Wayne's World Characters Speaking Chinese Reaction 

I am shocked any of that was real Cantonese. In a 1990s comedy, there was very little focus on cultural accuracy or real languages, and people would just make stuff up about other countries to be funny. It's surprisingly admirable that they even tried in something like this.

The reason the Cantonese is different between clips is because the second is from Wayne’s world 2. I imagine they decided to not bother teaching Mike meyers the words the second time or they thought it’s be funnier to just speak gibberish

Wayne said, "Cream of some young guy." It's a play on English words. 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣

Watching two native Chinese trying to understand the old 'Cream of Some young guy'' joke is priceless. They are English words spoken with an accent to sound Chinese. It's also hilariously vulgar. Some Young Guy/ Sum Yung Gai.

The outtake at the end is so adorable. So is your confusion over the dirty joke in the last clip.

2:34 Tia Carrere is American. She is of Spanish, Chinese and Filipino ancestry.

11:43 “Cream of some young guy”… it is a sexual reference (all in English) that kind of sounds like it could be Chinese if said in the right way…

LOL You thought "Some Young Guy" was Chinese! 😂 That was hilarious watching you take that seriously! HAHAHA!!

i love how rob lowe has the best chinese out of everyone

Them not getting the 'cream of some young guy' joke was just adorable 😂😂

To further clarify the takeaway joke, which others already said is meant to be "some young guy", I imagine the spelling would've been "sum yung gai (or just guy)", which makes it look like actual canto at first glance. As a canto speaker, I could barely understand much of it myself, only a few words here and there. I think James Hong's canto isn't that bad, but you can definitely tell that he's not 100% fluent (like myself lol). His dad was Taishanese and immigrated from HK. I can usually understand him well enough. He probably spoke canto at home with his parents, but obviously didn't have the necessary exposure to get all the tones right.

remember, its an American comedy movie, so him trying to compliment her, but ends up saying something weird is normal for this style comedy.

So cute watching them try to figure out sum yung gai. I love the fact that Rob Lowe was way better at his lines, since that was the idea.

James Hong is speaking good Cantonese there. It's an old style pronunciation that are heard from an old generation. You can hear it in old time immigrants in North America or second generation Americans with Chinese parents.

Jessie - it doesn't matter how many times I watch your videos, I'm so impressed with your personality, your real desire to educate listeners in Mandarin and Cantonese and generally your lovely nature. I so love listening to Mandarin, even though I have little facility for language. And I particularly enjoy listening to you. Perhaps it is simply your voice. But when you speak Mandarin, it is like listening to poetry.

Even though her character says her Chinese is poor, I'd like to hear what you have to say about Awkwafina in The Farewell.

James Hong sounds like his native dialect is Taishanese and later learned Cantonese, which is very common!

Great film for listening practice with you two talking naturally. I saw the film years ago, but didn't know any 'Chinese' in it. These films where you discuss things together are extremely good for conversation/listening practice. Thanks as always laoshi!

yeah, it's explicitly stated to be Cantonese prior to the first scene; there's a scene where he's practicing Cantonese earlier in the film

It's a comedy which makes fun of many movie tropes at the time. I have no doubt things are intentionally mispronounced by Mike Meyers for comedic effect. There's a scene in the movies where Wayne stops trying to speak Cantonese, and just makes faces like he's given up while the subtitles of what he should be saying are playing below. The dubbed scene is taking the language mistakes to the extreme while playing fun at the dubs the US got before the US market really started to get Asian films. None of was meant to be taken seriously. Rob Lowe's character ordering in what sounds like he's a fluent speaker is to juxtapose the Wayne character. Watch the movies completely and then go back to looking at the translations in context. I think they will be funnier for someone who knows the language they claim to be speaking knowing it's utter nonsense.

you two make such a good dynamic for the videos really enjoy the interaction

That is Tia Carrere. She’s from Hawaii and think her Chinese ancestry is several generations back.

The 4 braids look is so perfect!

The scene with the father is from the sequel. Maybe the actor then thought it was easier to just made things up as the first experience had been hard and very few of the audience would understand cantonese?

The joke is, the cream of , "some young guy" if you say fast in English sounds to our ears like chinese. The cream you can figure out....

LOL I KNEW those Cantonese lines of Mike Myers had to be made up! 😆😆😆

"I can understand Cantonese but I'm not sure if this is my problem." Great sentence out of context :-)

Rob Lowe gettin it done.

He (Wayne) speaks Chinese the same way many actors try to pronounce Lakota, etc.

The Pai Mei sequence from Kill Bill Vol. 2 would be a good one to react to. It's Gordon Liu and he is fluent in Cantonese and speaks Mandarin too.

Hey Jessie have you done a review of Laoma Chris' Chinese? If not I would really enjoy that some day since he's one of my fave foreigners that speak Mandarin apart from Xiaomanyc.

Her first exposure to Wayne's world and she practically said ,"Shwing!" 3 seconds in. Lol

The first Wayne's World was filmed at breakneck speed in 28 days. In all honesty, they were probably throwing Mike Meyers his line phonetically and keeping whatever takes they thought were the most silly, seeing as absurdity is the tone of the fil. It was the 90's so the studio wouldn't attempt anything authentic because the American audience likely wouldn't care anyways. The fact that they actually tried is nice.

The dad actor is American born of Hong Kong immigrants. He apparently did some of his early schooling in Hong Kong in the 1930s. He’s done a lot of acting so you see him in many shows when they cast Asian characters. His pronunciation is probably a combination of Hong Kong dialect and maybe lack of practice.

Pretty impressed with rob lowe...

James Hong got his star in Hollywood walk of fame recently

I appreciate you speaking more Chinese in this! It's very helpful for improving my listening comprehension. And you have an adorable Chinese voice lol. Thanks for making these

To elaborate on what others have mentioned, the joke at 11:43 is actually an old joke. It's the sort of joke teenage boys would probably find pretty funny. Wayne says "I'll have the cream of sum yun gai. I'm pretty sure that "sum yun gai" is gibberish but it "sounds" Chinese to American ears. Phonetically, it sounds like "Some young guy." In the context of the joke, "cream" is slang for "sperm." So, Wayne is saying, "I would like the sperm of some young guy." As you can see, it's not a joke one would typically share with their mother.

This makes Wayne's World waaay so much better and waaay so much funnier…

If I remember right, the scene was subtitled at the cinema, so it was obvious he was trying to say 你好靚啊 in Cantonese (nei ho leng ah).

I love how Lee is so just so laid back he just can't be fazed by anything. I love his manner.

2:15 when you smilled, there was a speck of dirt on my screen in just the right place to make it look like you had rotten teeth 😂 thought you went the extra mile for the joke

3:55 I did hear the Thai accent when she spoke Cantonese

My father's Thai/Chinese and Thai definitely sounds very similar to Cantonese when I hear it but I don't understand either so that probably factors in. I think it may be the more guttural sounds? Or perhaps the way it sounds like they merge certain letters.

First time I have seen your channel, but now I'm curious if you have reacted to an old SNL skit with Mike and Farley. Where Farley is a tourist who unknowingly entered a Japanese game show. Lol it is hilarious.

Tia Carrerre is of Filipino descent. This is an example of casting directors saying "Well, she's Asian. Close enough."

I'm not surprised Rob Lowe has good pronunciation. The guy is a total professional.

They're using South East Asian Cantonese (Malaysia, Singapore, etc) which is slightly different from Mainland, I understood what they said even though their tones are off.

The last clip he says " I will have the cream (seamen) of some young guy" Because sum yung gai is meant to sound like a Chinese take out dish

Jessie I love your hair your so cute!

I love seeing him in your videos, even when he looks bored lol

Its a running joke in American movies that when an American man tries to talk in his girlfriend's native language, he accidently insults her.

Woah, you actually did it? EXCELLENT!

You get bonus points for knowing the shaw Brothers style.

His Cantonese is supposed to sound bad because he is learning and also it's a comedy.

Wow! So enlightening, good memories and you guys are great :) Thank you.

I was creasing at the cream of sum young guy joke 😂

I laughed so hard at "Hello, Rotten Teeth". Yes, it seems like they took the language much more serious in the first movie, which included the scene with Wayne and Cassandra on the roof top and Benjamin ordering takeout. In the second movies Wayne seemed to be making up a majority of what he was saying, perhaps as a joke or possibly just due to laziness.

你好，我小时候学过中文，但这部电影在我两岁时就上映了，真是经典。

Tia Carrera is Filipina-American, its a surprise she knows Chinese but native here in the Philippines who their ancestors came from China spoke Cantonese or Hokkien.

He's saying he wants the cream of " some young guy" lol

Because Mandarin/Cantonese are final languages, they sound funny to westerners, hence his strange and wacky pronunciation -he was trying as many laughs as he couldp.S love your channel!

Poor Wayne/Mike. I don't think he had any understanding, even basic of Cantonese. They just made him memorize it phonetically. But apparently he did a decent job in some scenes :-)

The cream of some young guy gets ordered every time I go out 😂😂😂

That outfit is totally rad

Yes! Thank you! One of my favs. I've showed this movie to every Cantonese friend I have!

The "some young guy" joke is about running together certain english words which, when said quickly, can sound like something different. Maybe another language and sometimes like other english words. For example, if you take "Eye Are Sofa Kingdom" said quickly that is a very disrespectful thing to say about yourself. Sometimes people will try to trick others who aren't fluent in english to say those words.

James Hong is absolutely a native Cantonese speaker

Tia Carrere was born in Hawaii and is of Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino descent.

I think the take away joke was "juice of some young guy" said to sound like Chinese, but 100% English.

The first dude sounds like if a sim tried to speak Cantonese 😂

XD that's pretty funny. When I saw the movie, I was certain all of it was read out from a pinyin script, and that all of it was nonsense. Jeff... James Hong(?) is kind of super-famous - he's played a million roles on screen and as a voice-actor, also in very famous, very successful movies (or actually very good, but obscure animation or film stuff.. Brisco County Jr., Star Wars: Rebels, couple of voice overs in games.. Sleeping Dogs, he's the Triad leader - he's on a lot of these surprisingly good productions that are not known that well). Imo, he's a high above par with his acting, but is type-cast as some sort of kinder, more bumbling Fu Manchu stand-in in literally everything he's in. Whether it's Kung-fu Panda's father, or the scientist who manufactures the replicants' eyes in Blade Runner - he's given a script that normally would probably be pretty offensive if played straight as it's written. But then, somehow, he still makes it work. In Blade Runner he barely even speaks a word (that you can understand), and he's somehow on par with Rutger Hauer. "Underappreciated" is probably going to be written on some honorary title award - that he should probably be given, sooner rather than later.

Love your videos! Glad you recognized James Hong. He's had small roles in so many American movies and shows.

When y'all didn't get the cream of sum young guy I laughed so hard my chest hurt lmao

OMG! I love your hair in this video!

My recommendation: "The Love Bug" (1968). There's a scene in a police impound garage where Buddy Hackett (playing "Tennessee Steinmetz") speaks to a local merchant in Mandarin or Cantonese. (And a few other scenes as well.)

It makes my smile to have you watch and react to a movie from my childhood.

13:43 *anggy jessie noises*

LOL! Cream of Some Young Guy is a joke - it’s English words that sound like Chinese to our ear when grouped this way and implies he’s asking for male reproductive fluid.

Dang, I was hoping we'd get the reaction to the two syllable/three paragraph translation bit...

The thing I'm learning about asian language is intonation he is trying i love the feedback thanks

You've added a whole new level of funny to Wayne's World, I thought it was just in really poor taste, now at least there is the semblance of an argument for the joke being on our protagonists being well meaning but ignorant, and his girlfriend just goes along with it... to make him happy.

This is great! Helps this blue eyed devil understand the humor better ! ❤🔥😄

that first line was “妳好靚啊” you sure your friend is a native canto speaker?

the actress is of Spanish, Chinese and Filipino ancestry

*James Hong, who plays Cassandra's father, Jeff, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If he knows any Cantonese or Mandarin, it won't be with good pronunciation.* The man is as American as apple pie.

Of course part of the joke is saying he’s just learning but then has a complicated discussion

James Hong= David Lo Pan Do a reaction on "Big Trouble In Little China".

He said "some young guy!"

4:19 I think he is saying 我ge旧女朋友 my old girlfriend

One of my favorite movies! Just a few months ago I met someone from Kowloon and I told them I speak a little Cantonese. They said, "really?" And I said, "Ne ho lon gaaaaaaaaa (你好靚)." And they just stared at me and said, "huh?" It's a good icebreaker.

I could certainly think of a worse fate than to pass the time, sitting with one arm around Jessie and watching movies. 嘻嘻 😅 😂 🤣 我当然能想到比打发时间更糟糕的命运，一只手搂着杰西坐着看电影。嘻嘻 😅 😂 🤣 How is my Chinese? 😋 😊 😇

4:40 这里应该是说「我嘅舊女朋友」

我爱这部电影！

7:27 Did you notice that he was in Big Trouble In Little China too?

The actress Tia Carrere is not a native Cantonese speaker. She was born in Hawaii and she is of mixed Spanish, Filipino and Chiense ancestry. I think Mike Meyers is intentionally over emphasizing the syllables to make it sound funny without knowing that it changes the meaning.

The old guy Cantonese is pretty great , it’s more on the old generation. It’s very accurate , nothing wrong with it

The soundtrack is good 👍🏽

Maybe this is new to some like Jessie, but anyone these days trying to butcher Chinese as a joke is getting old to actual speakers like myself who watched a lot of these Austin Powers-esque or stoner movies. It used to make me laugh a lot back then, now it's just super cringey and difficult to watch. Guess we're no longer in the 1990s/2000s. The 'sum yung guy' pun is still pretty good, though LOL

I think the some young guy joke is taking dim sum, the common last name yung, and then the english guy to complete the phrase. Or as others have said it sounds like an asian dish to me. It reminds me of the airplane joke someone got a news station to report about the plane sum ting wong going down.