33 Jokes Those Only Speaking English Missed
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You know how the old joke goes by now: What do you call someone who knows three languages? Trilingual! What do you call someone who knows two languages? Bilingual! And what do you call someone who only knows one language? American!
It’s true, many of us reading this right now are guilty of only knowing English. And in our defense, it’s pretty easy to navigate the world that way. Obviously we’re missing out on a lot of things with our ignorance, but for the sake of this list, the most important of those things is jokes hidden in movies and TV shows! Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, for example, is chock-full of jokes that your college roommate probably quoted incessantly, but you both probably missed the Spanish gag on a sign for a Mexican restaurant!
Of course, maybe you’re smart, know a ton of languages and caught all of these jokes the first time around. Congratulations! You’re better than the rest of us, I guess.
Iron Man 2
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Iron Man 2 Fireworks Whiplash tells Hammer the drones he created can make salute. Salyut is Russian for fireworks - exactly what the drones end up becoming. 961 961 961 CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/9/863719.jpg)
Rampage
![33 Jokes Those Only Speaking English Missed](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/6/863716.gif)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Frasier
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/7/863717.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Bojack Horseman
![In Bojack Horseman, after Diane divorces Mr. Peanutbutter, she moves into Le Triste Apartments. Le Triste APARTMIOTTE 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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/8/863718.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Deadpool 2
![The neon Chinese sign on the rooftop in Deadpool 2 literally translates to deadpool. Flipped image = Deadpool CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/4/863714.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Futurama
![In the Futurama episode The Honking, Bender runs screaming after he sees the number 1010011010 form in a haunted house. ١٩١٩٩١١٩١٩ 1010011010 is 666 in binary. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/5/863715.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Hercules
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/3/863713.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Anchorman
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Anchorman We spit in your food. A Mexican restaurant is called Escupimos en su alimento, Spanish for We spit in your food. Classy, San Diego. OPEN 7 Days WELCOME HONGOS Escupimos en su Alimento 50 CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/2/863712.jpg)
The Lego Movie
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lego Movie octopus Tuesday! Lord Business' Taco Tuesday is about the octopus-like TAKOS machine - and as it turns out, tako is Japanese for octopus. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/1/863711.jpg)
Mulan
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Mulan Eye candy The fake name Mulan gives, Fa Ping, translates flower vase -a term roughly equivalent to eye candy, which is exactly what she's meant to be at the beginning. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/1/0/863710.jpg)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lord World: Jurassic Park I left Japan to get away from this! The screams of a Japanese man running from the rampaging T-rex reference another city- destroying dinosaur, who is really big in Japan. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/9/863709.jpg)
The Thing
![In the opening of Carpenter's THE THING (1982), a Norwegian man tries to warn MacReady and his crew about the dog. Не shouts before getting shot... Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje, det er en slags ting! Det Limiterer en bikkje, det er ikke virkelig! Кот 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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/8/863708.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
![In a dream sequence from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Willow paints on Tara's back what seems a string of unintelligible AAO characters. ОХЛО IZZOMAI SAIZM It's actually a love poem in ancient Greek by Sappho. The poetfrom the island of Lesbos is a well known symbol of love and desire between women. This is how the poem goes... Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite! Child of Zeus, Enchantress, l'implore thee Slay me not in this distress and anguish, Lady of beauty. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/7/863707.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
King of the Hill
![Peggy Hill (a substitute Spanish teacher) being very confident, yet very terrible at speaking Spanish is a long running joke on KING OFF HILL A recurring expression of Peggy's is Escuchame? which she uses to mean CRACKED.COM Excuse me? but any Spanish speaker knows it actually means Listen to me, a fitting catchphrase for Peggy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/5/863705.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
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.' GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/6/863706.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Homeland
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots لو منور كافكا Homeland Homeland is watermelon. The show hired people who knew Arabic to decorate a set with graffiti. The artists decided to write what they really thought of Homeland, like, This show does not represent the views of the artists, or Homeland is watermelon (which in Arabic is meaner than in English). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/9/863699.jpg)
Game of Thrones
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Game of Thrones Your mother was a hamster! The Mereenese champion who challenges Daenerys and her army in Season 4 speaks Valyrian and not French, but his taunts come straight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/4/863704.jpg)
Adventure Time
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Adventure Time DO you wanna try gettin' some, Finn? Lady Rainicorn keeps making saucy remarks in Korean. Other dirty jokes include, Come on, my darling. Wrap your legs around me, and, Jake and | merge our bodies into one all the time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/6/863696.jpg)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Hunchback of Notre Dame It is my fault. As Frollo sings It's not my fault the chorus sings mea culpa, Latin for my most grievous fault. The entire chanting is from the Confiteor - a prayer of recognition of sin, and desperate forgiveness from it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/5/863695.jpg)
Beauty and the Beast
![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. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Je ne sais quoi? is French for I don't know what. Also, Gaston is French, so he should know what it means.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/7/863697.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Friends
![In Friends S8E17, Ross wears a shirt with what looks like a random hand gesture. CENTRAL P W It's not. In American Sign Language, that means friend. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/1/863691.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
My Name Is Earl
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Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
South Park
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/2/863692.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Cannibal! The Musical
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots cannibal! The Musical This is a really stupid movie! The Indians are all Japanese, speaking Japanese. Various phrases they say: Nani itto n jaa, omee? (What the heck are you saying?) and Ike. Kono eiga ga suggoi baka na eiga da na! (Go. This is a really stupid movie!). CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/0/863690.jpg)
Phineas and Ferb
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Phineas and Ferb Trash can Hotel In the episode Summer Belongs to You! Phineas and Ferb stay at Hotel La Poubelle - French for trash can. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/8/863698.jpg)
Academy Awards (2019)
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots 2019 Academy Awards White people don't know I'm lying. In ixiXhosa, Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka. Translated by Noah while presenting the award for Black Panther as, In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/0/863700.jpg)
King Kong
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots King Kong show me the monkey. The ship Carl Denham is traveling on receives a message ordering Denham's arrest - but what the Morse code beeps actually spell is, SHOW ME THE MONKEY. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/1/863701.jpg)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/2/863702.jpg)
The Good Place
![CRACKED.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.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/7/0/3/863703.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
The Amazing World of Gumball
![CRACKED.COM The AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL Gumball and Darwin end up in a timeline where everyone speaks German in an angry tone. 19008 What the characters are saying (translated): Ich geh gern ins Diskothek! (I like to go to the nightclub!) Keine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung auf der Autobahn! (No speed limit on the highway!)](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/863688.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Kingsman: The Secret Service
![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 a**hole. The code is Twenty-six, Twenty-five. Kingsman 1 2 3 ABC DEF 4 5 6 THE SECRET SERVICE GHI JKL MNO On an alphabetical keypad, 9 WXYZ 2625 can be translated 0 to anal. # . CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/4/863694.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)
Serenity
![Serenity mocks itself. The chant used to turn off River is a Russian idiom meaning this is ridiculous. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/863689.jpg)
Source: 23 Movie And Show Jokes (Hidden In Foreign Languages)