# I just yelled "BREASTS!" to my friend's father **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719 "2007-11-25T18:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/1 "2007-11-25T18:54:03Z")
There’s a fantastic episode of the BBC comedy Coupling where a guy is talking to an Israeli woman, and mistakes her name for the Hebrew word for “breasts.” My roommates and I have taken to yelling this word at each other, in the fashion of the show. One roommate, whose family is all fluent in Hebrew, just returned from Thanksgiving break, and as he’s leaving the house I yell to him… as his father walks right in the door. I assume he knows I don’t speak Hebrew. Shadayim!!! 😃 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/2 "2007-11-25T18:57:42Z")
Putz. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/3 "2007-11-25T19:05:06Z")
Could’ve been worse. You could have talked about your bucket of ears. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/4 "2007-11-25T20:10:27Z")
What’s her name? Is this the BBC version of “Mulva”? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/5 "2007-11-25T20:16:21Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] What’s her name? Is this the BBC version of “Mulva”? [/QUOTE] In the IMDb listing for _Coupling: The Girl With Two Breasts_ she’s just listed as ‘The Girl’. There’s a girl in the pub who only speaks Hebrew. Jeff tries to chat her up and she seems attracted to him. When he tries to find out her name, she thinks he’s talking about her breasts – ‘shadayim’. So Jeff thinks her name is Shadayim. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/6 "2007-11-25T20:17:27Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] What’s her name? Is this the BBC version of “Mulva”? [/QUOTE] The guy in Coupling doesn’t know Hebrew - he’s pointing to his chest and saying “Jeff”, and pointing to hers questioningly, and she gets the wrong end of the stick. I’ve always wondered whether the Hebrew in that episode was accurate or not. Oh, and as for the OP; _all_ episodes of Coupling are fantastic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/7 "2007-11-25T20:23:47Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Oh, and as for the OP; _all_ episodes of Coupling are fantastic. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Except Season 4. _Coupling_ really needs Jeff. Incidentally, Lou Gish (Jeff’s boss/girlfriend ‘Julia Davis’) died nine months ago at the age of 38. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/8 "2007-11-25T20:28:50Z")
What Season 4? A season without Jeff? Nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/9 "2007-11-25T20:40:08Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] What Season 4? A season without Jeff? Nonsense. [/QUOTE] [Series Four](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coupling_episodes#Series_four). Oliver is a sad replacement for Jeff. But it was funny when he said he had tiny erections. (His nipples have a tendency to get hard.) ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/10 "2007-11-25T20:42:57Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] I’ve always wondered whether the Hebrew in that episode was accurate or not. [/QUOTE] All my roommates speak Hebrew (except me), and the show is accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/11 "2007-11-25T21:03:20Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] [Series Four](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coupling_episodes#Series_four). Oliver is a sad replacement for Jeff. But it was funny when he said he had tiny erections. (His nipples have a tendency to get hard.) [/QUOTE] Whoosh. I think Oliver probably would have been better if he wasn’t the Jeff replacement. But ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/12 "2007-11-25T21:34:46Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Whoosh. [/QUOTE] I suspected as much, but didn’t feel like going back to mention it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-yelled-breasts-to-my-friends-father/427719/13 "2007-11-26T02:08:42Z")
Hee hee hee… I knew you must have been channeling Jeff when I saw the thread title… 🆒