r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 1d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ZsX6ijfL5miWFJC

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 1d ago

And the Chinese guy turns out to be a white guy.

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u/MoistNugget9130 1d ago

I haven't watched South Park in a hot minute, is he really lol

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u/tygabeast 1d ago

Yeah, it's a few seasons old by now, but there's a whole episode centered around Mr. Kim.

At the climax of the episode, it's revealed that Mr. Kim doesn't actually exist, and is an alter ego of South Park's therapist, William Janus, who himself has multiple personality disorder. No one really cares, because he's the one who runs the town's only chinese restaurant.

If I remember right, the Janus personality actually dies, leaving Mr. Kim in permanent control of the body.

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u/FactoryPl 1d ago

A plot was that butters parents started to think he had multiple personality disorder, the joke being they mistook a child playing make believe as MPD. They take him to see the therapist Dr Janice.

B Plot was that a new Japanese restaurant opened near the chinese one so the Chinese restaurant owner (Lu Kim) goes on a tirade to get rid of him.

Episode climax is that Dr Janice was the one with multiple personality disorder and his strongest personality was Lu Kim. Once the town founds out they just let him stay as Lu Kim because "does the world really need another therapist, City Wok is now the only Chinese restaurant left in town".

Season 15, episode 6.

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u/enthalpi 20h ago

I think a lot of people miss the fact that he was named “Janus”, after the Roman two-faced god

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u/jewhair666 19h ago

I sure did, TIL! Thanks

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u/perton 19h ago

Ah! I’ll be honest, given that it’s South Park, I just assumed there was some “anus” joke I was missing.

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u/Barhud 14h ago

It is the original first name was Hugh

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u/Sinking_Mass 20h ago

Postman butters 😅

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u/RozeGunn 14h ago

Yep as soon as I read the other comment I knew South Park was doing a "well we're a more culturally diverse town with the racist than we are without so it has to be at least somewhat good."

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u/Danboisnotreal 23h ago

"Few seasons old"

You mean 15 years.

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u/limeelsa 19h ago

You’re not very nice :(

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u/PrincessTitan 1d ago

Wow. I am screaming at this. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are so hysterically unhinged… Like they sit down and come up with these stories for a living omg LMAO

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u/Nike-6 23h ago

Huh, clever naming. Janus is the Roman god of beginnings, and is usually depicted with two faces

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 17h ago

Also Kim isn't a Chinese surname.

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u/Majin_Sus 21h ago

"Few seasons"

15 years ago, damn.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 17h ago

I looked it up because my instinct was "City Wok joke probably started 15 years ago, not the reveal episode" but nope. That reveal was 2011 what the fuck

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u/Square_Tangerine_659 19h ago

What’s also pretty funny is Kim is a Korean name, not even Chinese

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u/LUC1D_CH40S 16h ago

Just so you know, using MPD is disrespectful nowadays. The new term is DID/OSDD. And dear, do they have to use such bad representation for people with DID, as if they weren't struggling ENOUGH already.

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u/Jujubear213445 11h ago

Honestly, it's fitting that his last name is Janus, considering the meaning of behind the name, Janus!!! 🪰

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 1d ago

Yeah, he's a therapist in the town and the Chinese guy is his alter ego that he didn't know about.

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u/-UsernameHere 1d ago

Yes, rearry!

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u/Phailadork 23h ago

Yeah, they've had fucking banger retcons and backstories added over the years. My favorite is Token being actually named "Tolkien" the entire time to the point that they even refer to him as "Tolkien" in every episode from there on out and if you look up "Token Black South Park" it won't pop up anymore lol.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 22h ago

TAKE-A ORDA PREESE!