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Overseas products and works have a (sometimes unfair) reputation of being utter crap, as they tend to have looser (or nonexistent) quality assurance standards, are made by underpaid, overworked laborers, and are composed of even cheaper raw materials. Depending on the time period, the country in question will shift, but it's generally a Second/Third world country. People from these countries often joke about their products as a form of Self-Deprecation. On the other hand, certain countries boast high quality products stemming from their superior work ethic and/or starting materials (only the best, hand-picked Whatevers for Product Awesome). A Sub-Trope of Public Medium Ignorance, and a Super-Trope to Operator from India and It's Cuban. |
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In fact, Eric has a lengthy digression about the British habit of attempting to mimic an American product exactly, only without the one thing that made the American version worthwhile, such as slow fast food, and hotels that sacrifice atmosphere for efficiency, without the efficiency. | |
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In Achewood, anything labeled "Hecho en Mexico" will manifest "Mexican Magical Realism", which can be as elaborate as Time Travel or as simple as a van where it rains on the inside. | |
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In Chrontendo episode 48, Dr. Sparkle notes that the worst games of the episode were Hollywood Squares, Sesame Street ABC and Bad Street Brawler and that it was a good pitcher for the horrible video games being produced in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. | |
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In The Simpsons, Lisa never dreamed of Homer's American loaner car designed in Germany, assembled in Mexico from the parts from Canada could be so amazing. | |
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The Japanese title for the WarioWare series is Made in Wario, a meta play on the phrase. It's under this heading because the games Wario makes are all less than four seconds long. | |
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Much later, in Legend of Korra, Varrick states that he imported the red carpet from the Fire Nation, because "they make the best red stuff." | |
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Invoked in Mad Men: Sterling Cooper gets Heineken beer as a client, and although both Heineken and most of the SC team want to focus on increasing the brand's bar distribution, Don has the idea of Up Marketing the product. The strategy would involve playing on the "Imported from Holland" angle—with the importation from Europe being a supposed mark of quality—and selling it in grocery stores to rich housewives, who would serve it at parties as a trendy alternative to wine (as opposed to the cold domestic brews their husbands drank alone or with their buddies at informal gatherings). | |
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In Doug Naylor's solo Red Dwarf novel, Last Human, Lister is sentenced to fifteen years in Cyberia, an inversion of Better Than Life from the previous books and the TV series. Among the products in his apartment's kitchen are American coffee and Portuguese tea.note Ironically, the Portuguese islands of the Azores do produce tea, and it's actually very good. Despite the water sometimes turning it purple. | |
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A scene from The Fifth Elephant which takes German reactions to British sausages up a notch during Commander Vimes' visit to Überwald: | |
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Dilbert has the (fictional) country of Elbonia, home of crappy products and even crappier customer support. Word of God claims it's meant to represent American perceptions of "any country without cable television". This is saying something, considering how bad the products and services from Dilbert's own company are and how they are implied to get away with it because the competitors are just as bad. So for there to be a country that makes even worse products... |
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Red Dwarf makes several references like this; Starbug's recycled water supply (made from urine) is compared to Dutch lager and Kryten notes that one of the things that nobody wanted was American chocolate. The books indulge in this as well, as some of the foods in Lister's Cyberia simulation in Last Human include American coffee and Portuguese tea.note Ironically, the Portuguese islands of the Azores do produce tea, and it's actually very good. Despite the water sometimes turning it purple. | |
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During a codec conversation with Colonel Campbell and Rose in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Campbell talks about a conference he went to where different countries compared their standard issue military rations. He notes that the American ones were the worst of the lot. | |
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In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robin's father's sword is noted to be made of Spanish steel by the Sheriff Of Nottingham, which he states is superior to English blades. Indeed, during the final confrontation, he uses it to destroy the sword Robin takes from one of his Mooks. | |
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The Cinema Snob will always gush over pretentious foreign films, or at times prefer bad movies which were made overseas to American equivalents, like any True Art movie buff. | |
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In one Big Finish Doctor Who story, the Fourth Doctor is being threatened with a fondue fork. He proceeds to gush about how it was made in Sheffield, and wonders if they still make steel there. | |
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Outsourced — It's about a customer service department based in India, and much of the humor lies in the culture shock that its American manager faces on a daily basis. | |
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The Royal Mech, an enemy in Guardian Heroes with a limited movelist, will sometimes say this as its victory quote in the HD version: "Why does it say 'Made in Taiwan' on my butt? *sigh*" | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Long Feng tries to convince the Earth King the reason the wreckage of a huge freakin' drill (clearly meant for breaching the walls of Ba Sing Se) has a giant Fire Nation symbol on it is that it was imported: "You know you can't trust domestic machinery." Zuko presents a child with his favorite knife, and asks him to read the inscription, which has always brought him much wisdom. Unfortunately, the child reads the "made in the Earth Kingdom" one first. Much later, in Legend of Korra, Varrick states that he imported the red carpet from the Fire Nation, because "they make the best red stuff." |
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Adrian Mole says that his birthday presents were the usual Japanese rubbish, although he did get a model aeroplane that was made in West Germany. Note also this scene from the great Teletubby toy shortage: | |
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In one episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, the highest-falutin' grand dame from back home came to visit and critique the Clampetts' lifestyle. She was slightly impressed with the antiques that the Clampetts had in their house, which came from England and France; but her antiques came from even farther away — Japan. Cue Laugh Track. | |
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Mocked in a campaign mission in Tropico 4. El Presidente is informed that the trusty "Made in Tropico" brand is considered less reliable than China (see below) and you're offered the opportunity to rebrand your exports as Chinese to raise their prices. (At the cost of harming relations, naturally.) | |
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An early case in L.A. Noire has somebody insulting a jewelry shop owner by claiming that all of his wares are made in Japan, and thus cheap, nickel-plated crap. | |
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When the page-header Armageddon (1998) was released in theaters in Taiwan, this line was in it. Subsequent satellite-TV showings cut this scene in order to not offend China, which uses the same satellite broadcast. | |
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Back to the Future Part III hangs a lampshade on how nations can change their reputations in a relatively short time. In the 1950's Japan had a reputation for putting out cheap, low-quality goods. Their reputation began to change in the 60's, and by the 1980's, the country was considered a powerhouse of top quality craftsmanship and technology, particularly with regards to electronics. | |
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How to Survive a Horror Movie has a variation: objects that come from certain countries inevitably turn out to be possessed, cursed, or otherwise evil. Examples of places whose exports you should watch out for include Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, the southwestern US, central Mexico, the Caribbean, and outer space. American cars also merit a mention, since it's always Detroit steel that turns out to be evil. | |
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In Shadow Warrior attempting to use a non-functioning vehicle will result in Lo Wang remarking, "Huh? Must be American made!" | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Dornish wine has a reputation not only in Westeros, but in Essos as well. Valyria was historically noted for its steel blades, but as the Valyrian Empire died centuries ago and took its metallurgy and swordsmithing with it, this bleeds into Lost Technology. | |
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In Good Omens, Newt has a Japanese car that was made in the gap between Japanese auto-makers starting to innovate and not just copy and Japanese auto-makers being good at innovating. As a result, it breaks down frequently and has terrible voice messages, like repeating "Prease to frasten sleat-bert!" even when the seatbelt is fastened. He calls it Dick Turpin because it holds up traffic. It also makes the same point as Eric, below, about British fast food — namely that while the American version's sole redeeming qualities are its speed and the fact that the meal is hot and loaded with enough salt and sugar to make you not care, the British version manages to screw even that part up. (France, we are told, simply had fast food executives shot on sight.) In fact, Eric has a lengthy digression about the British habit of attempting to mimic an American product exactly, only without the one thing that made the American version worthwhile, such as slow fast food, and hotels that sacrifice atmosphere for efficiency, without the efficiency. A scene from The Fifth Elephant which takes German reactions to British sausages up a notch during Commander Vimes' visit to Überwald: |
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Downplayed in the Rugrats episode "Mirrorland". Didi purchases several antique knick-knacks from a newly opened store and brings them home, including a Louis XIX mirror that she asserts is French in origin. Grandpa Lou isn't impressed. | |
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Bender from Futurama proudly shows the Hecho en Mexico label on his compartment door... which then falls off. | |
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And the Roman Empire explains this to you in song regardless of where you are. | |
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Son of the Mask: Loki constantly searches both in the Mask Museum in Edge City and in every store and house in Fringe City for the green god-mask. Every mask he finds is just a replica with the engraved words "Made in Pakistan." | |
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Baptism of Fire has Geralt discuss with Zoltan the merits of various types of sword. Geralt is convinced that the Elven sword he's been given as a replacement for his destroyed Witcher's steel sword is among the best crafted, but Zoltan eventually manages to convince him to use a Dwarven sihil, which turns out to be not only an Absurdly Sharp Blade, but also surprisingly light, making it very easy to use. In any case, subsequent books note that Gnomish craftsmanship trumps both Elven and Dwarven, with the sword that Leo Bonhart buys for Ciri being incredibly well crafted. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball Not about "quality" in the usual sense, but "The Wicked" has a bit where Gumball reads a tag on Margaret Robinson (a very evil muppet woman) which says she is "made in the fiery pits of the underworld". "The Console" is about Gumball receiving a "Game Child", a knockoff so shoddy the country it was made in is also a knockoff ("Chainor"). Turns out, like everything else from the Awesome Store, it's an Artifact of Doom that turns Elmore into a video game. |
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Saturday Night Live sketch "All Things Scottish", starring Mike Myers. Their slogan: "If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!" | |
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You Only Live Twice: After Bond breaks into the Osato offices, cracks a safe and kills the Mook who attacks him, he decides he needs to take a drink from Osato's bar. He takes a sip and notes with horror that he's drinking Siamese vodka. | |
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In The IT Crowd, Moss' fire extinguisher catches on fire as he attempts to use it. He wonders why and then sees the 'made in Britain' label — of course. | |
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According to Team Fortress 2 supplemental material, Australia discovered "Australium" in the 19th century, causing all the men (and women) there to grow handlebar mustaches and rocketing Australia to a leading position in technological progress. Alas, once the Australium ran out, so did the dominance. | |
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Asterix mocks British food in Asterix in Britain and in Asterix the Legionary. In the latter album, the legionaries are served their first military meal in the barracks, and it's so bad that they refuse to to eat it, voicing their disgust in many creative ways. The Belgian says: "That is food for the Goths", the Goth says: "In my country we've had people drawn and quartered for less!" Cut to the British recruit who not only ate all of his serving, but is licking the last bits from his fingers saying "Mmmh, delicious, isn't it?" | |
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Pain & Gain: The China-made electric chainsaw the Sun Gym Gang use to try to dismember the bodies of two of their victims had a number of problems: first it wouldn't start, then it cut out before they could begin, then it got caught in one of the victim's hair rather easily and the blade wound up irreparably jammed. | |
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Godzilla: Jean Reno's character is openly disgusted by American coffee. One of his colleagues hands him a mug of what he's told is French Roast, only for him to spit it out in disgust. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "licensed", one of the requirements of becoming a seller of "officially licensed unlicensed" Strong Bad merchandise is that the country of manufacture has to have changed names five times since Strong Bad was in seventh grade. Homestar advertises his Malinko-flavored water as being "crystal clear, like domestic [American] beer". Bubs sells donuts made in a country named "Homemáde"* Pronounced "Home-ah-mah-day", so he can legally advertise them as "Home Made". |
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In The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul, Dirk's amazingly craptastic electronic I-Ching calculator is described as probably having been made in whatever Asian country was doing to South Korea what South Korea was doing to Japan. | |
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In one Family Guy episode where Brian befriends Rush Limbaugh and moves in with him, Brian buys Rush a whole new kitchen comprising of all American made appliances. Each one collapses, fails or explodes the moment Brian mentions them. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "licensed", one of the requirements of becoming a seller of "officially licensed unlicensed" Strong Bad merchandise is that the country of manufacture has to have changed names five times since Strong Bad was in seventh grade. | |
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In the Frasier episode "Star Mitzvah", Martin brings out his Schmerblatt 7-XK, which Niles describes as "the blindingest, noisiest camera ever produced in the former Soviet Union". | |
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In Friends, Ross celebrates getting tenure with a bottle of Israel's finest champagne. | |
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In the Only Fools and Horses episode "Danger UXD," Uncle Albert tells Rodney that Del has just bought a new video recorder. Rodney replies that he was just reading in the paper that Taiwan is the only country with no rubbish dumps; they send it all to Del. Del quickly replies that the video recorder was actually made in Formosa. Uncle Albert tries to explain that Taiwan and Formosa are the same island, but Rodney advises him not to bother. | |
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In a Mr. Cholmondley-Warner sketch on Harry Enfield and Chums, he warns about defective goods, saying that they can usually be identified by the "Made In Belgium" written on the bottom. | |
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