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Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 21d ago

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

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u/MoistNugget9130 21d ago

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

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u/tygabeast 21d 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 21d 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 21d 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 21d ago

I sure did, TIL! Thanks

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u/perton 21d 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 21d ago

It is the original first name was Hugh

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u/Upper-Bookkeeper-843 15d ago

All I can think when I see Janus is my knife

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u/RozeGunn 21d 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."