How Do You Say...?: Difference between revisions

== [[Documentary]] ==

* ''Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe''

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''A Good Year''

* ''Blame It on Rio''

* ''[[Carry On]] Behind''

* ''[[Intolerable Cruelty]]''

* ''[[Scooby Doo]]! and the Monster of Mexico''

'''Doña Dolores:''' ''[waits a beat]'' Jerk! }}

* ''[[The Likely Lads]]''

* ''[[Transporter]] 2''

* ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''

'''Centipede:''' Biggest puddle of 'em all, angel fangs ? the Atlantic Ocean. }}

* ''The Book of Stars'', talking about a hypothetical date:

'''Kristjan:''' Oh, I would come to her because she's lovely and how do you say, um, mysterious. }}

* Parodied in ''[[Top Secret]]'':

'''Ducoit:''' That's what I thought. }}

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion'' (1955) episode "Rodeo":

* ''[[The A-Team]]'' episode "The A-Team Is Coming, the A-Team Is Coming":

* ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' episode "Barcelona, May 1917":

* ''Whoops Apocalypse'':

* The ''[[Saturday Night Live|"How Do You Say? Ah, Yes." Show with Antonio Banderas]]''.

* Parodied on the US version of ''[[The Office]]'' where Michael thought it was necessary to say "How you say?" to a perfectly English-fluent and non-French Canadian woman under the basis of her being "foreign".

== [[Theatre]] ==

* "Come Play Wiz Me" from ''[[Anyone Can Whistle]]'':

It isn't how you say, it's what you see! }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories]]'':

* In ''[[Starcraft]]'', Fenix asserts that despite his age (and robotic body) he can still, "How do you Terrans say, 'throw down with the best of them'!" Which is goddamn [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]] coming from a [[Warrior Poet|Protoss]].

 

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' has the [[Borat]] [[Expy]] use the [[Sophisticated As Hell]] version to say that he is "How do you say, kind of a dick."

* Poked fun at with Amir in ''[[Hardly Working]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-cAoBCU8E&list=FLXn2SIdD2vmc&index=295 Airplane]:

'''Dan:''' YOU KNOW HOW TO SAY IT! }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Burns Verkauft der Kraftwerk":

** Of course, part of the hilarity is that he's actually speaking grammatically (if not phonetically) flawless English.

* ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' episode "Isle of Solar Energy":

* Used frequently in ''[[Godzilla: The Series]]'' with the native Frenchwoman of the team, Monique, even though her English is competent and avoids [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]. Memorably inverted once with (paraphrasing):

'''Nick:''' In English, we call it 'sabotage'. }}

* ''[[Archer]]'': At the beginning of the pilot episode, Archer is interrogated by a Russian with a bad accent ({{spoiler|who's actually not even Russian, which is immediately lampshaded by Archer saying, "Would you pick an accent and stick to it?"}}), who tells Archer that capturing him "is for us, how you say... a good get."

** Also used by the villian, Scorpio, in a later episode:

'''Scorpio:''' "How you say... [[Brick Joke|wahh wahh]]." }}

* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' uses this for Le Quack, a French criminal duck.

* Antoine from ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]''.

 

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