Louis & Gene's Polite Fight - Fresh Off The Boat 

True. My sister and I have gone through this many times with my grandparents. But we ended up giving in.

The first time I tried to take the tab I lost to my grandma because the waiter deferred to her as the "most senior". Then my mom said to me "your reflexes are slower than your 80 year old grandma".

while you still keep your pocket wide open

For my high school graduation, my uncle gave me 500 dollars, but my mom took 400 and snuck it back to my aunt's purse :(

Oh my God! I am Indian and that happens to me all the time.

@Lewis 970 or vis versa

Oooh Watchasay I think there Korean in real life search it that way

KIM TAEHYUNG IS ANIME LOOKING KING PERIOD he meant the characters, since Taiwan is apparently where the characters from the show were supposed to come from prior to coming to the States. Tbf, Taiwanese are still Chinese. They just don’t like to be called that due to political reasons.

@Lewis 970 Completely not the same. Koreans were not Chinese.

Lewis 970 but a lot of British and Australians managed to convincingly play Americans in movies and tv shows. With that much Anglo-Saxon influence in the US, it’s not that hard to have someone from Britain to play an American. The problem with Asian-Americans is that not many of them are going into the arts. Most go to more practical careers like STEM, medicine, or finance. Most good Chinese actors came from China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong; all of which may have a hard time to sell a convincing Asian-American accent. Finding a good Asian-American actor, let alone a good Chinese-American, is hard. Then again, most people can’t differentiate between a Chinese, a Japanese, and a Korean anyway. I’ve been called either Japanese or Korean in the States even though I’m definitely Chinese!

Yeah my dad once sprinted after his friend before he can pay the bill for the lunch xD

Although usually it's over paying the bill.

I've seen people almost break out into multi-way wrestling fights fighting over who gets to pay the bill at a restaurant.

I can confirm that. My mom wants to pay her friend for something and her friend wouldn't accept it. They were at each other's throats and it escalated for a good minute or two until they reached the door and that friend pushed my mom to the sofa and ran out of the house without taking any money in the end, leaving me gobsmacked. It's like watching WWE of two women.

lol ikr same thing happens in korea. especially when it comes to adults.

The show did a good job of playing with the viewers minds on that, too. They teased us about who his wife would be, keeping us in suspense for a couple episodes. We kept waiting for the switcheroo, to find out he's married to a blow up doll, cat or something. Subtle, but good writing by the show.

I mean, he wasn't always insane on Community. He was strange in the first season, but I'd say he was still sane. He only really became insane second season and later.

ikr it feels weird

Same but Vietnamese

except taiwanese would never call themselves chinese that bit is always so awkward to watch

What do you mean, James Tu? The guy this show is based on, Eddie Huang, considers himself Chinese and Taiwanese. A lot of overseas Taiwanese have no problem identifying with the Chinese diaspora..

koreans aren't as bad, but we are up there with the polite fight

I hate the polite fight. It always so exhausting. I prefer American style (50% 50%). We actually have to sneak out during dinner just to pay the bill first and feel guilty if you don't.

I think that means your dad and your uncle's relationship is not really close. My family only does that to distant relatives or business friends.

No not at all. They don't have any beef between each other in regards to family etc. I think its just something they do for the fun of it (or clashing over who has the most kindness)

omg family dinner bills are so intense

If either wont succumb to the other, why can't they just split the bill huh?

The rule of thumb is to pay before your opponent realizes it. I.e. casually go to the toilet right before the meal is done, when in actuality, you went to pay for the bill.

For us its the adults fighting about that so to avoid it, one of the adults just gives the last piece of food to a child

Wait, I've been eating the last because I was taught that if people refuse after 3 times, you can take/eat it. I didn't know that it means I'm the rudest! Now I'm thinking about the past meals with my friends.

Id rather be rude than hungry

Or who's gonna pay

yea politeness sometimes starts the fight in my family. Just this thanksgiving my uncle and my dad had a fight cause they were fighting who should cook the turkey since my aunt who usually makes it was busy. We were hosting so my uncle offered but my father said hostess should cook the main dish. We go to different houses every holiday before and my aunt always bring the turkey cause she makes it better. they fought and it became more about politeness. That its more polite to bring the turkey or its more polite for hostess to make it blah blah blah. Will in the end no one provided the turkey and they fought and had a fist fight. Everyone went home. And 3 days ago during Christmas they both brought a turkey to my aunts party - the one who usually makes the turkey. So we had 3 turkeys this Christmas. Everyone laughed about it but still my uncle and my dad are unable to laugh about it yet. They past at each other at the corner of the hallway and try not to look at each other and walk sideways. They even try to avoid when groups are formed to talk. Its funny.

i just sneak away and pretend to use the restroom and just go to the cashier and pay before anyone has a chance!

@@akui88 Hahahaa!

But did you get to keep the money?

@@bosempuchane5631 obviously no

Um where did you find this narration of my indian family at dinner last week

@@pdaniels6606 LOOOL IM TEARING UP FROM THIS... WE NEED AN INDIAN OR MIDDLE EASTERN COMEDIC SHOW ALREADY !!

That should be scripted here already. Highlights of my younger years. Especially when they are resorted to paying by cash and not card and they run around putting the money back in each others designated pockets. Ahm Hello!! they are exactly the same amount in each others pockets. Yea hilarious being Chinese walking around reaching for pockets. So glad I'm in my mid 20s and whenever we eat out with my older relatives or with me being the oldest of my cousins and siblings. My father and mother always say when the bill comes. "Yea. She will pay. She has more money and no husband." Its is a hurtful joke but at least they all agree in one thing. I will be a spinster!! lol.

@@caterain424 "she has more money and no hisband" sounds more like a flex. Like look at our daughter, she is hardworking and can proved for herself without relying on a husband!

Yes, I will vouch for this as a Japanese-American too.

george takahashi True in India and I think rest of south Asia too.

we're the politest :)

nice shape u got there. so darn sexy

pakistanis too xD

That’s the timing where my mother gets my older sister to secretly pay off the bills before anyone notices

Uh. Which Indians? Lol. My fam-bam all Indians ( and literally all except my immediate family live in India) and we don't do this (although relatives like to discretely sneak money to the kids before they leave after visiting).

SO True! this literally happens all the time not just with my family, but with all my friends and their families too!

Fresh Towels you had to bring indian in this too 😒

Yep... but I give in early.. I mean why not?

I'm Arab and it's the same way here

That is so funny

Go ahead No you go first No you Oh I insist you go first No U I SAID I INSIST YOU GO FIRST! But I'm the one holding the door!!!

A classic polite fight move! Similar to how one sneaks off to "use the bathroom" partway through the meal to settle the bill in advance.

@@floraleia I'm dead this is so true XD

Coco TT I´m a panfish born chinese and my parents do this with their friends everytime lol 😂

That is hella petty. Wonder why they couldn't just settle it by splitting it in half?

That's strange to me, as I understand most of the jokes and love the show (I'm white). I'm not especially well-educated in culture either. But I do agree it is underrated if you mean that not a lot of people watch it, although I didn't know that was the case. One of the funniest comedy and by far the best Sitcom, which I find usually is so predictable it's not even funny.

I guess that depends on the person. I know a white family who has a more collectivistic value and does this occasionally. But very few.

Eddie is just trying too hard to be American

I don't think it's just white people lmao. I have friends that are not white and they don't get this kind of humor.

Maria Shutter well Eddie is based on Eddie Huang, a real-life person. He actually talks like that if you look for his interviews online.

笑死了，哈

Bruh

Rodriguez... Hmmm. That's not chinese missy.

0.3 0.2 might be a filipina

MasterOfDevilsFruits his name is eddie lol

I watched this show as a Mexican. This was one of the most hilarious things I have seen. There is nothing polite in a Mexican fight.

Jagan Joseph He was explaining it to the youngest boy who didn’t get that they were fighting, not the grandma.

Ron Ong They're both Korean lol