Japan Should Name Everything
America's national embarrassment (or treasure, depending on who you ask) has made its way over to the magical land of Japan, because there's a whole group of people there who have yet to experience herpes of the eyes and the pharmaceutical companies have bills to pay, dammit! So, of course, they can't call that mess Jersey Shore, because the Japanese have no idea what that is. And I guess Syphilis Shore and Jacuzzi Full of Kamikaze Barf doesn't really translate, so they went with, "MTV Jersey Shore〜マカロニ野郎のニュージャージー・ライフ〜" which translates into "MTV Jersey Shore -- the New Jersey life of macaroni rascals." MACARONI RASCALS!
This is the best thing to come out of Jersey Shore since the duck phone! CNNGo explains the name:
Our only guess is that the folks at MTV were looking for a way to translate the Italian-American epithet 'guido' and stumbled upon something more Japanese but equally un-PC. Since this is a family website, we translated 'yaro' (野郎) as 'rascals' but the pejorative word can take on much more R-rated nuances.According to Twitter user Daniel Feit, for all the strangeness of MTV Japan's translation, the term "macaroni rascals" does appear in the Japanese subtitles of the 1972 film "The Godfather." Someone in Programming apparently did their homework.
Macaroni Rascals sounds like the name of some backyard gang Chef Boyardee was in when he was just a little meatball. Macaroni Rascals is also the name of a dirty sex fetish Brit Brit gets into when Daddy Spears is away. When Kirstie Alley's kids come home and wonder who ate their leftover lasagna from The Olive Garden, you know who she blames it on? Yup, the MACARONI RASCALS!
If The Real Housewives ever make it over Japan, I wonder what they will call that mess. Silicone Scoundrels? Foreclosure Fatales?
(Thanks Andrew)
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ROFL! Japan is now on its way to be guidified...
dare I say..JWOWW looks thin and elegant here??! well in contrast to her other signature look, which is fine by me cause under that all-whore exterior she is actually a really nice gal,
How can anyone think that this piece of trash is a nice girl? I don't know how much is scripted in JS but this idiot is a total hypocrite and not able to have a discussion with another person without threatening to punch them in the face or kick their ass. What is nice about that? This girl obviously never learned how to handle her aggressions. She is most likely so mentally challenged that she knows that she would be defeated even by the biggest airhead if she would have to resort to express her opinions only with words. Pure trash!
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Rrridiaouw woo oo rrri-ou!
Submitted by A.cotw on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 2:22am.
Submitted by johnnysgirl on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 1:58am.
Thanks for the combined lesson in linguistics & history. Maccherone e quatro fromaggi will never be the same. :D
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"e quatro fromaggi"? Man, it just keep getting better...the word history, the CHEESiness, the orange coloring - what else can we add to the mix? Some PORK CRACKLIN'?
These fools look like they need the same thing as a crusty plate of dried-up macaroni: some JET DRY!! Maybe a lil Jet Dry can cut through the baked-on caked-on guido-grease. Fuck, i just grossed myself out *squick*
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Submitted by johnnysgirl on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 1:58am.
Thanks for the combined lesson in linguistics & history. Maccherone e quatro fromaggi will never be the same. :D
Oh well. The Japanese have kinky manga,we have trashy reality TV shows. Fair exchange.
In the mid-18th century, the word "Macaroni" was a pejorative term for a young man obsessed with fashion and outlandish hairstyles who affected ridiculous behavior they mistook as fashionable simply because it was foreign (wiki: "Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour adopted the Italian word maccherone – a boorish fool in Italian – and said that anything that was fashionable or à la mode was 'very maccaroni'." More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccaroni_%28fashion%29 (BTW this is where the line "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" comes from in the song "Yankee Doodle")
"Narcissist," "metrosexual," "fashion victim" and "airhead" might list among many possible synonyms for "macaroni" in this context. "Dumbass" too.
I say it's quite apt and I love it! Macaroni Rascals/Bastards it is! Yay! *throws dry elbow macaroni on thread*
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Have an open mind - but not so open that your brain falls out.
Submitted by justice on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 1:36am.
If someone had the foresight to hook them up with a bit of naughty white powder weeks in advance, they wouldn't have been allowed through immigration!
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I doubt Ireland, Italy and Chile could have gotten all their ducks in a row on that, but nevertheless, I feel your pain...:)
LOL!!!
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“Four be the things I'd be better without; love, curiousity, freckles and doubt.”
If someone had the foresight to hook them up with a bit of naughty white powder weeks in advance, they wouldn't have been allowed through immigration!
--thanks awfully--
Submitted by Dgrin on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 1:07am.
dare I say..JWOWW looks thin and elegant here??! well in contrast to her other signature look, which is fine by me cause under that all-whore exterior she is actually a really nice gal,
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JWoww has the Hillary body. Piano legs and cankles galore.
Although if she lost weight she'd have nice legs.
She is by far the prettiest one, but it's not much of a playing field, I'm sure you would agree.
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“Four be the things I'd be better without; love, curiousity, freckles and doubt.”
dare I say..JWOWW looks thin and elegant here??! well in contrast to her other signature look, which is fine by me cause under that all-whore exterior she is actually a really nice gal,
Bukakke Shore
Submitted by stake_spike on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 6:09pm.
Submitted by Miami on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 5:25pm
I think he said 27 when it first aired. I remember him and Paulie D (at 29) being the oldest. Which is pretty fucking sad.
Anyway MTV is reallly exporting the shit out of this no? I mean how the fuck are the translaters going to do this show? Japan doesn't have words like guido or douchebag, and they won't understand what a juiced up gorilla is. Fuck this shit doesn't even translate well into English speaking countries.
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You make some excellent and very hilarious points...I have recently been reading some things about how Japanese and English are so incredibly different in meanings of words, I got many laughs out of it, but we are talking polite conversation!
I wonder if Netflix will have the seasons of Jersey Shore subtitled in Japanese AND English/Japanese?
I'm all for that. I could use the English, anyway, right here in the States.
There's no way they could dub Japanese or any other language, everyone either has gum, cigarettes, cigars, or liquor in their mouth every second of every episode.
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“Four be the things I'd be better without; love, curiousity, freckles and doubt.”
One of my guy friends once made me watch a clip of Japanese girls shitting on surfboards.
I would expect Jersey Shore would be the equivalent for Japanese viewers.
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“Four be the things I'd be better without; love, curiousity, freckles and doubt.”
Why are these asswipes even famous? For getting drunk and having very low self-esteem? They really should take a long hard look in the mirror before they call anyone ugly. IDIOTS!
i've always hated new jersey. the few gems that actually came out of them, had the common sense to get the hell out. the whole state seems unsanitary and to lack a moral ethic.
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l.danielle
Found this: "YARO sounds like YAH ROH. Impolite term for "bastard!". It literally means "farm hand" which in Japan seems to be pretty bad."
Macaroni Bastards! :D
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The blissful power of the belly rub:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CASanctuary#p/u/2/jUFt-2y9sz0
I wanna hear the R-rated translation.
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The blissful power of the belly rub:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CASanctuary#p/u/2/jUFt-2y9sz0
macaroni rascals... makes sense, they are the color of cheddar cheese.
xoxo
l.danielle
@Whiskey I hate her the most! Maybe because she needs a good ass kicking.
Her little tough girl act is old as hell
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Submitted by Lurker on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 7:03pm.
Submitted by Pamela on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 6:51pm
damn girl, you tell it like it is!!!
Lookit Jwoww(wwwwwww), trying to pretend she's all classy n shit...
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"Leavin', on a southern train
Only yesterday, you lied
Promises of what I seemed to be
Only watch the time go by
All of these things you said to me"
Wasnt that a name of a restaurant?
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Submitted by Lurker on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 7:03pm.
Submitted by Pamela on Sun, 06/27/2010 - 6:51pm
damn girl, you tell it like it is!!!
@Stake: I have read the same but I still think this guy is 39 and that is being kind. ;-)
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Jacuzzi Full of Kamikaze Barf ...........
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It sounds like I'll need to be drunk, stoned and suffering from a minor concussion to deal with this fuckery. MK - November 2008
Anyone else think of Dick Tracy-style comic book villians with this bunch? I see Flattop, and Itchy...help me out here....
MK should just cut to the chase and make the tag "Macaroni Bastards."
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milk and cheese - dairy products gone BAD.
Why don't these people go away? They're orange and ugly!
DAMN IT! There goes my dream of living in Japan. A few weeks of Macaroni Rascals and they'll be handing Paris Hilton complementary 8-balls and inviting her to tea with the princess before letting a person with "New Jersey" as their place of birth enter the country.
Urg. GREAT. Another stupid TV program that I will get asked about.
They should have used 不良少年 (deliquents) for these assholes.
I find it revolting that Jersey Shore is about to represent America on international television programming.
I hope the Japanese also get to watch Antiques Roadshow.
That's so hilarious. You've gotta love the Japanese. I've been to Tokyo...one of the coolest cities ever.
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Ha ha, I think MK should create a 'Macaroni Rascals' tag!
if the ho in the other post is to be believed, this could also be a veiled reference to their curved macaroni-sized dicks...Snookie and the other gals will provide the clam sauce.
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Why do these people have money?
Submitted by Miami on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 5:25pm
I think he said 27 when it first aired. I remember him and Paulie D (at 29) being the oldest. Which is pretty fucking sad.
Anyway MTV is reallly exporting the shit out of this no? I mean how the fuck are the translaters going to do this show? Japan doesn't have words like guido or douchebag, and they won't understand what a juiced up gorilla is. Fuck this shit doesn't even translate well into English speaking countries.
Brilliant! i love it.
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"Leavin', on a southern train
Only yesterday, you lied
Promises of what I seemed to be
Only watch the time go by
All of these things you said to me"
Would someone please hold a lighter to that nasty flammable mess on Pauly's head pleeeease? That shit skeeves me out.
Oh god i'd love to see what they come up with for that! Maybe vinegar...uh..um.. damn i wish i was cleverer.
Submitted by parissucksliterally on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 5:31pm.
I guess the Japanese don't have a word for "douchebag"?
lol@Foreclosure Fatales
Thank you, Japan!
Macaroni rascals is fucking epic.
PLEASE make it a new tag, MK.
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MK, I love you like a fat kid loves cake - MissJaneTexas
Makes sense because Snooks is always covered in tomato sauce...
Macaroni Bastards!!!!
Even better!
LOL
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Nothing says "real love" like matching mug shots. -Michael Kay
HA HA HA 野郎 (yaro) means bastard. So this is actually Macaroni Bastards. THAT'S EVEN BETTER!!!
I guess the Japanese don't have a word for "douchebag"?
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He's been pretty much yellow, and I've been kind of blue
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this post is great. made me rofl!!
Coma Caca!
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"Macaroni Rascals sounds like the name of some backyard gang Chef Boyardee was in when he was just a little meatball."
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
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it says "MTV Jersey Shore - Macaroni Rascal's New Jersey Life."
foulness either way you slice it (ahaha). i don't plan to ever watch this show.
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milk and cheese - dairy products gone BAD.
Macaroni rascals...
AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAAAHAAAAAA
So dumb and yet so perfect.
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Nothing says "real love" like matching mug shots. -Michael Kay
Does anyone know the true age of The Sitch? Dude looks like he is pushing forty.
All the cast mates need to beaten with a can of spray tanner.
heh, much better
A bunch of douchebags who should never have been made "famous"