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kakoishii
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Agreed. I guess I'm both surprised and not so surprised by the reaction to this skit. Anime fans takes themselves way too seriously apparently. The point of the skit imo, wasn't to showcase that this is what anime is and look how lame it is, it was to showcase this is how some hardcore weeaboo anime fans behave and look how lame and misinformed they are. What's not funny about that? Because even if this isn't the majority of how anime fans behave this is still how some fans behave. You know those fans who believe the land of the rising sun is awesome sauce, and would sell their kidneys to visit there or live there, those fans who know zero japanese outside of the few phrases they learn from watching anime but still think that's enough to make them fluent? Yeah, those are the fans this skit is making fun of. I have no idea why everyone seems to think this is a jab at anime itself, I thought it was pretty apparent this is a joke on those weeaboo fans especially with that Japanese teacher involved to show how incredibly misinformed these two students were (who was easily the funniest person in the sketch). Anyway people need to relax. This skit was harmless fun, it's not gonna anymore further skew any non-fan's limited perspective of anime than the already very limited notion that they have, and obviously it's not gonna change any fan's already establish view of anime. |
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RadicaLElly
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I dunno, they could have had the professor be a high school Japanese teacher and his role would have still been just as funny. Maybe I'm just lucky to not have run into people who are still acting like this in their 20's. LOL the Crunchyroll comments are hilarious. I love that there are people getting genuinely butthurt over this sketch. |
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GATSU
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Oh, and I'm actually surprised more people weren't pissed that the "Japanese girlfriend" looks like Yoko Ono.
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firedragon54738
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Sigh just awful that was just so awful snl is just a let down now
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invalidname
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In the spirit of forum-troll nitpicking, and as a graduate of MSU's telecommunications program, can I just point out two things:
1. That set is way nicer than any of the shit we ever built. 2. Those kids aren't nearly drunk enough to be MSU students |
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agila61
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The set point is probably valid ~ but jokes about how bad the set was would have distracted from Sensei Mark. |
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Sunday Silence
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpQ6nfMi80 For the Non-American Citizens on here. Get it before it's yanked!! Last edited by Sunday Silence on Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:15 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Tanteikingdomkey
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The whole time I was hoping that someone one would come up on stage and screem at them for being weebos, sensei mark was funny but this really needed to be about high schoolers at least
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invalidname
Contributor Posts: 2504 Location: Grand Rapids, MI |
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I really enjoyed the audience's uncomfortable "what the hell am I being made to watch" laughter early on.
Then, once Mark-sensei is introduced, they clue into the idea of "OK, these kids are completely insane, so I don't have to follow what they're going on about." Nice way to handle an obscure premise that could have been pretty alienating to the average viewer. |
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dizzon
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That was the most I laughed at a SNL sketch since Zach Galifianakis hosted.
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Melanchthon
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As a fellow alumni of Michigan State University, I had those exact thoughts watching this. Yeah, weeaboos are irritating and annoying but I can't hate them too much, because their hearts are in the right place, even if their brains are up their asses. |
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Gon*Gon
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Finally watched it...what do you call it. When something is so painful, yet you still want to watch it because of how bad it is?(like how people want to watch The Room fully knowing how bad it is) I like the professor tho.
Also, anyone know what the "teeheeheehee-OOHH!" joke is supposed to be about? A reference to something? Last edited by Gon*Gon on Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:10 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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enurtsol
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It's funny because that's some of us yet in denial!
Saved and torrented. 
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v1cious
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Man this skit had me in tears, especially the "Japanese girlfriend" thing
Last edited by v1cious on Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:23 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Big Hed
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Many thanks.
This got me. |
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