40 Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak One Language

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40 Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak One Language

Weve never regretted goofing off in Spanish class more than while reading these jokes. Actually, since Spanish would only allow us to get a few of these jokes, were contemplating learning all kinds of new languages. By day, well write these fun little pre-list blurbs, but by night, you can catch us in multiple classes for multiple languages. We suggest you do the same. 

Unless you want to keep missing out on a plethora of hilarious jokes in your non-native tongue!

Rick and Morty

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

Rugrats

A Rugrats Chanukah snuck in an adult joke for anyone who knows Hebrew. S CUT RATE MONTE The sign on this storefront says mohel. A mohel is a Jewish circumcision specialist. CRACKED.COM

30 Rock

Liz Lemon's favorite cheese snacks in 30 Rock have the saddest flavor in the world. DIRI DISHING WEEK SABOR DL SOLEDKOJE gA EMMA CRUJENTE Their name is Sabor de Soledad, or in Spanish, Taste of Loneliness. CRACKED.COM

Frasier

CRACKED.COM For restaurant names, Frasier used absurd French nonsense. сем - KO For example, there's Le Cigare Volant, or The Flying Cigar... ...Couer ... du Singe, or Heart of the Monkey... ... and Quelque Chose, or Something.

Guardians of the Galaxy

The alien UI in Guardians of the Galaxy recognizes a legendary Earth creator. CENTRALO Rit EN DE 3733 tac30 EXPRESIONE SH73C You FRET MADE When Rocket Raccoon zooms in on him, 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

American Dad

In AMERICAN DAD, Steve gets shouted at in a drug lab: LÁVATE LAS MANOS! which he repeats vigorously, thinking it's a spell. Actually it's Spanish for: WASH YOUR HANDS! Not SO magical. CRACKED COM

Homeland

CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #بلاك #blacklivesmatter = لليغل Homeland is II racist عنصرى الوطن 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.

Parks and Rec

Jeremy Jamm's wall decor reflects his level of appreciation of Chinese culture. 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

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley trolled its own hardcore fans. 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01100010 01111001 00100000 01100110 11100100 00100110 TITTOTTO ttisette @@@@@@@@ 01001110 TITTOTTO 10100110 TODOOTTO 00000100 11001110 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01 00001 00100000 01100118 @@@@@fee TOUTTITO 01000110 01000110 IIIIOITO 00010118 01101111 01110010 00100000 01 11100100 00100110 TITTOITO 1110 EN 11001110 00000100 TROOTTIE 10100110 I 100 01110110 reetette 01100118 00 00 01 100001 00100000 01800TTe 11110110 BOOTETTE 110 01/11/1001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 111 01101111 01100100 00100111 11001110 @@@@@@@@@ TROOTTTO 10100118 петета 100 In the fifth season's trailer, Gavin Belson speaks in front

Gravity Falls

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

Serenity

Serenity mocks itself. The chant used to turn off River is a Russian idiom meaning this is ridiculous. CRACKED.COM

Anchorman

CRACKED ANCHORMAN COM THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY CH The night women at a Mexican of Channel Restaurant 4 have a called ladies Escupimos en su Alimento... OPEN 7 Days - -WELCOME ANNICOS Escupimos en su Alimento SCHOOL which translates to We spit on your food.

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

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

Game of Thrones

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: I fart in your general direction, Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person, etc. CRACKED.COM

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.

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.

Futurama

In the Futurama episode The Honking, Bender runs screaming after he sees the number 1010011010 form in a haunted house. ١٩١٩٥١١٩١٩ 1010011010 is 666 in binary. CRACKED.COM

King of the Hill

KING THE OF HILL 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

Family Guy

In the Family Guy episode German Guy, Chris meets a German named Franz Gutentag (German for good day) who CRACKED.COM turns out to be a Nazi whose real last name is Schlechtnacht (German for bad night).

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. 18008 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!)

My Name Is Earl

40 Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak One Language

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

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

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 THE FOR 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.

Cannibal! The Musical

CRACKED.COM In this early work by Trey Parker, there's a Native tribe called the Nihonjin. CANNIBALR THE MUSICAL Nihonjin is the Japanese word for Japanese people, referencing that all of the Natives in the film are played by Japanese actors.

Deadpool

The neon Chinese sign on the rooftop in Deadpool 2 literally translates to deadpool. Flipped image = Deadpool CRACKED.COM

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

BoJack Horseman

In Bojack Horseman, after Diane divorces Mr. Peanutbutter, she moves into Le Triste Apartments. Le Friste 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

Rampage

40 Jokes You Missed If You Only Speak One Language

Iron Man 2

In Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko tells Justin Hammer that the Hammerdrones will make salute. Vanko delivers on that promise in spades, considering that salute in Russian means Fireworks! GRAGKED.COM

The Da Vinci Code

CRACKED.COM THE DA VINCI CODE FOR MUCH OF THE STORY, BISHOP ARINGAROSA SEEMS TO BE THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE FOR THE MAIN ANTAGONIST. BUT ANY ITALIAN SPEAKER WOULD IMMEDIATELY NOTICE SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT HIS NAME. ARINGA ROSSA LITERALLY MEANS RED HERRING

Pacific Rim

CRACKED.COM At the movie's climax, Mako Mori transmits to Stacker Pentecost an untranslated line: Sensei aishitemasu. Which is Japanese for Sensei, I love you. PACIFIC RIM

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The 40 Year-Old Virgin Al partido de fútbol. In the film, Jane Lynch's character recounts the first time she had sex, and how her Guatemalan lover sang to her afterward. What she sings, roughly translates to: When I clean my room I can't find anything Where are you going in such a hurry? To the soccer game. CRACKED.COM

Minions

GRACKED.COM Although gibberish, the language used by the Minions in their 2015 solo movie draws liberally from various foreign tongues as revealed by directors Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda. A sample would be when Kevin shouted 'Tara tropa! which is Filipino for 'Come, friend!' or the more colloquial 'Let's go gang! PAPAYA! A big part of the movie experience for audiences around the world was to catch words in their native language and this may have helped make Minions the 3rd highest grossing animated film of all time with over $1 Billion at the Worldwide Box Office!

The Incredibles

i THE INCREDIBLES Fly home, Buddy. I work alone. Et votre tenue est totalement ridicule! If you didn't pass French class, Bomb Voyage just added And your outfit is totally ridiculous! CRACKED.COM

Zulu

GRAGKED.COM In the movie Zulu (1964), the actor playing a messenger was told to say something in Zulu while his character dramatically worships the king by lying face down on the ground. Ironically, what he said was Kiss my behind.

The Heathers

CRACKED.COM In Heathers (1988), JD tells Veronica that she can scare off her bullies with his ich lüge bullets, which he claims are non-lethal. German speakers would have known that JD is lying, because 'ich lüge' literally means 'I'm lying' in German.

Meet the Parents

In Meet the Parents, Greg Focker suspects his girlfriend's father Jack may be doing covert work for the CIA. Greg questions him in front of the whole family and ruins a surprise honeymoon to Thailand that Jack had been planning for his other daughter and her fiancé. Of course, none of this shocked Thai-speaking audiences who could understand Jack and his Thai travel agent discussing hotel accommodations over the phone, including whether a suite room was available and if it came with a free breakfast. GRACKED COM

The Lost World

ND ED CALFORNIA SI IN THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, THE CLIMACTIC SCENE IN THE MOVIE SHOWS A GROUP OF JAPANESE TOURISTS YELLING I LEFT TOKYO TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THIS! CRACKED.COM

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