House MD: Bilingual Backfire
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2010
- Excerpt from House MD (Season 2 Episode 18): I imagine this counts as fair use since it's just an excerpt uploaded to make a point about bilingualism, and these scenes have nothing to do with the main plot of the episode.
"I can count to ten. Ask to go to the bathroom"
me, who studied Mandarin for 5 years in school: Same
lol me with french
Me with german and swedish
So how many days of those 5 years were u actually studying?
@@juliaxiao5320 if you don't use it, you lose it!
Since I was three, my knowledge expands mildly past that
Loved the attempt she made to toss him under the bus. Then he showed her that he was driving the bus instead.
He pulled a little Rolla Roda Da with the bus on her
Like in Vegas, House always wins
Not only was he driving the bus but he metaphorically hit her with it
Oh no not a bus! Anyone who watched season 4/5 knows what I’m taking about 😂
He was fine with her deceiving her mom, but drew the line when she tried to put the blame on him for her screw up.
I think it's even funnier when you can understand Mandarin, here's the exact translation:
0:02 "Tell him I feel breathless"
*告诉他我喘不过气*
0:05 "The back of my throat feels like it's burning"
*喉咙后面好像有火烧*
0:19 "The cough medicine I took did not help"
*咳嗽药吃了没效*
at 1:35 the daughter is actually translating accurately:
1:36 "I feel worse after taking the medication, it's strange"
*我吃了要药更不舒服，怪怪的*
1:40 "My chest is swollen"
*胸部胀胀的*
2:05 "What did he say was wrong with me?"
*他说什么不对劲?*
2:10 "He says he prescribed you the wrong medication"
*他说他开了错药给你*
2:23 "Congratulations, you are going to be a grandmother soon"
*恭喜你快当祖母了*
and then afterwards the mother repeatedly asks the daughter if she's pregnant while the daughter denies it
2:32 "What is he doing- what is he saying?"
*他在做- 讲什么?*
"I don't know"
*我不知道*
"Are you pregnant?"
*你是不是怀孕了?*
"I'm not!"
*我不是!*
Etc...
Thank u for this 💓
I love the accuracy of this show
Thank youu legend
Xie xie.
wow hahah thank you so much
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice....F you.”
- is what Dr. House probably thinking.
😂
That reminds me of that one regular show episode lol
House gave her ONE chance to not be an idiot.
She failed it. Badly.
your daughter is pregnant
Imagine if her bf did hookup with her and hes been taking decongestants
@Quentin Styger 100? You re being VERY generous.
SAC
@@martinsmith5520 That's literally the definition of IQ. 100 is the median intelligence of a given population, meaning half are above and half are below, and two thirds are between 85 and 115. That's how it is set up.
The fear in her eyes as she uttered “You speak Mandarin?” is pure gold 😂😂
I know right? She's like, oh crap XD
what ever came out of his mouth sounds nothing like mandarin
When the Asian tries to throw you under the bus but it backfires. So vindicating.
@@user-nu2vc9mp5j
Some other Chinese accent?
@@PerfectAlibi1 no poor accent.
This is exactly why Dr. House is cemented as a legend in my book
You are everywhere
@@noura4324 he really is
@@noura4324 Yep
I was gonna leave a like but your likes were at 69...
Here we go again... haha
The "Finding out someone speaks your language" trope will never get old.
Actually he said, "Congrats you're gonna be a grandmother."
Yan Jay hahaha perfect
Yan Jay whats the difference she’s still pregnant if you hear that
@@eleanramirez2447 no, it means she will be pregnant soon, not she is pregnant now. That difference can mean a whole lot.
Did he really say that? I mean how could he know if she wanted to keep the baby or not? Probably since her belly wasn't big at all so she must still be in the first trimester where she can get a n abortion. And since she wanted birthcontrol pills she probably did not want a baby after all. House is smart why would he say that?
@@winddragonlundholm1792 he did, chinese is my mother tongue 😅
This is one of the moments where House actully wasn't to annoyed. He was annoyed the girl was going about getting the pill this way but he gave her a prescription and told her where to get it. It wasnt til she blamed him that he got angry.
You’re right. Maybe House appreciates the intent of the girl’s plan and recognises that same kind of harmless manipulation (mostly!) that he often partakes in for his own gain. I think where he takes initial exception is due to the stupidity of her plan. She certainly has his back up when she tries to blame him 😂
House loves chaos. But House hates taking blame.
Sorry blame for what?
@@dantagogoseb202 she told her grandma that House gave her the wrong pills, thinking that House didn't understand mandarin.
At the end of the day, house is a doctor. He acts like an asshole but he never does anything to interfere with a patients healthcare.
I love how at 2:05 when the mom says "What did he say was wrong with me" you can tell by his facial expression that House understood and was just waiting for the girl's response to see what it would be
Never noticed, thanks for pointing that out.
If you’re operating under the assumption House is on the other side of the language barrier, it could be interpreted as him just waiting on the daughter to clarify the mother’s words-he blinks and looks at the daughter expectantly. But after your first viewing, and with the context that House knows enough Mandarin to call out the daughter’s bullshit, it’s more “he looks at the daughter *expectantly.”*
Damn I only realized after many rewatches how good the writing is. When House tells the mother that the daughter is pregnant, he's not just getting back at her for blaming him for the wrong medication, it's also his way of showing her what could have happened if you mix medication up; because the mom was taking the birth control and the kid was taking the cold medicine. Damn
The translations I've read say, "congratulations, you're going to be a grandma ", which can also indicate that while she isn't currently pregnant, she will be because she's too stupid to use birth control properly.
Only House knows how to be a cool dude and a son of a bitch at the same time.
Tyrion Lannister disagrees.
WalterLiddy The similarities are endless. That's why they're my type of leading men❤
Tyson Lannister also disagrees. Politely.
Nayan Lluratxer type " handsome jack "
I think you mean Rick Sanchez. To be fair...
What's funny is when he says "Not the sharpest chopstick in the drawer, is she?" The mom responds as though he gave her a compliment.
Actually she said "No of course not"
@@victorradial1179 哪里哪里 (lit. Where? Where?) is often used when being polite, especially among older Chinese, to deflect a compliment given by someone else by acting humble.
@@LaPollaAtomica Much obliged!
@@LaPollaAtomica Yep! I think the best English translation would be "not at all, not at all".
The mum understands english. :)
House's facial expression when he realizes SAC mixed up the pills cracks me up.
"How could you get them mixed up??" LOL
Hilarious when he's like to the mother "Not the sharpest chopstick in the draw" the mother replies "You're too kind"
That's prob how the dude got her in bed, lol.
So she understands him, or just says some generic response to an assumed compliment? I don't get it.
@@mikespearwood3914 Generic response to an assumed compliment
@@Iisdabest889 But still 100% accurate tbf
My favorite feeling is when people dont realize you speak their language
Or at the very least you understand enough to get the gist of what they're saying when they're trying to talk about you right in front of you.
QUE?
Was working one day and the lady thought I didn't understand Spanish. She was calling me fat and ugly. When I got done with her, I told her to have a good day, and don't forget the umbrella, since it was supposed to start raining that day
I'm half Swedish living in the Philippines and I like starting conversations in English so people start speaking English but then turn to my mom and ask something about me in Bisaya, which I would answer back in the same language. Never gets old
@@Vivianite33 Oh good for you, most half-white, half-Filipinos I know can only speak English or another Western language.
As a doctor myself, this kind of conduct from teenagers is totally accurate
@Golden Knight from your comment history on this channel i see you have done other mysogynistic comments as well so i wont even bother you little snowflake, its a bommer that every woman you meet has to talk to you and your profanity...LOL
@Golden Knight lmao someone got dumped recently huh 💋
@Golden Knight sure boo, keep telling yourself that 💖
@Tejesh Patel
That guy's been all over the comments trying to start shit over absolutely nothing. Don't give that "man" the time of day.
@Golden Knight , so...what were their names? The names of the many, many females who rejected you?
I love the recognition that flashes across the mom's face when House speaks Mandarin to her. For me it's even better than the resulting conversation between her and SAC.
I had a similar reaction from some Filipino guys in the Navy. They were talking shit about me because I sat at their table. When I got up and dropped some pretty legit Tagalog saying "thanks for sharing this meal with me." You could have heard a pin drop.
I did the same with a car full of Filipinos talking about among other things, me. I simply said, "Naintindihan ako" assertively enough, and they stopped talking, then switched to English. I spoke almost no Tagalog or Hiligaynon.
we filipinos do be like that to foreigners to be honest. sorry for what you guys had to experience
@@lordsiomai It's okay. I knew everyone in the car, and I knew everything they could possibly be saying about me.
@@lordsiomai it's OK cuz. Most of us don't have to travel off an island to find a biologically viable partner to have children with.
I get it. You guys are a close knit people.
I've seen the other side of that. I used to work with some Filipinos, and I was talking to one (a woman) once, when another (a guy) comes up and starts chattering away to her for a minute. He walked off, and she says (she had a very thick accent, so I'll type it phonetically): "You know...I spee' Eenlish, ahn' Spahnish, ahn' Tagalog...ahn' I dohno wha' he say."
hes like: "oh im gonna have to learn mandarin before this kid comes in for the second appointment"
"TV show I used to love."
House talk like 10 languagues fluently
😂😂😂😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
He was an army brat and lived all over the world. He's fluent in many languages
Here a girl lies to ger pills for herself, House helps both girl and mom while being thrown under the bus by little girl.
Then House throws her under the bus.
House is cool with her deceiving her mom, as long as she doesn't throw him under the bus... XD
@@PerfectAlibi1 Hose is doctor. Doesn't care if patient have sex without her mother knowledge as that's not task for doctor.
Andrei Georgescu having sex doesn’t make someone a slut but I think you already knew that
lol I can tell Andrei got dumped the fuck out recently... or he is very jealous of other individuals in relationships. hahah sucks to be him.
also yeah house was on the side of the pragant girl until she used him too much. House is more of an anti-hero he is cool af, does whatever he wants doesn't cares about morals & he actually believes "everybody lies" even himself. We are all human, we are all ordinary. It happens. He understands.
Actually the girl threw the cashier under the bus not house.
House did not give them the pills, they went to a clinic to get it
Good stuff. I worked as a court interpreter for 17 years and I saw first-hand how the English-speaking children took advantage of their parents who didn't speak English. They even threatened to have them deported if they didn't let them drive the car and let them do whatever they wanted. Being here illegally puts them in a very awkward position one could say.
Didn't know kids could he so cruel to their own parents
I know I’m a couple months late to respond but that’s really sad, how can kids do that to their parents
As an ethnic Chinese this is normal. Morals out the window since communism took over China
Coz parents don’t give kids what they want
Cruel violent druggy parents also exist btw
Can we appreciate the acting of this young actress here for a moment? 0:27 That hidden smile as if she has to hide something but knows how bad her lie sounds adds so perfect to the scene. Also the overwhelmed reaction at 2:27 was on fleek.
Ironically, the daughter's actress is highly intelligent in real life with a degree in Bio Med 😂
What's her name?
@@lllllllllarose Julia Ling and her degree is in biomedical chemical engineering 😁
@Andrei Georgescu What an asshole.
@Username don't know but your count of friends/partners is definitely 0
@@mauvehawaii You don't need to get triggered
Step one: drop the bomb.
Step two: leave the room.
Step three: have some refreshing Vicodin.
Thought this was gonna get all Hiroshima at step 3.
Because they're yummy!
The best part of waking up is Vicodin.
That's it. There's no cup. It's just Vicodin.
@Julynn Step 4: Play a very small violin.
Then profit
step 4:
call his employees idiots
I like how House learned several languages solely to eavesdrop on people since he doesn't want to talk to them.
This scene always reminds me of a female doctor from Venezuela I worked with at a German hospital (during my time as a nurse in training).
She didn't have a good grasp on the German yet, but she did a great job when it came to her work. So I often was with her as an interpreter (German -> English and vice versa) and helped her learning the language.
She was very thorough, which also meant that she needed more time than a lot of other of her colleagues. We had a married couple who weren't happy with that and so they talked bad about her in Spanish. They probably thought "Well, we can't do it in German or English. Let's do it in Spanish. That will work".
It heavily backfired on them when she chew them out in her native language and even reprimanded them for making grammar (IIRC) mistakes. I don't remember what they or she said (she told me, but it was around 10 years ago), but it was hilarious enough.
There was also another incident during my school years when we visited the KZ Natzweiler-Struthof in France. We waited outside of a building when a group of french students walked out and then made place so that we could go in. Some of those students said something akin to "let the Nazis go through" as well as some other insults in French. Sadly for them we had students who had French lessons and therefor understood what they said. Let's say it got a little bit heated
Until our Kazakh went haywire and shut everyone down in Kazakh (which no-one understood), while also switching to French, German and English in-between.
Fun times. Fun times indeed.
2:05 onwards:
Mum (M): "What did he say was wrong?"
Girl (SAC): "He said he gave you the wrong pills."
House (H): "No, you gave her the wrong pills."
SAC: "You speak... Mandarin?"
H: "I can count to ten, go the bathroom and... Congratulations, you're going to be a grandmother soon."
SAC: "I'M NOT PREGNANT! WE HAVEN'T EVEN DONE IT YET!"
M: "WHAT IS HE SAYING?!?"
SAC: "I DON'T KNOW!"
M: "ARE YOU PREGNANT?"
SAC: "NO!"
H: "Okay, I'm going to leave you two alone. I'm sure you have a lot to talk about."
M: "Oh? You're not? Then why did he say..."
SAC: "I DON'T KNOW I'M NOT PREGNANT!!!"
M: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHY HE SAID I AM A GRANDMA NOW?"
SAC: "I'M NOT PREGNANT! I'M NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT!!!!"
M: "YOU'RE BLUSHING DOES THAT MEAN I AM NOW A GRANDMA?"
SAC: "I. DON'T. KNOW!"
M: "YOU'RE BLUSHING AGAIN-"
edit: thanks for correcting one of the lines :)
You amazing soul!! TY 😂
I always wondered whay they were saying in mandarin.
thanks for this lmao
thank you lolll
Thanks! 😃👍
This is the nicest that I've seen House been to a walk-in patient. He had the courtesy to not let her mom know about what her daughter wanted without talking directly to her and even seemed concerned for a second for the mom...well up until the daughter tried to burn him..Then he went full SOB!!
Yeah the daughter made a huge accusation. House was actually nice enough not to let the mom know exactly how bad the daughter fucked up. If he did, that girl was going to have a red ass for a couple weeks.
@Andrei Georgescu As he mentioned she could have gotten the pills herself from any free clinic anyways (not the sharpest chopstick in the drawer), so he had no reason to be a dick in telling her mother nor getting involved in their family matters.
@@ishimotoren but I believe the daughter told her mom that House had given her the wrong prescription. Being accused of something like that is very serious and could possibly get him in trouble for negligence. It would be a lawsuit waiting to happen, so telling the mother the truth is keeping himself safe
Dont try to burn House, House will burn you down.
@@ishimotoren He was not being a dick, the girl was. In order to save herself for her own mistake of giving her mom the wrong medicine, she lied to her mom and accused him (in Mandarin) for prescribing her mom the wrong medicine, which is a grave accusation for any doctor, nurse or medical practitioner and I believe everyone knows where it would lead to.
That's why, even after his efforts of trying to help the ungrateful girl earlier, he had to be truthful to the girl's mother to prevent any further bad consequences (especially towards him, other staffs, the hospital etc) from the slander.
Meanwhile House was perfectly tolerant until she tried to sell him out.
Looooooool he actually showed discretion for a patient for once, and in return she tried blaming him for her idiotic screwup. If only someone had warned her its unwise to give House a reason not to like you 😂😂😂😂
Makes me think of the time a cop questioned this woman about a crime, and she denied it, but then got a phone call and she answered her phone and began speaking in another language bragging about the crime over the phone. Sadly for her the cop also spoke her language and wrote down everything she said.
There's also a version of that story that happened in Canada. Criminal denied (in English) that he did the crime, and then got a phone call and confessed on the call in French. Cop understood every word
Matthew Barclay dude should have known canada is a bilingual country lol
Omg lol
His Chinese was not good lol. He tried though
@@coolhacker1025 LMAO, that was stupid. If you're going to brag about a crime you committed in another language, make sure it's not an official language of the country you're in.
Imagine how dangerous this situation would be if her mother had a history of stroke and took it.
Considering she's Asian and old. Im surprised she didnt since Asians have very high risk of strokes
She didn't need a history: she was at relatively high risk of setting that precedent from scratch. (Birth control can triple risk in first few months of use.)
Oh man....All because her STUPID daughter wanted to have unprotected sex while underage...
@@Ayveh That's common. Have you never been a teenager before? At least she's being safe.
@@Ayveh sex is a basic human need. And she was responsible enough to get the pill
I like how when he insulted her daughter, she responded with "nǎli, nǎli" -- a praise-deflector.
Given how her lies could have House wrongly sued for malpractice, I'd say she got was she freaking deserves.
Not really. There's a clear paper trail: the prescription for the BCP, made out to the correct person. His office would have a copy, the pharmacy would have a copy. Doctors don't routinely administer decongestants or birth control pills (the patient does that when they go home, obviously), which makes it a clear case of user error.
(I don't disagree that he was right to call her out, just saying he was in zero danger of a malpractice suit).
@@__melinda___ some people are so procedural it won't stop them from trying to sue.
I work in the paramedical field, and one of my teacher had a patient, who had a bad wound infecting after her care that the patient tried to pass from malpractice from my teacher.
It wasn't her fault, as she used sterilised tools, made a prescription for antiseptic with a check-up days after if needed, and had a record of everything.
It was latter discovered that the patient had a dog that he was letting lick his wound.
A different situation with the translation issue, but it really shows just how some people can try to screw you over, even though you did your job perfectly.
What I like about House, is the fact that he can be a total rude arse while at the same time actually giving people at least one chance to give them what they need without getting them in trouble. If you don't take that chance, the arse part comes into play later and he will take pride in outing you.
This could have easily backfired on him in the real world tho
@@janeswurld I'd say about 90% or more of what House does would backfire on you in the real world.
@donaldseale2700 😂😂😂
@@donaldseale2700Essentially everything would backfire
Hugh, speaking American accent and pulls off Chinese while sounding American..... (Or so to me) omg....this man....
I am Indonesian Chinese with IELTS 8. Anytime I speak Mandarin or English, I still sound Indonesian
Pactum Excello he’s English so it’s impressive that he can keep up an accent that isn’t his own whilst speaking a different accent
He’s an actor. A good one.
Kestrels Call I can’t imagine Americans and British people sounding THAT much different while speaking the same foreign language.
There was also that episode where he sounded exactly like an American trying to fake a British accent.
NEVER assume someone can't possibly speak another language. I busted a German-speaking clerk at a store once for saying something offensive about me to a co-worker as she rung up my stuff. I'll never forget the look on her face when I told her I wanted her manager there, IN GERMAN
Nice one 😁
One of my favourite clips from the show. I need to watch this series again
I like how you can see the chinese mum unable to keep from smiling at the end haha
There is a blooper video where she says something like "Seriously I can speak English!".
Whereas her mandarin is rusty as hell. Probably a long-time immigrant.
Maybe a Cantonese-speaker, like most Chinese immigrants to the US. Mandarin-speakers are actually a minority.
On a side note, it's actually interesting how I've observed that when Chinese people get mad sometimes they smile.
uiuy1uyui that’s a bad thing?
Okay so I'm fluent in English and Chinese and it's times like this I love being able to understand people talking.
Genna Bella is learning chinses hard sounds like yelling
@@noraabdulla2486 Mandarin is easy as hell. Doesnt sound like yelling. If you're American, you've most likely heard Fujian dialect or maybe Cantonese. Those sound rougher.
@@AccountInactive Mandarin is not easy at all. Sure if u were born to speak it since young u may thought so, but for a foreigner learning completely from scratch it would definitely be extremely hard for most of them. And even then to enunciate and speak properly takes alot of time as well
there's no other language quite like mandarin to relate to. i.e. learning Portuguese from Spanish and stuff like that.
@@ymw1107 Mandarin isn't impossibly difficult. Chinese love to say it is because they're proud of having "the most difficult language" but Icelandic is much more difficult. The grammar is simple. Only learning hanzi can be challenging but that's it. Mandarin is literally designed to be easy. There are dozens of Chinese dialects/languages that are much, much harder than Mandarin.
@@AccountInactive well I didn't imply anything about it being the 'most difficult language' at all tho, but imo it's definitely not easy at all.
Sure maybe u can speak and understand a few words or sentence quite comfortably without learning the Chinese characters as u said. But if u don't have a solid grasp in recognizing the word and expression of a given sentence (the hard part) , does that mean u had learned that language? Not at all imo
Unlike quite alot of language that has a fix set of characters (Ex. A-Z) to form the sentence of that language, thus u being able to relate to new words with maybe some already existing sentences or phrase. The Chinese language relies on a completely different system to structure their characters and to recognize a Chinese character and its expression on a sentence requires a vast amount of knowledge as it doesn't really follow as convenient of a structure compared to English as example.
Yes maybe Icelandic is harder as u say, maybe German might be harder for some other people, but that's not my point. I'm arguing about Chinese being not easy to learn at all to learn as u implied.
I myself speak about 5 languages, eventho Chinese is my mother tongue, I can definitely see why foreigner would be having a harder time to learn a language such as Chinese as compared to most other language.
This was the best side skit in all of House. Truly fantastic.
this video. this video started a rabbit hole that ate up my entire summer.
I love it when unexpected people can speak the language and wait for the right circumstances to give these people their comeuppance... So satisfying
True, but it’s also great when it’s used to help someone out. My parents were in a shop in France, and noticed an issue with the cashier and the customer in front of them. Neither could understand each other, as neither spoke English. Girl only spoke French, man only spoke, of all things, Irish. So... my parents stepped in to help XD. Their language skills weren’t great, but did the job. Dad translated from French to English and back again, and mum from Irish to English and back again. (Me and mum are Irish, dad is English, but leaned French in school). The two had been getting understandably frustrated at the language barrier, so it was pure luck that the only other people in the shop at th time, were able to help out!
It’s hypocritical.
Trust me bud. I live in China, and while my mandarin isn’t perfect I can kind of get the gist of what people are saying (especially when they are talking about me.) It is always fun to see the defeated looking reaction when I call people out.
@@emitrelevart4330 its really rare to hear someone speak irish outside of Ireland since its almost considered a dead language! Also interesting your mom speaks it, ive always wanted to learn myself.
@@emitrelevart4330 is that Irish English or Irish Gaelic?
Not the sharpest chopstick 🤣
I was like “what💀 is that racist?”
@@Screw064 Yeah, everything’s racist.
@@jimkillerx true racist have a new meaning nowadays jus cuz
@@waffleocalypse def racist but house always says crazy stuff like that he even said something like "ill drop the N bomb if I have to" at foreman
@@BrockPlaysFortnite Yeah, it fits his character. Just want to be clear for people denying that it's racist.
Probably my favorite scenes from this show!
I never watched HOUSE but because of this little clip, i am going binge watch it now....thanks!!!
Translation: He said "congratulations, you're a grandma now"
Much obliged!
To be more precise: "Congraduations, you will soon be a grandma."
"You're a grandma now." would imply the baby is here.
Yeah but the interesting thing is...how is he's accent?
Lmaoo
Thx playa
I know enough of Chinese culture to know she would had gotten slapped
@lcyw20 , the probability of slapping is 92%. If it's raining outside, 98.8%
In White culture, she would have been praised for being so brave and strong... no wonder single motherhood is so high. Encouraging such nonsense behavior.
@@ricya1982 back in the old day when our culture wasn’t hijacked she would’ve also be slapped
@CZcams Watch America has a mixture of European cultures you dolt. That last part is just wrong
@CZcams Watch it wasn’t like that before the 80s you idiot
all these short clips make me want to rewatch the series 😄
The fact that House was actually willing to help her out without letting her mum know, but she decided to try and low blow him lmao. She deserved what came to her.
This is why its never good to assume someone doesnt speak your language because they dont look like they do. So many people caught being assholes speaking other languages because they feel safe doing so. Some of my favorite stories are red faced people called out for it.
An anglo only needs to know a few words to know when somebody is playing games or insulting them them in another language. This is where learning the bad words can actually pay off. LOL When I caught some guys doing that en espan'ol I told them I watch Sabado Gigante. They got very quiet. LOL
I actually know the bad words in many languages!
Yes totally! I caught someone call me fat (by a skinny Taiwanese 16 year old girl) in English nonetheless, which I'm both bilingual in English and mandarin. So either way she was fucked. And btw, I'm not fat, just more muscular than she was. (Non-competitive swimming for the win!)
like me in italy. Im chinese american but I can understand Italian (lived here for a month so far and studied based on survival instincts) . Some dude at the bar was talking about me and I stared him straight in the eye and someone slapped his arm saying I understnad what he says . I also had a south african bf woh understand my bad words . I forgot he grew up in chinese language school lol
My mom was a waitress in her family restaurant after they came to the US from Taiwan and there was a white guy who would come in and gaze at her for a really long time. One day while she was standing in front of him she said to her sisters in Chinese "This guy is a crackpot" or something, and he said in perfect Mandarin "Oh you speak Chinese? I would like the fried rice, please." My mom ran back to the kitchen freaking out, but they became good friends after that.
I'm curious - I posted this video 6 years ago, completely forgot about it, and then there's been a flurry of activity in the last 4 weeks or so. What happened? Did CZcams's algorithms bump it or something?
Marcus Tanaka de Lira yeah
marathon of house .
Marcus Tanaka de Lira it's a Christmas miracle! 😁
A house video appeared in my suggested and one thing lead to another and now i'm here...
traybake1 I feel you man, watching house now (stay lupus free)
Thank you very much ❤
What I love the most about House is that although he sounds mean, he's actually the least judgmental. He'd hate it but he's compassionate as hell 😂
Am I the only one who noticed the moms acting is superb?
Virtually every supporting actor's performance in this show is top-notch.
In the DVD commentary the director says it wasn't acting, the actress brought along her mum who needed help and thought she was really in a hospital
@@NotChukkov I don't believe that, honestly.
@@NotChukkov It's hard to believe that you're in a real hospital when there are so many video cameras around you
@@NotChukkov I call bullshit.
oh my fucking god. it took me years to get the joke that one the very few things he knows in mandarin would be telling someone he got their daughter pregnant =)
He didn't say HE did anything, he just said "Congratulations! You will be a grandmother!"
Xion Memoria yeah that's a pretty peculiar thing to be able to say
Not for a doctor....
In a different episode, he said he lived in Asia (can't remember which country) for a number of years where his parents were doctors. From the sounds of things, he went to an international school but he might have learned a little Mandarin if he was in China.
This was fucking HILARIOUS!!
Genuinely one of my favorite scenes from the whole show.
This was the video that introduced me to House MD years ago... its crazy to go back now
I love that he probably learned that sentence specificaly for this brat xD
Not really. In season 8, he had a full conversation in Mandarin. He was probably lying about being limited in his Mandarin just to mess with the girl and catch her even more off guard when he dropped the bomb
He's a confirmed polyglot. So he is fluent.
He gives her a hint that he speaks mandarin when he asks “She said super depressed?”.
@@BigBeowolf no, the kid said "she's super depressed" and he queried that because it seemed an unlikely description to add "super".
branlopgar well his mandarin is terrible, it’s almost entirely unintelligible
Nailed a (thankfully) temporary trainer on this.
She was negatively criticizing me in French (which I’m near fluent in because I’ve been speaking it since I was 5) she said I was “too slow” with finishing a transaction. (Apparently clarifying I got the order right is going to slow) I go to the back to get some napkins and cutlery and I say “ je parle français’ ( I speak French ) she gave the deer in the headlights look. So after the lunch rush I say to her can I speak with you for a second?
I say “Je peux gérer les critiques, mais fais-moi une faveur la prochaine fois, ayez la décence de me dire en face, merci” (I can handle criticism, but do me a favour next time, have the decency to say to my face, thanks) she was about to chew me out my actual boss said “ he is right you know? He’s training, so he’s learning how everything works, so show him how it should be done”
Note I live in a city where French is widely spoken
québécois
Jsais pas, c’est au québec qu’on parle comme ça? « fais-moi une faveur...ayez la décence... » i know québécois has a lot of anglicisms but smells of google translate 🤧
I tried reading the whole thing hut i remembered i didnt have to
@@Lerfthkid non, mais j'habite près du Québec
@@ledgerunner As an anglophone who speaks pas mal Quebecois french (at least for a Calgarian), I can attest that sometimes we talk like this, even though it's awkward french: we know the vocabulary to translate our sayings in English directly into french, but we don't necessarily know the equivalent Quebecois sayings. But I cringed a bit at the very literal translations, too. I see where you're coming from.
Nice video, thanks :)
I've never seen House M.D. before but this scene makes me want to watch it lol
He can be a straight up dick. Only ones he gets right right away are the ER patients. All kinds of misdiagnoses in this show with his students. Still entertaining.
"You STUPID American child" LMAO I lost it XD
“Not the sharpest chop stick in the drawer”
“哪里哪里”😭😭😭
This has got to be within the top 10 House moments
Teeny tiny baby coffins still tops the list though
This episode is like 20 times funnier if you actually speak Mandarin.
The whole scene makes you realize that House has an inner asian dad.
Im mexican. One time i was getting glasses and this two older chinese ladies were talking about how i was handsome and blah blah. I started to smile like an idiot, then turn around and looking at one of them i say "xie xie, Nin hen piao liang" (thanks, you are beautiful) they just looked at me like they had seen a ghost or some shit. I should have asked them to hook me up with one of their daughters but my chinese is very limited lol
ThatTastedPurple Fuck off
ThatTastedPurple typical dumb lowlife racist
Que ardidos estos hijos de pu...
the fuck
Oni Mori ..... _how is you being Mexican relevant?_
Hola! Your channel consistent! Excellent work! Good good footage! I recommend everyone to watch till the end (goodies)
This great program shouldn't never stop..
Being multilingual myself, this is so relatable. It's so satisfying when you hear someone or multiple persons speaking another language (which you happen to speak) and they turn their talks to you, thinking you don't understand them. Then you respond to them in their own tongue.
Nah
My list of languages I want to learn, in order of priority, are: Cantonese (because the martial art I've trained in for almost 20 years is from the Canton region,) Japanese, German, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, and Silbo Gomero (even though I can barely whistle). I WOULD like to learn French, but as best I can tell, they only have 3 vowels, 2 soft consonants and zero hard consonants.
But seeing this, maybe I should prioritize learning Korean, as it's the second most opening spoken language around here.
Multilingual also and it makes life more fun
agree, been there 😂😂😂
I wish I could have had that glorious moment while working retail! I was a good associate but you'd get customers insulting you directly to your face in their native language, with a smug smile. I could always figure out what language they spoke, but not what they were saying, but I've always been on point with body language.
Body language tells all! I can't remember how many times I'd endure being insulted or talked about (even though I was always helpful and was patient with every customer), that I'd finally get sick of it and just give them an honest but polite look, as if to say "I know you're insulting me.' while asking them if I could help them with anything else.
Or better, if I could pin point the language, I'd remark "Oh, you speak [language], I've always wanted to learn that but unfortunately I don't have an ear for it, beyond recognizing it!" They'd do a quick 360 and be flattered that I had even the smallest interest in their language. 🙄
I don't care who I'm around, even if I assume they don't speak my native language, I'd never talk about them or even insult them directly to their face. How do people do that!?
Savage AH! (Yes, that's as House)
savage for this? u noob!! "triggerd"
Nobody! What?
AH in this context means "as House"
I love this kind of scene
House can speak Mandarin and other languages without them being cringe due to his accent. Hugh Laurie is a beast in voice acting.
I am a white guy who speaks Mandarin. I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me.
Edit: Holy crap! I had no idea my comment would blow up like this. A big thank you to everyone!
You have to explain to young ladies mothers that they are soon to be grandmothers?
Just kidding. I also speak a little and I often get people talking about me without them realizing I understand most of what they're saying.
Grant Murray represent🔥🔥👌
My boss, who is Puerto Rican, speaks perfect Spanish and English. One day, this Asian student needed help and he breaks out into fluent Mandarin! You have to watch what you say. You never know.
wtf hahaha
it sounds more like forced irony to me
What was actually said:
0:03 I can't breathe, the back of my throat is sore.
0:20 I had cough meds, didn't work.
(0:45 House was right, saw through the fact that the daughter mis-interpreted the lot)
1:34 You're welcome (She thought Dr. House was complimenting his daughter) Not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer (直譯：不是櫃子裡最尖的刀 （他說「箸，筷子」，因為韓式和日式筷子放在嘴裡一端比中式尖，以暗喻女兒頭腦遲鈍。)
Thank you for your service
Wait, the last one was actually a phonetic double?
@@weckarIt's not a pun.
He said "chopsticks" instead of knives, but then I realized: The ends of Japanese and Korean chopsticks are both sharper than Chinese ones if you do image searches.
@@BrockMak Ah. I thought you implied what he said sounded like something else in Mandarin :)
I can't be the only one who thinks it's hilarious that one of the three things House can say in Chinese is Your daughter is pregnant, Lol.
You gotta love this scene!!!!
I guess that's one downside of being an apparently well-integrated teenager from an immigrant family.
Varoon
Way too many American teenagers are taught that best birth control is to say "No" and keep your legs crossed until Wedding Night.
How come, the highest teen pregnancy %:es are in white ultra-christian MidWest smalltowns where it's too bold of politics to keep condoms in drugstore shelves...
Probably because like any religious sect they want them to breed more kids.
uiuy1uyui gotta learn the terms to google somewhere....
Varoon I went to HS in NJ..we were deffinalty told that birth control was availble without Parents knowledge and even abortions didnt need parents approval past age 12 I believe..most women who take BC arent even doing it to prevent pregnacy..more teens take them to regulate their periods/make the cramping and flow lighter..personally not having to have a period every month for me is better than preventing pregnacy..I would take BC even if only having 1 period every 3 months was the only thing it did.
Allusion Doze Wich ironically is also because of the spread of Catholics missionaries speaking of protection as "sinful" leading to more unwanted pregnancies and std
"Thanks for playing"
House just lays the trap ahead in the conversation and waits for them to walk right in.
Ikr
She is literally as adorable as a girl can get when she says, "I don't think so."
she was 23, about to turn 24 in this scene XD
No she was annoying
I don't think so.
He stirred stuff up in an incredibly velocity.
Funny out of the three of them, the older woman's Mandarin accent is the worst. I think they found a Cantonese person for this role.
insightful, never thought of that.
thanks :)
I only found it difficult to understand because the daughter was talking over her. But generally older people have worse Mandarin since they may not have necessarily grown up with more Mandarin exposure in school and work.
As times went on and movement in the country became easier, it became increasingly important to learn to speak properly so you don't have to write everything down.
I think the accent's fine, old people tend to sound like that. Only issue is the way she delivered her lines, which could be either because she's an amateur cameo who's rushing through her lines, or the script doesn't properly fit what an old lady might say.
Right... You should try speaking Cantonese then. Or the many other dialects in China.
jyashin yeah the only problem: that girl grew up in murrica so she probably didnt take mandarin classes so her mandarin shouldve been worse. It would only be possible if that girl was a grandchild who learnt her chinese from her mom.
"I can count to ten, ask to go to the bathroom, and," dredges up the words, "[congratulations, you're going to be a grandmother]."
This is one of the best scenes of this entire show.
One of my favorite shows ever
This was recommended to me without watching anything related to house. I have no recollection of watching this video but I had liked some comments from years ago. It’s so weird to see.
Ditto, chicka. I'll watch a video I think I haven't seen before and look through the comments and find my own comment from years ago. It's a weird feeling, especially when you're about to comment and then see you already commented on that thought 2 years prior.
"búshì, búshì" lol that I understood
LloydSkyLion what does that mean?
It is not true. Something around those lines
bu means not
RoScFan google translate says - no I'm not
LloydSkyLion ive hewrd it before in an anime somehwere, so its some kind of asian language xD maybe they messed up and used 2 languages
Doom Muffinz 不是(bushi) is Chinese. The anime could have been using Chinese for one of its characters.
I admit, I've watched this clip more than once... and it's funny every. single. time. :)
I can imagine the mother at the end is saying "you little tramp!! What were you thinking??? What am I going to tell your father and the rest of the family?" you shame me!!!
I’m gonna pretend I don’t speak English and when my daughter goes to school I’m gonna have a lot of fun 😂
Then when she catches on, let her in on it. Make it a whole bit where you would speak foreign-sounding gibberish to each other and have her "translate" some of the most absurd nonsense that you're supposedly saying and see how long you both can keep it up without laughing
By the end, ya don't need translation to know she's in deep shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for playing 😂
I've watched this series twice. CZcams is serving my daily fix
That went well lol.
House always starts drama in the funniest ways😂😂😆😆😂😂
Hahaha. Pulls pin, "I'm just going to leave this grenade here," and walks out of the room.
That was a great little scene.