# Spanish playboy channel... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398 "2005-03-20T05:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FellowshipoftheBling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@FellowshipoftheBling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FellowshipoftheBling)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/1 "2005-03-20T05:54:16Z")
Could you guys possibly get some translators that are the least bit into it?! i mean seriously, ive heard hotter talk at one of grandmas recipe swapping parties. Oh also, if you would, when a movie has more than two actors could you please not use the same two people to do every single voice? I had no idea Jenna Jameson and Kobe Tai both sounded exactly like a middle aged bored mexican woman. The guy is even worse, he has one regular voice for the “protagonist” and he just makes funny voices for every other guy. Im sorry but a bored mexican porn star fucking a guy making clown noises is right under monkey torture on my list of turn ons. Speaking of Mexicans, not every latino living in the US happens to be mexican, some of us don’t know the mexican slang words for the naughty bits (what the fuck is a “panocha” anyways? if i had to live by one rule it would be “when someone tells you to lick something in a foreign language make sure you know what the hell they are talking about first”). I refuse to involve a dictionary or thesaurus in my sex life unless a naughty librarian is also part of the fantasy. How about subtitles guys? that would be just swell with me. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/2 "2005-03-20T06:48:09Z")
You play p0rn with the volume UP? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/3 "2005-03-20T07:05:10Z")
This is the funniest thing I’ve read in The Pit in a good, long while, and I may need to seek out Spanish Playboy just to hear the atrocious voice acting. This, for example, cracks me right up: > [@](#): > > Im sorry but a bored mexican porn star fucking a guy making clown noises is right under monkey torture on my list of turn ons. Bozo Goes To Tijuana! Bozo gets Banned from the Monkey Enclosure! Bozo Violates the Mann Act with a Greyhound Bus! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/4 "2005-03-20T07:18:49Z")
Bozo, the naughty monkey, gets a spanking! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/5 "2005-03-20T08:19:41Z")
Is that the channel where all the women wear bumblebee outfits? “¡Ay, las tetas son grandes!” ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/6 "2005-03-20T08:22:45Z")
> [@FellowshipoftheBling](#): > > if i had to live by one rule it would be “when someone tells you to lick something in a foreign language make sure you know what the hell they are talking about first” That’s the best rule I’ve seen in quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/7 "2005-03-20T08:31:43Z")
“Estoy aqui para reparar el cable…” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/8 "2005-03-20T10:01:08Z")
You get Spanish Playboy? How? Do you live in some Spanish-speaking country? 'Cause, see, I’m trying to learn some Spanish, and I’ve got my Pimsleur CDs, and I’ve got some textbooks, and I’m watching the telenovelas sometimes, but I bet I’d do better with something where I can predict the dialogue a little better. 😉 Plus, you never know, I might go to Mexico someday and I might really, really need to know what a “panocha” is. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/9 "2005-03-20T12:27:30Z")
> [@FellowshipoftheBling](#): > > . . . grandmas recipe swapping parties. . . . what the fuck is a “panocha” anyways? Panocha=breaking bread / sex / cunnilingus"? Swapping parties? Grandmothers? Sounds like fun! ---
**Author:** ![FellowshipoftheBling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@FellowshipoftheBling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FellowshipoftheBling)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/10 "2005-03-20T14:47:46Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > You get Spanish Playboy? How? Do you live in some Spanish-speaking country? 'Cause, see, I’m trying to learn some Spanish, and I’ve got my Pimsleur CDs, and I’ve got some textbooks, and I’m watching the telenovelas sometimes, but I bet I’d do better with something where I can predict the dialogue a little better. 😉 Plus, you never know, I might go to Mexico someday and I might really, really need to know what a “panocha” is. I live in Orlando, FL. I got it as part of the spanish channels package on the local cable company. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/11 "2005-03-20T15:03:51Z")
Apropos of nothing, there is a _very_ funny scene in the (otherwise serious) film _Jesus of Montreal_ by Denys Arcand, depicting a couple of middle-aged actors dubbing a porno into French, and really getting into it. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/12 "2005-03-20T16:26:54Z")
> [@FellowshipoftheBling](#): > > what the fuck is a “panocha” anyways? ¡Buenas panochas, señor! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/13 "2005-03-20T16:38:54Z")
(a) On the issue of lack of variety of voice-actors: Hey, it’s not just porn. In mainstream TV, the dubs for the US “Hispanic” market (Telemundo and Univisión) of American movies and TV also suffer from the phenomenon of “two guys and two gals in a room in LA or Miami play _every single possible character_”. (b) “panocha” = hoohah, in SDMBese. _VERY_ Mexican rendition © Considering that (1) as of last count, US “Hispanics” of Mexican descent still outnumber the combined Puerto Rican/Cuban/Dominican/South American contingent, and (2) the Porn Industry is centered in Southern California, so it’s easiest and cheapest to find Mexican dub-voicers; it’ll be a while before you have some other dialect used for the dubbing. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/14 "2005-03-20T16:55:41Z")
> [@FellowshipoftheBling](#): > > How about subtitles guys? that would be just swell with me. You watch porn for the articles? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/15 "2005-03-21T02:23:46Z")
BTW, a couple of years back, NuTech a startup importer of Hentai (pornographic) Anime decided that their big sales gimmick would be that they would have “real American porn stars” do the voice dubs for US releases. They even went as far as to put credits and pictures of the said performers on the box covers. Now, let’s pause and think about that a moment. The young ladies featured in American porn videos have many talents and attributes, but they are most definitely NOT hired based on how they do dialog. It’s a fortunate thing that, porn being porn, most of the dubs consist of replacing “Japanese” squeaky yelping with “English” groaning moans. Because, oy, it was painful. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/16 "2005-03-21T02:56:05Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > “Estoy aqui para reparar el cable…” “Usted puede imaginarse adonde va de aquí.” “él fija el cable?” “No sea fatuo, Jeffrey.” (The preceding reference was translated via Babelfish.) ---
**Author:** ![FellowshipoftheBling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/47e85d/32.png) [@FellowshipoftheBling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FellowshipoftheBling)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/17 "2005-03-21T03:57:47Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > (a) On the issue of lack of variety of voice-actors: Hey, it’s not just porn. In mainstream TV, the dubs for the US “Hispanic” market (Telemundo and Univisión) of American movies and TV also suffer from the phenomenon of “two guys and two gals in a room in LA or Miami play _every single possible character_”. The funniest part is that its the same guys who do the regular movie translations on the other spanish channels. I recognized them instantly from Univision or telemundo. > [@](#): > > (b) “panocha” = hoohah, in SDMBese. _VERY_ Mexican rendition Well good to know! I thought they where talking about some sort of pastry. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/18 "2005-03-21T04:15:54Z")
> [@](#): > > The young ladies featured in American porn videos have many talents and attributes, but they are most definitely NOT hired based on how they do dialog. One of the funniest hires was Asia Carrera. And the producers worsened the situation by having her voice Asian characters. Carrera’s an attractive and intelligent women and her mother is Japanese. But she was born and raised in the US and speaks with a New Jersey accent. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/19 "2005-03-21T09:29:37Z")
No soy un muchacho de pizza! Estoy aqui para tu culo! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398/20 "2005-03-21T10:19:59Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > (a) On the issue of lack of variety of voice-actors: Hey, it’s not just porn. In mainstream TV, the dubs for the US “Hispanic” market (Telemundo and Univisión) of American movies and TV also suffer from the phenomenon of “two guys and two gals in a room in LA or Miami play _every single possible character_”. I don’t have Playboy channel, and in fact I think that the local channels here have it in its original English. They (correctly) figured that nobody watches porn for the Shakespearean wisdom. However, as my neighbor to the east notes, that is a problem that goes beyond Playboy. There is a particular fellow who voices over, let’s see, Peter Jennings, main character in a saucy Brazilian soap opera, Sir David Attenborough, assorted characters in children TV and many more. It is trully disturbing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-playboy-channel/295398.md?page=2)