• superkret@feddit.org
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    Germany:
    “Airplane” = The Incredible Journey On A Crazy Airplane
    Then there’s The Incredible Journey On A Crazy Spaceship (original “Airplane II: The Sequel”)
    and The Outragious Journey On A Crazy Bus (original: “The Big Bus”, in no way related to the other movies)

    But one scene in the first movie is even funnier than the original in the German dubbed version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkI0cH_rK4
    (The 2 black guys speak a thick Bavarian dialect, which is the closest thing in Germany to Hillbilly slang. The subtitles say something completely different)

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      I remember in a high school german class we watched the dubbed version of The Karate Kid.

      The teacher warned us not to take notes from Mr. Miyagi’s dialogue. “His German is terrible.”

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      The airplane one drove me crazy for over a decade. I used to always stay up late and zapped through late night movies and tried to remember the ones that looked good. I asked everyone i knew about a movie with that crazy airplane, and no one knew what i meant.

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        Good ear. Schwarzenegger’s birthplace is so far into Hillbilly territory, he’s a mountain goat.

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      In french it’s Y a-t-il un pilote dans l’avion ? or Is there a pilot on the plane?

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        Actually translated it literally. Except they always translate gun to “Kanone” which is a field gun, not a handgun. But the German word for handgun is “Handfeuerwaffe” so I kinda understand.