bee guy

Sep 18, 2002, 6:43 AM ET4 posts by 4 posters
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Dr. X, Yyz

ok, in the episode, "22 short films about springfield", there's a scene with the bee guy and his wife having a conversation in spanish. does anyone have the translation?

AlanDr. X, Yyz

from http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F18.html : ** Original script:

Pedro: Ah, tiempo para relaxar en paz y quieto.
        [opens a cabinet full of oranges which wallop his head]
       !Ay, naranjas en la cabeza!
        [flails about in his home until he finds himself stuck on
         a chandelier]
       !Ay, una candelabra precariosa!
        [the chandelier is pulled free of the ceiling; bringing the
         ceiling down with it]
 Emma: [walking down and seeing the disaster] !Ay!
       Mira que cosa tan terrible, yo no puedo entender algo como
       esto, como puedo vivir con un hombre tan irresponsible.
       !No, no, no, no no!
        [walks off, handing Pedro a divorce paper]
-- "Twenty-Two Short Films About Springfield"

Ay, ?donde esta mi tequila?

** Comments from a Spanish contributor on snpp.com reveal all: (Note the Spanish for the first part, between '[' and ']' is not listed above)

Veronica Marquez notes, "The Spanish in this episode is atrocious,
    sounding more like a translation of English dialogue into Spanish
    than real Spanish.  And worse, there's no such word as `wudpequero'
    in Spanish.  Of course it takes a fluent Spanish speaker like
    myself to understand what I mean.
    "For the record, Pedro said: [`Oh, what a terrible day at work.
    First, the attack of the crazy woodpecker.  Then, a disaster of
    electricity.  And finally, a catastrophe with a baseball.'] Then,
    `Ah, time to relax in peace and quiet.  Ow, oranges on the head!
    Ow, a precarious chandelier.'  Then the woman says `Look at the
    terrible thing I don't understand how this know how I can live
    with a man so irresponsible.  No, no no no no!'  (Hey, don't ask
    me what that should mean.)  Then, Pedro says (the only acceptable
    Spanish here) `Oh, where's my tequila?'  And most legal statements
    in the United States are done in English regardless of the language
    spoken.  You'd find better Spanish on bilingual applications."
    I think the awful Spanish made it funnier, but that's just me.
    Diff'rent strokes, it takes diff'rent strokes to move the world...
    ahem.

Alan

RoseRMAlan

I remember thining it was funny without the translation...You could understand enough if you didn't speak the language...I think that was the goal and why the Spanish was tortured to the fluent.

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R H MenzelRoseRM

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Add that to the fact that about ten years after school, that's how we remember the language!