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M*A*S*H pothole
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{{quote|'''Brendan Shanahan:''' On our team,<ref>The Detroit Red Wings, for those unfamiliar with 90s [[Ice Hockey|hockey]]</ref> we have Russians, Germans, Swedes - you name it, we got it. [[Tempting Fate|And we're all one big happy family]].
'''Sergei Fedorov:''' ''(in Russian)'' Go to hell, Shanahan. You freak.<ref>Well, he actually says "Sup, Shan, go skate in the skies!" So that's double mistranslation for you!</ref>
'''Brendan Shanahan:''' [[Tactful Translation|That means "Shanahan is a good and great man."]] ''(to Fedorov)'' I love you, too, my brother!
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}yetl55p9LQY A mid-90's ESPN commercial.]}}
Many comedic situations come out of foreign languages.
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* There was a joke on Conan O'Brien making fun of the fact that Clint Eastwood spoke no Japanese despite producing the movie ''Letters from Iwo Jima''. A dramatic scene is actually one of the actors forgetting his line and the other actor telling him to wing it. They go on to insult Mr. Eastwood and end by yelling about what they are having for lunch.
* A Harry Enfield sketch featured Stan Herbert (basically a middle-aged Loadsamoney, whose catchphrase was "I'm considerably richer than you) in a cafe in Spain, explaining to an English couple that, unlike them, he didn't ''need'' to speak the lingo, because he was so rich. The waiter then states, in Spanish, that he urinated in Herbert's drink, and the couple raise their glasses to him.
* At the end of one episode of ''[[
** See also: "Frank Burns eats worms."
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode 'Macrocosm' Captain Janeway's habit of putting her hands on her hips turns out to be the 'worst insult imaginable' in the Tak Tak language, causing her and Neelix to narrowly escape execution. Shortly afterward she vows never to put her hands on her hips again. A few seconds later, she unconsciously does it again. Likewise Chakotay talks about his first away mission, when he failed to realize that males and females used different body language symbols and ended up proposing to the alien ambassador. "It was a while before I was allowed on any more away missions."
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