Japanese TV fans watch American crap too

[ultragaijin]

Foreign shows find friends among Japanese TV fans (http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2002060200081.html)

There's no doubt foreign TV series are going down a storm.

Huh?

[Ataru]

Good stuff like Seinfeld and The Simpsons get utterly ignored in Japan, while crap like Friends, ER and (god forbid) Full House are hits.

I don't want to hear anything about intelligent comedies being too hard to translate or for the Japanese to understand.. they just like shit.

[Crispy]

Hey, I like ER and The Simpsons. The rest of those can fall off the face of the earth. I am certain however, that comedy is harder to translate than anything. I mean, look at what happens when you dub comedy anime!
/me convulses uncontrollably

[ultragaijin]

They've been able to translate Beavis and Butthead...

[kamome]

They've been able to translate Beavis and Butthead...

Yep, they were playing Beavis and Butthead reruns in Japanese nonstop at a kitsch store in Harajuku the other day. It's weird to hear huh..hhhuuuh...huh in Japanese....