...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels

1329 statements
253 feature instances
195 referencing feature instances

My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	type	FeatureClass
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	label	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	page	MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	comment	I will not buy this trope description, it is scratched. A character thinks they can speak a foreign language, but fails comedically and says something entirely different than what was intended—often something completely nonsensical or deeply offensive. The Trope Namer is a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, where a Hungarian tourist in Britain is unwittingly using a dirty Hungarian-to-English phrasebook. He tries to use it while in a tobacconist's, where questions like "Can I please buy some matches?" are translated as "My hovercraft is full of eels." Hilarity Ensues. This typically has nothing to do with bad translations; the original speech was incorrect. For bad translations, see Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas, "Blind Idiot" Translation, or Translation Train Wreck. However, if the language being spoken isn't the language of the work as a whole, there's usually a translation back so that the audience can see just how wrong the character's speech actually was. For example, Bob thinks he speaks French well. He speaks in French to a waiter, who looks at him oddly and says "Monsieur, I do not think that you really meant to say that there is a blue banana in your navel." Although this trope is Played for Laughs, rare serious examples are known to exist where Poor Communication Kills. Whether or not this is Truth in Television depends on the language. Examples include tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese, specific "false friends" such as the Spanish word "embarazada" meaning "pregnant" and not "embarrassed" like an English speaker might assume, and words whose meaning change based on context, like the German word for cold being "kalt," but saying "Ich bin kalt" doesn't mean "I am cold," but "I am a cold-hearted person." But even then, mistakes are usually easy to sort out. If someone said "I like to eat pincakes" in English, you wouldn't assume that they are thinking of some sort of cake made from pins. Also happens sometimes with written language: some languages (such as Hungarian and Arabic) rely on diacritics to distinguish similar-looking words, and ideographic languages (such as Chinese and Japanese) have complicated characters whose meaning (and pronunciation) can completely change with the difference of a few strokes. A common explanation for the trope is that the character making the mistake has been taught something rude by a mischievous native speaker, playing on their ignorance to purposefully give an obscene translation for something reasonable. Badly-written phrase books like in the Trope Namer are also common, succeeded by software translators in more recent years. Early on Google Translate in particular had a reputation for this in Real Life (theyâ€™ve gotten better). A subtrope of Fun with Foreign Languages. Often used in conjunction with Eloquent in My Native Tongue. Also compare Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas, which is about inept translations, Separated by a Common Language, in which similar problems happen because of differences in dialect, and Malaproper, a character who does this in their native language. Dinner Order Flub is this applied to restaurant settings. Not to be confused with I Need to Go Iron My Dog (which, though, is a totally legit result of My Hovercraft Is Full Of Eels if your first language is Russian: "to pet a dog" and "to iron a dog" sound identical in that language). Note: If you are interested in learning how to say that your hovercraft is full of eels in many languages, Omniglot has a useful compilation Also, according to Google Translate, the actual Hungarian for "Can I please buy some matches?" is "KÃ©rhetek pÃ¡r gyufÃ¡t?", which when reversed, comes out in English as, much more sensibly, "Can I have some matches, please?"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	fetched	2024-04-11T20:01:18Z
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	parsed	2024-04-11T20:01:19Z
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to AccidentalInnuendo: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to AsbestosFreeCereal: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to AvertedTrope: Not an Item - IGNORE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to BackstreetBoys: Not an Item - IGNORE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to BadGuyBar: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to BilingualBonus: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to BiteTheWaxTadpole: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to BritneySpears: Not an Item - IGNORE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to ContinuityNod: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to CunningLinguist: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to DrivesLikeCrazy: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to FunetikAksent: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to GermanHumour: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to GrammarNazis: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to GratuitousEnglish: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to HaveAGayOldTime: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to HelloSailor: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to HilarityEnsues: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to HonoraryUncle: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to ImagineSpot: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to ImpliedTrope: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to ImprovisedWeaponUser: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to JustForFun: Not an Item - CAT
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to LaResistance: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to LatinLover: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to LooseEnds: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to MisaimedFandom: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to MistakenForPaedophile: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to MisterSeahorse: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to NoSenseOfDirection: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to NoodleIncident: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to OlderThanFeudalism: Not an Item - CAT
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to OrSoIHeard: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to PyramidScheme: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to RuleOfFunny: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to ShoutOut: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to StarWarsExpandedUniverse: Not an Item - CAT
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to TeenGenius: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to TieInNovel: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to ToiletHumour: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to TranslationTrainWreck: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to TruthInTelevision: Not an Item - CAT
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to UnusualDysphemism: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to UruseiYatsura: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to Va11halla: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to YouKeepUsingThatWord: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to invoked: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to invokedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to playedfordrama: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingComment	Dropped link to runninggag: Not an Item - FEATURE
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingUnknown	UruseiYatsura
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingUnknown	PyramidScheme
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingUnknown	GrammarNazis
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingUnknown	MistakenForPaedophile
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingUnknown	Va11halla
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingUnknown	Loose Ends (Web Animation)
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	isPartOf	DBTropes
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_10638bff	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_10638bff	comment	The BBC comedy series Episodes contains a meta-example. The show's graphics department had prepared a dual Hebrew/English text for a gravestone, but the Hebrew text that was supposed to parallel the English phrase "dearly missed" instead claimed that the deceased had been "pickled at great expense." They had apparently used some kind of translation software that made two major errors: first, it translated "dearly" in the sense of "expensively," and second, it selected the Hebrew word for "missed" that can only be used in the sense of "to miss an opportunity" — a word which, when applied to any other noun, means instead "to pickle" or "to sour." The graphics department then compounded the error by reversing the text of the Hebrew rettel yb rettel.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_10638bff	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_10638bff	featureConfidence	1.0
Episodes	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_10638bff
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_109f7814	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: In Sherlock Special "The Abominable Bride", Watson attempts to communicate with Wilder, the concierge of The Diogenes Club, in sign language. After first telling Wilder that he is very ugly (instead of kind) he then tells him that he is glad that Wilder liked his potato (instead of story).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_109f7814	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_109f7814	featureConfidence	1.0
Sherlock	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_109f7814
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_148f217e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_148f217e	comment	In the Nancy Drew PC game The Captive Curse, Nancy and her boyfriend Ned are talking about how to make his life more interesting compared to hers (which is naturally filled with mysteries). We never find out what he said.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_148f217e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_148f217e	featureConfidence	1.0
Nancy Drew (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_148f217e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_14f9297e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_14f9297e	comment	In The Far Side, an alien misreads a dictionary and accidentally says "Take me to your stove."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_14f9297e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_14f9297e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Far Side (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_14f9297e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_188709f8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_188709f8	comment	In A Good Day to Die Hard, John McClane takes a taxi in Russia and tries to speak Russian to the driver. With a look of complete disbelief on his face, the driver says he can speak English, and informs John that he just ordered a bag of hair.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_188709f8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_188709f8	featureConfidence	1.0
A Good Day to Die Hard	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_188709f8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_195c083d	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_195c083d	comment	Tina of Other Space speaks Russian natively, but uses Translator Microbes to speak English most of the time. When they are deactivated in a power outage her English turns into this.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_195c083d	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_195c083d	featureConfidence	1.0
Other Space	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_195c083d
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_19ac548b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_19ac548b	comment	In The Modern Parents in one issue of Viz, Malcolm, Cressida, and Tarquin visit Kaftanistan to persuade a local warlord to stop hunting endangered mountain goats. Malcolm has prepared a speech that is supposed to go along these lines: "You should be happy to let the mountain goats breed in peace," "You and your men should not upset the natural balance of the soil," or "If you are irresponsible now, your children will inherit a twisted and barren environment." However, after translating it into Kaftanistani, it comes out as:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_19ac548b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_19ac548b	featureConfidence	1.0
Viz (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_19ac548b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1a8374cb	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1a8374cb	comment	In one of the Charlie the Unicorn animations, the pink and the blue Unicorn suddenly start speaking Russian, literally saying "My hovercraft is full of eels."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1a8374cb	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1a8374cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Charlie the Unicorn (Web Animation)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1a8374cb
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1bc23f8e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1bc23f8e	comment	The second installment of the post-Soviet Russian Captain Pronin cartoons runs into this — it's mostly set in America, and has Pronin fighting the Mafia, and so we get such lines as "This is your money. Give me a smoking!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1bc23f8e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1bc23f8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain Pronin (Animation)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1bc23f8e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1beda93b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance, Torg and his Portuguese-speaking alternative universe counterpart try to communicate using a translation book. At first, there's an inverted version where Torg interprets Portuguese-Torg's phrases as weird non sequiturs (without noticing anything odd about it). Then they actually try to speak each others' languages with the help of the book:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1beda93b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1beda93b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1beda93b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1e3b270	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1e3b270	comment	From the Darkstalkers cartoon: "All hail the imperial... Pudding! There are lizards in my pants!" This is spoken by Anakaris, a resurrected pharaoh mummy, who even says it with an Irish accent as he ascends in to the sky.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1e3b270	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1e3b270	featureConfidence	1.0
Darkstalkers (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1e3b270
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1f76648	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index, there is a Running Gag of the English character Laura Stuart trying to speak Japanese, only for the others to point out that it is all wrong. This is because Motoharu Tsuchimikado taught her, and he enjoys screwing with people.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1f76648	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1f76648	featureConfidence	1.0
A Certain Magical Index	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1f76648
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1feb2526	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1feb2526	comment	A inversion in One Foot in the Grave: Victor is on holiday at a bed-and-breakfast, and has bought some spray to deal with all the insects around. While he is about to go into the bathroom, he meets two foreigners waiting outside who hesitantly tell him the bathroom is full of "midgets." He assumes they mean "midges" and confidently goes in to spray them. Needless to say, there actually are people with dwarfism in the bathroom, who don't appreciate him bursting in on them and proceed to hit him in the balls.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1feb2526	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1feb2526	featureConfidence	1.0
One Foot in the Grave	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_1feb2526
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_20098ea4	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_20098ea4	comment	On Coupling, in the episode "The Girl with Two Breasts," a scene where Jeff misunderstands Hebrew is played twice — the second time with the Hebrew in English, and Jeff's original English as incomprehensible gibberish. This reveals that Jeff has — in place of the girl's name — been repeating the Hebrew word for "breasts" ("Shadayim").
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_20098ea4	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_20098ea4	featureConfidence	1.0
Coupling	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_20098ea4
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2175d90e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2175d90e	comment	Jokingly played with on the third episode of Benson. The titular character is covering for the president of a fictional country (who happens to be in the hospital recovering from a poisoning attempt that morning.) A government official who thinks he's addressing the actual President tells Benson what he thinks is the saying for "Thank you very much." Benson, not knowing a lick of the real thing, makes it up on the spot that the way the guy just phrased it, "It was an insult to my mother."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2175d90e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2175d90e	featureConfidence	1.0
Benson	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2175d90e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2212773a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: In "Harm's Way," Angel tries to communicate with a demon species that speaks in tongue-clicks, and ends up saying, "Be disemboweled." In another episode, Fred says something to Lorne in his native language that she thinks means "may your words please the gods." Lorne informs us that what she actually just said was "may you orally please the gods."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2212773a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2212773a	featureConfidence	1.0
Angel	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2212773a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_221d6520	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_221d6520	comment	CHiPs had an American Sign Language variant: Ponch was telling the deaf parents of a woman that he would bring her home tonight in English, but what he's 'saying' in sign language causes the woman to say, bemusedly, "Ponch, you mixed up some signs. You told my parents that we are going necking and that you told my parents you'd bring me home tomorrow!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_221d6520	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_221d6520	featureConfidence	1.0
CHiPs	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_221d6520
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22211d68	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: in the Season 8 episode "The Bod in the Pod" Iranian-born intern Arastoo Vasiri wrote a love poem in Farsi to Cam, who is now secretly dating Vasiri. Hodgins ran a few lines of the poem through a translation program, getting such lines as "You're my carburetor," "Bacon is silent. Listen to all that we scrub!" and, finally, a line that compares the moon to "a testicle in the firmament." In another episode, Angela is trying to put together a toy for her son, but the included instructions say things like "put to bumblebee make happy." The illustrations aren't any more helpful, so she winds up paying three times more to get an associate at the store to put it together for her.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22211d68	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22211d68	featureConfidence	1.0
Bones	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22211d68
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2269f5c6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2269f5c6	comment	In Rules of Engagement, Audrey believes herself to have a fair grasp of the Spanish language. She doesn't; in the episode "A Big Bust" she ends up soliciting donations for what she thinks is surgery to fix the bad knee of her Hispanic housekeeper. In reality it's breast augmentation surgery that results in the housekeeper having very large boobs (much to Jeff's delight).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2269f5c6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2269f5c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Rules of Engagement	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2269f5c6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22916101	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22916101	comment	In The Monuments Men, Lt. James Granger (Matt Damon) speaks terrible French.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22916101	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22916101	featureConfidence	1.0
The Monuments Men	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_22916101
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23126dc6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23126dc6	comment	In Criminal Case: City of Romance, Carrie tries to say "merci beaucoup" to a baker, but ends up saying "beau cul" instead, which means "nice butt".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23126dc6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23126dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Criminal Case (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23126dc6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23553960	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23553960	comment	In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, an early mission to capture a Russian soldier who speaks English has said soldier teaching one of his comrades an English phrase that (he claims) instills friendship among people: "I spent last night with your girlfriend."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23553960	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23553960	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_23553960
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2365cd7a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2365cd7a	comment	In Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space, a Martian informs someone that their greeting of "Nanu-nanu" means "I wish to offer you employment in a Martian topless bar."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2365cd7a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2365cd7a	featureConfidence	1.0
Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2365cd7a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24003723	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24003723	comment	One Achewood strip involves Ray attempting to learn German from pornography. The results are... interesting.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24003723	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24003723	featureConfidence	1.0
Achewood (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24003723
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2467c186	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2467c186	comment	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls has Ouda, a member of the Wachati tribe serving as Ace's translator with the hostile Wachootoo. Unfortunately, he's very bad at it, translating "War Is Hell" to "I want war, so go to Hell!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2467c186	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2467c186	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Ventura	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2467c186
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24ffd341	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24ffd341	comment	Nicely played with on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when Charlie is given a pill by some scientists to enhance his intellect and is soon shown speaking Chinese. It turns out the "pill" was just a placebo and the real experiment was to see what happens when a dimwit thinks he's become a genius. When Charlie protests he knows Chinese, the Asian scientist reveals that Charlie has been simply speaking pure gibberish the entire time and he was playing along.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24ffd341	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24ffd341	featureConfidence	1.0
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_24ffd341
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_25c5885c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_25c5885c	comment	Johnny English Reborn: "You've met your matchstick!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_25c5885c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_25c5885c	featureConfidence	1.0
Johnny English Reborn	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_25c5885c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_261c8d3f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons In "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington," when Krusty is running for Congress, he adresses a gathering of Hispanic voters in Spanish, only for Bumblebee Man to tell him that he just promised to vomit on their mother's grave. Krusty now understands why his maid left. In "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk," the German Horst tries to arrange a private meeting with Homer but he keeps nervously refusing. Horst thinks that it's because his English is poor, but in reality it's because Homer doesn't want to be outed as a terrible employee. The season 24 episode "To Cur With Love," which aired just weeks before the 2012 US election, ended with a brief segment of Mr. Burns lecturing the viewers about what would happen if the republicans lost. Through it Smithers keeps telling him that everything he's saying is making it worse, so he tries to appeal to the Latino voters with the following:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_261c8d3f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_267cbfa	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan: The main character's father Donovan is hilariously inept with the orcish language; while he presumably thinks he's speaking greetings and profound things, he's really spouting nonsense, such as "My landmass erupts with kittens." He also has a very fancy title: Later: Despite having fun at his expense, the orcs are very respectful of "Uncle Pinky." An orc has been introduced with the same problem, but speaking Callanian. Apparently he learned from Donovan. The orc in question was under the impression that the Callanian phrase for "hello" was "Be afraid! I am very dangerous and I am going to kill you!" As it turns out, Donovan's been faking it the whole time. Everyone is simply gobsmacked when he recites an orcish saying perfectly. And why has he been faking it for twenty years?
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_267cbfa	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_267cbfa	featureConfidence	1.0
Dominic Deegan (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_267cbfa
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2858b08a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2858b08a	comment	One episode of Full House includes Danny trying to impress some visiting relatives from Greece by speaking Greek. Papouli, his late wife's grandfather, replies, "You have a volcano in the kitchen?"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2858b08a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2858b08a	featureConfidence	1.0
Full House	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2858b08a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a88f407	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a88f407	comment	Futari Ecchi has a scene wherein an American businessman's daughter mixes up her words and instead of complimenting the flavor of the crab being served, she was commenting on a certain portion of the male anatomy.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a88f407	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a88f407	featureConfidence	1.0
Futari Ecchi (Manga)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a88f407
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a9edae	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a9edae	comment	The Kids in the Hall: Scott Thompson's idiot Canadian character walks into a shop where Dave Foley's shopkeep character speaks to him in perfect English. The catch is, he doesn't speak English and memorized those words phonetically, so when Scott asks a question, he can't answer, but continues reciting more unrelated English, which gets Scott angry. Eventually, the speech the shopkeep has memorized finishes with insults and the phrase, "Would you like to fight me?"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a9edae	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a9edae	featureConfidence	1.0
The Kids in the Hall	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2a9edae
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b03409f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b03409f	comment	An interesting non-vocal example happened on Dancing with the Stars. Supermodel Nyle DiMarco is deaf and relied on visual cues to do the dances. At one point he and his partner were dancing separately and she motioned him to walk over to her; it was supposed to be a flirty "come hither" gesture, but the exact motion she used (with all five fingers) is the ASL sign for "Get over here NOW!" causing Nyle to run to her, which briefly threw off their timing. They were able to play it off though, and viewers were none the wiser.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b03409f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b03409f	featureConfidence	1.0
Dancing with the Stars	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b03409f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b82b95f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b82b95f	comment	The iCarly episode "iGo to Japan" had a Japanese speaker saying "Hello, I have a bladder infection" to the kids because he was using a Japanese-English English-Japanese dictionary. Subverted in that he was actually trying to communicate his bladder infection.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b82b95f	featureApplicability	-0.3
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b82b95f	featureConfidence	1.0
iCarly	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2b82b95f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2bb4ae0f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes' Japanese-language scenes provide several examples: Masi Oka once said that while filming a scene in the first season of with George Takei, Takei's line in Japanese was (paraphrasing) "I am proud of your progress (shinpo)" that Oka misheard as "I am proud of your dick (chinpo)." As Takei notes in the DVD commentary of one episode, every time Hiro says Nathan's name, it sounds rather like nÄ“-san, which is Japanese for "big sister."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2bb4ae0f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2bb4ae0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Heroes	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2bb4ae0f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2c8f31bd	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2c8f31bd	comment	When Fang attempts to speak monkey while on an island of monkeys who look like her in Dave the Barbarian:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2c8f31bd	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2c8f31bd	featureConfidence	1.0
Dave the Barbarian	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2c8f31bd
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2e849915	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2e849915	comment	In My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Koichi aka The Skyscrawler is mobbed by the New York City press after helping a crashing plane make an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Being Japanese, he has no idea what anyone is saying as he's barraged with questions. In his panic, he mistakes a bunch of onlookers asking him to smash up Wall Street for the planted reporters he's supposed to make a scripted statement to, resulting in him saying that he'll do his best to smash up Wall Street. His bosses both Facepalm at the ensuing surge of bad press he just generated.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2e849915	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2e849915	featureConfidence	1.0
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (Manga)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2e849915
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2f1ee31e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2f1ee31e	comment	Jessie: In "All The Knight Moves", Jessie (excited over the idea of Zuri winning the two of them a trip to Paris in a chess tournament) tries learning some French. When she tries to express her excitement over the tournament in the language, she gets this response:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2f1ee31e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2f1ee31e	featureConfidence	1.0
Jessie	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_2f1ee31e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_310d6df7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: A Finnish character with a few smatterings of Swedish tries to write "Be well" in a letter intended for a Swede. The phrase is "Voi hyvin" in Finnish, but "voi" also means "butter." He ends up writing that butter is good instead of wishing the letter's recipient well.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_310d6df7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_310d6df7	featureConfidence	1.0
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_310d6df7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3167d0f6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3167d0f6	comment	In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021), Duncan fancies himself as a linguist, but it turns out his research is very surface-level. While he has a passing understanding of Trollan, he gets in trouble twice in Avion when he learns their language is more contextual than he realized.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3167d0f6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3167d0f6	featureConfidence	1.0
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3167d0f6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_31c31084	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_31c31084	comment	From The Weekenders: Whenever Tish's mother tries to say an English phrase, it comes out with all similar-sounding words instead, leaving the three non-Tish protagonists to mull over what she meant before Tish "translates."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_31c31084	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_31c31084	featureConfidence	1.0
The Weekenders	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_31c31084
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_329f2925	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_329f2925	comment	M.I. High: In "The Wasp," Mr Flatley attempts to welcome a new deaf student to the school by signing "Hello and welcome to St. Hope's." According to Oscar, he actually asked Avril to go and buy some sausages.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_329f2925	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_329f2925	featureConfidence	1.0
M.I. High	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_329f2925
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_33a61b13	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_33a61b13	comment	In the 1990s, there was an ad on the back of a magazine for Amazon.com's Spanish-language site, depicting the book cover "Cien anos de soledad" (Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude), illustrating the common Web 1.0 problem of websites that don't take accent marks seriously.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_33a61b13	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_33a61b13	featureConfidence	1.0
One Hundred Years of Solitude	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_33a61b13
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_34fd3cf6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_34fd3cf6	comment	While most extraterrestrials on the show speak perfect English (though sometimes in strange intonations, like the Mooninites or Austrian accents, like Oglethorpe the Plutonian), in Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the episode "Super Spore," a mouthless alien entity (later revealed to be named Travis of the Cosmos) uses a proboscis to hijack Shake's body to speak. His native language is bastardized Japanese (the only English word he says through Shake is "401k"), but in the episode he's learning English from tapes that Carl has. He then begins spouting phrases like "Shut up bitch! I need mustache ride for me lawyer." Frylock's Japanese isn't any better, however:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_34fd3cf6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_34fd3cf6	featureConfidence	1.0
Aqua Teen Hunger Force	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_34fd3cf6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3558eaa2	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3558eaa2	comment	Several instances in Community, particularly in the first season while the Study Group takes Spanish: In the "Pilot", when Jeff tries to convince Britta that he's a Spanish tutor to get closer to her, she asks him to say that in Spanish, leading to him doing this ("I sleep late Spanish. One more hour. Don't scratch my car"). What he says is actually comprehensible Spanish—specifically, phrases he would presumably have memorized so he could say them to Spanish-speaking hotel maids and valets. Britta knows that he's bullshitting her, but can't prove it because she doesn't speak Spanish. In "English as a Second Language", when Chang's replacement threatens to fail the Study group for walking out of their Spanish final to rescue Annie from Chang, Jeff and Britta respond in perfect Spanish, only for Pierce to do this ("Land of fire!"). A non-verbal example arises in "Analysis of Cork-Based Networking", when Abed forms a mutual attraction with a deaf girl. Initially not knowing sign language, when attempting to sign that he wished he did, he instead says "I detonated a mollusk."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3558eaa2	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3558eaa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Community	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3558eaa2
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35af2104	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35af2104	comment	There's Vimes' attempt at dwarfish from The Fifth Elephant. It nearly causes a diplomatic incident since the only word he knows for 'dwarf', having learned by picking up Ankh-Morpork 'street dwarfish', is the word for 'dwarf (indicating miscreant)'. He also calls himself "Overseer Vimes of the Look" and says "I am sure you are a dwarf of no convictions. Let us shake our business, dwarf (indicating miscreant)." Imagine what would happen if you addressed the chief of police as "punk." Yeah, like that, but with more axes.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35af2104	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35af2104	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fifth Elephant	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35af2104
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35fdfccf	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35fdfccf	comment	In one episode of a short-lived NBC sitcom CafÃ© Americain, set in France, the main character (played by Valerie Bertenelli) was finally given an ultimatum to learn the native language. Her initial attempts were a little less than stellar: an attempt to congratulate a newly engaged couple had her unintentionally claiming to be having an affair with the man; and one attempt to converse with her instructor/UST interest resulted in the memorable phrase "Cheese in my pants makes me happy. Don't you agree?"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35fdfccf	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35fdfccf	featureConfidence	1.0
Café Americain	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_35fdfccf
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_369979ca	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_369979ca	comment	In Her Alibi, the Phil tries to speak to the Romanian murder suspect in her native language, only for her to inform him that he said his mother was an octopus.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_369979ca	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_369979ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Her Alibi	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_369979ca
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_36ee2abe	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_36ee2abe	comment	When discussing Twitchtalk in Paranoia, this trope is referenced by name.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_36ee2abe	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_36ee2abe	featureConfidence	1.0
Paranoia (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_36ee2abe
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_37ee9dd3	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_37ee9dd3	comment	In Doonesbury's take on the USA for Africa "We Are the World" recording sessions, Stevie Wonder asks Quincy Jones if they can sing "milleloo shalanga" during the fills after the chorus, explaining that it's a Swahili phrase he once heard. Jones asks the Ethopian observer if it would be offensive to Ethiopians, and the observer says no, so they begin singing it. However the observer (outside the frame) adds "It's not a very nice thing to say about your own sister, though." This all actually happened up till the punchline. In reality, it was innocuous, but they chose not to sing it because Ethiopians don't speak Swahili (and several of the singers objected to having to learn foreign lyrics on short notice).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_37ee9dd3	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_37ee9dd3	featureConfidence	1.0
Doonesbury (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_37ee9dd3
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_39dced99	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_39dced99	comment	During a roleplaying game in The Gamers Live, Klepty (Cass's character) attempts to speak to some goblins in their native language. According to Gary's translations, he actually says, "Wow, aren't my pants shiny?" and "It itches down there."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_39dced99	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_39dced99	featureConfidence	1.0
The Gamers Live (Web Video)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_39dced99
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3b34143f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3b34143f	comment	In the Harry Potter fanfic "The Dursley Witch," the Original Character protagonist, Dudley's sister, hisses at her brother in annoyance once. Harry proceeds to correct her pronunciation of Parseltongue: This is a usual gag in Harry Potter fanfics, with a character throwing random hisses and Harry pointing out what they said.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3b34143f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3b34143f	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3b34143f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3e5de40b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: In a bizarre example, after noting that The Janitor seems afraid of JD's Latina friend Carla, JD wonders how he can use that to his advantage. He then daydreams about Carla standing up to the Janitor for him and telling him to stop picking on JD and to give JD a fruit smoothie everyday. The Janitor then asks in Spanish if JD wants strawberry or banana. Carla responds in Spanish with "Purple tree car with cheese." Janitor grabs Carla's face and rips it off to reveal JD dressed as Carla. JD immediately says "Feliz Navidad!" and runs away. The daydream ends with JD concluding he'll need to learn Spanish. "I have an Eiffel Tower in my pants." "What?" "GRAPEFRUIT!!" Turk says he learned a little bit of French, but most of it was intended to help him pick up girls. So the Eiffel Tower in his pants is... that, and the grapefruits are... those. At Carla and Turk's wedding, Carla's brother gave The Todd a pick-up line in Spanish: "Tengo herpes genetal," which means "I have genital herpes." (Though it should be written as genital).note Mucho herpes. Para tÃ. In"My Musical" Carla also told The Todd that the Spanish for "man meat" was "Pincho chiquito" (tiny penis). Eliott Reed (who is fluent in German) makes an intentional and dirty mistranslation to get revenge on Dr. Cox. Instead of telling his burly German speaking patient that "You have fluid on your lungs" — he says "Your wife has nice boobs." While making a gesture that he thinks is illustrating a pair of lungs.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3e5de40b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3e5de40b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scrubs	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3e5de40b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3f92a0e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3f92a0e	comment	In Wagons East!, after the wagon train accidentally winds up in the middle of a Sioux encampment, wagon master James Harlow attempts to communicate with them in sign language but Ben no longer trusts him and attempts it himself. The Sioux chieftain interrupts him after a minute to say in perfect English, that Ben just signed that he "wants to shave a buffalo's butt, and dance naked with a beaver".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3f92a0e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3f92a0e	featureConfidence	1.0
Wagons East!	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3f92a0e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe0a130	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe0a130	comment	Ugly Betty has an episode where Betty (who has lived in America for her entire life) accompanies her father to visit her family in Mexico. The episode features a Running Gag where Betty tries to say something in Spanish and her father informs her that she just said something embarrassing: "You just said you ate your niece." "You just told them you're pregnant." The funniest part is that what she says are actual, fairly common mistakes among new Spanish speakers.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe0a130	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe0a130	featureConfidence	1.0
Ugly Betty	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe0a130
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe6b4fb	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In Star by Star, Ganner Rhysode, masquerading as a Yuuzhan Vong, gets "kanabar" (low-caste person) mixed up with "kane a bar" (dung of a rotting meat maggot).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe6b4fb	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe6b4fb	featureConfidence	1.0
New Jedi Order	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_3fe6b4fb
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_41b0198a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In Summer Knight, Harry Dresden attends a White Council meeting in which the official language is Latin. Unfortunately, Harry's Latin is very crappy, so when he tries to say "Sorry, Merlin. It's been a very long day. I meant to have my other robe" and "Please excuse my lateness and appearance," he actually says, respectively, "I am a sorry excuse Merlin, a sad long day held me. I need me a different laundress," and "Excuses to you for my being dressed and I also make lately." No, that's not a typo. Darn that Latin correspondence course. In a later book a White Court vampire is addressing the White Court in their official language, and is just as bad at it as Harry is at Latin. Thanks to assistance from a demon Harry understands it perfectly, so he gets to witness his opponent making an utter fool of himself.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_41b0198a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_41b0198a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dresden Files	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_41b0198a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4249cc3a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4249cc3a	comment	Candorville: Lemont does this in...let's call it grunt-speak.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4249cc3a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4249cc3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Candorville (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4249cc3a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_429d601d	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_429d601d	comment	Wedding Season: The white Nick's attempts at learning Hindi are disastrous, including telling Priya she is a "dead onion" and he is a "thin banana" at their wedding.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_429d601d	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_429d601d	featureConfidence	1.0
Wedding Season	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_429d601d
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_42efb78	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_42efb78	comment	In Deadpool 2, Deadpool claims to be unable to speak Cantonese, but says something from eighth-grade Spanish; "Â¿DÃ³nde estÃ¡ la biblioteca?" which the subtitles correctly translate to "Where is the library?" However, Deadpool claims it's actually "I don't bargain, pumpkin-fucker."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_42efb78	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_42efb78	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadpool 2	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_42efb78
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_43b1575d	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_43b1575d	comment	In "Bring Me The Head of Earthworm Jim," Jim, trying to get reservations at a fancy restaurant, claims to be the king of Spain and says some Spanish as proof.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_43b1575d	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_43b1575d	featureConfidence	1.0
Earthworm Jim	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_43b1575d
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_44e0b783	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: The May 17, 2017 strip has Jon prove to Garfield that he can speak dog by barking at Odie. Garfield remarks that Jon just said "My elbow is a potato". In the April 24, 2019 strip, the chained dog tries to learn cat language, and demonstrates what he learned so far to Garfield. Garfield's response: "You just asked for directions to the pipe wrench."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_44e0b783	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_44e0b783	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_44e0b783
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4540b0b2	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4540b0b2	comment	While Harry Osborn is showing a female foreign exchange student around his campus in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, as a sign of farewell, he says that "Until we meet again, your beauty will cough in my raincoat."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4540b0b2	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4540b0b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4540b0b2
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_455e3038	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_455e3038	comment	Peggy from King of the Hill does this a few times in Spanish, like thinking "embarazada" (the Spanish word for "pregnant") is the Spanish word for "embarrassed," among others. The sad thing is, she's a substitute teacher who thinks her best subject is Spanish. It becomes a major plot point in "LupÃ©'s Revenge". Peggy leads a class trip to Mexico and accidentally brings a Mexican girl home with her. When she brings the girl home, Peggy is arrested and charged with kidnapping. Hank finally allows Peggy to take the stand in her own defense, and her Spanish is so terrible that the court realizes it must have been a horrible misunderstanding.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_455e3038	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_455e3038	featureConfidence	1.0
King of the Hill	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_455e3038
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_45a29545	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_45a29545	comment	The Secret Saturdays: In "Into the Mouth of Darkness," Drew is less than impressed by Doc's grasp of Arabic as he attempts to apologize to a local for destroying his boat:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_45a29545	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_45a29545	featureConfidence	1.0
The Secret Saturdays	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_45a29545
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_468bebb0	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In novel Feet of Clay, Carrot is teaching Angua Dwarfish; when she tries to show it off to Cheery, she accidentally says "small delightful mining tool of a feminine nature." Carrot just thinks she's incorrect, because dwarves look the same genderwise. One of the earlier books explains this. In Interesting Times, Rincewind the Wizard is sent to the Counterweight Continent because he is the only one to understand the language — somewhat. The Counterweight Continent is a Discworld version of China, where most of the various languages are tonal, meaning the same syllable can mean several different things based on intonation. For example, the words for "wizard" and "blob of swallow's vomit" differ only by tone. The same thing happens with Mr. Saveloy, albeit to a slightly lesser extent: In Interesting Times, the narrator claims that a simple word like "aaargh" can, in a certain language from Klatch, mean "More boiling oil, please!" which can have interesting implications for those uttering it. A Running Gag in the same book has Rincewind use an intonation while screaming "aaargh" that translates it into the Howondaland phrase for "your wife is a big hippo." There's Vimes' attempt at dwarfish from The Fifth Elephant. It nearly causes a diplomatic incident since the only word he knows for 'dwarf', having learned by picking up Ankh-Morpork 'street dwarfish', is the word for 'dwarf (indicating miscreant)'. He also calls himself "Overseer Vimes of the Look" and says "I am sure you are a dwarf of no convictions. Let us shake our business, dwarf (indicating miscreant)." Imagine what would happen if you addressed the chief of police as "punk." Yeah, like that, but with more axes. Jingo mentions two Klatchian tribes who went to war over a translated word in a holy book, which meant either "god" or "man" — the difference in the original language is only one dot, and if the dot had been a little further to the left it would have been "licorice." Modelled on the Real Life theological disagreement over whether God and Jesus are homoousios (of the same substance) or homoiousios (of a similar substance). Because it was in Greek, and the disagreement was over an iota subscript, it gave us the phrase "not one iota (of difference)." In Monstrous Regiment, Vimes has a slight communication problem when, as a gesture of friendship towards Polly Perks and her regiment, he tries to say "I am a Borogravian" and instead claims to be a cherry pancake. An obvious reference to John F. Kennedy and "Ich bin ein Berliner!" (see Real Life, below). Ongoing mention is made of the restaurant "Mundane Meals." Its proprietor had asked Vimes for a word that meant "simple" and "down to earth" without saying what he wanted it for.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_468bebb0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_475972f0	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_475972f0	comment	In Y: The Last Man, one of Alter's Israeli soldiers is held at gunpoint by 355. She pleads for her life by rattling off every English phrase she can remember. Things like, "how much does this cost." It might have helped if she dropped the gun, but that is beside the point.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_475972f0	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_475972f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Y: The Last Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_475972f0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_47dfc6f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama Pahkitew Island: Chris attempts to give the season's teams an Awesome Mc Cool Name in Cree. One of the contestants, Sky, is actually Cree, and informs him that what he thought was "Soaring Eagles" and "Ferocious Tigers" is actually "Floating Salmon" and "Confused Bears".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_47dfc6f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_47dfc6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Drama	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_47dfc6f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_49ad83ee	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_49ad83ee	comment	Referencing the Monty Python example, World of Warcraft has an "Orcish / Common Dictionary" and "Common / Orcish Dictionary" which translate "KEK" and "BUR" (LOL) as "An aggressively passionate mating call."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_49ad83ee	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_49ad83ee	featureConfidence	1.0
World of Warcraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_49ad83ee
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4a80cec	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4a80cec	comment	In Corky Romano, Corky tries to talk to some Chinese gangsters and ends up saying nonsense like "hairy pencil."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4a80cec	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4a80cec	featureConfidence	1.0
Corky Romano	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4a80cec
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4b6ea815	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4b6ea815	comment	Polar Star (the sequel to Gorky Park). An American sailor who learns Esperanto as a hobby mentions a meeting his group organised between two famous practitioners of the language. "It took us five minutes to realise they couldn't understand what each other was saying. One's asking for the wine, the other's telling her the time."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4b6ea815	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4b6ea815	featureConfidence	1.0
Gorky Park	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4b6ea815
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4e45b093	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4e45b093	comment	Sheldon's attempts to learn Mandarin in The Big Bang Theory: "Long live concrete?" "Oxen are in my bed! Many, many oxen!" and "Don't call the library. Show me your mucus!" or even this: "Your monkey sleeps inside me." The Chinese restaurant owner refers to Howard as the annoying little friend of theirs "who thinks he speak Mandarin," making this a likely case of being taught wrong. Of course, knowing Howard, he probably did this on purpose to screw with Sheldon.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4e45b093	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4e45b093	featureConfidence	1.0
The Big Bang Theory	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4e45b093
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4eaeb513	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4eaeb513	comment	An episode of Welcome Back, Kotter reveals that Arnold Horshack's last name translates into "the cattle are dying."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4eaeb513	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4eaeb513	featureConfidence	1.0
Welcome Back, Kotter	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4eaeb513
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f14e537	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f14e537	comment	In The New Adventures of Invader Zim, Skoodge is said to have this problem with other languages. For example, he apparently once somehow turned a simple greeting in Vortian into "I would like to fill your pants with shrimp."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f14e537	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f14e537	featureConfidence	1.0
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f14e537
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f1f3628	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f1f3628	comment	An episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody involved a group of Japanese tourists coming to the Tipton hotel. Cody, who's learning Japanese, tries to ask them how the flight went. Instead he says " I have a hornet's nest in my pants." The tourists all run away, as Cody shrugs it off saying, "I guess it was bouncy." Later in that episode, Cody practices his Japanese by greeting a singer from Japan. It comes out as "My bellybutton grows watermelons."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f1f3628	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f1f3628	featureConfidence	1.0
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f1f3628
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f7b790	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f7b790	comment	Eternals: In Babylonia, Ikaris starts learning Babylonian, and Sersi is impressed. He tries to say, "You are very beautiful" to her, and she giggles when he accidentally says, "I am very beautiful".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f7b790	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f7b790	featureConfidence	1.0
Eternals	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_4f7b790
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_505bdb62	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_505bdb62	comment	Early on in the Gameboy Color version of Magi-Nation, you are approached by one of the natives of the Moonlands who speaks like this. Evidently, all people in this world speak in perfect English, just with the meanings of all of their words mixed around. Through a sort of 'translation artifact', you are able to understand the natives perfectly.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_505bdb62	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_505bdb62	featureConfidence	1.0
Magi-Nation (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_505bdb62
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_50d3a336	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_50d3a336	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022), Tails tries using the translator on his Miles Electric to communicate with the unruly patrons of a Siberian bar. But not only does the translator get their food order wrong, it also insults the waiter who brought it to them. This, combined with their disguises falling off, almost results in him and Sonic getting tossed into the fireplace.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_50d3a336	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_50d3a336	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_50d3a336
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_513e22f6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_513e22f6	comment	A real-life version referenced in Scandinavia and the World: According to the Danish writer, the Danish phrase "That's a major downer" can, if not pronounced carefully, come out as "That's the master negro." She had fun with this in a strip about Obama visiting Copenhagen.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_513e22f6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_513e22f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Scandinavia and the World (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_513e22f6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_526d4c5c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_526d4c5c	comment	HK droids from Knights of the Old Republic do this intentionally when disguised as protocol droids. If we are to believe HK-47, the results are never pretty. There's a theory that HK-47 deliberately tries to disrupt talks to start a shoot-out.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_526d4c5c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_526d4c5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_526d4c5c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_536a5cc9	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_536a5cc9	comment	When Tails attempts to translate Yacker's language in Sonic Colors, it ends up invoking this trope.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_536a5cc9	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_536a5cc9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sonic Colors (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_536a5cc9
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5392bc91	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5392bc91	comment	Not an intentional hovercrafting, but in The Wonder Years, Kevin Arnold is sitting in French class daydreaming about a girl he has a crush on. In the fantasy, his love interest spouts off a whole bunch of eloquent, romantic French to Kevin. To which he can only reply 'Do you want some butter?'
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5392bc91	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5392bc91	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wonder Years	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5392bc91
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_53f9ae8a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_53f9ae8a	comment	Comes up a lot in I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What?: All spells are cast in High Druidic, but nobody actually speaks High Druidic, they simply memorize spells by rote. Taylor, however, has access to a translation effect that lets her hear what people are actually saying when they mispronounce their incantations.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_53f9ae8a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_53f9ae8a	featureConfidence	1.0
I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_53f9ae8a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_54beed92	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_54beed92	comment	Tetris (2023): After securing the funding and (what he thinks are) the rights to start porting Tetris, Henk gathers his Japanese employees to announce, in Japanese, "we are big failures now!" Everyone reacts morosely until Akemi steps in and corrects Henk's pronunciation, and Henk repeats the announcement - "We are big PUBLISHERS now!" - to relieved cheers.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_54beed92	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_54beed92	featureConfidence	1.0
Tetris (2023)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_54beed92
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5562da6a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5562da6a	comment	Occurs on 3rd Rock from the Sun when Mary gives a talk to foreign visitors to the university. Since her editor decided it was easier to just pretend Mary's speech was perfect so she could go drinking, Mary ends up inviting the visitors to her "womanly place," and tells them that "there's room for everyone."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5562da6a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5562da6a	featureConfidence	1.0
3rd Rock from the Sun	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5562da6a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_55ef2655	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_55ef2655	comment	Kenan & Kel had this with the date with Brianna, while Kel was trying to translate his order, the waiter got mad because Kel wanted "to park his truck on his mother's face."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_55ef2655	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_55ef2655	featureConfidence	1.0
Kenan & Kel	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_55ef2655
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5649d3a8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5649d3a8	comment	In an episode of The Real Husbands of Hollywood, Kevin Hart catches the eye of a little woman who flirts with him in Russian (the actress was born and raised in Kazan). Kevin tries to respond in kind, but itâ€™s mostly gibberish, punctuated by the one Russian word he actually knows: vodka.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5649d3a8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5649d3a8	featureConfidence	1.0
The Real Husbands of Hollywood	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5649d3a8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5666e22b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5666e22b	comment	In the Deptford Histories book The Alchymist's Cat, the evil alchemist Dr. Spittle teaches his pompous rival, Sir Francis Lingley, some French phrases so he can impress visiting French nobles. note Though Lingley often peppers his dialogue with French phrases, he doesn't speak the language well enough to hold a proper conversation with a native speaker. Unbeknownst to Lingley, he was in reality being taught vile insults. He ends up telling the Comte that his wife has the face of a barnacle goose and the figure of a butchered sow, and if his children take after her then they must be hideous. On top of that, he is tricked into asking King Charles II if he could sew a button onto his coat. This incident results in his falling from grace and he is Driven to Suicide.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5666e22b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5666e22b	featureConfidence	1.0
Deptford Mice	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5666e22b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5688a1b0	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5688a1b0	comment	In The Saga of the Noble Dead, half-elf Leesil was never properly taught the Elvish language. His later attempts to learn it go poorly; the first time he actually tries speaking to an elf, he manages to turn a request for directions into an insult against the elf's mother.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5688a1b0	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5688a1b0	featureConfidence	1.0
The Saga of the Noble Dead	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5688a1b0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_579b991b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_579b991b	comment	In Leave It to Beaver, Eddy Haskell teaches Beaver a Spanish sentence to say to his Hispanic friend. The sentence is, "Usted tiene una cara como puerco." Eddie claims it means "You're a swell guy;" in fact, it means "You have a face like a pig." Hilarity Ensues.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_579b991b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_579b991b	featureConfidence	1.0
Leave It to Beaver	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_579b991b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_57a3683f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_57a3683f	comment	Not Always Right: "Their Own Private Joke", where an American tourist in Spain mixes up the (admittedly similar-sounding) words for comb (peine), and penis (pene). In another case from their sister site, a French teacher tries to stump a student by speaking Russian only for the student to tell him he said he was a German warship. A woman believes herself fluent in French and orders food. What she actually says? "my son is a cardboard box."note mon fils est une caisse en carton
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_57a3683f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_57a3683f	featureConfidence	1.0
Not Always Right (Website)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_57a3683f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5804255f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5804255f	comment	Played with in Cobra Bargain by Timothy Zahn when Jin is tutoring her younger sister in speaking Troft. According to Jin's Internal Monologue the potential mistake is actually fairly innocuous and she's playing it up to hold Cari's interest.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5804255f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5804255f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cobra Trilogy	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5804255f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_588d39ff	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_588d39ff	comment	In an episode of Suddenly Susan, Vicky demands that Luis teach her just enough Spanish to pick up Latin men. He teaches her to say that she would like to share her STDs and that she hasn't bathed in years.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_588d39ff	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_588d39ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Suddenly Susan	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_588d39ff
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_58d80a4a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_58d80a4a	comment	Jingo mentions two Klatchian tribes who went to war over a translated word in a holy book, which meant either "god" or "man" — the difference in the original language is only one dot, and if the dot had been a little further to the left it would have been "licorice." Modelled on the Real Life theological disagreement over whether God and Jesus are homoousios (of the same substance) or homoiousios (of a similar substance). Because it was in Greek, and the disagreement was over an iota subscript, it gave us the phrase "not one iota (of difference)."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_58d80a4a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_58d80a4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Jingo	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_58d80a4a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5a13e87c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5a13e87c	comment	Batman Eternal: While investigating in Brazil, Red Hood admits that his Portuguese is rusty and that he might have just called the boy he was questioning a small horse. He had, but he managed to get the gist of his question across.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5a13e87c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5a13e87c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Eternal (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5a13e87c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5acfd39c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5acfd39c	comment	Rush Hour 2: Thanks to his poor poor Cantonese, James Carter invites two girls to get naked and sacrifice a small goat instead of having a drink. He also tells the entire triad bar to take out their Samurai swords and shave his butt. Played with every which way. Det. Carter isn't speaking gibberish, but perfect idiomatic Cantonese. It's just that what he's saying is completely unrelated to what he means! ("Sit down, sit down! Everyone, pick up your swords, shave me. I want Tan. Go home, go sleep! Right now!") The heavy implication is that Carter bought a joke phrasebook and got tricked —- the exact same plot as the "Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook" sketch! Jackie Chan's English isn't too great to begin with. This explains some of the what-did-I-say looks he gets in the Hilarious Outtakes when the crew starts laughing after he flubs a line. The Rush Hour series director Brett Ratner also enjoys feeding him dirty English phrases and having him innocently repeat them later.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5acfd39c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5acfd39c	featureConfidence	1.0
Rush Hour 2	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5acfd39c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c054ba7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c054ba7	comment	In Things Fall Apart, the white colonists hire an African translator to speak to Okonkwo's tribe, but because he speaks a different dialect than the tribe, every time he says "myself," Okonkwo's tribe hears it as "my buttocks." "My Buttocks" becomes the translator's nickname among the tribesmen.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c054ba7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c054ba7	featureConfidence	1.0
Things Fall Apart	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c054ba7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c7c67c7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c7c67c7	comment	The PokÃ©mon Squad: When Barney's Japanese cousin visits him in the episode "BÄ�nÄ« to Tomodachi", he tries to learn Japanese in order to talk to him. Naturally, due to using Google Translate and Yahoo Answers to learn, this backfires spectacularly.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c7c67c7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c7c67c7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Pokémon Squad (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5c7c67c7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5d354f8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: Arnold Rimmer's Esperanto: "Could you send for the hall porter, there appears to be a frog in my bidet." In the episode "Kryten," Rimmer attempts to speak Esperanto to Kryten and act aloof. He does not understand when Kryten replies, in Esperanto, "You speak Esperanto, Captain Rimmer?"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5d354f8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5d354f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dwarf	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5d354f8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5e9ea81e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5e9ea81e	comment	A deleted scene in Black Panther (2018) has Agent Ross offering T'Challa some parting words of encouragement in Wakanda's native language. Unfortunately, it comes out as "Good luck and many shoelaces."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5e9ea81e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5e9ea81e	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Panther (2018)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5e9ea81e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5eb17c63	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5eb17c63	comment	In one episode of James Bond Jr., the snotty rich kid takes a girl to a restaurant and orders a meal in French. On his first attempt he orders a live lobster. When the focus returns to him after cutting to Bond's adventures for a while, he's finally managed to order something edible in French — a cheese sandwich.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5eb17c63	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5eb17c63	featureConfidence	1.0
James Bond Jr.	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5eb17c63
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5ee2a942	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5ee2a942	comment	In Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop, Daemon wants to impress Jaenelle by telling her how much she means to him in the old tongue. He plans to say this one phrase he has taught himself in a very intimate situation, but during a faked public argument, he utters it as it's the only one he knows that their listeners won't be able to understand. Lucky for him he did that then, as what he was really saying was: "I eat cow brains."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5ee2a942	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5ee2a942	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Jewels	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_5ee2a942
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_609c8e01	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_609c8e01	comment	In Phenomenon, a friend of George Malley named Nate asks him to teach him some Portuguese so he can hire a (beautiful) Brazilian lady as his maid. Malley uses a tape recorder to give English and Portuguese "translations" for sentences like, "Can you start on Monday?" But the Portuguese sentences actually mean "You have beautiful eyes," and so on. At the end of the movie, Nate and the Brazilian lady are having a baby.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_609c8e01	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_609c8e01	featureConfidence	1.0
Phenomenon	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_609c8e01
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_60bcf901	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_60bcf901	comment	A variation occurs in The Saddle Club series while Lisa and her family are on vacation in Italy. Lisa is given a cot with a broken wheel and tries to explain it to the front desk staff, but even with her English-to-Italian dictionary, the closest she can manage is "the wheel on top of my bed is broken." In this case she knows that it's not quite right, but she decides to use it anyway in hopes that they'll understand what she's trying to get at. Fortunately, they do.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_60bcf901	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_60bcf901	featureConfidence	1.0
The Saddle Club	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_60bcf901
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_62a7de21	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_62a7de21	comment	This happens to Kagura in Azumanga Daioh. Upon seeing a foreign tourist struggling with his luggage, she decides to go help him. He's quite shocked to see this girl suddenly yell "Help! Help me!" at the top of her lungs when trying to talk to him. She eventually does get her intended message across, but when the foreigner thanks her, all she can come up with in response is "Yay!" accompanied by a thumbs up.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_62a7de21	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_62a7de21	featureConfidence	1.0
Azumanga Daioh (Manga)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_62a7de21
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_65705451	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_65705451	comment	Zipi y Zape: In Robinsones Zapatilla, with the entire family taking part in a Survivor-like reality show, Pantuflo tries to communicate with a savage tribe. It doesn't end well.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_65705451	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_65705451	featureConfidence	1.0
Zipi y Zape (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_65705451
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_671d5c19	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Near the end of "Stray Bullet", Blossom and Buttercup's attempt at speaking Squirrel ends up gibberish:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_671d5c19	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_671d5c19	featureConfidence	1.0
The Powerpuff Girls (1998)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_671d5c19
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_67abe4e4	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_67abe4e4	comment	The mom from Eek! The Cat is often shown repeating absurd phrases from language learning tapes.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_67abe4e4	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_67abe4e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Eek! The Cat	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_67abe4e4
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_69daf29	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power has Innocent Aliens come to Earth to tour, using a GlibGlorb to English translator that even name drops this trope. Their spoken English, while somewhat lacking in full, is nowhere near as bad.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_69daf29	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_69daf29	featureConfidence	1.0
Grrl Power (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_69daf29
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6ba673f9	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6ba673f9	comment	New Tricks: Gerry tries to impress a British Sign Language interpreter with the Sign Language he learned in childhood so he could communicate with his deaf cousin. It doesn't work and he gets "Can I dig up my Elephant with you?" as a result.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6ba673f9	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6ba673f9	featureConfidence	1.0
New Tricks	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6ba673f9
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6cb2d709	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6cb2d709	comment	In the Harry Potter fanfic "How to Say Open," Ron stumbles across this trope while trying to say "open" in Parseltongue, to Harry's great amusement.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6cb2d709	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6cb2d709	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter (Franchise)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6cb2d709
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6d7c7f1c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	In one Something*Positive strip during Gwen Stefani's height of fame, after citing her cynical usage of Japanese fashion and girls, the characters speculated that the Harajuku girls were teaching her how to say she has a vile venereal disease in the guise of how to order food in Japanese as payback.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6d7c7f1c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6d7c7f1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Something*Positive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6d7c7f1c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6eebb013	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6eebb013	comment	In the second Symphony of Ages novel, Rhapsody's love interest tries to flirt with her in her native tongue. His attempt to compliment her behind translates to "You have the most lovely muffins." She never lets him live it down.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6eebb013	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6eebb013	featureConfidence	1.0
Symphony of Ages	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_6eebb013
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_70c7b114	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_70c7b114	comment	In one episode of Gilligan's Island, during one of the castaways' many encounters with natives, Gilligan attempted to speak to one by spouting gibberish. Unfortunately, it resulted in the native chasing him with a knife.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_70c7b114	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_70c7b114	featureConfidence	1.0
Gilligan's Island	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_70c7b114
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_72e0ac4b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_72e0ac4b	comment	There's an episode of What's with Andy? where Andy pretends to be his cousin from Quebec. In order to prove it, Lori asks him to say "You just won the Stanley Cup" in French; instead, he says "Your ears are as big as the Stanley Cup."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_72e0ac4b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_72e0ac4b	featureConfidence	1.0
What's with Andy?	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_72e0ac4b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_739d3822	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_739d3822	comment	In The Gentlemen, Fletcher has a transcript of a lipread conversation in Cantonese involving one speaker who is not fluent in the language, that has then been translated into English. The results are unusual at times, including Matthew apparently saying that he does not want anything to "stroke his mouse fur."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_739d3822	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_739d3822	featureConfidence	1.0
The Gentlemen	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_739d3822
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_73d660e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_73d660e	comment	One short in Lucky Star had Kagami talking about Taifuu Ikka (ikka = kanji for one and 'pass over') which refers to the calm after a typhoon has passed. Konata starts talking about the "Typhoon family" to which Kagami replies "Are you serious?" Ikka also can mean "family" if a different kanji is used. Tsukasa, of course, doesn't get why Konata's statement was silly. In another example, the girls talk about something fairly mundane, then the word "ichigo" falls. Ichigo can also mean "strawberry," prompting Tsukasa to request some, confusing the others in the process.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_73d660e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_73d660e	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Star (Manga)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_73d660e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_740815bb	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_740815bb	comment	In Interesting Times, the narrator claims that a simple word like "aaargh" can, in a certain language from Klatch, mean "More boiling oil, please!" which can have interesting implications for those uttering it.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_740815bb	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_740815bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Interesting Times	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_740815bb
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_75c31694	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_75c31694	comment	Murdock may be The A-Team's resident Omniglot, but his Italian isn't too great. Although the English-speaking mooks around him don't know any better and it helps his disguise, it culminates in him asking two men to have his baby.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_75c31694	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_75c31694	featureConfidence	1.0
The A-Team	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_75c31694
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_769da46e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, Vimes has a slight communication problem when, as a gesture of friendship towards Polly Perks and her regiment, he tries to say "I am a Borogravian" and instead claims to be a cherry pancake. An obvious reference to John F. Kennedy and "Ich bin ein Berliner!" (see Real Life, below).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_769da46e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_769da46e	featureConfidence	1.0
Monstrous Regiment	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_769da46e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_76cf3cc7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_76cf3cc7	comment	An accidental transaction in Sign language happened in a sketch on The State. A waiter brought a year's supply of radishes in a wheelbarrow.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_76cf3cc7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_76cf3cc7	featureConfidence	1.0
The State	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_76cf3cc7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_77e22425	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_77e22425	comment	In an episode of Pinky and the Brain, Brain tries to take over the world with an army of sea lions since he learned their language. Pinky tries speaking it too, but his phrases translate to, "Fetch me a big clown hat," a ghost story, "There's a school of overweight fish swimming near by" and "I'm a big billy goat so you'd better beat it sister."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_77e22425	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_77e22425	featureConfidence	1.0
Pinky and the Brain	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_77e22425
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_785b4bcd	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_785b4bcd	comment	On I Survived A Japanese Game Show, one contestant's attempt at pronouncing "fuitte mo ii desu ka?" ("May I wipe it?") was subtitled "But, the well is it Switzerland?"note The subtitler appears to have interpreted it as "demo ido suissu ka?" but his pronunciation was closer to "te mo idu suissu ka" which would at best translate to "Are hands also (gibberish) Switzerland?" — nothing in the entire Japanese language sounds anything remotely like "idu."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_785b4bcd	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_785b4bcd	featureConfidence	1.0
I Survived a Japanese Gameshow	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_785b4bcd
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7884e8d1	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7884e8d1	comment	In the opening of Pulp Fiction, Ringo A.K.A Pumpkin notably calls for the "garÃ§on" to bring him more coffee, believing that it's the French word for waiter or server, and his waitress immediately explains that "garÃ§on" is French for "boy."note The waitress doesn't stick around long enough to explain that "garÃ§on" can be used to refer to male waiters.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7884e8d1	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7884e8d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Pulp Fiction	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7884e8d1
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a56d31b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a56d31b	comment	The title of The Poisonwood Bible comes from an example. Missionary Daniel Price tried to say "Jesus is precious" in the local language, but it came out as "Jesus is poisonwood."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a56d31b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a56d31b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Poisonwood Bible	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a56d31b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a670577	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a670577	comment	PokÃ©mon Vietnamese Crystal managed a truly impressive version of this trope, by hastily bootlegging a Japanese game into English. Among other things, the translator was under the (loosely correct) impression that "fuck" means "put in"; every time the protagonist puts anything in their bag, the results are M-rated.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a670577	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a670577	featureConfidence	1.0
Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7a670577
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ad0ade	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ad0ade	comment	George of the Jungle: Lyle uses a phrasebook to attempt to communicate with his native porters in the African jungle. Apparently the makers of the Hungarian phrasebook from the original sketch also made a Swahili one. It turns out the natives understand English just fine. They're just messing with Lyle because he's a jerk.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ad0ade	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ad0ade	featureConfidence	1.0
George of the Jungle	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ad0ade
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b17c1e2	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b17c1e2	comment	The Legend of Miraculous: When Zelda tries howling at the moon, (while playing Truth or Dare), Bleddyn the wolf Kwami translates it as something about rabbits in trees and hunting berries. When Sheikan Wolf howls back, Impa later tells him that he unwittingly said "Come and ravage me, my love".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b17c1e2	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b17c1e2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Miraculous (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b17c1e2
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b53c683	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b53c683	comment	On Naturally, Sadie, Magaret runs a Greek newspaper story about Rain through an internet translator. The page she gets back is entirely My Hovercraft Is Full Of Eels.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b53c683	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b53c683	featureConfidence	1.0
Naturally, Sadie	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7b53c683
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7c60fb0f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7c60fb0f	comment	In The Simpsons comic issue where Bart, Milhouse and Krusty go to Paris, Milhouse tries to talk to a man running a ticket office at a theatre, calling upon the lessons from 'Troy McClure's Learn French Toot Sweet While You Sleep' he listened to on the plane before dozing off. Bart, who has experience with the French language, manages to clear things up (as it happens, the man speaks English).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7c60fb0f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7c60fb0f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7c60fb0f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7d20ef2c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7d20ef2c	comment	In Bloom County, Oliver and Milo hack into Pravda and attempt to change the headline to "Gorbachev preaches disarmament! Total! Unilateral!" Somehow, the altered headline ends up reading "Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7d20ef2c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7d20ef2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Bloom County (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7d20ef2c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7f39a041	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7f39a041	comment	For some reason, Kagura in one episode of Gintama feels the need to say "help me!" in English, but since her pronunciation is off, it starts as "health me!" and ends up as "herpes me!" and "Pulp Fiction!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7f39a041	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7f39a041	featureConfidence	1.0
Gintama (Manga)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7f39a041
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ff3216c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ff3216c	comment	In an episode of Garfield and Friends, Jon tries to order in French and gets served a pair of soft boiled athletic shoes. In another episode he ends up ordering the name of the chef. Both times he has to deal with French Jerk waiters.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ff3216c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ff3216c	featureConfidence	1.0
Garfield and Friends	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_7ff3216c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_81bdb552	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_81bdb552	comment	In Machete Kills, the shape shifting assassin El Chameleon pretends to be a friendly trucker and picks Machete up. The two have a conversation in Spanish, and eventually, the assassin messes up and says, "I like your cream." When Machete gets confused, he tries again and says, "I like your balloon." and then "I like your meat." The assassin then gets fed up and pulls a gun on Machete.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_81bdb552	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_81bdb552	featureConfidence	1.0
Machete Kills	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_81bdb552
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_85384a88	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_85384a88	comment	In Gung Ho a secretary for the Japanese auto manufacturer tells Michael Keaton's character that her boss is "between a rock and a hard-on." He rushes in while jokingly saying, "I gotta see this."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_85384a88	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_85384a88	featureConfidence	1.0
Gung Ho	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_85384a88
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_86f433bb	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_86f433bb	comment	In the second book of the Nursery Crime series, The Fourth Bear, Mary Mary's attempts at speaking binary to Ashley's parents turn out to be this, once turning a toast into something that Abigail's mother would never have done, and especially not to herself, and another time turning Abigail's name into something about how Mary's prawns have asthma.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_86f433bb	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_86f433bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Nursery Crime	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_86f433bb
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8722cd	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8722cd	comment	In the novel Outbound Flight, a human character tries to learn the Chiss language, with limited success. At one point, he gives his profession as "fishing boat" (he meant "merchant trader"), but for good reason: he physically can't pronounce the distinction between the two words. Thrawn, on the other hand, has no trouble picking up Basic while trying to teach that main character.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8722cd	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8722cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Outbound Flight	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8722cd
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_87b55b5d	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion: "Area Man unsure if Southerner is looking for 'Pawn Shop' or 'Porn Shop.'" On Fox News, Niel Cavuto made that mistake completely seriously.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_87b55b5d	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_87b55b5d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Onion (Website)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_87b55b5d
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8908c29b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8908c29b	comment	In Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico, Fred's Spanish speaking leaves something to be desired, though he usually gets most words right. Unfortunately, the few he gets wrong are enough to turn the sentence into gibberish (e.g., "Thank you for your wise words of ostrich."). Ironically, he's much more well-versed in Spanish grammar, as he manages to figure out a major clue from a threat written in Spanish containing an error a native wouldn't have made, meaning that their culprit likely doesn't speak Spanish.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8908c29b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8908c29b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8908c29b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_892aa56a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: Detective Watts can apparently say "My postilion has been struck by lightning" in Portuguese, and apparently considers this useful knowledge.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_892aa56a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_892aa56a	featureConfidence	1.0
Murdoch Mysteries	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_892aa56a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89dd130e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89dd130e	comment	Bruce Banner, in The Incredible Hulk (2008), cautions some native speakers in Brazil: "You wouldn't like me when I'm... hungry." Ironically, in Portuguese, irritado (angry) and com fome (with hunger) are not at all similar, while in English, "angry" and "hungry" are fairly confusable. However, assuming there was someone who taught him the native language, Bruce could have asked this person what the translation of the word 'Angry' was and his tutor may have just mixed up 'Angry' with 'Hungry' and therefore provided him with that translation instead.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89dd130e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89dd130e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Incredible Hulk (2008)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89dd130e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89fa77a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89fa77a	comment	In Coronation Street Ken Barlow is trying to teach the dim Raquel to speak French. She tells him that she already knows how to introduce herself, having been taught by a former boyfriend, and continues: "Bonjour, Ken. Je m'appelle Raquel. Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?" Which means of course "Hello, Ken. My name is Raquel. Would you like to go to bed with me this evening?" Interestingly, no subtitles were displayed on screen, meaning that any viewers who didn't speak French (or recognize the phrase) would not have understood why Ken got that pained expression on his face...
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89fa77a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89fa77a	featureConfidence	1.0
Coronation Street	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_89fa77a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d814070	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: This happens to Hawkeye when trying to speak French in "In Love and War." There's the famous instance in which Frank Burns, while holding an auction, tries to wish the Korean crowd "peace and prosperity." In response, a man asks, "You wish us all a prostitute?" From another episode: Hawkeye is screaming at a Korean farmer who was trying to work a rice field which had been mined, which ends up injuring his daughter. In "The Chosen People," Hawkeye tries to say, "Your presence is welcome in our camp," to Korean officer Sam Pak, but Pak tells him he actually said, "Your uncle has gas from eating cabbage." Hawkeye tries to say something else in Korean and Pak responds with, "I'm sorry to hear that. Your uncle with the gas is now pregnant." In the episode "Radar's Report," Father Mulcahy is attempting to calm a wounded North Korean. Radar's voiceover tells us he meant to say "peace and happiness" but was really saying "Your daughter's pregnancy brings much joy to our village." In "Dear Sigmund," Klinger claims to have been hit in the head with a chopper blade and only able to speak in Arabic. Via subtitles, he tells Col. Potter things like, "My olive has no pit and there is no yolk in my egg" and "Grandfather, may your pomegranates grow as big as the Queen's fanny." An unusual example in that it's intentional; Klinger is fluent in Arabic (in fact it's almost certainly his first language, given that his mother doesn't speak English) and is purposefully stringing together sentences of this type to reinforce the idea that he's delirious from a head injury.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d814070	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d814070	featureConfidence	1.0
MAS*H	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d814070
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d81f086	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: In "Mr. Monk Falls in Love," as pictured above, Monk and Natalie are looking for Leyla Zlatavich's mother in a largely non-English-speaking neighborhood. They try to say something like, "Have you seen this woman?" in the Zemenian language, with Monk using a translator book to help out. However, when he does speak that language, the on-screen subtitles reveal that he's asking, "Have you seen the sad stick?" And he doesn't understand why no one gives him an answer. In the Tie-In Novel Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop, Randy vomits in front of a Japanese tour group and says to them something that he thinks is Japanese for an apology. The detective riding with him, whose wife is Japanese, informs him that he just said, "Stop groping my breasts and prepare to die." In one of her blog entries on USANetwork.com, Natalie describes herself as stumbling to use the Greek language when she was an exchange student (the entry itself is dated to coincide with "Mr. Monk and the Naked Man"), as marked here:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d81f086	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d81f086	featureConfidence	1.0
Monk	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d81f086
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d85e141	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d85e141	comment	Veep: In the Season 2 episode when the Vice President and her entourage visit Finland, Gary keeps introducing himself to people in Finnish as Selina's "bagman." Except it turns out that he's actually calling himself something vaguely like "man bag" — in other words, a scrotum. He's not happy when he's told this.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d85e141	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d85e141	featureConfidence	1.0
Veep	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8d85e141
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f794c68	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f794c68	comment	Tsunami from Wings of Fire: The Lost Heir sees another SeaWing dragon for the first time. But since they're underwater, she flashes her stripes to communicate with him. But what she ends up saying by accident is "Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herring so I can eat it, and also your wings sound like sharks snoring."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f794c68	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f794c68	featureConfidence	1.0
Wings of Fire	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f794c68
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f99cb4c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f99cb4c	comment	In the American Dragon: Jake Long episode "Fu Dog Takes A Walk," despite being a talking dog, Fu Dog can't speak dog, so he has to rely on an English/Dog dictionary. His attempt to ask other dogs caught by a dog catcher "What are you in for?" ended up being "My pants taste like salami."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f99cb4c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f99cb4c	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dragon: Jake Long	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8f99cb4c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fc090bc	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fc090bc	comment	Skippy's List: Specialist Skippy Schwarz apparently tried to get his Army buddies to perform this trope:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fc090bc	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fc090bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Skippy's List	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fc090bc
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fd3db0b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Boimler once tried to calm down an angry Taxor in his language.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fd3db0b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fd3db0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Lower Decks	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_8fd3db0b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9068877a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: Donut is revealed at the end of Season 3 to be able to speak some Spanish. In Season 4, it's revealed that it was only a couple years of high school Spanish, and he apparently wasn't a great student: Lopez, the Red Team's robot, can only speak Spanish. Thing is, none of Rooster Teeth's staff actually know Spanish, so all of Lopez's lines are just fed through Babelfish. The results can be... odd for Spanish speakers. On top of that, voice actor Burnie Burns apparently often slipped into a faux-French accent when trying to deliver the lines, which they referenced in a non-canon joke episode by having Lopez inexplicably start speaking French. O'Malley asks Lopez how to instruct his Spanish-speaking robot army to "hurry up." Lopez instead tricks him into telling them that he likes to sniff his own butt, among other things:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9068877a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9068877a	featureConfidence	1.0
Red vs. Blue (Web Animation)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9068877a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_909ca4b1	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: In the episode "Mousetrap," during the celebration party, Matrix unintentionally draws his gun out of reflex and almost shoots Ray, so two of the Web Riders (whose language consists of high-pitched beeps, ala a dial-up modem) try to come at him. Ray tries to talk in their language, but the subtitles reveal he says "Handbag, teakeetle, barbeque". One of the Riders is naturally confused, but the other seems to catch the gist that he was trying to say they should calm down.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_909ca4b1	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_909ca4b1	featureConfidence	1.0
ReBoot	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_909ca4b1
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_90e2f673	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_90e2f673	comment	When the Clans were introduced in BattleTech their BattleMechs were given Reporting Names by the Inner Sphere, including the Japanese-themed Draconis Combine. The 55-ton Stormcrow OmniMech was apparently supposed to be named something like Hunting Dog, which would have been RyÅ�ken. Instead, its name was listed as Ryoken, or Passport.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_90e2f673	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_90e2f673	featureConfidence	1.0
BattleTech (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_90e2f673
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_91e45f5	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_91e45f5	comment	A rare serious example comes from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney in case 3. A Borginian witness is trying to testify. She says that she witnessed the crime through a "small window," but the only window at the scene of the crime is soundproof and was closed at the time of the murder. However, we find out later that she's talking about a vent. She had been crawling through the ventilation system for a magic trick.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_91e45f5	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_91e45f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_91e45f5
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_976efc02	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_976efc02	comment	In the lost Mystery Science Theater 3000 short Assignment Venezuela, they invoke this trope as the short's narrator finds his phrasebook Spanish doesn't help him:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_976efc02	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_976efc02	featureConfidence	1.0
Mystery Science Theater 3000	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_976efc02
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_996b0261	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_996b0261	comment	In Splash, when Dr. Kornbluth (Eugene Levy) tries to pass off Allen (Tom Hanks) and Freddie (John Candy) as visiting Swedish scientists to get them into the research facility where Madison (Daryl Hannah) is being held, a suspicious guard asks Allen and Freddie in Swedish, "What are two Swedish scientists doing so far from Sweden?" The guard jovially allows them entry after Freddie tentatively responds in Swedish, "Hey, babe! I got a twelve inch penis." Freddie later explains that he picked up some Swedish phrases from watching hundreds of hours of Swedish pornography.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_996b0261	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_996b0261	featureConfidence	1.0
Splash	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_996b0261
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9a723507	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9a723507	comment	The plot of Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) kicks off when Larry tries to hit on a Spanish-speaking woman with rather poor Spanish resulting in nonsensical phrases... that just happen to be the Spy Speak sign/countersign his Identical Stranger was supposed to use, leaving him with a microfilm containing state secrets and KGB agents on his tail. Larry's Spanish actually makes even less sense than the subtitles would have you believe, to the point of often not even containing real words. It seems the writers share his problem. They were, in many cases, VERY OBVIOUSLY not real words, and just adding another level of silliness for the player.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9a723507	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9a723507	featureConfidence	1.0
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9a723507
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9aaba398	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9aaba398	comment	The Meg: Upon first meeting Suyin, Morris attempts to greet her in Mandarin, but just spouts out a meaningless Word Salad that has everyone staring in confusion and disbelief.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9aaba398	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9aaba398	featureConfidence	1.0
The Meg	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9aaba398
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ab43a26	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ab43a26	comment	In one episode of PAW Patrol, a stranded Francois tries signaling to the Paw Patrol using semaphore (sign language done by waving flags), but according to (a very confused) Ryder, he's saying, "My cheese needs a hat."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ab43a26	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ab43a26	featureConfidence	1.0
PAW Patrol	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ab43a26
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9d41fc3b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9d41fc3b	comment	Despicable Me: When trying to convince Ms. Hattie that he knows Spanish, Gru says she has a face "como un burro" which translates to "like a donkey". It becomes a Brick Joke later when Hattie comes back to pick up the girls.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9d41fc3b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9d41fc3b	featureConfidence	1.0
Despicable Me	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9d41fc3b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9e5f03e3	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9e5f03e3	comment	Happens during a case involving two Latin dancers in Ally McBeal where John Cage, interrupting the two dancers (who constantly argue in Spanish) sputters out such phrases as 'I want to ride a little pony!' and 'I want a cookie!' to the bemusement of those present.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9e5f03e3	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9e5f03e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Ally McBeal	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9e5f03e3
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ec0556a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ec0556a	comment	In I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC, having the languages of Spanish and Portuguese zapped into his brain, Green Goblin threatens the Joker with a foreign phrase that even he doesn't understand. It translates into "What a nice dress. May I try it on?"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ec0556a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ec0556a	featureConfidence	1.0
I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (Web Video)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ec0556a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ef055f4	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ef055f4	comment	Ratchet & Clank has the Tyhrraguise in the third game, Up Your Arsenal, which is a disguise that has to be used to infiltrate the enemy base. While wearing the Tyhrraguise costume, making a mistake will create humorous examples while causing Ratchet to facepalm, such as:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ef055f4	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ef055f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Ratchet & Clank (Franchise)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9ef055f4
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9f89a5f0	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Looker from PokÃ©mon. In most of his appearances, he's a Funny Foreigner who speaks broken Japanese (or English in some cases.) PokÃ©mon X and Y shows he's from Kalos and speaks French fluently, but when a Kanto woman comes in, Looker mistranslates her. He thinks she's talking about tea when she's really saying her Pokemon have been kidnapped.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9f89a5f0	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9f89a5f0	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon (Franchise)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_9f89a5f0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a0c28448	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a0c28448	comment	In the RiffTrax of Iron Man, dialog with the Ten Rings is translated as "My tomato hurts," "Will you lick my hamster," "My ear hair is for sale," and "Sign my picture of Lauren Conrad."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a0c28448	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a0c28448	featureConfidence	1.0
RiffTrax (Podcast)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a0c28448
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a17d6135	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a17d6135	comment	Fairest: A character attempts to give a gnome the Gnomish greeting, "Digging is good for the health and good for the wealth " but instead says, "Killing is good for the health and good for the wealth," causing said gnome to leap up and run away. As is explained later, she did realize it was most likely a translation error, but didn't want to stick around in case she was wrong.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a17d6135	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a17d6135	featureConfidence	1.0
Fairest	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a17d6135
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a183d57f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama: In "The Series Has Landed", Zoidberg attempts to test Fry's health by having him say something in his language. Fry, not knowing said language, tries anyway, and says something that evidently didn't sit well. Zapp tries to thank some Carcarons in their native tongue, unfortunately it translates to, "I'd like to spank your sister with a slice of bologna" which of course they take offense to. Kif also mentions that the last time he tried this it ended with a Mexican restaurant declaring war on them. In another episode, the Earth is invaded by an armada from an alien species that have no ears and communicate by dancing. Fry and Bender try to negotiate with the aliens by doing a "dance of peace," but their dancing ends up translating to "We will kill you and dishonor your widows by making them gather wood."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a183d57f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a1dd9577	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a1dd9577	comment	In The Hudsucker Proxy, Norville meets a foreign dignitary. He tries to speak to him in his own language, and gets punched out.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a1dd9577	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a1dd9577	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hudsucker Proxy	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a1dd9577
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a2174d23	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a2174d23	comment	The cast of 'Allo 'Allo! dread the appearance of Crabtree, "that English idiot who thinks he can speak French." While he technically knows the right words, his pronunciation is horrific and he usually comes out with ridiculous (and sometimes naughty-sounding) sentences such as "I was pissing (passing) by your coffee (cafÃ©)." Of course, what's interesting is that this relies on the understanding that although the dialogue is in clear (if accented) English, the characters are actually "speaking" â€” and understanding â€” French. And Crabtree's dialogue is attempting to represent how a very bad French speaker would come across to them. Somehow the Germans never seem to suspect that he's a spy rather than a genuine French policeman.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a2174d23	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a2174d23	featureConfidence	1.0
'Allo 'Allo!	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a2174d23
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a609791a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo: What's New, Scooby-Doo?: When Mystery, Inc. go to Italy, Fred continually manages to misread his perfectly legitimate phrasebook, causing him to do things like requesting to rent a car that can outrace a flying hamster and ordering a potted plant at a restaurant. In an episode in Greece, he misread again when trying to figure out what a man who was chasing them was shouting. (Unfortunately, the phrasebook had "The Greek gods shall bring chaos into your lives!" right under "I'm trying to return your purse!" ). In an episode in France, Fred hails a taxi and tries to tell the driver to follow a car they are chasing in French. He ends up telling the driver that "a monkey took [his] potato." In Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico, Fred's Spanish speaking leaves something to be desired, though he usually gets most words right. Unfortunately, the few he gets wrong are enough to turn the sentence into gibberish (e.g., "Thank you for your wise words of ostrich."). Ironically, he's much more well-versed in Spanish grammar, as he manages to figure out a major clue from a threat written in Spanish containing an error a native wouldn't have made, meaning that their culprit likely doesn't speak Spanish.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a609791a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a609791a	featureConfidence	1.0
Scooby-Doo (Franchise)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a609791a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a8729c90	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a8729c90	comment	Parodied in The Fairly OddParents!. Cosmo and Wanda are learning Spanish in Timmy's school. After learning how to say "Where is the stinky cheese", Cosmo responds with a Spanish phrase. Wanda points out the phrase means "I have a hog in my pants" and Cosmo produces a hog from his pants earning them extra credit.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a8729c90	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a8729c90	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fairly OddParents!	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a8729c90
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a895e9d3	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a895e9d3	comment	Referenced in one of the Portal 2 ARG mp3s in a "Language Learning Laboratory" tape for learning Spanish. Most of the phrases used are about potatoes, and range from odd to strange. "My hovercraft is full of potatoes" is one of the phrases.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a895e9d3	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a895e9d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Portal 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_a895e9d3
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aab02655	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aab02655	comment	During the Civil War, Ben "The Thing" Grimm obtained asylum in France, becoming Paris' first superhero. He wondered why the bad guys would burst into laughter when he turned up at crime scenes shouting "C'EST LE TEMPS DE FOUTRER!" until a helpful gendarme explained that what he was saying was quite unrepeatable; after a quick French lesson he changed it to "C'EST LE FOIS A BATTRER! (IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!)"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aab02655	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aab02655	featureConfidence	1.0
Civil War (2006) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aab02655
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ab752f1e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ab752f1e	comment	In the Kinsey Millhone book J is for Judgement, Kinsey goes to Mexico after having taken a Spanish class. She's mastered exactly one phrase ("Hay muchos gatos negros en los arboles.")
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ab752f1e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ab752f1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Kinsey Millhone	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ab752f1e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_abc09ce0	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_abc09ce0	comment	What's New, Scooby-Doo?: When Mystery, Inc. go to Italy, Fred continually manages to misread his perfectly legitimate phrasebook, causing him to do things like requesting to rent a car that can outrace a flying hamster and ordering a potted plant at a restaurant.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_abc09ce0	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_abc09ce0	featureConfidence	1.0
What's New, Scooby-Doo?	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_abc09ce0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aca7b22d	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Wicked," Darwin tries to lambaste Mrs. Robinson while imitating her unintelligible "meh meh meh" speak. From her perspective, it comes out as "Three times did the cheese move sideways to Switzerland by radio. But, she never licked that parking permit."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aca7b22d	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aca7b22d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Amazing World of Gumball	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_aca7b22d
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ad43200e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ad43200e	comment	In Four Weddings and a Funeral, a girl learns sign language in order to talk to David, a deaf guy she's sweet on. She doesn't get it quite right... which makes her all the more adorable.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ad43200e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ad43200e	featureConfidence	1.0
Four Weddings and a Funeral	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ad43200e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b0fc9724	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b0fc9724	comment	In the first Saturday Night Live sketch, a professor (played by Michael O'Donoghue) teaches a European immigrant (played by John Belushi) several useful English phrases, including "I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b0fc9724	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b0fc9724	featureConfidence	1.0
Saturday Night Live	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b0fc9724
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b161783b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b161783b	comment	During a boss fight in Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, a character tries to translate for The Unintelligible, and this comes up almost by name.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b161783b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b161783b	featureConfidence	1.0
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b161783b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b1960030	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b1960030	comment	Encino Man: Link can't say much, but he retains a few phrases from Spanish class when he accidentally crosses a Spanish-speaking bargoer.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b1960030	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b1960030	featureConfidence	1.0
Encino Man	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b1960030
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b217f459	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b217f459	comment	Studio Ghibli ran into trouble while marketing Laputa: Castle in the Sky in Spanish-speaking countries. "La puta" means "the whore" and the name was likely deliberately chosen as satire when Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels. Not a word you want to find in the children's section, at any rate. This is why Spanish children versions of the book (those that actually bother to tell what happened after Liliput, that is) change the floating island's name to Lupata or LÃ¡mputa.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b217f459	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b217f459	featureConfidence	1.0
Castle in the Sky	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b217f459
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b29621f3	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b29621f3	comment	In novel Feet of Clay, Carrot is teaching Angua Dwarfish; when she tries to show it off to Cheery, she accidentally says "small delightful mining tool of a feminine nature." Carrot just thinks she's incorrect, because dwarves look the same genderwise. One of the earlier books explains this.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b29621f3	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b29621f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Feet of Clay	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b29621f3
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b2b6bfff	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b2b6bfff	comment	In Second Empire's prequel Trapped in Amber, the main characters are Daleks attempting to break a Mechonoid siege on a Dalek base. Butt-Monkey Dalek soldier Grexzol is one of the few Daleks fluent in the Mechonoid language, but he is strictly forbidden from engaging the enemy in conversation, primarily because his accent is awful. When he and his battlegroup are caught attempting to sabotage a Mechonoid artillery piece, he defies orders and speaks to the guards in the Mechonoid barcode language. The guards immediately open fire.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b2b6bfff	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b2b6bfff	featureConfidence	1.0
Second Empire (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b2b6bfff
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b30ae4db	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: A Running Gag in Seasons 5 and 6 is that Tyrion's attempts to speak High Valyrian are absolutely awful due to how out of practice he is with it. As he puts it, he's "a little nostril" (rusty). This comes up again in the penultimate episode of Season 8, providing a bit of levity to an otherwise dark episode. When addressing to some Unsullied who are guarding a captive Jaime, he tries to say "I want to talk to the prisoner" but instead says "I drink to eat the skull keeper." As the baffled Unsullied stare at him, he tries a few more times to get it right, until they take pity on him and admit to speaking the Common Tongue.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b30ae4db	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b30ae4db	featureConfidence	1.0
Game of Thrones	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b30ae4db
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b4d8d7b6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b4d8d7b6	comment	In Borgel by Daniel Pinkwater, the title character gets into a conversation in a language he doesn't speak at all. His conversational partner later informs him that he'd claimed to be a politically corrupt sardine who likes to eat the tires off motorcycles. ("I said that?" "Like a native.")
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b4d8d7b6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b4d8d7b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Borgel	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b4d8d7b6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6b24d18	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6b24d18	comment	On an episode of The IT Crowd, one of Jen's lies was being fluent in Italian. Subtitles of her mumblings showed that she'd be saying things like "I like the smell of my cat" and "spiders," but this wasn't a problem because Moss got her an instant translation program on her laptop, allowing her to cover her lies and pass off as fluent over conference calls, even impressing an Italian business mogul (she was very good at pretending, if not at actually understanding). Things go south quickly when Douglas forbids her to bring her laptop to the first face to face meeting with the Italian man and her improvised Italian is so awful that no subtitles are even needed to see that she's just speaking English words with a pseudo-Italian tone and intonation. Including words like "Vienetta," "Fiat Punto," and "Super Mario" as Italian words.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6b24d18	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6b24d18	featureConfidence	1.0
The IT Crowd	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6b24d18
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6d7f4a8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6d7f4a8	comment	In one episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, Peter Mayhew does his "famous Chewbacca growl" after the audience insists... only to have an alien respond with "Whaa? Nobody talks that way about my momma!" Hilarity ensues.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6d7f4a8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6d7f4a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Celebrity Deathmatch	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b6d7f4a8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b712435c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b712435c	comment	Parker does this in Leverage, while trying to rescue a group of abused Serbian children. She has a phrase book, but what she says is subtitled as: She eventually gets the kids to go with her by, after nearly giving up, meekly offering "Haagen-dazs?" Later, she reacts to getting caught by exclaiming, "Oh, shiny tomato!"
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b712435c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b712435c	featureConfidence	1.0
Leverage	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b712435c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b8d48026	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b8d48026	comment	Hermitcraft Season 9: During Bdubs' first visit to Sanctuary in the crossover with Empires SMP Season 2, he continuously mispronounces the empire's patron goddess Santa Perla's name as "Santa Perra". In Spanish, perra refers to a female dog. Sausage, the Protector of Sanctuary and the reincarnation of ALSMP-Sausage, is not particularly happy about this.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b8d48026	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b8d48026	featureConfidence	1.0
Hermitcraft (Web Video)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_b8d48026
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bb58cad8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bb58cad8	comment	Justice League (2017): The Flash rescues a Russian family. He tries to tell them goodbye, and says, "Dostoevsky!" which doesn't mean anything, unless referring to Fyodor Dostoevsky. The correct word is "Dasvidanya." The family looks confused as he leaves.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bb58cad8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bb58cad8	featureConfidence	1.0
Justice League (2017)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bb58cad8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bce8560e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bce8560e	comment	In Living Color! does their own take here. An unassuming American ambassador is assigned to work in a third world country. Her interpreter is a trickster of a man and not much of a diplomat. Whoever taught her the sentence to say played a sick joke on her as well. Strange how she can be this naive, though.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bce8560e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bce8560e	featureConfidence	1.0
In Living Color!	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bce8560e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_be599ef4	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_be599ef4	comment	On Spin City, Paul claims to be able speak fluent Portuguese. His attempt to bid farewell to the mayor is translated as "My monkey needs a haircut."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_be599ef4	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_be599ef4	featureConfidence	1.0
Spin City	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_be599ef4
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bfd7c6e0	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Kyo'nne of Drowtales claims that she can speak Halme (the local human dialect) and teaches a few lines to Vaelia when she has to sneak into a Halme settlement, where it's then shown that this is the case with her. It somewhat makes sense in that she was trying to have her say she was coming to get cheese, but came out as "I am woman of cheese."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bfd7c6e0	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bfd7c6e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Drowtales (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_bfd7c6e0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c19c6efa	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c19c6efa	comment	In Minecraft, the in-game text can be translated into almost any language. The languages are named only in that language (Spanish is Espanol, etc.), and only in that language's alphabet. The languages are also listed in alphabetical order of said names. This is where the problem comes in: The Hebrew word for Hebrew transliterates as "Ivrit." However, Hebrew is listed under "H" in the list, and it instead says "Anglit," which, besides not starting with "H," is the Hebrew word for English.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c19c6efa	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c19c6efa	featureConfidence	1.0
Minecraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c19c6efa
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c24649f8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c24649f8	comment	In Zoolander, Derek actually speaks Malay, but addresses the Malaysian prime minister as "Mister Prime Rib of Propecia."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c24649f8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c24649f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Zoolander	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c24649f8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c34ab4c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c34ab4c	comment	This Bites!: Vivi, when she accidentally uses the wrong sign-language dialect to communicate with octopi. Spandam, when talking with Kaku via sign language (since a furious Sengoku is on the nearby Transponder Snail):
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c34ab4c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c34ab4c	featureConfidence	1.0
This Bites! (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c34ab4c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c3bf41a1	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c3bf41a1	comment	In Redshirts, after learning that newly arrived Ensign Dahl is from Forshan, Science Officer Q'eeng attempts a traditional Forshan greeting. He makes two mistakes. First, he uses the greeting of the rightward schism in the language of the leftward schism, and second, his appalling accent turns "I offer you the bread of life" into the nonsensical "Let us violate cakes together."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c3bf41a1	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c3bf41a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Redshirts	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c3bf41a1
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8458b72	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8458b72	comment	In Blue Streak, the cops LET a criminal pretending to be a foreigner get away, and understood exactly what he said.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8458b72	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8458b72	featureConfidence	1.0
Blue Streak	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8458b72
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8847d6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8847d6	comment	In Peter and the Starcatchers, Molly Aster can communicate with porpoises fluently... except for the standard greeting, which she always mistakes for the phrase for "My teeth are green." She remains blissfully unaware of this throughout the novel because the porpoise Ammm is too polite to correct her. In Peter and the Sword of Mercy, her daughter makes a similar mistake.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8847d6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8847d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Peter and the Starcatchers	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c8847d6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c90faa8c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c90faa8c	comment	When HÃ¤gar the Horrible tries to order food in a restaurant in French, he ends up being served a living octopus with an aside of a herd of goats, a woman on stilts pouring something on his head from a jug, and a man playing a horn.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c90faa8c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c90faa8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Hägar the Horrible (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c90faa8c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c9b98f4e	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c9b98f4e	comment	The reason that Empath in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf can't fluently speak in Smurf is because his words end up sounding like this trope to other Smurfs.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c9b98f4e	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c9b98f4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Empath: The Luckiest Smurf / Fan Fic	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_c9b98f4e
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ca5d97f1	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ca5d97f1	comment	The Monty Python's Flying Circus is the Trope Namer: the confusing and increasingly offensive sentences come from an English phrasebook for Hungarians. Examples include "I will not buy this record, it is scratched" written instead of "I'd like to buy a pack of cigarettes, please" and "My hovercraft is full of eels" for "I'd also like a box of matches" — what a scheme! Moreover, the correct phrases are evidently matched up with very offensive meanings in Hungarian, given the reaction. The publisher is later seen being prosecuted for malice aforethought after causing misfortune to scores of hapless Hungarians while visiting the UK; when the prosecutor reads a sample from the book, the publisher pleads incompetence.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ca5d97f1	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ca5d97f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Monty Python's Flying Circus	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ca5d97f1
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cac20f89	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cac20f89	comment	In the JAG episode "Fighting Words," a US Marine tries to say, "Stop or I will shoot," in Arabic during a classroom training session, but according to an Iraqi woman who's helping with the class, he actually said, "Stop or I will release the mice."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cac20f89	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cac20f89	featureConfidence	1.0
JAG	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cac20f89
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd81dd7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd81dd7	comment	Quest for Glory II allows the player to talk to a griffin, but the griffin only answers in squawks, which are then poorly translated.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd81dd7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd81dd7	featureConfidence	1.0
Quest for Glory II (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd81dd7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd921d71	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd921d71	comment	Trigger Happy TV had a recurring sketch featuring a Scandinavian man asking random people on the streets very poorly worded and outrageous questions or statements, with a thick Scandinavian accent.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd921d71	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd921d71	featureConfidence	1.0
Trigger Happy TV	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_cd921d71
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d109f322	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda: When Harper tries to say an old Vedran proverb ("A wise man knows his limitations") to Rev but ends up saying, "A fast swimmer keeps no pets." Since Vedran is a made-up language, there is, understandably, no way to verify that. He also tries to brag to Beka that he can speak "Old Earth Gaelic" by stating "Love is my language;" unfortunately, he ended up saying "Love is our sandwich." He was speaking fluent Vedran (among dozens of other alien languages including Than) earlier in the same episode and even singing in them. However, this was because he had All-Systems Library downloaded into his brain. After it was extracted, he forgot everything about that day.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d109f322	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d109f322	featureConfidence	1.0
Andromeda	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d109f322
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d26874b6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Anyone with even just the most basic knowledge of Spanish can tell that Susan Heffley doesn't understand it nearly as well as she thinks she does—she thinks "Tengo hambre" means "Tango hamburgers" (it actually means "I'm hungry") and she thinks that "Te amo" means "What is your name?" (it actually means "I love you"). It embarrasses a younger Greg when he once tried asking a Spanish-speaking waiter what his name was by repeatedly saying, "Te amo."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d26874b6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d26874b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Diary of a Wimpy Kid	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d26874b6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d2bae484	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d2bae484	comment	One Detour in Season 14 of The Amazing Race required teams to listen to customers ordering food in Chinese, then repeat the orders to a chef. It was easy for Tammy and Victor since they spoke the language, but Kisha and Jen had a little difficulty: instead of ordering "New Taste Beef" they ordered "Oil Comes Again to Please the Mouth," and "Golden Pork Spare Ribs" got lost in translation as "Light Competition Red Dishes I've Played Before."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d2bae484	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d2bae484	featureConfidence	1.0
The Amazing Race	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d2bae484
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fad440	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fad440	comment	Johnny English: When Johnny (Rowan Atkinson) tries to speak in romantic Japanese to Lorna, he ends up telling her, "May all your daughters be born with three bottoms." Made even funnier to people who actually know Japanese, as what Johnny says is different from what is in the subtitles. What he actually says is "May your daughters have little penises attached to them."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fad440	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fad440	featureConfidence	1.0
Johnny English	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fad440
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fdfff4	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER: In an episode, Pratt thought he was encouraging a pregnant woman to push. Instead he was calling her a whore. Her husband understandably was enraged and she was horrified. A rare serious example occurs when a Spanish woman was brought in with an overdose, and her husband said she was taking her prescribed medication as instructed. The instructions were only in English and said to take a pill 'once a day', but the Spanish word for 'eleven' is 'once', but with a different pronunciation. She died of the overdose.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fdfff4	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fdfff4	featureConfidence	1.0
ER	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fdfff4
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fe015f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI: In series F's episode about the future, Stephen Fry uses this phrase as an example sentence in Esperanto. After some hints, Rob Brydon goes from My cousin is a meerkat of strange angles to the words for 'eels' and 'hovercraft'. When he puts the sentence together, he still can't believe it: Also from QI is Fred MacAulay's report of a Burns Night being held in Germany, where Robbie Burns' "Address to a Haggis" was translated into German, and then translated back into English, resulting in the line "Great chieftain o' the puddin' race" being translated as "Mighty fuhrer of the Sausage People..."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fe015f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fe015f	featureConfidence	1.0
QI	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fe015f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d68df17d	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d68df17d	comment	Top Gear: Presenter James May is given a Romanian phrasebook which has been purposefully mistranslated. When May inevitably gets lost, his attempts to ask directions only confuse the locals. Hammond, when speaking French, says things like 'le grand champignon', when he means the grand champion. 'Le grand champignon' is, literally 'the big mushroom'. It gets worse when he says "il y a beaucoup de lapins dans ma pantalon" which means "there are a lot of rabbits in my trousers." Clarkson attempted to learn Ukrainian on a long trip across Ukraine. His breakfast order for the three of them results in a head of raw cabbage. It is unknown whether or not he was being trolled, given that he seemed to genuinely be trying and some of the things he said just not translating culturally. Impressively, by the end, he was able to say a few comprehensible things in Ukrainian, only for the hotel clerk to respond in English. "Yes." In one instance, he asked a roadside merchant "Where are your legs?" No idea what he was trying to say. Immediately afterwards, he said "I'll eat your souvenirs." This one is actually somewhat understandable, because there is the possibility that he might have been told that souvenirs could be a generic term for shop goods, or at least that would be the only word he'd have. And then the English can say things like "I'll eat" to indicate that they would like to order a dish. Nicely averted in the Vietnam special: the boys have to earn a license before they can ride their motorbikes, which includes an oral section. This results in Clarkson answering perfectly, to which he says to his stunned co-hosts "Did neither of you bother to learn Vietnamese before coming here?".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d68df17d	featureApplicability	-1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d68df17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Gear	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d68df17d
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d7aab7c1	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d7aab7c1	comment	In a third season episode of Sailor Moon, the girls are introduced to an Englishman friend of Mamoru's. They employ their English language class and all manage a decent greeting (Minako: Nice to meet you. Rei: Hello. Ami: I'm glad to see you.) except Makoto, who spouts off "Thank You!" Ami's is only barely better than Makoto's, really. It's not that there's anything technically wrong with her greeting, but considering she's meeting a stranger for the first time, "I'm glad to see you" is hardly a fitting greeting.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d7aab7c1	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d7aab7c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sailor Moon	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d7aab7c1
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d8570146	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d8570146	comment	Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: During one of Dwayne's many attempts to repeat the phrase "Please give me my next travel tip" in Icelandic to the tip giver in "Bjorken Telephone", he somehow ends up saying "Please give me my next travel asshole". No wonder he got slapped.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d8570146	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d8570146	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d8570146
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d9b60817	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d9b60817	comment	One of the few comedic moments in Sleeper (WildStorm): "That's right, horse breathers! I shit your branch!" It is of course followed by violence, death threats, and murder.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d9b60817	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d9b60817	featureConfidence	1.0
Sleeper (WildStorm) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d9b60817
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_db6edf3a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_db6edf3a	comment	Panthera gives us Onca's interest in mango fucking and boiling flowers. She's only been practicing the language for a few hours at best.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_db6edf3a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_db6edf3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Panthera (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_db6edf3a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e03940f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e03940f	comment	Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: In "The Horrid Invasion," Mickey and Goofy land on an alien planet. Mickey uses a translating megaphone Goofy built to send a welcoming speech to the local inhabitants... the problem is that Goofy built it so that "words comprehensible in their language will come out," without actually translating the original lines. So the aliens hear a bunch of nonsequiturs peppered with a few insults and send them off.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e03940f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e03940f	featureConfidence	1.0
Mickey Mouse Comic Universe (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e03940f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e0ef9c69	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e0ef9c69	comment	In a crossover between Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from New York, a police officer decides to pull in Snake Plissken to help with a problem and uses a spell written in Mandarin. He pulls it off, but not only does he drag in Snake, he also brings in Jack Burton. It's handwaved by saying that Snake and Jack are the same guy in other dimensions. Wonderful thing Actor Allusion is.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e0ef9c69	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e0ef9c69	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Trouble in Little China (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e0ef9c69
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e293455a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "School Hard," while studying French, Buffy says something in French that translates to "The cow should touch me from Thursday."note La vache devrait me toucher de jeudi. And she said it wrong.note No kidding. She says, "La vache doit me touche de la jeudi" in an atrocious accent with English pronunciations. This means (roughly) what they say it does, with a few caveats. First, the indicative present "doit" means "must;" to get "should," one should use the conditional "devrait." Second, she conjugates the verb "toucher" ("to touch") rather than using the infinitive. Finally, her use of the definite article "la" before "jeudi" ("Thursday") is nonsensical. The last could possibly be interpreted to mean "every Thursday," but that makes even less sense; one would use the definite article "le" instead, since days of the week are grammatically masculine, not grammatically feminine.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e293455a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e293455a	featureConfidence	1.0
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e293455a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5c5bc22	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS Japan has a section explaining the problems foreigners can run into while attempting to speak Japanese, including how a few slight variations in tone and pronunciation can change "I want carrots and vegetables for dinner" into "My sister owns a demon who eats spies."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5c5bc22	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5c5bc22	featureConfidence	1.0
GURPS (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5c5bc22
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5d5d23c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom: In the text file for "Nessus" (one of the levels from the Master Levels of Doom pack), the storyline contains this tidbit:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5d5d23c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5d5d23c	featureConfidence	1.0
Doom (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e5d5d23c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e67a7d6c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Shortly after arriving in Japan, Albert Chamomile tries to tell Negi that Nodoka is being attacked by... well, we don't know exactly what he was trying to say, because the Japanese word he used means "fried chicken" (perhaps he meant "jellyfish"). Note that Chamo didn't have any reason to speak Japanese, as Negi is also a native speaker of English. Interestingly, this wouldn't be the last reference to fried chicken we'd see in this series... ç—´æ¼¢ is a Japanese phrase for a molester, and is romanized as "chikan". "Fried Chicken" is a loanword in Japanese and doesn't have an actual word for it, but the pronunciation in Japanese of "ãƒ•ãƒ©ã‚¤ãƒ‰ãƒ�ã‚ãƒ³" is similar to ç—´æ¼¢ (cheek-een vs cheek-ahn) so it's highly likely that Akamatsu was making a pun using the two. Ku-Fei, upon meeting Al (who happens to be going under the guise of "Ku-Nel Sanders"), mistakes his name for Ku-Neru (which translates roughly into "Eat and be healthy," or so the manga says). Literally translated, ku-neru means eat-sleep.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e67a7d6c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e67a7d6c	featureConfidence	1.0
Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Manga)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e67a7d6c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e68decb8	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e68decb8	comment	In Star Control, everyone has universal Translator Microbes, but they still occasionally mess up. This is most obvious with the Orz ("I have anticipation and then what? Better parties in the middle to be sure."), but Fwiffo also trips over an English idiom: "The Ilwrath were meant to be the most rigid crest... er, the most unyielding flipper?... ah, yes, the BACKBONE of the Earthguard forces.."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e68decb8	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e68decb8	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Control (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e68decb8
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e6b09	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e6b09	comment	In the first issue of Havoc Inc., Chris and Chester are trying to negotiate for horses using a phrasebook that was written intentionally badly. The merchant concluded they were crazy zealots and gave them a pair of horses just to get rid of them. The book makes them say such things as "I have a frog and much money. I only pray you will take me for all I am worth", "Show me your rubbish, I must browse!", and "My monkey will wash your vegetables." Fortunately, they get away from town before Chris read the passage that translates as "Shoot me now, for I have known your mother many times."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e6b09	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e6b09	featureConfidence	1.0
Havoc Inc (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e6b09
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e995d133	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e995d133	comment	Harry Potter and the Boiling Isles: It takes awhile for Harry to get a handle on Beast-tongue (somehow giving a particularly impressive Cluster F-Bomb while trying to ask about the weather, and saying something that makes Puddles the griffin so angry Harry can only assume he insulted her mother), while Ron's efforts at Spanish are likewise gibberish.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e995d133	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e995d133	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter and the Boiling Isles (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e995d133
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e9a8ee1b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e9a8ee1b	comment	Done twice on Drop the Dead Donkey, once with Russian (Henry introduces himself as a pregnant cabbage to a Soviet official on a factfinding exchange) and once with Japanese (Damien tells a group of Japanese businessmen to go and have sex with a porcupine). It's implied in the latter case Damien was told the wrong phrase as a practical joke.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e9a8ee1b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e9a8ee1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Drop the Dead Donkey	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_e9a8ee1b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_eb17300c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_eb17300c	comment	In an issue of Justice League Europe, while discussing a failed robbery, Major Disaster points out, with much irritation, how Multi-man had to memorize just a few words of French, meaning: "This is a stick-up!" What came out as he went up to the guard: "Dance with my uncle's ostrich!" They attend a French language class at night school, also attended by members of the Justice League, hilarity and mayhem ensue.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_eb17300c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_eb17300c	featureConfidence	1.0
Justice League of America (Franchise)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_eb17300c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec2c627b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec2c627b	comment	At one point in Sing, Buster tries to offer the red panda Girl Group who keep showing up a chance to fill in a new vacancy in the performance schedule. However, since they only speak Japanese, he has to resort to using a phrasebook to get his point across; whatever he says, the girls are so offended that they slap him and storm off. Apparently what he inadvertently said was, "You are smelly. Like toenails."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec2c627b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec2c627b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sing	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec2c627b
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec85c0a6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec85c0a6	comment	It's not uncommon for western fans of all things Japanese to mispronounce "kawaii" (kah-wah-ee) as "kowai" (kah-why/koh-why) meaning "scary." Gwen Stefani included. Another trap is that in Japanese, you can add "so" to some adjectives to mean "it looks ..." For example, "oishii" means "delicious" and "oishiso" means "it looks delicious." But "kawaii" is an exception as "kawaiso" means "I feel sorry" or "pitiful" rather than "it looks cute."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec85c0a6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec85c0a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Gwen Stefani (Music)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ec85c0a6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ecd2a256	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ecd2a256	comment	In Girls with Slingshots, Chris starts learning American Sign Language so he can communicate with his new girlfriend Melody other than by texting. In one strip she signs by cupping her hand into a "c" and motioning from throat to stomach. He blushes and begins to take off his shirt. Then, noticing her blushing as well, he says, "Oh wait, that means you're hungry," to which she signs "Yes yes yes." Although the joke is clear on its own from both their reactions, the specific mistake Chris made is that making the cupped-hand throat-to-stomach motion once means "I'm hungry," whereas doing it repeatedly means "I'm horny." Earlier example:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ecd2a256	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ecd2a256	featureConfidence	1.0
Girls with Slingshots (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ecd2a256
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed0803a7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed0803a7	comment	The novelization of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country provides a more rational explanation for why the Enterprise crew was scrambling to look up Klingon phrases in old paper books, instead of using the Universal Translator. The saboteur(s) who had altered the ship's logs to make it look like the Enterprise had fired on the Chancellor's ship had also wiped the Klingon language data from the memory banks specifically to keep the Enterprise from being able to properly communicate when they crossed into Klingon space. The books were part of Uhura's personal collection, not part of the ship's library, so they were not affected. The Klingons that were encountered, fortunately, figured anyone that sounded so incompetent had to be petty smugglers and were therefore not worth the trouble of stopping.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed0803a7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed0803a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed0803a7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed3f1e4f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed3f1e4f	comment	Dice Funk: Anne can speak a number of different languages, however her intelligence (or lack of) tends to get in the way.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed3f1e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed3f1e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Dice Funk (Podcast)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ed3f1e4f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ee5582ae	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ee5582ae	comment	In ReGenesis, David Sandstrom, while in China, is arrested by soldiers, and tries to tell them "I'm a Canadian citizen." Because he gets the tones wrong, it comes out as "I'm a false personality."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ee5582ae	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ee5582ae	featureConfidence	1.0
ReGenesis	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ee5582ae
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f163bd9f	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f163bd9f	comment	ElfQuest: The human explorer Cam Triompe makes a good show of elfin speech, not previously spoken by any human in the series ever unless they were raised by the elves, and says "I from over what I call Redmist Cabbage! Uh, no. Redmist Ocean!" In later years and later stories, however, Cam becomes much more fluent. Cam was apparently the first human of his continent to speak the elfin language, but by that time (in the series "New Blood"), another, transplanted human tribe that worshiped elves as deities had adopted the elf-tongue as its own language.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f163bd9f	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f163bd9f	featureConfidence	1.0
ElfQuest (Comic Book)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f163bd9f
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f361b493	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f361b493	comment	Long long ago, in I Love Lucy, Lucy was meeting her in-laws the Ricardos of Cuba for the first time. She tries to be polite with a few memorized phrases, but botches the pronunciation. So instead of saying a polite "Thank you" to Ricky's uncle, she calls him a "big, fat pig." Hilarity Ensues.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f361b493	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f361b493	featureConfidence	1.0
I Love Lucy	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f361b493
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f38f5664	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f38f5664	comment	In The Lion Guard episode "Can't Wait to be Queen," Simba has to give a tribute to his deceased elephant friend in Elephantese, which he has trouble speaking. When he attempts to say that his friend was a good elephant, he instead says "He had poop on him" by accident. Thankfully, he doesn't get into trouble as the elephants simply laugh, note that the deceased did frequently have poop on him, and thank Simba for lightening the mood.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f38f5664	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f38f5664	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lion Guard	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f38f5664
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451da89	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451da89	comment	In Daisy Owl, at one point Steve is introduced to his long-lost family. His inability to speak Bear makes it seem like he's choking.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451da89	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451da89	featureConfidence	1.0
Daisy Owl (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451da89
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451ef7	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451ef7	comment	One anecdote in the sequel to Three Men in a Boat, set in Germany, has George bewildered when he tries to buy a cushion from a German shop and the three young sales girls throw him out. Turns out the word George had used for 'cushion' was Kussen, which sounds very similar to the word for 'to kiss' ("kÃ¼ssen"); made even more hilarious by the fact that the correct German word would be Kissen.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451ef7	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451ef7	featureConfidence	1.0
Three Men in a Boat	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f451ef7
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f4e799ee	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice's Michael Westen is usually pretty good at foreign languages, making this example all the more hilarious. In one episode he steals some documents from the Pakistani consulate and leaves a written message in Urdu for the chief of security to meet him at a restaurant. The chief comes into the restaurant with the message and says this:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f4e799ee	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f4e799ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Burn Notice	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f4e799ee
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f655ed11	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: In "The Perfect Guy." In another episode, Niles and Frasier attempt to confront Maris' German fencing instructor whom she has been having an affair with. Unfortunately, the man doesn't speak English but Niles' maid speaks German...yet she has a very poor grasp of English herself, meaning Frasier has to translate what Niles is saying to Spanish so the maid can translate it again to the fencing instructor. Everything seems to be going fine until Frasier mistranslates "You have stolen Niles' wife" as "You have stolen Niles' shoes." For some reason, this infuriates the guy prompting him and Niles to duel preceded by this priceless exchange: Happens again later in the episode when Frasier tries to tell the fencing instructor that his wife loves him very much, but the maid's confusion with pronouns means it gets translated as "your wife loves me very much." Unsurprisingly, the instructor attacks him too.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f655ed11	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f655ed11	featureConfidence	1.0
Frasier	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f655ed11
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f6f3a050	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f6f3a050	comment	During a visit to Hong Kong on The Navy Lark, CPO Pertwee buys a phrasebook that seems to consist of nothing but these.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f6f3a050	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f6f3a050	featureConfidence	1.0
The Navy Lark (Radio)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f6f3a050
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f74b5f80	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Ivanova tries to show Marcus and Delenn how she's been learning Minbari and can therefore command the Minbari crew of the White Star. Her attempt is subtitled "Engines at full, high power, hatrack ratcatcher, to port weapons, brickbat lingerie." After Delenn has diplomatically suggested that Ivanova allow herself or Marcus to translate her orders to the White Star crew and Ivanova has gone out of earshot, Delenn orders Marcus to warn the crew that anyone who laughs at Ivanova's... creative... Minbari will answer to her personally. Given how most Minbari are depicted as being rather stoic, anything that could make them laugh would probably have to be quite a howler. In a later episode, it is revealed that Minbari humor focuses on both puns and failure to attain enlightment, so it's likely that the usually serious crew would have found Ivanova's mixups hilarious. She pulls another one later, while ranting, in her broken Minbari, about their current situation. She ends her rant with an exclamation of "Ah, hell!" — in English, of course. The Minbari weapons officer, however, promptly opens fire on absolutely nothing. When Ivanova seems completely confused by this, Lorien explains that "ahell" means "continuous fire" in Minbari. There were numerous occasions to throw in a Continuity Nod to this later; alas, the series never does. In season two, the new commanding officer of Babylon 5 is attacked by a Minbari and defends himself with a conveniently-placed weapon. When Sheridan has the assailant at his mercy, he demands surrender — to which the Minbari replies, "Death first." Later on, in a pseudo-legal proceeding, a Minbari witness claims the assailant actually said something that sounds similar ("Deth feherst" or some such) but means "I yield to your authority." This actually turned out to be a complete lie, but the other Minbari seemed to consider it plausible.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f74b5f80
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7558a18	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7558a18	comment	Men in Black: The Series: In "The Undercover Syndrome," Agent J is required to learn some of an alien language to effectively masquerade as a member of that species, and puts too much stress on a single syllable, causing nearby aliens to laugh. Agent K informs him that he just turned "Hello" into "Hello, Sailor!" It happens with aliens, as seen with the Emperor Worm when he visits Earth in "The Mine, Mine, Mine Syndrome;" he claims to have learned English from "Books on tapeworm," and greets humans with things like, "Greetings from my bottom!" The only phrase of English he can speak properly is "I am large and in charge."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7558a18	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7558a18	featureConfidence	1.0
Men in Black: The Series	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7558a18
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7c1b2d3	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7c1b2d3	comment	Del on Only Fools and Horses is notorious for speaking foreign phrases, mostly French, which he often gets badly mixed up. Notable examples include using Au revoir for 'hello', Mange tout for 'Of course!', Creme de la menthe for 'The very best' and uses Chateauneuf du Pape! as a swear word. And who can forget Pot Pourri used as 'I don't believe it."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7c1b2d3	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7c1b2d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Only Fools and Horses	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7c1b2d3
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7d8fd70	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7d8fd70	comment	The Goon Show: It would sometimes have Neddie rattle off a rapid fire string of French only for Moriarty to respond at the end "So, the pen of your aunt is the garden, eh?" Or:
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7d8fd70	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7d8fd70	featureConfidence	1.0
The Goon Show (Radio)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f7d8fd70
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f88e66d6	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f88e66d6	comment	In the Mighty Max episode "Beetlemania," Max attempts to calm a Peruvian woman down by talking to her in Spanish. Bea giggles and informs Max that he just said "Don't cry. We'll eat your feet."
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f88e66d6	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f88e66d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Mighty Max	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_f88e66d6
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fa9a7b09	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fa9a7b09	comment	In Over the Hedge, Verne tries to learn to speak Dude, in which complex sentences can be conveyed just by pronouncing "dude" the right way. He never comes close.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fa9a7b09	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fa9a7b09	featureConfidence	1.0
Over the Hedge (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fa9a7b09
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb0bef97	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb0bef97	comment	Rob says this verbatim (My Hovercraft is Full of Eeels) in episode four of Unforgotten Realms (only in the "classic" series and not the new one) when Mike asks what he was saying in Wolf-Language. It Makes Sense in Context.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb0bef97	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb0bef97	featureConfidence	1.0
Unforgotten Realms (Web Animation)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb0bef97
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb1f271c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb1f271c	comment	In the Lilo & Stitch/Star Trek crossover Starlight, Experiment 426 has a lot of trouble understanding Tantalog, the language Stitch and the other experiments speak, and his translations often end up like this. In one of the later fics in the series, A Trip To Japan, it's revealed that 426 is just as inept at Japanese as he is at Tantalog.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb1f271c	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb1f271c	featureConfidence	1.0
Lilo & Stitch	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb1f271c
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb8d0b81	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb8d0b81	comment	In Sturgeon's Law, Jenn tries out the Japanese she learned from anime when checking into a hotel, despite the concierge's being fluent in English.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb8d0b81	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb8d0b81	featureConfidence	1.0
Sturgeon's Law (Webcomic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fb8d0b81
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc0e7530	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc0e7530	comment	In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Got Your Goat," Dee-Dee and Dexter travel to the jungles of Central America searching for the Chupacabra. They encounter some angry locals who accuse them of being poachers, but Dee-Dee thinks they're asking if she and Dexter are thirsty. She tries to respond yes, and ends up babbling "I enjoy hamburgers and trousers, but I prefer green balloons!" in Spanish.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc0e7530	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc0e7530	featureConfidence	1.0
Dexter's Laboratory	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc0e7530
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc58aa8a	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc58aa8a	comment	Mission to Zyxx has in-universe language Juntowa, which consists entirely of tonal variations on the word "Juntowa". Non-native speakers who attempt it inevitably enrage native speakers with their rudeness, though it's never clear what statement they're actually making.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc58aa8a	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc58aa8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mission to Zyxx (Podcast)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fc58aa8a
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fd0da518	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fd0da518	comment	The Wrong Reflection: Referenced when Birail Riyannis asks Koren, daughter of Grilka, if she pronounced the name of Koren's ship correctly. Koren confirms she did, and Eleya comments in her Internal Monologue that it was a good thing, considering what "QuHvajâ€™Qob" turns into if you miss the glottal stop (the apostrophe).
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fd0da518	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fd0da518	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wrong Reflection (Fanfic)	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_fd0da518
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ff2165b	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ff2165b	comment	In one episode of Cold Case, a politician that Rush and Valens are trying to interview is first seen attempting to apologize in Spanish to two men from a Hispanic organization for having to cut a meeting short, but instead of using the correct phrase "lo siento mucho" (I'm very sorry), he phrases it as "me siento mucho".
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ff2165b	featureApplicability	1.0
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ff2165b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ff2165b

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Dialogue
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Index Failure
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Language Tropes
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Mistaken for Index
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Older Than Radio
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels	processingCategory2	Translation Tropes
Angel Beats! / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Barangay 143 / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Asterix (Comic Book) / int_57cd78ec	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Batman Eternal (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Little Pony: Feats of Friendship (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sleeper (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sleeper (WildStorm) (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Superman: American Alien (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Simpsons (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Viz (Comic Book) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Bloom County (Comic Strip) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Candorville (Comic Strip) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Doonesbury (Comic Strip) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Pearls Before Swine (Comic Strip) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sherman's Lagoon (Comic Strip) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Starlight Series / Fan Fic	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Storms Overhead / Fan Fic	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (DragonRand100) / Fan Fic / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Magnetism (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Ponies Reactionverse (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Senshi Of Thundera (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
A Good Day to Die Hard / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Black Panther (2018) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Blue Streak / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Casablanca / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Corky Romano / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Eternals / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
EuroTrip / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
George of the Jungle / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Johnny English / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Love Actually / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Men in Black / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Phenomenon / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Rush Hour / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Splash / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Tetris (2023) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The First Omen / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Gentlemen / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Machine (2023) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Meg / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Monuments Men / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Other Side of Heaven / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Wedding Banquet / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Tropic Thunder / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Wagons East! / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Wedding Season / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
West Side Story (2021) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Young Einstein / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Zoolander / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Black Jewels / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Foreigner / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Foreigner (1994) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Interesting Times / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Jetlag Travel Guides / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Murderous Maths / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
New Jedi Order / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Nursery Crime / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Peter and the Starcatchers / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Prince Roger / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Redshirts / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Riesel Tales: Two Hunters / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Skippy's List / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Snuff / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Spy School / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Striking and Picturesque Delineations / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Summer Knight / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Clocks / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Elenium / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Fowl Twins / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Heroes of Olympus / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Last Wish / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Machineries of Empire / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Saga of the Noble Dead / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Way Things Work / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Things Fall Apart / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Thud! / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Worlds of Power / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Machinima) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Machinima) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Micah	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
MyHoverCraftIsFullOfEels	sameAs	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
MyHovercraftIsFullofEels	sameAs	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
MyHovercraftIsfullOfEels	sameAs	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
MyHovercraftisFullOfEels	sameAs	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Pinata	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Russian Language	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
ptitlehwgm85et78jj	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Daily Life with Monster Girl (Manga) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Laid-Back Camp (Manga) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Monster Musume (Manga) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Nodame Cantabile (Manga) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sakigake!! Otokojuku (Manga) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Yumeiro Pâtissière (Manga) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
AKB48 (Music) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Adventures of Duane & BrandO (Music) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Mission to Zyxx (Podcast) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Navy Lark (Radio) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Benson / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Community / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Dancing with the Stars / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Girl Meets World / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Happy Together / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Homeland / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
iCarly (2021) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
I Survived a Japanese Gameshow / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
JAG / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
M.I. High / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
MonkTropesF-J	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
My Family / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Næturvaktin / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Naturally, Sadie / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
New Tricks / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Only Fools and Horses / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Only Murders in the Building / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Other Space / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Rules of Engagement / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Spin City / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Star Trek: Voyager / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The A-Team / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Amazing Race / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Goldbergs / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Green Green Grass / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The IT Crowd / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Outpost / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Tremors / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Trigger Happy TV / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Victorious / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Welcome Back, Kotter / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
80 Days (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Starsiege (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Legend of Dragoon (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Simpsons Hit & Run (Video Game) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles (Web Animation) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Unforgotten Realms (Web Animation) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
FATETheWebSeries	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (Web Video) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Let's Game It Out (Web Video) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Gamers Live (Web Video)	seeAlso	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Dominic Deegan (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Draconia Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Drive (Dave Kellett) (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Ellie On Planet X (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Panthera (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Scandinavia and the World (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Second Empire (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sturgeon's Law (Webcomic) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Google (Website) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
A Ham in a Role / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Cartoon Planet / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Checkered Ninja / int_b96394ec	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Crash Canyon / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Dave the Barbarian / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
James Bond Jr. / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Jelly Jamm / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Men in Black: The Series / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Mighty Max / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Pinky and the Brain / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Santo Bugito / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Sing / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Croods: A New Age / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Lion Guard / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
The Secret Saturdays / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Time Squad / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Ugly Americans / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
What's with Andy? / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Young Justice - Original Series / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Charlie the Unicorn (Web Animation) / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.