Forum - View topic

INTEREST: Saturday Night Live Spoofs 'J-Pop Talk Show'

... I would like to see this skit become a returning segment, though, as there is plenty more to make fun of. Hell, I'd love to see this skit make up a con and have those characters attend it.

Heh, read this from some of the forums where weaboos are actually getting offended:

"They're not poking fun at Japan or anime - they're poking fun at you!"

enurtsol wrote:

Heh, read this from some of the forums where weaboos are actually getting offended: "They're not poking fun at Japan or anime - they're poking fun at you!"

Would be helpful if people POSTED LINKS to said discussions. Spent 15 minutes looking at Crunchyroll and found no threads on SNL.

Here's the CR thread:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/10/16/snl-pokes-fun-at-fans-with-j-pop-america-fun-time-now.

la_contessa wrote:

Wow, I never figured the people from SNL (a show I don't watch and in which I have little interest) would read my mind. People like the ones parodied in the skit are a big reason I stopped going to cons. Several posters have said they've never encountered people like this, so maybe they're fading away and I can stop being a grumpy old otaku . . . I don't think the point was that the SNL writers only know about the Speed Racer dub, so that's what they parodied--I think the point was that the CHARACTERS don't actually know anything about anime or Japanese culture, so the Speed Racer-esque dubs are all they really know about (that, or they watch Japanese game shows on the internet without subtitles or understanding Japanese, and so just mimic the gestures and exclamations rather than what people are actually saying/doing).

Agreed. I guess I'm both surprised and not so surprised by the reaction to this skit. Anime fans takes themselves way too seriously apparently. The point of the skit imo, wasn't to showcase that this is what anime is and look how lame it is, it was to showcase this is how some hardcore weeaboo anime fans behave and look how lame and misinformed they are. What's not funny about that? Because even if this isn't the majority of how anime fans behave this is still how some fans behave. You know those fans who believe the land of the rising sun is awesome sauce, and would sell their kidneys to visit there or live there, those fans who know zero japanese outside of the few phrases they learn from watching anime but still think that's enough to make them fluent? Yeah, those are the fans this skit is making fun of. I have no idea why everyone seems to think this is a jab at anime itself, I thought it was pretty apparent this is a joke on those weeaboo fans especially with that Japanese teacher involved to show how incredibly misinformed these two students were (who was easily the funniest person in the sketch). Anyway people need to relax. This skit was harmless fun, it's not gonna anymore further skew any non-fan's limited perspective of anime than the already very limited notion that they have, and obviously it's not gonna change any fan's already establish view of anime.

New Link to J-Pop America Fun Time Now! for the Non-Americans.

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

Americans can't relate to Japanese Anime, except for Pokemon. But, a very rare and unknown character, from Japan, gets mentioned on NBC's SNL? I just laughed myself when the 1976's Japanese Anime Candy Candy was mentioned with the line: "We need to leave Pony's Home to find our true love!" Really, this Anime is quite rare to American audiences and the only thing that could be found at least, on YouTube, is the unpopular English dub made by the unknown company ZIV International, which launched the title on Video back in 1981-82, under the Family Home Video series.

Sure, you can find the whole series dubbed to Spanish, Greek or Italian, but as an English dub, only the first 2 episodes and if you are lucky, you may find other episodes in Japanese language with English subs. The SNL cast may have revived the interest in this anime, but quite the American audiences are not really getting the real taste of Candy Candy!

What's more ironic to me than the ones angry about this skit are the ones, such as a friend of mine, who are completely oblivious that they're being made fun of even while laughing with everyone else. The ones who think the sketch is making fun of anime fans in general. My friend (he says he knows "a chibi" amount of Japanese and doesn't buy translated manga because they replace the "kanu" with English sound effects) thought this sketch was hilarious.

I don't have the heart to break it to him. SNL wasn't making fun of anime fans or cosplayers. They weren't even making fun of American "otaku."

They were making fun of you.