The 6 Most American Things That Aren't Made in America
Many of the great symbols of Liberty we Americans cherish are actually not American at all. The Statue of Liberty is French, the hot dog is mostly Mexican cat and in 2001, China sold us half a Boeing 767's worth of American flags. Here are 28 more examples, but I might only type six since last week was our nation's birthday and I blew off most of my American fingers with fireworks made in Hong Kong.
Most of our beloved classic video games come from Japan, but America has generated its own fair share of kickass titles. For example, here's a shot from the American-developed Target: Terror.

Yeah, it's a game about a coed group of terrorists attacking an airport/exploding barrel storage with chainsaws and flamethrowers because that's how we goddamn do it in America. Oh, and we can also end our words in consonants. Jealous much, Japan?
Japan isn't jealous at all. In 2004, they released Metal Wolf Chaos, the most American video game of all time. The plot was ripped from today's headlines, specifically this one: President of U.S. Fucks Country in Face From Inside Awesome Robot Suit. I can never tell when Japan is making fun of us, but Metal Wolf Chaos begins when the Vice President takes control of the military by loudly hating freedom and the only one left to stop him is President Mike Wilson. As soon as he hears about the trouble, President Wilson gets into his Presidential Power Armor and front-flip rocket jumps out of the White House. To make sure you understand how little of a shit this game gives, here's what robot jump rockets do to a White House:

I've never seen anyone understand what it's like to be American more than the makers of Metal Wolf Chaos, and I once watched a man die during a pie eating contest from alcohol poisoning. Also, like most Americans, the game is way more awesome than it is correct. It used Clinton-era graphics in a game about George W. Bush driving a robot, and everyone knows that Bush wasn't even allowed near pinking shears without a 2/3 majority approval from Congress. Even if there was a Presidential Robosuit, and fuck you if there isn't, they would have kept Bush away from it by labeling it "book." Plus, the only person patient enough to teach George W. Bush how to pilot a mech was killed by the Romans 2,000 years ago. I guess my point is that it's troubling how careless Japan is about mixing robots and the retarded. There's only one way that combination of things can end: Americanly.
I'm not always sure what makes something American, but I know it when I see it, and nothing says America like choosing to have a throbbing erection even after your body refuses to give you one. I know a lot of you foreign people are thinking, Why would Americans need boner pills when they're surrounded by all those breast implants? Well, I'll let you in on a secret: 60 percent of us think the best form of exercise is signing petitions to get the obesity classification raised. Sure, everyone feels the same when you turn out the lights and put a punctured bathroom stall between them and you, but 80 pounds of digested beef still fucks up a body's normal sexual chemistry. And that's why we invented Viagra, right?
Viagra was actually invented in England. Which is weird because hard-ons and money used to be our thing. Plus, you don't normally expect something as elegant as take-a-pill-get-a-boner from U.K. scientists. If they sat down to cure erectile dysfunction, you'd expect something more along the lines of a chewing gum that inflates into a vagina when hit with a watch laser. This whole boner pill thing was probably a lab accident made by British engineers trying to get a deployable bridge and a fish scaler to grow out of your dick.
Viagra is now so common in America that walking by a drugstore gives you a contact erection. Those British biochemists have helped more unattractive women get laid than good personalities and moonshine combined. Before this pill came along, we had to pick between our two favorite Liberties: The Right to Bear Pizza and The Right to Bear Boners. Now, our nation's biggest assholes write entire books about doing both at the same time. I'll never forgive you for that, England.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, described here, is very foreign. He came here from Austria decades ago to pursue a career as a body builder, and he's shown us that while exercise is great for the body, it's terrible for the accent. Arnold has been in this country for 11 years longer than Chris Farley was alive, and the man still sounds like an Austrian patient screaming for his dentist to stop. He was in charge of an entire state, but if you ask him which one, the sounds that come out of his mouth don't correspond to any map. He says "California" like a cab driver spelling a fart sound.
Despite his heritage, Arnold is so American that he bleeds dipping sauce. You know how Americans like to say stupid shit right before and after we kill someone? Arnold practically invented that. Before Arnold, we thought gun control was a violation of our Second Amendment rights. Now we know that gun control is just what you call it when a guy can keep firing an M60 while throwing stars hit him. We elected him governor based only on the qualification that the other candidates hadn't made Commando, Predator, Terminator and Running Man. He didn't invent the American tradition of putting the least qualified person in charge, but he totally perfected it.
Studies have shown that the average American man thinks about sex 78 percent of every second, and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are based on the other 37 percent. And speaking of numbers, Arnold impregnated his family's housekeeper and she was a three. Why? Fuck your why -- Americans do stuff because we can, not because of math.

Sorry, Sub-Zeroes, but if I ever met someone named Sub-Zero, I'd count on the judge being lenient based on how sweet it would be to kill you and then say this. Same goes for anyone named Spencer Pratt.
Yes! Arnold is such a man that every pair of his underwear has to be individually cleaned with a rape kit before it can be thrown away.

Speaking of divorce, Arnold's real wife probably knew he impregnated the housekeeper when she saw the ejaculation exit wounds on her back.

The fact that his brain didn't stop his mouth from saying that is why I love this great American so much.

Ugh. You know, on second thought: Go back to Germany, asshole!









Okay, I usually go out of my way to not be the guy that just quotes articles in the comments verbatim... but "He says 'California' like a cab driver spelling a fart sound" forced me to look away from the article for about a minute to avoid laughing so loudly that I got fired.
ReplyAnd I'm on lunch right now. Outside my work place. That's how much I was laughing.
Actually, Viagra was invented by 2 scientists. A british one and an Albanian one. Just wanted to clear that up
ReplyAs a Brit, I feel terrible knowing that we were responsible for Godek. This must be how Germans feel when the Holocaust is mentioned, only worse.
ReplyYeah, I thought my people and yours could put our past differences behind us and be good neighbours, but if you lot are responsible for Godek I'm afraid I'm gonna have to join the IRA. Which sucks because those rebel songs get stuck in my head worse than 90s novelty pop.
I seem to recall reading that, when the pathologically insular Japan of the Shogun era finally got a surprise visit from Westerners in a ship way more impressive than anything their navy had, they countered by hastily replacing all the men in the village where these worrying intruders would most likely land with sumo wrestlers, on the basis that if the foreigners thought the entire population of Japan were built like this, their totally unfair floating Death Star would sink from the weight of all those involuntary trouserpoos.
ReplyIt's true that intimidating dodgy foreigners with a horde of terrifyingly aggressive fat people has never been an official part of American foreign policy, but surely it's the most archetypally American thing anyone could possibly ever do? And Japan did it first.
Strangely, it didn't work. Though if they'd stuck to their guns and dropped dropped high-velocity screaming near-nude fat men instead of bombs on Pearl Harbour, the psychological impact might have been such that WWII would have had an entirely different ending. I don't necessarily approve, I'm just saying.
Also, the fatter you are, the bigger the negative carbon footprint you create when you hit the ground at terminal velocity, whether for tactical purposes or just because somebody thought that throwing fatties out of planes was kind of funny. Again, I don't necessarily approve - just saying...
you may not approve, but i certainly do.
hah...trouserpoos
Could have included the national flag, have seen a load with made in china printed/sewn into it
Replyyeah he mentioned that, right up there in the beginning
Was going to read the article but annoyed about the depiction of British scientists. UK scientists are some of the best in the world and as a group don't deserve Seanbaby's bewildering scorn. :(
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesThis is a comedy site you hypersensitive twat. Regardless of what UK scientist have done, no group in the history of mankind is above being made fun of. If you are incapable of handling jokes like this without being annoyed then I would recommend that you keep your sad, humorless ass out of the comedy section of the internet.
@Somnolent He was just kidding, he doesn't actually look down on UK scientists. Seanbaby's articles don't have enough discrimination for us to take that joke seriously.
@robot_mystic. If you came to this comedy site with the intention of flaming people for not understanding the concept of satire, do keep reading articles, because I think you might need a strong dose of humor to get over that giant chip in your shoulder. Or, in your words, 'If you are incapable of handling comments like this without being annoyed then I would recommend that you keep your sad, humorless... Count Dracula face out of the comments section of the internet.' *juvenile snickering*
What's wrong with you? I'm from the UK and love our scientific heritage but come on.. That was hilarious!
1 out of 10 British scientists thought that was f*****g hilarious.
Wait... all of America is fit? There aren't any obese? What happened to the 1/3 stats overrall, and 1/2 in redneck territory...?
ReplyCan you video yourself this coming Christmas? I'd love to see you unwrapping your sense of humor.
This comment made me cry a little.
Even if there was a Presidential Robosuit, and f**k you if there isn't, they would have kept Bush away from it by labeling it "book." HA!
ReplySince you continue to provide excellent content, you will not be destroyed.
ReplyA more interesting article (but impossible to write) would be "6 things made in America that don't fall apart after opening the package".
Replylol thats so wrong.
Every single Seanbaby article I look at has that ad for knives, Google has decided to permanently associate Seanbaby with "Weapons"
ReplyMotherfuckin' Bagger 288!
ReplyDidn't McCain escape from Hanho Heung-Up?
ReplyBroken Pixels to Cracked pls.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesYES. Yes, this is a thing which needs to be done.
The committee for the edification of public wellness concurs.
I can masturbate to that idea.
Googling April O'Neil and shakeweight isn't yield satisfactory results.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesThat's the first thing I did too!
Why would you want to watch her do that for an hour?
Only want to watch her do that for about 4 minutes...
Kekeke.... I found her >:3
This was one of, if not the, funniest article I've ever read on Cracked.
ReplyThat f*****g Arnold link
ReplyI ended up wasting 20 minutes on ytmnd
"Eyuuuu! Eyaaaa! huh-huh!"
You know, stuff like #3 makes you wonder what sort of badass s**t the Germans would be making if they had WON two world wars, instead of lost them.
ReplyGas chambers. Definitely more gas chambers.
Look up "Ratte" for a basic idea of what they would have made, had they won WW2.
Anyway, if they had won the first world war, there probably wouldn't have been a second, and I have no idea what Bismarck's boys would have come up with.
So. Effing. Brilliant.
ReplyThe Chuck Norris thing is kinda funny considering that he learned martial arts while stationed in Korea (he was an Air Force cop), so even his roundhouse kicks might be Korean!
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesIt's even funnier because he's a mediocre martial artist.
GaryOak is an idiot, and es, Chuck learned Tang Soo Do, which is what I unintentionally studied. TANG SOO!
From 1964 to 1968, Chuck won many State, National, and International amateur karate titles. In 1968, Chuck fought and won the World Professional Middle Weight Karate championships by defeating the World's Top Fighters. He held that title until 1974 when he retired undefeated. In 1968, Chuck was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame as Fighter of the Year. In 1975, he was inducted as Instructor of the Year and in 1977.
Bad jokes aside, he was a skilled martial artist, even if he rarely went beyond the basics in his movies.