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日本で一番面白いボスです

Started by tofugu · 1 year ago

Last night, Steve Carell participated in one of the funniest SNL Digital Shorts I have seen in a long time. Now, it’s kind of a stretch, as far as Tofugu’s “Japanese Culture and Language” theme goes, but I feel that it’s interesting enough to warrant a post. Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bDQl9ueNfg
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  • I've got some time on my hands, so here's a rough transcription for anyone interested:

    Pam: もしもし、Dundlermiflin Co.、パムです。
    Michael: パムパムパム。。。さん。
    Pam: マイケルさん、何ですか?
    Michael: そう言ったもんです。

    Michael: 日本で、一番面白いボスです

    Dwight: もしもし?
    Jim: Staplerは。。。どこですか?
    Dwight: アッ!バカ!
    Michael: これは何ですか。
    Dwight: ごめんなさい。
    Pam, Jim, Dwight: ごめんなさい、ごめんなさい、ごめんなさい。

    *Commercial*

    Michael: 僕は君たちのRegional Manager。
    Dwight: 僕はAssistant Regional Manager。
    Michael: Regional ManagerのAssistantです。どうしてここにいるの(?)だ?
    MIchael: じゃあ、ラジオ体操をしましょう!

    Pam: マイケルさんは皆の健康を心配しています!

    Michael: では、いい日でした。いい仕事をした。そう思う。。。かな? 
    Michael Bobblehead: はい、はい、はい!

    *Karaoke Scene*
  • I don't know if I could have figured out some of this without the transcript. Well, I suppose I could figure out most of it on repeated hearings. Despite knowing all of the Japanese they used, their pronunciation is so goofy - especially Michael's.
  • the 'gomennasai gomennasai gomennasai' part was classic. nice find!
  • お姫さまタンポンww
  • Most Japanese women don't even use tampons XD
  • I believe my comment was eaten by a bad internet connection. Anyway, I enjoyed it, and understood 99% of what was said which is also fantastic. I have trouble "hearing" when there is lots of background noise, like the laughter, I find, I feel like I can't hear it all, but I still understood it...
  • I saw this yesterday as well and was like "WHAT!?"
  • That was great. I couldn't stop laughing. Only if every episode was in Japanese.

    ”ステプラどこですか?”。。。”バカ!”

    fantastic lol
  • Oh my! the tampon advert was scary! and hilarious!
  • I've always hated the Office over here (UK) and have never seen the american version, but can't imagine I'd enjoy it.
    If all episodes were filmed using dodgy Japanese, then it might appeal to me.
    Still, gotta give credit to the writers for coming up with this, it's one of the few genuinely funny sketches I've seen from The Office.

    BTW I only understood maybe 75% of the spoken Japanese so thanks for the transcript :O)
  • You're welcome, Pete!
  • You think they were making fun of the fact that a cooking show (forget the name) was coppied of the Japanese by the Americans?
  • 料理の鉄人?nah, they were mostly making fun of the fact that american office was copied off of the british office
  • Finally the office does something right, LMAO "it's funny because...it's racist"
  • i have a friend who lives in the UK and he cant view this clip supposedly because of his ip adress not being a US one?
    but i see above me a UKer is able to view it..... so idk what's wrong
    and i can't find this clip anywhere else, i really wanted to show it to my friend :(
  • Hmm... I don't really know what to tell you. You could look around on iTunes and see if they sell SNL episodes, I suppose. Too bad that the Youtube videos got taken down.
  • The link works, thanks a lot (^^)
    The accents are unbelieveable xD Recognizable as Japanese, but almost unitelligble XD
    I hope I'll do a lot better next year. The one thing I have going for me is that I'm not American (no offense ;D).

    Really cool stuff, thanks a lot! Love the site <33
  • Loved it!
  • SNL rocks, I loved this video...I as well understood some of what they were saying....My favorite is the secretary.
  • man! lol ilike the stapeler bit
  • Ugh, not doing Japanese for the past 4 years have hurt me... no idea what they were saying >.<
  • don't worry, it's pretty hard to understand what they are saying for pretty much anyone
  • Ah good, I'm not as retarded as I thought.
  • That's what the transcript is for! Hehe.
  • Yeah... I can't read that anymore... I suck. Well I mean I can say it... so I'm half way there. Someone needs to kidnap me and drop me in the middle of rural Japan for a year, then I can force myself to remember.
  • the tampon comercial was a bit scary
  • yea.. i didnt understand anything that isnt repeated in anime over and over..
    dont look down on me =(.. i just started learning japanese like 4 days ago

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