When members of OFF are watching the Bubmlebee man's show, they are usually showm laughing loudly, as if they are able to understand the Spanish "dialogue"
I foresee three possibilites:
1.) They do not understand the spoken words and are strictly laughing at the slaptsick humor.
2.) They are able to recognize a few words since the text seeems to be relatively easy for Enlish speakers to understand. (words like "policia") and thus are laughing at a general understand of the text as well as the slaptick.
3.) Members of OFF are fluent in Spanish. (unlikely)
For the time being, my opinion is such that case #1 is correct.
Krusty: Voy a vomitar en la tumba de tu madre! Audience: Gasp! Bumblebee Man: Ay yi yi! Krusty: What’d I say? What’d I say? Bumblebee Man: You said you were going to vomit on their mothers’ graves! Krusty: Oh! So that’s why my maid quit.
You may find interesting to know that in the Spanish version his lines are sometimes changed and his voice is of course played by another actor. Actually in the episode Last Exit to Springfield, when Burns shows Homer his huge TV, the Bumblebee speaks in Italian! or at least with an Italian accent. The Spanish voices of the show are great... or at least they were before the man who played Homer died and the one who played Burns and Abe Simpson quit the show (Mr. Burns Spanish voice was even better than the English original), but in this particular case I don't know what crossed their mind (the Bumblebee man regained his Mexican accent in the next episodes)
the man who played Homer died and the one who played Burns and Abe Simpson quit the show (Mr. Burns SPANISH voice was even better than the English original), but in this particular case I don't know what crossed their mind (the Bumblebee man regained his Mexican accent in the next episodes)
Castellaneta who is NOT, and never has been, DEAD. Secondly Monty Burns is voiced by Harry Shearer, guess what, he's still alive too! You're thinking of Phil Hartman. You may remember him from such characters such as Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz.
Read the original post again. He says the SPANISH actor who played Homer died, etc.
how about you go and READ the post? he's clearly talking about a version of the simpsons where a set of spanish actors have re-done the voices for, you guessed it, spain. they do that a lot around the world.
In the Spanish speaking episodes; how do they handle the "English" jokes?
For example, in the the 300th episode, when Bart is in the lawyer's office, he says, "I want to get a divorce from my parents." The lawyer says, "You-whaaa??!" (As if he were saying "You, what?!..." Bart repeats what he said and then the lawyer casually says, "No, I was just calling my secretary, 'Yuwah' " (an asian woman).
Do they do something with those kind of jokes by doing a version in the Spanish language?
The example I gave in the 300th episode - this joke happens right before they cut to a commercial break. I was wondering if that is just a coincidence, or if they place those kind of English-specific jokes near the end of an act so that they can just cut it out in the versions done in other languages(?)
I've often wondered about this as well... the grammar joke is another example: "NO, MONEY DOWN!" Here, in Canada, the jokes are translated into French as closely as possible to the original, but it's obviously not as funny as it loses A LOT in translation.
Watching Les Simpsons on the French CBC is a blast, it's a favourite of stoned undergrads here at the University of Ottawa.
i've pondered this but then cynicism just takes over. i'm sure they translate it word for word and if it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. it's like when we watch something translated from japanese (like pok�mon or one of those other translated anime shows) - you constantly feel like you're missing something.
Usually the translations are quite good, but obviously some thing are just not as funny translated, or even impossible to translate (puns...) I haven't seen this particular episode in Spanish, but if you have another example (better from the seasons 1-4, because my VHS tapes of the newer ones are not here but I do have the DVD's) I can tell you how it was handled.
The first example I can recall now is in the episode Last Exit to Springfield, which I just watched in English in the DVD. When Burns is showing his legion of writing monkeys, he picks the paper one of them has been writing on and reads: "It was the best of times, it was the *blurst of times...". In the Spanish verison it was: " �Est�pido primate, en vez de �poca grandiosa ha escrito �poca mayorzosa! " (Stupid primate, instead of grandiose times it has written "biggerose" times!) It's not as funny (it's better in Spanish than in my backwards translation, though) but it fits with rythm and it's not so bad and you have to bear in mind that not many spaniards now that "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" is a famous quote from Dickens.
The biggest problem when exporting this kind of shows is not that you and lose some puns or that some jokes will not be as funny, the biggest problem is that many jokes refer to people, events... that are not well known outside the USA. If you make a joke about Nixon it's very likely that almost no foreigner will get it.
Fendetestas wrote in news:chfj65$e0n$1@nsnmpen3- gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net:
What about, say, the birthday card in the beginning of 0305 #8f04, Homer Defined? "Hey there, ten-year-old! I couldn't afford to get you a new drum..." "So how about a nice pair of bongos?"
Well, completely literal translation, no problem there:
"Cumples diez a�os y como no pude comprarte un bombo nuevo, �qu� me dices de este par de bongos?" (actually, the word "bongo" entered the English language from Latin American Spanish "bong�")
By the way, another interesting issue are the songs. Sometimes they are translated (monorail, New Orleans song...) and sometimes they are left in English with subtitles (Maison Derri�re,Troy McLure's Planet of the Apes ...) I think they should translate less songs, but here in Spain most people are too used to seeing dubbed films everywhere and quite reluctant to watch subtitled films; plus, we've got quite good voice actors. It's quite different in Portugal, for example, where most movies are in their original version with Portuguese subtitles in the cinema.
I cannot tell you much about the Spanish episodes, but since I'm from Germany I can tell you, that of course, you cannot translate every joke. Actually I have noticed that there are sometimes complete different jokes in English and German version of the same episode. That makes, that the most funny German episode is not even quite as funny in English and vice-versa. But I can tell you that they do not cut any material just because it isn't a joke in a different language. That wouldn't make sense anyway.
Usually they change the jokes if it won't be funny in the foreign language. Those jokes translated in english may not seem as funny as the original but to the foreign audience they might be.