# Will the Japanese ever stop being hilarious?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 26, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959 "2006-10-26T10:28:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959/1 "2006-10-26T10:28:07Z")

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By the 3rd or 4th phrase, when I realized they were not only teaching English through young women doing aerobics but _useful phrases for getting robbed_, I entered a fit of uncontrollable laughter that began long ago and ended only recently.

[Must see.](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2731513?loomia_si=1)

(Might not be SFW if your work doesn’t like young women in 2-piece aerobics gear / also some screencaps of girls in bikinis on the page that you load the video from)

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959/2 "2006-10-26T10:36:48Z")

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The “Let’s Go Dutch!” made it sound as if they were rooting for the Netherlands in a soccer match.

Pretty damn funny.

Robin

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**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959/3 "2006-10-26T11:44:11Z")

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There are more episodes posted on youtube.

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**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959/4 "2006-10-26T19:05:54Z")

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Now, that’s actually very clever, to connect learning phrases in another language with body movements. A great way to retain the information.

“Spare me my life!” was pretty weird, though.

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**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959/5 "2006-10-26T22:32:08Z")

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…for a country that is terrified of using English while speaking to english speakers… there was a surprising amount of “Learning English” shows on Japanese tv.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-japanese-ever-stop-being-hilarious/377959/6 "2006-10-26T22:47:34Z")

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Still less hilarious than Algorithm March + Ninjas:

[http://tvinjapan.com/blog/2006/05/14/algorithm-march-ninjas/](http://tvinjapan.com/blog/2006/05/14/algorithm-march-ninjas/)

And that is just morning TV for kids! 😃 (Safe for work, just a fun song to show what an algorithm is)