When the movie Wayne's World was released in Latin America, a lot of the film's American idiom and idiosyncratic language didn't translate well, if at all. As a result, many of the phrases and expressions were translated into something very different in the subtitles or dubbing.
For example, when Wayne exclaimed (much to my amusement, which is a shame with which I must forever deal) "Shyaaa! And monkeys might fly out of my butt!" it got changed to, "Yes, when Judgment Day comes," or "Si, cuándo llegue el dÃa del juicio."
What I don't get is why it was felt that Spanish speakers would find the image of monkeys flying from someone's butt any less comprehensible or immediately interpretable as indicating a highly unlikely event than Anglophones would. I'm enormously curious now about how that phrase got translated in other languages when the movie was released elsewhere.
Most amusing, as really dumb things frequently are.
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bearman said
Isn't that the third sign of the apocalypse? Monkeys flying out of some guy named Wayne's butt?
May 23, 2002 1:24 PM
Shannon said
Almost as funny are the overdubs that those "parental control" boxes use. In Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. is asking for his wallet, the overdub says, "It's the one that says Bad Clown."
May 23, 2002 6:06 PM
eyeballkid said
To me monkeys flying out of one's butt is less like Judgement Day and more like the Rapture.
May 23, 2002 7:11 PM
Burningbird said
Chicky baby, you have this thing about butts. It leads those of us who are your friends to worry about your mental health, and general outlook in life.
Let's see if we understand the roots of all this butt/monkey/Judgement Day stuff.
Were you breast fed when you were a baby?
You were? Good. Good.
Your Mom's or your Dad's?
May 23, 2002 10:19 PM
stavrosthewonderchicken said
(covers incipient manboobies)
*Ponders making possibly nausea-inducing remark about 'man-milk', then discards same as potentially injurious to his reputation as an upstanding member of the Blog U faculty.*
May 24, 2002 4:00 AM
Abie said
Insightful. Seriously. That's the kind of bent pointedness that keeps me coming back for the chickeny stavro-goodness.
May 24, 2002 6:33 PM
stavrosthewonderchicken said
Thanks, Abie. 'Bent pointedness' is a pretty apt description of the StWC Experience, I think ...
May 25, 2002 12:31 AM
Shannon said
What, you have your own experience, now? Who are you, friggin' Jimi Hendrix?
May 25, 2002 1:37 PM
stavrosthewonderchicken said
Are you Experienced?
May 25, 2002 4:37 PM
Shannon said
C'mon now. You know Jimi liked white girls.
May 25, 2002 7:29 PM