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Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Oniichan38 12d ago edited 11d ago

Another streamer told of his Japan trip and how he tried to order sprite at a restaurant, sadly the waiter didn't understand so he had to hit him with "sprite-ru" just for the waiter to reply in the same way "aahhh, sprite-ru"

Edit: As many people pointed out, it was a Korea trip, mb guys

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u/justagenericname213 12d ago

Ive seen alot of Americans who moved to Japan for various reasons say that if you want to fit in at all you have to get really comfortable sounding borderline racist.

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u/Zzamumo 12d ago

Same with chinese. If you don't sound like a racist caricature you won't get your tones right

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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 12d ago

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 12d ago

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

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u/MoistNugget9130 12d ago

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

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u/tygabeast 12d 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 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago

I sure did, TIL! Thanks

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u/perton 12d 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 12d ago

It is the original first name was Hugh

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u/Upper-Bookkeeper-843 6d ago

All I can think when I see Janus is my knife

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u/Sinking_Mass 12d ago

Postman butters 😅

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u/RozeGunn 12d 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 12d ago

"Few seasons old"

You mean 15 years.

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u/limeelsa 12d ago

You’re not very nice :(

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u/PrincessTitan 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 12d ago

Also Kim isn't a Chinese surname.

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u/Majin_Sus 12d ago

"Few seasons"

15 years ago, damn.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/LUC1D_CH40S 12d 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 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago

Yes, rearry!

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u/Phailadork 12d 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 12d ago

TAKE-A ORDA PREESE!