Comments on: Strange English Lesson

By: karen

karen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:24:51 +0000

@liyang I am so glad that’s not the episode I came across, it would really have ruined my lunch!

By: Liyang HU

Liyang HU — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:28:40 +0000

@karen Reading through your description of the show, I felt an impending sense of dread and cringe even before checking any of the links, because I knew I’d seen it before: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Diarrhea/

By: karen

karen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:30:37 +0000

@miyagawa – I’ll have to look out for “Salaryman NEO” on NHK.

I could easily have been watching cable TV and we do have the Fuji channels – mainly so I could watch the F1.

@geoff – Yes, I can imagine you rolling around the floor to that. I was just completely bewildered.

By: geoff!

geoff! — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:40:03 +0000

Absolutely magic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1VO3TF2LBs

I’ve laughed my sides off! Call me an ambulance! (But not for the reason they seem to want one!)

By: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:15:23 +0000

Also, “Salaryman NEO” on NHK is basically The Office or IT Crowd in Japan. Highly recommended

By: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:13:12 +0000

Yeah, that show. It was from 90′s, and it *is* a comedy show that was aired in the midnight. I guess you’ve seen it on the cable TV (Fuji TV 724 or whatever) that does replays from 90′s all the time

By: karen

karen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:28:35 +0000

@miyagawa – it never occurred to me that it might be a comedy show. I hadn’t thought about this before but I imagine if I saw a Japanese version of something like The Office I wouldn’t realise that it wasn’t supposed to be serious. They joys of limited language ability.

I did manage to find the actual show I was watching:

http://www.fujitv.co.jp/otn/b_hp/909200283.html

Good to know that Japan has more than one crazy show like this!

@jessica – I wonder if I can find any shows like this to teach me Japanese

By: Jessica Marie

Jessica Marie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:12:30 +0000

Oh, and I forgot, “Spare me my life.” I guess it was a more morbid episode than the one you saw.

By: Jessica Marie

Jessica Marie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:07:12 +0000

I’ve seen that online before, The phrases included “How DARE you say such a thing to me!” and “I was robbed by twoooo men.”

By: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:08:43 +0000

Hmm, reading the plot again, and it may not be Salaryman NEO — instead it might be a ridiculous NHK education show that does aerobics + English lessons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BrpZe8PUBI
I was wondering if that’s still on the air — they are ridiculous!