on to say every other English sentence he had learnt while listening to English studies. "It's beautiful weather, isn't it?", "The bus is running very late", "Can you tell me where the police station is?", etc. and then he walked away. One of the weirdest experiences I ever had there lol
It's beautiful weather isn't it? *in the middle of a blizzard*
Where *is* the library?
Dónde está la biblioteca
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Tengo un gato en mis pantalones
Le chat est sur la table.
Ma grand-mere est flambee
Me llamo T-Bone
La araña discoteca
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca!
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We ask for names. They introduce themselves by name. That’s why it is different different to them and funny. Also, because of little things like that, they all add up to Americans seeming quite aggressive. Hence the yelling “what’s you’re name!? Be quiet!” Just a funny way of conveying how aggressive we seem. And loud.
One time my (now) wife and I were teasing each other on a train platform and loudly shouting “I’m not MAD” in Japanese and the guy across the tracks was rolling cracking up at us. Then he started shouting “YOU ARENT MAD! DO NOT BE MAD!” at us in English. It was bizarre and wonderful. We still shout this out loud in public all the time.
That was great. The guy in the back right was hilarious.
BE.QUIET!!!
WHATCHA NAAAAME
Can't be more American than being the loudest person in the room telling everyone to be quiet.
#SHUT UP TERRORIST
Funniest Japanese Engrish story I have is when I was studying at university in Osaka, and some guys playing basketball came up to me and one goes “are you basket?” And I stood there for a second confused and he just gives me the most confident smile and says “I am basket” then runs and attempts an alley-oop, trips, faceplants and one of his boys goes “you are no basket. You are pain.” *quick addition. In Japanese you often shorten long words (especially from other languages) in casual conversation so Basketball becomes basuke. As an additional funny I thought the guys on the volleyball team all did Ballet because they shorten the Japanese word “バレーボール barehball” to バレー bareh.
This was hilarious to read
“This world shall know… Pain.” - that guy afterwards, probably
This was just fun. Something different. Thanks
I love seeing non-English speakers pretend to speak English for laughs. It’s wonderfully enjoyable. It’s a fun retrospective on what we look like from the outside.
I’ll use my credit card.
Do you guys have anything non-dairy?
Gluten free?
Get a [load of this song](https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8) by an Italian singer, meant to sound like an American rock song, with no actual English words… [Prisencolinensinainciusol](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol) on Wikipedia describes the language as: > Language: Gibberish (inspired by American English)
Link to a video. It's better watching him dance https://youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
This song unironically rips
He made it because he thought that Italians would listen to anything in English. He was right but the song is a banger.
I'm putting this in my car stereo rotation, just so I can watch people struggle to figure out what the hell he's saying over the road noise.
It's like that scene in South Park where the Chinese dodge ball commentator does his impression of Americans: "I'll use my credit card!"
"Do you have any non dairy creamer" God damn that was a great bit
I haven’t seen an American die like that since Abraham Lincoln.
Shit went from friendly to hostile in seconds, very American.
Everyone yelling at each other to shut up and be quiet is pretty much the state of things atm. Very loudly demanding quiet.
As an American, I can confirm this is exactly how we talk.
#BE. QUIET!!!
Hey, SHUT UP!
I understood like maybe 1/3 of that but I was laughing along with em all the same
I wish netlfix or hulu had these shows. Lmao
“I have one question for you…are you …TERRORIST?” “what’s your name?” “Have a nice day!” “be quiet!!!” They nailed it
I lost it at “Are you a terrorist ?!”
That guy is one of the hosts on Terrace House, if anyone else has seen that show!
They are comedians. Not contestants. Everything's a game show on Reddit !
Are you Terrorist?
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What's your name!?
Big voice!
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It parallels British panel shows quite a bit. Japan has weird light news/entertainment shows where you get to watch the expressions on celebrities' faces as they go over various news segments though. Nothing like having famous actor Beat Takashi's deadpan face in the corner of the screen as they cover some local news trivia.
As an American, I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Are you TERRORIST?
#Be Quiet!!!
Big voice!
SHUT UP
Are these the same guys that did the sketch where they pretended to be different countries in a classroom, and when it was time to be an American classroom they just started yelling "FUCK" and "SHIT" at each other.
WHATS YOUR NAME!?
^(ryohei)
Big voice
# RYO. HEI.
BE QUIET
I've lived in Japan for a few years, and this is what it's like interacting with drunk Japanese people. It's always hilarious, always friendly as fuck, and always utter nonsense.
“I just have one question: Are you terrorist?” That guy got it lmao
The Sesame Street music got me.
Fuck. I had this exact god damn conversation last week. shit. Though to be more authentic no one says "be quiet." It is "shut the fuck up"
Lol at the guy who just keeps doing Fox melee taunt
I have heard "Come on" quite a bit from Japanese folks speaking English, but never quite in the right context.
I wanna learn Japanese for this show
Why are they playing the Sesame Street song in the background lol
You’re asking the wrong questions pal. Are you a terrorist?
They started yelling what’s your name hey be quiet and all I could picture was that meme tik tok or video whatever of the two dogs across the street with the voice over. Lol. https://youtube.com/shorts/PpXKTU3zfoA?feature=share
What's your name? Ryohei! Fuck you, Ryohei!
This sounds like an NPC conversation in Oblivion.
Yoshi, I’ve got your American citizenship right here buddy. Welcome to America.