Why I HATE Japanese TV 

This is a pen

Finally a new video

THIS IS A PEN!

Yes

Yes

Going outside during the summer is overrated, anyways :P

@@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 *this

Who allowed Chris to get this much power?!

Full otaku mode

He’ll probably end up cycling through Japan again through dioramas which would be great

This is a pen > Fus ro dah

Jeong MiChaeng They’re both powerless until you reach the final word

P, K, and T are aspirated in English when starting a word. The gust of air is real.

Wonder if anyone's taken a recording of that and modded it into Skyrim yet? :P

I need to ask you to stop. That... shouting... is making people nervous.

needs more sound effects

It's the Japanese game shows. "Your game shows reward knowledge. Here, we punish ignorance."

sugoii

The SNL Mike Myers Japanese Game show skit is pretty accurate

@@johnynoway9127 笑 笑 笑

yeah, thats true, one day when youtube gets significally big, i just stopped watching tv, tv shows are not funny anymore, and a little time later i started to see the enormous amount of propaganda that shit has, literally when i stopped watching tv i lost a lot of stress, they are constantly saying you directly "be like this, not like this", and i am not talking about the publicity or the "they just put thin people to make feel bad fat people"

not just young people. My parents dont watch much TV aside from the news, I work construction and tons of my customers (mostly 40+ year old homeowners) dont even bother running TV lines anymore since they stream everything, and most of my friends that are over 30 dont bother with TV either. TV has gotten to be such shit and people dont like bending their schedule to fit set programming that everyones just going to streaming. The fact that cable companies are so corrupt doesnt help, I dont know anyone with a cable package that hasnt been double billed or billed for random BS, like my mom who was billed for a missing router they claimed she never gave back when she canceled her membership which she'd done months before they sent her the bill.

I'm Gen X and I watch Strange New World, Lower Decks, and until recently Rick and Morty. That's it. Not been a regular TV watcher in decades. Before that the only thing I'd watched since the 80s was MST3K. I"m baffled what most people see in TV. @@ampoyeta9547

It's almost as if these young people realize everything being said on these shows is a lie, and they don't appreciate being treated like toddlers that aren't strong enough to withstand even the mildest negative comment spoken to anyone by anyone

"I came to Japan to win Takeshi's Castle, but it was too late, so I became an english teacher" sounds like a light novel

Twist it so instead of Takeshi's Castle, it's a war, and instead of modern times, it sets in medieval high fantasy setting. Boom, isekai idea.

Fun fact not plot twist!

A common tragedy of gaijin in japan

Bu shi ni de…what is the last character and what does it mean?

serial killer

@Zarathustra must be a sarcasm right? Because it's all shortcomings and artificial exaggerations.

@@nileshmandal1838 superior nippon japanese TV. Broadcast over 1000 times. much better then worthless baka gaijin programming.

@Zarathustra i'm pretty sure you only watch the Bad Western media/programs am i right. In terms of media there's no superior or inferior, it's whether you like that program or not, that is all. Sure you could put up an argument of saying japanese entertainment are much fun than western but the other side could also put up the same argument and it will end up in a stalemate. That is your preferences. Media is media, be it western or eastern. They're all the same blood-sucking vampire trying to get story or programs go on at whatever the cost is. Try to see it in an open perspective and not bashing one for the other. Ultimately both sucks and both are good.

@Zarathustra no harm done bro and yup i agree on that, especially on youtube when their algorithm knows you've been watching political channels and they'll start recommend something similar to it. Yes it does plague the hollywood industries as well and i'm kinda tired seeing they tried shoving their agenda down our throat but whenever i see some good quality programs, i'd watch it bro. There are some good programs out there, be it eastern or western, we just have to get out from our bubbles of judgement and discover some great shit out there.

Village boss? I didn’t know they still used the feudal system there

You lived the dream man.

Man, you have been there soo long. I am sure you treasure your experience no matter what the circumstances were. Do you ever plan to come to the states?

Philip, you walked so that the other Japanese speaking Foreign Talents would run.

Sounds like you’ve lived a full and interesting life!

Honestly, very cool! Did Japan have the same kind of Stand-up culture craze in the 70's&80's as there was in the US? Is stand-up mainstream entertainment in Japan today?

Yes. We know where to find better content, like this channel

Yup, indonesian here we also do that too

i haven’t watched actual tv in a couple years

Retired American. I haven’t watched TV in a couple of years. I have favorite “You Tubers” I watch to get news and entertainment.

Yea cuz most TV nowadays are only replaying episodes of popular shows or shitty shows noone cares about

Gray Nightz but in Japanese they would look at the word pen like, “pe-n”. Anyway the woman was saying the word pen louder for English resulting more air to come out.

In English the pe is more aspirated

Native English speakers really do aspirate the "p" sound at the beginning of words more than they do in the middle of a word. I'm not sure, but I think native Japanese speakers really don't aspirate their "p"s at any part of the word. You certainly can train yourself to not aspirate your "p"s but it's difficult to imagine anyone bothering to do so. The "this is a pen" test does have an actual valid point to make...it just not very scientifically rigorous enough to really mater....it's just one valid point blown out of proportion.

@@E.Frey2002 are u questioning nasa rn lmao

Please. Permit me to Point out those Pointless Particulars while I go have a Parfait.....Preferably Peach and Pear. Cost me only a Penny. Promise. Excuse me a moment, I think I just killed my English Professor....

Same here. I grew up on youtube

And yet streaming services are slowly becoming more and more like cable TV in the sense that you need to buy about 5 of them to watch the shows you want since all are on separate places

outside of watching tv every morning before school as a kid, never really did watch much. since like 2003/4 ive just torrented everything i am interested in and watched from my computer. even with the rise of streaming that is far simpler than torrenting, the market is so fragmented id have to spend $150+ a month to watch what i normally do and even then 75% of what i watch would be region locked or simply unavailable and id have to resort to torrenting anyway.

@@iris4547 Are you from the Indian Subcontinent, Eastern Europe, the middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific, ASEAN, or China?

Sometimes you got sick because too many choices and you want a background noise like CNN talking about climate change or something. Its refreshing to watch TV nowadays.

There would be rioting in the streets

imagine chris compares Gordon Ramsey in USA vs UK ver. the shock factor in USA is dialed to 100....

@@MultiLiam24 "Being miserable matters"!

We Happy Few

brazillians, worst knightmare, id be like "were are all the murders and bad trafic?"

Been here 20 years, & while most Japanese TV is not worth watching occasionally they do come up with something good.

I was there for 3 months and saw it all. Exactly as he said it was

@@seasnek7024 He's talking about variety shows. I'm talking about #JapaneseTVdrama. Often clichéd, sometimes good.

@Adrian Anikeenko based

@Adrian Anikeenko Yeah I could understand that a lot of Japanese viewers and probably writers don't really see how that's offensive because they probably liken it to Osakans eating a lot of crab or something, instead of a stereotype that's used to mock and belittle black people instead. Which I can fully understand is baffling from an outside perspective, it's more of a 'read the air' thing that must be hard to do cross culturally.

I agree

As if American TV is any better? At least Japan is still producing good anime. American TV has literally no redeeming value.

@@nathanpapp432 Tv and cable is dying out, streaming services are gonna be the future so...

@@nathanpapp432 There are still some good shows every now and then, but yeah. On the whole, US TV is mostly just boring and saturated

@@nathanpapp432 What a ridiculous thing to say. American TV is in a golden age of creative ambition and variety, even if you don't include streaming services.

And are you all Japanese or...

What, i swear i was still watching that shit on 2005

It is stil running on german television 😄

Check out when Dragon Ball Z aired in Japan... Exactly

The Japanese one stopped broadcast in the late 80s. They re made '4 special versions' throughout the late 90s hosted in japan. Then created another version in mid 00s filmed in Thailand and Malaysia hosted by a male and female General. Think the last version from Thailand I watched was made /broadcast 2015. I've just had a research and apparently it's coming back to the UK this yeah with comedian Stephen Bailey as voice host

@@itsmarkus4125 they will be reruns of old episodes. Fun fact about Takeshi is -only 8 people ever won

I was really pretty impressed with that :-)

Same!!! Better than a lot of TV shows

How did he do that?

@@ayviondenar3461 Green screen + close up photo of that mini room.

The placing the potato chips on the table still messes with my head

Shame culture face-saving goes to blandness of the most excruciating sort, and (unlike the Chimese) the Japanese are very polite, which makes it sort of worse. It's a kabuki theater of understanding the degree of the bow to discover your ranking in society, and social nicities which kind of make your head impode with it's careful subtleness. Leaving a dead fly on your neighbor's doormat is a declaration of war, yet the Japanese army acted with extreme brutality during World War 2, which made the Waffen SS look like jolly nice chaps. So definitely volcanic level of schizophrenic destruction there if the kill switch is flicked. Incomprehensible, baffling and time-wasting from a more direct Westener point of view (Westerners are bigger on guilt culture than shame culture). Probably the Japanese feel negativity about Westerners being crude and rude peasants in return.

So do they just not value truth when dealing with other people?

I can attest to this. My entire family was infected once we toured a Pilot pen factory.

Everyone called me crazy when I claimed Pen Pineapple Apple Pen was a foreign biological weapon in disguise.

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 genius

I agree. I can tell you that in Britain, we have had to ban pens and conversations about pens to protect the people from covid 19. It is now illegal to ask for a pen in the workplace or at school

PeoPle aPPly sPecific sPoken phrases Producing a P Persistently Pertaining to Pens. Ps are Perceived to Produce a Powerful imPression so Plainly it will Produce more sPit when sPoken by ... Kidding, obviously. What a fucking shit "study" anyway. I feel like I would naturally pronounce their "p" stronger in that sentence than I would pronounce our "p", purely because I feel it has more emphasis in their language on the p in pen than ours does, at least in EVERY spoken pronunciation I've ever heard even from Japenese speakers but also English speakers... The producers of that TV show "study" have definitely lost the thread. I doubt now if I will ever trust any televised Japanese "study"

You're right. I expect a detailed history of how this particular flavor was made, and it better involves a heartwarming story about how the guy (because women don't invent stuff in Japan) met his wife during the process.

@@svenbischoff9769 what, just that? I expected a history of an entire universe starting from a big bang

I was thinking the reaction was too slow! I tend to see people say "umai!" the moment the food touches their tongue.

And with several commercial breaks before he takes a bite. Not a soft fade to black, but a freaking jarring cut into a beer commercial of people doing the exact same thing with foamy beer on their lips. Because that is how people drink beer of course.

​@@kueapel911 You are of course correct. If you wish to make "you" from scratch, you first have to invent the universe.

Omg I was literally JUST going to comment on how much this reminds me of screenwipe

Oh shit the real desinc

@@makarovtheplat1805 nothing to do with what he said but ok

you know shit's gone down and outright boring ass when DeSinc comments on the videos he watches. But I guess it's true.

Wait wut. Why are you here?

Is that the real DeSinc fan account?

So it just like us Americans watching American TV, the stupidity and fakeness just eats your brain cells inch by inch.

Don't ask about Caribbean is like novela and western TV

@@WatcherMovie008 yeah

But your still forced to pay the licensing fee.

*I feel like the more I watch Japanese TV, the more my brain degenerates Or, I feel the more I'm watching Japanese TV, the more my brain is degenerating The first one is better

Americans are always portrayed as gloomy and dark and serious tho lol

@@intermilan9731 Rather have a balance than fake positivity 24/7 lol

@@mart5610 That's not balanced lol. Americans are some of the most depressed people on the planet. Rather fake positivity to inspire more positivity.

@@intermilan9731 Respectfully I would rather deal with an uncomfortable truth than a comforting lie.

@@sclarinet9088 Truthfully, most American depression comes from their own mode of indoctrination. There is no truth there, uncomfortable or comfortable.

the karens are shaken. english was clearly invented to spread viruses and you speak to you mother with that mouth?

THINGS I SHOVE UP MY ASS. P- *Cuts off* "Today, we sadly lost many lives in a sudden earthquake".

The Blue Moon VIBRATORS

nfw buddy, Nobodies loves an grammer nazi!

nfw looks like a typo man. Calm down

Indeed.

You forgot a comma there: "There's that old[,] cynical and bitter Chris that I originally subbed for."

Hear hear, I really miss this type of content on the channel.

Mx House That makes it seem like they’re calling Chris old, not referring to the old Chris which was bitter and cynical

@@littlefishbigmountain If you wanna do this, then you could move the "old" or the "Chris", to relate the old to the person. > There's that old Chris, cynical and bitter, that's why I originally subbed for. or > There's that cynical and bitter old Chris that I originally subbed for.

If stuff gets broken it's also always foreigners.

Just a sec, let me go get my camera and set it in place so you can know.

He missed his chance to recite Avdol smh

I see you're a man of culture as well :smug:

"Ayu a yutchubah?"

YESSS I AM!!!

absolutely! was just thinking that with the whole mini-TV etc in the beginning. wonder what programs he uses

@@jacobpeters5458 that's actually a real TV

You can tell he is clearly a Youu-toobah!

he was a former art/movies student in college, I forgot. I think it is in his "Why I came to Japan" video

Seriously dude?!? It's just a chromakey!!

Skyrim shout 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I feel there was an air machine behind her that blew air on the English part so that her mouth and breathing and stuff would look normal but the cloth would go full-on Skyrim shout.

@@junehanabi1756 would explain why it was a bit out of sync with when the air should be coming out of her mouth

Fus ro dah

@Jack Sparrow it looks more like it's between "a" & "pen" though

i tried a few more sentences, and tried a bunch in polish too. it's really weird, but english P- words are actually stronger than the other two and i can't figure out why !?!? ... like, i admit as an observation, it's interesting. I tried on purpose to say it with less PWAH power and it doesn't work !!?!? :O ????? i'mm a go check out some other languages now (tho for the novel corona virus, i would also guess not having hugging and kissing cheeks in greetings did a lot more to help than the language did) (also i wonder if that's why english speakers are seen as "louder",maybe the language itself literally has more OOMPH! in the sounds O.o )

pen in Japanese pen. pen in English. pen. how are people actually stupid enough to fall for shit like this.

Well, the pen is mightier than the sword and all that.XD

@@anikaabdullah8873 lol nice one

@@agnieszkamichalak6478 Sounds like it's just you who speaks English that way because no one knows Wtf you're talking about.

For real, wasn't expecting this gem to crop up in this random video i just clicked for gags

are u Italian by any chance djhsbs

@@storiabanale nope, I'm from Asia-

That last bit is so relatable 💀

same

Did you enjoy any of it

@@rhyssuy8361 He enjoyed the food

Yes, yes, food very good.

This is Korean TV too 😂 SO. MUCH. FOOD.

True. We have something similar going on with UK television except its all about homes and houses.

And I've yet to top that!

@@AbroadinJapan as chancellor palpatine once said: DO IT!

That was a good effect.

Pepperidge Farms remembers

@@AbroadinJapan Haven't ever seen that of you Chris. I loved watching the Iron Chef { Japanese version , Iron Chef America is/was Crap } Pitty for tourists there's no English speaking local News programs of Japan { to watch in Japan } Only other "Japanese TV " thing i know from the West { watching from Sydney Australia } is Japanese Anime : www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk01I04VzPfWyX_50BqrjdByuut6b4w%3A1615628449495&ei=oYhMYOfQHaOC4t4P-82GuAE&q=video+clip+of+iron+chef+japan&oq=video+clip+of+Iron+Chef+&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYAzIGCAAQFhAeMgUIIRCgATIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjoECAAQRzoHCCMQsAIQJzoECB4QCjoECCMQJzoFCAAQkQI6BQgAELEDOgIIADoECAAQAzoCCC46CAguEJECEJMCOggIABCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6BAguEEM6BAgAEEM6BwgAELEDEEM6BwguELEDEEM6CAguEMcBEKMCOggILhDHARCvAToFCC4QkwI6CAgAEBYQChAeULbKAljftesCYJDS6wJoAXABeAKAAfwFiAHza5IBDTItMTcuMTQuNi4yLjGYAQCgAQGwAQbIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f345ad51,vid:4O8c8rtD5wQ,st:0 { Edit* URL to copy & paste of Iron Chef Japan episode } . 👨‍💼🐨🎁

foreigners are scrutinised for life. i would anticipate their descendants are as well. nationalism could have been a takeaway but remains superliminal

@@atomictraveller Good. Every country should be like that.

Probably because you need to pronounce "A" pen which makes you open your mouth a bit more than borupen. Like if you tested with a toilet paper like me xP

Maybe it has a symbolic meaning, like how the English empire created the destruction and havoc all around the ancient world, and nowadays its imperalistic spawn (in the new continent) creates havoc and exploitation in order to continue “the tradition” of military might. Basically the bully of the world 😂 Just maybe that’s why: “this is a pen”... 💥 🔥 💀 LoL!

@Dragon Azteca Before English existed it was Latin spoken by the “bully of the world” but China has always been there at the same time, doing their own shit no one seems to address. Before them it was the Egyptians who were the “bullies of the world”, you trying to say that those with power inevitably bully the weak, no matter who they are? Cause you’d be right, no matter their way of forming coherent ideas verbally, nationality or ethnicity.

@@CChissel fam. It was a joke.

CChissel Ppfft! 😂 Nope! that’s not what I’m saying, nobody is speaking Latin in the paper test video, besides on a global scale, non of your examples are true. The Chinese back in the day could’ve spread worldwide even before the English. They invented gun powder, the compass, and were great sailors, but choose to mind their own and didn’t have that greedy conquering mentality. Also I’m definitely not saying what you’re implying either, because I would not call Native Americans or any other indigenous culture weak, it’s actually quite the opposite. A great example would be the Maori or Hawaiian people, but the difference with natives cultures was that they were not infected with the virus of greed, and lived in accordance to other principles like respecting nature and living according to earth’s rules. In contrast, certain “other cultures” seems that were (still are) intersted in conquest and control, as if they had an infection in their mind that makes them blind. There are plenty of examples of that still being the case today. You see 👁 there is a difference; cultural and philosophical, but it would be ignorant to say otherwise, that’s what I’m saying 💡

I think the tv style is meant to evoke the excitement of childhood, which is very nostalgic for Japanese

in the west shows are willing to dive into a tank full of sharks and maybe carry an ak there to kill the sharks

@@perlasandoval7883 I remember an episode of the show river monsters where Jeremy Wade did something similar, he got into a pool full of starved piranhas, just to prove that piranha attacks are rare 🤣

@Rusty Gears it's the repressed urges. The country been having low birth rate problems for two decades

@@vilena5308 Okay.... the wage gap is a MYTH. Any stat you’re looking at is the EARNINGS gap, you’re comparing the TOTAL earnings of ALL men to the TOTAL earnings of ALL women and that’s where that stupid wage gap comes from. Men and women get paid the same for the same job. Women tend to take lower paying careers, it just is what it is, thus leading to the earnings gap. It’s mostly choice. Women could easily become a welder or a plumber or a garbage truck driver, and earn well close to six figures, sometimes even six figures! Women want equality in cushy jobs. I don’t see anyone rallying for equality in trades, manual labor, etc, despite those industries overwhelmingly being male. I guess it’s fine for that to stay part of the patriarchy.

Yeah u rgt kid, us tv is so much better,

It's true, but I see less texts though probably because editing the texts is pain in the ass.

@@Earthchyld_333 Who said I hated it? I just made a statement. I never said if it was a good or a bad thing.

it would be more interesting if there are people like you in those tv shows >_< Love your channel btw.

Wow! Hey Sora. I like your channel

@@billydabomb8669 Oh no no, Sora can't be on tv Else he'll troll and rickroll everyone

oh shit the meme lord himself is here

That's so true. I don't even have a tv in my house anymore

Even I was surprised to be honest!

Had me fooled until the hand transition; quality stuff.

@@thefirstthrownmolotov6852 Yeah I only realized it was fake because I recognized the room was the little set he showed earlier

I was wondering why the retro TV looked like plastic.

Was it really ? I'm not an avid viewer but I immediately noticed he was green screen-ed in. Something about the lighting on him didn't quite look right. Also the hair weren't keyed properly whatever that means because they're the hardest part of a human to cut when you chroma key them..... Also the lighting on the "set". Since it's a miniature, the lighting gets all weird and unrealistic.... hard to explain. Umai effort though !

With AR glasses, it can be arranged.

Chris: Breathing, すごい!!!

You might actually enjoy Japanese television then

hey good luck to your family and your children

Love your Channel!

Yeah it was so good

I laughed so hard XD you both are amazing! Good channels, keep up the good work.

I love your channel too Greg 👍

Come to think of it, my brief experiences trying to learn a foreign language, if I talk to that language teacher for a little bit, they will tell me how great the country is, how everyone is nice and hospitable, and they take vacations every year to that country, and there is rarely any crime or gang activity (Mexico, Japan, Russia, France, etc.) Very nice place to visit, a paradise, and "don't believe everything you hear in media" type scenario.. Now compare that with my "research", now as a middle age white male, who probably found some crazy shit such as "Takeshi's Castle" (here as MXC in the United States), "Death Match wrestling" (aka, "Strangle-mania"), poor quality mid-90s "hentai" anime (I think you might be seeing a trend with very poor "comedic" English voice dubbing), and the occasional "Yakuza" action film, in my teenage years, that left me with far more questions than answers, and my stereotypes about Japan that may be far different from the language teachers I mentioned earlier, if not somewhat hilarious and a little tragic in hindsight.

My thoughts exactly!

I'm Danish, and it's all true. Television is a dying medium, and instead of reinventing themselves, they're pandering to a dying generation

you mean it isnt?

youtube is quickly becoming just as bad as tv tho

@@rumfordc Not really. RU-vid will always have more variety than any TV channel. Look at this channel, there would never be anything like this on TV. I agree RU-vid has a lot of issues but itll never be as shit as TV lmao

And I’m just realizing that it’s in fact a soundbite. Where’s it been used?? (That is if it’s not been used everywhere)

I didn't even out those two together, so you did better than mr

@@Kronos0999 Clearly you don't listen to the podcast.

@@ubayyd Chris and Pete (Donaldson) have a podcast. There's quite a back catalogue if you fancy some lockdown listening.

Chris looked like he might have said “Yes, indeed”

The way he said I AM is hilarious.

Oh cool thanks for telling me that 😄

Like when you tell a child what you do on career day lol

そうは思わないな。しゃべりだけのトークがあってもいいでしょ。西洋とは違うんだし。それが文化でしょ。この外国人は失礼すぎる。

It's like that for Terrace House ( i mean it was since it has stopped) but i would often skip the talking of presentators because i couldn't care less about all their mean comments.

What about Kamen Rider?

@@user-gx9xf2zb6o ブリタンでは風刺が喜劇の種類です。文化の違いから、失礼を意図しなかった。

Do they not have Graphic Designers for their TV shows? All that text on the screen, all different colors, all different fonts, and sizes all over the screen, and some random face with a TERRIBLE "Clip-art" frame around him... It's awful. That looks just like many of the things our graphic design professors would show us for us to see exactly what NOT to do lol.

Lol.. Hahahaha and to think it's the rainy season now in Japan.

true it got nothing to do with the tvs content this whte guy is a moron. and im not exaggerating

true it got nothing to do with the tvs content this whte guy is a mron. and im not exaggerating

tes

true it got nothing to do with the tvs content this wh guy is a mroon. and im not exaggerating

Disc OnnectxD If you’re going to insult someone for being a ‘moron’, at least sort out your grammar. Pot, meet Kettle.

Do you really want to compare Japan to India, of all places? I'd rather deal with a culture of inauthenticy than one where gang rapes and public defecation are the norm.

Nah man. The levels they go to are so low, it bounces back to being high. Much more entertaining than the type of Japanese TV portrayed in this video.

Indian tv series in those Last years increase the quality.

Indian TV is so bad that it becomes good on it's own way

Yeah, the dramatic-ness of it all is so bad that it makes me laugh.

Same. I once watched a show on radishes in a very depressing hotel room with everyone sugoiing all over the place. I just kept watching intrigued how long they could keep it up. In the end I cracked and switched off after about an hour before the insanely long ode to radishes was over.

Nothing has never not been Oishii in tv.

... and it always sounds so oishii thorough their microphones.

...same goes for the radio. For god sakes there is no reason to eat and comment on the radio.

@@thimblina “sugoiing” all over the place 😂🤣😂🤣🤣 ain’t that the truth .

Or just make all future videos on this channel Japanese TV style :3

@@nekomatafuyu A one off might be interesting, or just having Japanese television sequences here and there in his videos, but I come here for the snarky comments, dry British humor and the sarcasm.

*etition

he should make those videos once a month

@@vladlelcu5316agree - using it as an occasional segment in his regular videos would probably be best, keeps it funny without overdoing it.

Me neither

Just imagine the sheer destructive force PPAP would have had if it came out this year

Lethal

The pen has always been mightier.

@@Sean-qt7og Not even Pikotaro's final form!

And he did us all wrong by giving the Japanese chefs pot noodles. POT FRICTION NOODLES. Why.

That I must see. lol I saw a couple of eps of Kitchen Nightmare (UK version....not our overly dramatic US version) where he was nice about the food. The woman who ran it was from the southern US, but lived in Britain and was married to a Brit. Mama Cherri was the name. He liked the food she prepared and even sent the plate back nearly empty. She was telling the cameras that she wanted to take a photo of the plate. lol

@@ssjup81 He was Nice About The Food Cause it was Actually Good! I think her Part Time Chef Was Having Issues and It was Mainly a Problem With Debt but Nothing To Do With Food. But When He Goes to Places like Amy's Baking Company (Which happens 99% of the Time) Gordon Goes absolutely Beserk Cause Why Shouldn't He...

Well the entire point of Kitchen Nightmares was going into failing restaurants so of course he shits on the food. In his travelling show he was actually interested in finding the good food not the bad. So of course there's going to be more praise than hate.

@@adwait613 Yeah. I like when he goes to a place and can actually say something good about the dishes and it turns out it's something else that's causing the issue. Mama Cherri is a good example of this. Her kitchen was even clean, from what I recall. It's a shame her place closed because of the recession back then. In some ways, I kinda wish Gordon would give more criticisms in like, "This tastes terrible because....but if they would try...it would be better." Offer a negative and a positive...unless there's just no hope.

Easy easy, Russian. /:^)0- No need for anger.

i want to see her say "anpanman"

ikr lol and it was strange cause when i tried saying it myself, the japanese ver. had more air coming out than the english sentence

@@cicolas_nage ooh I see

@@ArabKatib lol I was just joking 😅 You almost got it correct, but no, not russian xd

It is culturally illegal to have Chris in Japan 😂

You always seek what you don't have

Actual Japanese people told me the outward politeness is generally a veil.

Ah on the surface. Their suicide rate has skyrocketed and hikamori(voluntary shut-ins) culture is prevalent in urban areas. Their society is extremely restrictive. You are never allowed to state or show how you truly feel and the age hierarchy is rigid.

@@nk4140 hikikomori?

It was such a rare treat to find that show airing. As bad as it seems now, network television + no internet made us even more excited in finding an awesome tv show.

Anything with Shimura Ken (RIP) was usually very entertaining.

Tv champion IS better

Yes! That show was the pinnacle of entertainment as a 13-year-old. I want to say it was on either Nickelodeon or Comedy Central? (which used to be the same channel anyway in my country, Nick in the daytime and CC in the evenings)

My wife is Japanese and she remembered it. She’s an 80s kid though. I think the point was *younger* Japanese don’t remember it because it came out so long ago. Same for anime like Dragon Ball that took years to be released in English speaking countries.

Yes

Cassiopeia aw

It's not. The p is very soft - like p and h mixed...

Amir Kolsky I digress. They are literally pronounced and spelt the same (in Romanji). It just comes down to how hard you emphasize the P or ペ. It was debunked to just be a way to have Japanese show as a “superior language”

To be fair, the specific way phonemes are pronounced differ from language to language, and typical English p is known to be more strongly aspirated than Japanese...but certainly not THAT much...

You can tell she put way too much emphasis on the p on purpose. If you hold your lips together for a split second before saying pen you'll find you automatically put extra emphasis on the p. That's essentially what happened there.

People do this with my language (german) all the time, to prove how evil and harsh it sounds. I am so sick of it.

Shrek all hail lord shrek

Shrek in the comments. We all should feel so honored.

@@nikimilky Even Shrek likes to watch some Abroad in Japan mate, be blessed by the swamp

The game is rigged

@@AbroadinJapan Phonetics teacher here: the English /p/ DOES expel air more forcefully than its Japanese 'equivalent' (thanks to the characteristic English aspiration of the sound) but to shoehorn in a conclusion about virus spread is a bit of a reach to say the least.

noticed that, too !! but saying 'a' with such force is an art in itself i suppose ...

Think we now know how the flag on the moon moved.

sonya ross doesn’t the Japanese language also resonate more from the head area than the mouth? As a trained singer I notice that when I speak Japanese I feel it more in the mask. But the coronavirus thing is definitely a reach either way

Nicely copied 👍

@@surajsharma1992 You wot? Who did I copy mate?

The one with the most likes is basically the same comment and was posted earlier so don't even dude.

@@surajsharma1992 When I made my comment, I didn't see that one. But hey, there's no way 2 different people could make the same reference, right?

And now, the mental image is never out of my head. Thank you. @_@

that's exactly the reason Dave* doesn't watch TV

@@fabr1cated Chappelle?