Blessed Event

I thought the Sofia Coppola joint Lost In Translation had sucked the last bits of life out of the gag about Japanese misappropriations of western popular culture (which even at its best was only partially funny in the first place). But this filmlet almost made me laugh.

Comments

[lemuel]

what the f..?

[Julian Sanchez]

The gold standard for that gag is still the (not at all work safe, not remotely PC) "Tokyo Breakfast" short:
http://www.kuntzandmaguire.com/tokyo/index.shtml

[Terry Yakki]

That tokyo breakfeast thing went on way too long, you get the joke after the first 12 times the people shout...!!SPOILER!!

Neeeeguhhhh

[mike]

I quote lemuel, "what the f..?"

Is that real? If so, wow.

[Todd Fletcher]

Toky Breakfast is the gold standard, but The Simpsons did a great job at faux jap strangeness with Mr. Sparkle.

[Tim Cavanaugh]

It's a joke, Kevrob.

[Eric II]

Not to mention the episode where they vacation in Tokyo. The game show sequence was great. "Sting those Canucks!"

[kevrob]

Got it, Tim.

`Course, my reply was a bit snarky, too.

Gotta love the craic on this board, though.

Kevin

[kevrob]

Does referring to a film or CD track as a "joint" make one somehow hipper-than-thou? I know Spike Lee has been using it forever, but if a white Irish-American guy like me tried to, it would sound affected.

Kevin

[Sega Fan]

Thats a commercial for a Sega Saturn game based on Mr. Sega Sanjiro. He was the spokesman for Sega for a long time. And of course its been edited.

[Paul Z]

Thanks for "Tokyo Breakfast," Julian. It's new to me -- and very funny (even if it does drive the joke a little too far).

[Douglas Fletcher]

Spike Lee is a great filmmaker. If he wants to smoke joints, I don't see how it's anybody's business at all.

[Colby Cosh]

Don't forget the noodle ad from the Andy Dick Show on MTV. That was pretty good--I think it's online if someone wants to hunt it up.

[Big Bob]

It's not real. It was made for some film festival around 2001.