Fun with Subtitles: Difference between revisions

** And there's Sumiyoshi, who only speaks in subtitles that everyone can read.

* In the first ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' movie, Lum's mother's speech has ''two'' sets of subtitles. One, in English and with parentheses, explains that Lum's mom is speaking not Japanese but an alien language which no human understands. The other set reads "Ιφ ψου χαν ρεαδ τηισ⊃" followed by "⊃ψου∍ρε α σεριουσ Οτακυ." In case you're wondering, {{spoiler|that is the result of writing "If you can read this…" / "…you're a serious Otaku" in the Symbol font from classic Mac OS (using the Mac OS Roman character set).}}

* One fansub of the second season of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' replaces Hei's request for the meteor fragment with "I'll let you go if you blow me."

* Someone did a jokesub of the [http://www.animeavenue.net/pokemon-best-wishes-episode-1/ first episode of Pokémon Best Wishes]. Needless to say, it's not exactly accurate. Warning: [[Refuge in Audacity|Very inappropriate.]]

== Film ==

* Following the tradition of the comic book ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' plays with subtitles all over the movie, including introducing characters, giving backstory,and even [[Painting the Fourth Wall]].

** The dvd of the movie also has a feature called "Subtitles for People Who Don't Like The Movie", which subtitles the whole movie with lines from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]].

* ''[[Austin Powers]] in Goldmember'' has a scene in which Austin converses with a Japanese CEO. The subtitles are in white, and happen to be obscured by objects that are ''also'' white...

* In the parody movie ''[[Fatal Instinct]]'', a woman is plotting in the middle of a park with her lover to kill her husband, and the two of them speak subtitled Yiddish. At one point, the man sitting in the bench answers a question the lover asked her. When she asked if he understood Yiddish, he replied that he was simply reading the subtitles, at which point, the two of them look down at the words, as if just noticing them.

* ''[[The Man With Two Brains]]'' jokes goes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MXU3J6Qbs like this]: The character is arrested, and the policeman addresses him in subtitled German. When he is answered in English, he exclaims "Oh, you speak English!" before telling his associate to drop the subtitles.

** In addition to the above, they also keep the subtitles for the German(ic) mercenaries: "Thank you, sir!" and "Oh, see the monkey." [[Rule of Funny|Predictably, they're speaking perfect English....]]

** Taken up to 11 in the sequel. The animals are translated into English, ''but the subtitles are animal sounds.''

** Later on, a nigh-incomprehensible shout is subtitled as:

{{quote|[[Even the Subtitler Is Stumped|(Something about Mt. Fuji...we think.)]]}}

** It didn't stop there -- ''everything'' Elliot uttered was [[Rainbow Speak|captioned in bright green]].

* ''[[Crank]]'': two men having a conversation where one was subtitled. When the camera cut to the other's perspective, the subtitles could be seen floating in the air back to front. Hard to explain. Just watch it.

* The ''[[Look Around You]]'' DVD subtitles are designed to look like classic Ceefax ones. In the extras, one of the special features has deliberately corrupted subtitles, similar to what you would see if your TV reception was poor.

* A ''Bull Island'' sketch had an Irish guy land in Afghanistan. The Arabic dialogue was subtitled in English, but all the English dialogue got the same line of Arabic for the subtitle.

** Another episode has a Miami's 2nd biggest heroin dealer have the subtitle saying "Carmelo -- Heroin Dealer" the second part is swiftly replaced by "(Second Biggest)".

** And in yet another episode, Michael greets a Czech assassin with a DIY knuckle-duster to the face (a bent butter knife) and "[something in Czech], comrade," which the subtitles translate as "Welcome to Miami, ass**** ." (Asterisks.)