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36 Jokes You Missed in Movies and TV Shows If You Only Speak English

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36 Jokes You Missed in Movies and TV Shows If You Only Speak English

September 07, 2023

If you only speak English, you probably understand 99 percent of American-made media. But there may be the occasional things that slip by. The fact is, non-English Easter eggs are quite common in English language TV and movies. For example, in Deadpool, there is an Easter egg hidden in the Chinese characters of a rooftop sign.

So what are you waiting for? Scroll down to learn about some hilarious jokes you would totally miss if you only speak English…

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36 Jokes You Missed in Movies and TV Shows If You Only Speak English — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In the Frasier episode An Affair To Forget, German- and Spanish-speaking viewers were laughing far sooner than others. Frasier mistranslates wife to shoes, and an epic fencing duel ensues. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In Bojack Horseman, after Diane divorces Mr. Peanutbutter, she moves into Le Triste Apartments. LeTriste APARTMENT 000 Triste is French for sad. Also, Mr. Peanutbutter later cheats on his new girlfriend with Diane in that apartment, so it's probably also an allusion to a tryst (a secret meeting between lovers). CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Deadpool 2

The neon Chinese sign on the rooftop in Deadpool 2 literally translates to deadpool. THIS SKEE LIS Flipped image II II Deadpool CRACKED.COM the the — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In the Futurama episode The Honking, Bender runs screaming after he sees the number 1010011010 form in a haunted house. 1919911919 1010011010 is 666 in binary. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In Hercules, Phil says: Two words: I am retired. It's not a miscounting gag. When translated to Greek, the character's native language, it is two words. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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ANCHORMAN CRACKED.co THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY The women of Channel 4 have a ladies night at a Mexican Restaurant called Escupimos en su Alimento... OPEN ANACOS 7Dave WILCOME Escupimos Alimento en su BIENVENDOS which translates to We spit on your food. — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In the opening of Carpenter's THE THING [19821, a Norwegian man tries to warn MacReady and his crew about the dog. He shouts before getting shot... Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje, det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en bikkje, det er ikke virkelig! Kom dere vekk, idioter! Which translates to: Get the hell outta there. That's not a dog, it's some sort Of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away, you idiots! CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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CRACKED COM In this early work by Trey Parker, there's a Native tribe called the Nihonjin. CANNIBAL? THE MUSICAL Nihonjin is the Japanese word for Japanese people, referencing that all of the Natives in the film are played by Japanese actors. — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In the Family Guy episode German Guy, Chris meets a German named Franz Gutentag (German for good day) who turns out to be whose CRACKED.COM a Nazi real last name is Schlechtnacht (German for bad night). — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In a dream sequence from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Willow paints on Tara's back what seems a string of unintelligible characters. It's actually a love poem in ancient Greek by Sappho. The poet the island of Lesbos is a well known symboloflove and desire between women. This is how the poem goes... Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite! Child of Zeus, Enchantress, limplore thee Slay me not in this distress and anguish, Lady of f beauty. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Peggy Hill (a substitute Spanish teacher) being very confident, yet very terrible at speaking Spanish is a long running joke on KING OF HILL THE A recurring expression of Peggy's is Escuchame? which she uses to mean GRAGKEUcom Excuse me? but any Spanish speaker knows it actually means Listen to me, a fitting catchphrase for Peggy. — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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A Fish Called Wanda

A FISH CALLED WANDA In the dog funeral scene, you can hear the choir sing 'Miserere dominus, miserere dominus, canis mortuus est'. In Latin, the phrase means: 'O Lord, have mercy, the dog died.' CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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CRACKED.COM The 2017 Beauty and the Beast has this exchange: Gaston: She's the only girl that gives me that sense of... LeFou: Hm, je ne sais quoi? Gaston: I don't know what that means. BEATITY BLAST AND THE Je ne sais quoi? is French for I don't know what. Also, Gaston is French, so he should know what it means. — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In Friends S8E17, Ross wears a shirt with what looks like a random hand gesture. CENTRAL DT W w It's not. In American Sign Language, that means friend. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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36 Jokes You Missed in Movies and TV Shows If You Only Speak English — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In the South Park song Let's Fighting Love, the lyric mistaken for kickassu is actually kenka suru, 'Japanese for quarrelling or squabbling. The rest of the Japanese lyrics are either admitting to how stupid the song is or talking about the singer's genitals. (Perhaps foreshadowing for the public nudity incident later in Good Times With Weapons, the episode the song is from?) CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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In AMERICAN DAD, Steve gets shouted at in a drug lab: LAVATE LAS MANOS! which he repeats vigorously, thinking it's a spell. Actually it's Spanish for: WASH YOUR HANDS! Not so magical. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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KING OF HILL THE In the episode ''De-Kahnstructing Henry, Kahn is speaking French on the phone while at work. Only French-speakers would notice that Kahn was talking about riding bikes, not work. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Jeremy Jamm's wall decor reflects his level of appreciation of Chinese culture. ttk In Parks and Rec, Jeremy Jamm's Chinese poster says North Korea in Japanese. Pretty appropriate for someone who says, I love Chinese crap. Lucy Liu, 'Gangnam Style, sushi, etcetera etcetera. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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South Park

Mr. Garrison's alphabet is hiding an angry message. In two South Park episodes, Chickenlover and Ike's Wee Wee, the alphabet actually says, Dios Mio han matado ha (sic) Kenny, Bastardos, or, in Spanish, Oh my God they killed Kenny, you bastards! CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Rick and Morty really, really rubbed it in for Jerry in Season 3. 55 Not only does the wind whisper loser when he's around, but spineless, insecure Jerry wears a robe with a Chinese symbol that means weak. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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CRACKEDo COM The Good Place Jason Mendoza's fake name in Michael's Good Place is Jianyu Li. In Traditional Chinese, jianyu li is roughly in prison, a subtle hint at Season One's big twist. — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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CRACKED.co COM The AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Gumball and Darwin end up in a timeline where everyone speaks German in an angry tone. What the characters are saying (translated): Ich geh gern ins Diskothek! a like to go to the nightclub!) Keine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzunga auf der Autobahn! (No speed limit on the highway!) — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Serenity mocks itself. The chant USED to turn off River is a Russian idiom meaning this is ridiculous. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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Apparently, Godzilla ravaged the world of Jurassic Park. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, there's a shot of terrified Japanese businessmen running from the rampaging T-Rex, shouting in Japanese, We left Tokyo to get away from this! CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Homeland

CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #blacklivesmatter Homeland is racist I A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting. — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Gravity Falls' Latin gibberish contains scathing pop culture criticism. The fake Latin incantation Dipper uses to enter Stan's mind includes the phrase Inceptus Nolanus overratus, or, Nolan's Inception is overrated. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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The alien UI in Guardians of the Galaxy recognizes a legendary Earth creator. tick STATES RECESSRES He 7345 trogen his When Rocket Raccoon him, zooms in on the word Excelsior! appears in the Skrull language next to Stan Lee. And, amazingly, it took four years for anyone to notice this detail. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Your father smelled of elderberries is an insult spoken in Game of Thrones. In Season 4, the champion that Meereen sends out to challenge Dany's champion subjects Dany to a barrage of insults. What he's really saying, in Low Valyrian, are the French soldier's insults from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: fart in your general direction, Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person, etc. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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CRACKED.COM For restaurant names, Frasier used absurd French nonsense. For example, there's Le Cigare Volant, or The Flying Cigar ...Couer du Singe, or Heart of the Monkey... ... andQuelqueChose,orSomething. or — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Liz Lemon's favorite cheese snacks in 30 Rock have the saddest flavor in the world. DIOT DISHIN SABOR 101 SOLED Their name is Sabor de Soledad, or in Spanish, Taste of Loneliness. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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In Wonder Woman, Diana's response to Chief's introduction is really underwhelming. When he shakes Diana's hand, Chief tells her in the Blackfoot language that he's the trickster demigod Napi. Diana replies, And I'm Diana. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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Silicon Valley trolled its own hardcore fans. 1100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 1100010 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101011 01100101 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01 100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01100010 01111001 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01 0111 01101111 01100100 00100111 1110011 00100000 01110011 01101011 01100101 01100110 01101001 01101110 .00 e100000 1100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 310 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 111 01101111 01100100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 801 01101011 01100101 In the fifth season's trailer, Gavin Belson speaks in front of — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eggsy asks for the code to open Princess Tilde's jail cell so he can take her up on her offer to do it in the *hole. The code is Twenty-six, Twenty-five. Kingsman 1 2 3 ABC OFF THE SECRET SERVICE 4 5 6 OHI JKL MNO On an alphabetical keypad,. 9 2625 can be translated to anal. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)

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A Rugrats Chanukah snuck in an adult joke for anyone who knows Hebrew. 2018 CUT RATE The sign on this storefront: says mohel. A mohel is a Jewish circumcision specialist. CRACKED.COM — Source: 13 Movie And TV Jokes You'll Miss If You Only Speak English

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