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If you’re going to do iCarly specials you gotta review the one where the iCarly cast meets the Victorious cast it’s pretty much an iconic special in all of Nickelodeon
Dont read my name!.....
yes
I second that
@@MbitaChizi people like you are annoying it was fun wt first but now its old
Omg I remember that one I loved it
As a japanese-american dude i completely think that this movie is accurate and a great portrayal of who we are. I wrap my friends' mom and brother in seaweed all the time and we all can fight karate.
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@@jesuslovesyouandisthewayto1114 bruh
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is it bad i laughed at this 💀
Honestly ever since I learned about Dan Shncantspellthat and more recently how Jeanette was treated on the show and the trauma she has from it I view this show very differently. makes me sad because there's a lot of nostalgia behind it but now at this ripe old age of 26 I can't look past it
Yeah, I feel similarly, and it sucks, because I *still* find this show funny!
Like, it's so sad that so much joy can be drawn from so much degeneracy and pain so long as the curtain stays where it is.
Like, I whole heartedly disagree with Alex in that I think this show still works today, it's just the problem is how it was made and who made it.
So much talent wasted because of bad decisions and terrible treatment.
Sad in many ways for many people, Jeanette especially.
So yeah, I know what you mean, and I agree.
I hear what you're saying and I agree. Did have a slight chuckle when you said ripe old age of 26 tho lmao.
Same
After learning about that guy I can't watch victorious without feeling uncomfortable
Just call him Dan Feet lover
i thought none of that was proven though?
10:35 On top of the fact that all these Japanese people speak perfect English, a hunch and a quick Google search confirmed that Yuki is played by Harry Shum Jr, aka Mike Chang from Glee (one of my favorite Glee characters). He was born in Costa Rica, but his parents were Chinese immigrants. His first language is Spanish, though he hasn’t spoken it fluently since he was 6, then he learned Cantonese (a Chinese dialect for those who don’t know) and English.
I watched this right now and I was like
YOOO THATS MY BOY MIKEEE hahah
I know him from Shadowhunters
yess thank uuu this show is rly stereotypical
I had seriously forgotten about this movie entierly, it's funny how watching this video made me remember a bunch of things from around that time. In regards to Alex's last question it does happen, whenever I found like an old notebook or see a picture of me and my highschool friends I look back and think "Wow I used to do so many weird stuff" or "I can't believe this thing was so popular back then", it does bring the feeling of some sort of evolution, I guess that's part of growing up.
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beans
This was a great show, I don't know what he's talking about.
Yeah I completely forgot about this movie
Yep to all of that, though I have one question, how is it that they made this cringe worthy piece, YET, shows such as Jimmy Neutron and Rugrats which are SUPPOSED to be non-sense do it so well?
As someone who’s been living abroad for about 6 years now, it is very weird and unsettling sometimes. I went home for the first time last year and I could barely recognize things. I felt like a foreigner in my hometown, and now I’m like “did I really go home or was it a dream?”
It’s definitely a weird feeling.
Same! I’ve been living in the UK for over 5 years now and both the US and UK feel like home.
I recently came home from being in Korea for a long while, and every time I think about my time in Korea, it doesn't seem real. So I completely understand
I recently came home from Ireland after studying abroad and I feel so out of place being back in the USA, like I don’t belong anymore. It’s a working process to adjust but, not going to lie, I’m just counting down the days until I can leave again lol
@@gracesgr8t For me is the same, I have also been studying abroad for a couple of years and now that I'm back my time there doesn't feel real
I recently traveled back to the state I used to live in during middle school and it felt so unreal the whole time
The dance animation goes so hard on this video, like Alex was dancing ALL AROUND the screen. Great animating, as always
Dont read my name!.....
@@MbitaChizi ok
@@MbitaChizi No
I'm so friggin engaged right now
@@MbitaChizi no one cares dude
The talk about Japan at the end completely got me, I lived there for almost 2 years, and now it feels like a dream, a wonderful dream that I'll never get to live again, since I was there as a student. And I had compromises that I would only agree to in Japan... like sharing a room. Right now I can't stand even sharing a house
Can’t blame the actors for taking gigs like this when it was all they were offered in Hollywood… Glad to see that Harry Shum Jr. and Ally Maki have landed more meaningful roles since
Who?
@@king_gaming6813 there's always this one dumbarse...
I've never seen this movie and he popped up and I was like is that... Is that Magnus Bane?
@@XxMCRroxnonstopxX yes
When you earn your living acting and your name isn’t Tom cruise you can’t really pick and choose parts It may be garbage but it pays the bills
I'm SO glad that you made this! I'm half Japanese and live in the US, but I spend my summers in Japan. None of my friends when I was younger understood that this was NOT how it's like over there. In fact, I think this episode is what made my classmates bully me even harder. It's fun to look back on occasionally, but man, I did not like this when I was younger.
It made me cringe so hard looking back on it 😭
I mean it’s kinda memorable I wouldn’t say it’s the best
same here! mixed & spent summers in Japan
@@babywigeon always wanted to go to Japan. What’s it like?
I really don’t wanna be the guy to mess up the 444 likes and 4 replies, but i just gotta change it to 445 likes and 5 replies, y’know, for a good cause
I can't help but feel that Dan Schnieder has a personal problem with Canada, because almost every show has a hit at Canada
Dan Schnieder has a personal problem.
@@luma4902 I think he's got more then a personal problem
Like in victorious when jade was mad at beck for being from Canada and "keeping it a secret" from her
@@luma4902 Dan whats-his-face IS a problem fr
@@rosecoloredbby And In Henry Danger When Ray Says "I'd Like To See Canada Try And Attack Us."
Your rant about your past being a dream or not real but understanding that it was is 100% real. I think about stories from my past sometimes and I feel like it didn’t happen that it was a movie I watched and I am just retelling a movie but it was real. I lived it.
“I’m starting to think this show might not be totally realistic”
Bro Spencer is literally a fire magician that manages to combust anything he comes in contact with, this show is far from realistic.
Tbf they're realistic about how the police have been shown to be useless and incompetent in this show albeit to a comical degree
How are you on every video???
ORPON!!!!
Literally, If he made a water sculpture it would still be on fire
Pathet1c likebeggar
Im so glad alex is doing the “after content talks” again; they were a few videos where he didn’t. I really enjoy them, they feel like a nice wrap up, it has those same “after hours” vibes.
Ya ikr
Yeah it kinda feels just like an intimate conversation with him
Not to mention how jarringly he cut off his videos without it
Agreed! I love hearing about his take on things/how he’s doing
Yeah, I really enjoy them as well
I've been living in Japan for 6 years at this point. Seeing something like this reminds me of how cringe western shows portrayed eastern cultures. This was a rough watch, even though it was just Alex's take on it.
How'd you get around to doing that? I wouldn't mind working in Japan for a while.
@Mi-Ae Hwang you’re kind of right ngl lol
@@kleptrep94 I got a teaching job through "gaijinpot" at an English conversation school. Those jobs are usually good to get you into Japan and people are generally at those specific job for a year or two. People who decide to stay longer usually try to find a better job after.
@Mi-Ae Hwang I mean...you're right. Japanese shows (usually comedy variety shows) portray western culture pretty badly too. However from what I noticed, they don't usually have a full episode/special revolving around it. So the cringiness doesn't last very long. It's just one or two gags and then move on to the next bit on a different topic.
@Mi-Ae Hwang nope. I admit my anime knowledge is extremely limited. I'll take your word on how bad the representation is.
I’ve been subscribed for forever, how did I miss you lived in Japan? Insanely cool, I’m jealous. Dream destination
I am from Japan, and I remember seeing iCarly on TV at some point.
The wierd misunderstandings people have about Japan are simultaneously cringe worthy, hilarious, and sad.
Yeah it is very strange, if u dont know what country you are going to it's good to research before you go
@Mirsty Come to think of it though, the show on the whole was simultaneously cringe worthy, silly, and sad, so I guess it was on brand?
@Mirsty Ok but you can be funny and accurate at the same time tho. Making an episode about another country with inaccurate depictions can perpetuate offensive stereotypes. And let’s be honest, Disney and Nickelodeon in the past have been pretty ignorant about Asian countries and culture.
@@hotsexyangel that’s absolutely not the point of satire.
@@hotsexyangel it's a sitcom for kids, it ain't that deep.
I remember watching this when I was younger and being terrified of being kidnapped by 2 random Japanese content creators. Looking back on it, it was really stupid, but I was convinced this was 100% realistic
What do you mean it's not realistic? Literally like 93% of the people I know have been kidnapped by 2 random japanese content creators at least once
yes omg same
@@Kleines97 I was like 6 I think?
@@Kleines97 ah yes when it aired I was a toddler
Dude sameee haha I was 7 and I was really scared I was gonna get kidnapped too😂😂
I lived a large portion of my childhood in Japan, but it was north Japan in an extremely rural town made up of 90% rice and apple farmers. It was really nice :) when I moved to America I was actually really confused about a lot of the stereotypes because many of them didn’t pertain to where I lived (not even mentioning many of them are wrong anyways lol)
Totally. You find that everywhere with everyone
But you still did cosplay on a daily basis, right?
So wait, Japan isn't animeland
/s
I find it supportive that y’all gave him paragraphs of filler just to help his channel y’all are some real ones
I remember being so hyped when this came out. I loved iCarly, so the words 'iCarly' and 'movie' in the same sentence had me bouncing on and off the walls.
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@@MbitaChizi ok i wont
I remember to I was so hyped I remember like half through the movie I’m like when are they gonna start showing Japan. It was BS the spencer and Freddie mom stuff was hilarious tho
As a Japanese person, I have to say, the moment any tv show brings in the concept of Japan, I just wail in pain because IT'S SO WRONGGGGGGG
Same here but with México
@@31tentacles OMG I’m Mexican too and I hate when movies show Mexico in movies because it’s always wrong and put in a bad light.
That’s what I feel like whenever Hawai’i is brought up…in real life too
Yeah, they lack the xenophobia, the misogyny and the depressed teenagers
Why are you guys so racist
I honestly got to the point where Alex’s reactions are just so much funnier than the actual show or movie
so true
Same
Mans spittin fax
True
yeah XD
Freddie's mom is clearly there to be the most stereotyping person
Fr
I think she’s just meant to be an annoying helicopter parent
I love how i immediately recognized that they used LAs chinatown as them driving through tokyo. LA city hall in the distance really was the cherry on top.
As a person who has never seen LA I also knew it wasn't japan
I was JUST thinking about this yesterday. I was watching the episode of Suite Life on Deck where they stop in Japan and it brought back memories of all the "Japan" episodes from shows I used to watch. It made me really wonder why it was as common of a theme as it was, especially since they're all pretty similar to this iCarly one
It's probably because Japan is the ultimate dream for a lot of people but they don't actually know what Japan is like or care to represent it accurately
@@despicablepenguin I never understood the hype for Japan. Why never the same level of hype for South Korea or China? Or literally any other Asian country. What makes Japan stand out so much?
@@thatamericanbritishbloke5672 it's because it's a more foreign country than others since it didn't open to the world until recently vs other countries so the only way you could be exposed to it was through tv or maybe products that came from Japan. Because people couldn't go to Japan, there's just a unique foreigness/exoticism to Japan and it was not affected as much by colonialism (like their culture wasn't changed significantly by western countries). It doesn't help that everything that came through seemed very weird or unique (or it was the fact that it was different because again, not westernized) like Takeshi's castle or Japanese tv ads or anime. Recently it's because we're all weebs but there's also just a butt load of things to do in Japan that is not shown in any of these American tv shows. Japan is essentially a tourists dream and you can probably be in Japan a long time and still haven't gone through all the cool stuff that Japan offers
@@thatamericanbritishbloke5672 One word: anime
@anaferreiramattos I thought America knew about China before Japan because Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. before Japanese immigrants did (am I wrong on that?)
The only reason I remember this episode is I had an irrational fear of being trapped in seaweed as a child because it happened to Spencer and Freddy’s mom
That’s an oddly specific fear to have. But I have a fear of worms so I guess it’s not too odd.
His animation has gotten so much better omg
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Agreed, it has been five years since his first video, after all.
I was stationed in Japan for three years when I was in the Navy. I've been out of the military for ten years now. I understand the feeling of "It kind of feels like it wasn't even real." Not only does my time in Japan feel almost like a dream, my whole time in the Navy does, too.
Lived in Japan for three years. It feels like a dream, like you were saying. I definitely wanna go back and visit. But the TV shows are almost identical to how its portrayed lol
igotoJapan was a fever dream. It left the collective consciousness with vague racist, inaccurate, or hilarious scenes that you barely remember so you think it was a random nightmare and not a memory.
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Yeah this movie was ridiculous they couldn’t hire someone from Japan to tell them what it’s like
I completely forgot about this movie's existence until I saw this in my subscriptions page.
I liked it cuz i was a kid and was like 'WOW JAPAN'
@@pleaseshutup7053 it's a tv movie from 2007, it doesn't matter at this point
It’s nice to see Alex watching a specific I carly episode/ movie event 😊
Dont read my name!.....
This movie has so much potential it sucked tho
Yes!
He should watch the TV show special.
I used to go to concerts like basically every weekend when I was younger and I followed some famous bands before they were famous and got to meet them and hang out and get to where they remembered me each time I would see them. Me and my concert buddy traveled across the country, went to different states, and did entire legs of tours sometimes and I always was able to eat well, stay in nice hotels, enjoy myself, and have these experiences. It blows my mind how people our age got to experience a life that still had some promise. The end of your video totally reminded me of my former self, thanks for the nostalgia!
The fact the movie’s physical dvd case has the rising sun image as the backdrop speaks for Dan Snider’s (hope I spelled his name ok), ignorance and racism tbh. Also his weird exploitation and filming of minors and even non minors is SO obvious in this one
Don't worry how you spelled his name, he's a jerk face stink butt.
I totally understand that feeling of “how did I do this?” I’ve been living in Korea for 2 years with no real plan to go home and every so often I just think to myself “holy shit I actually live in another country.” Also every time I go to my home country it feels like my life here is a dream and vice versa. I also feel like a completely different person in both lives, I don’t know if that makes sense, but I’m totally different here then back home 😂 being a human is damn weird lol
Same here😆 I didnt think i would find this comment
I’m going through the same thing right now after coming home from Ireland after a semester; it’s weird as hell, almost like being an outsider in your own hometown
Same but for me it was China
@Mirsty Korea is liberal no thanks to America. Not as bad as any western shithole tho, probably.
This perfectly describes what I am often feeling. Even though I only moved from the Netherlands to Germany. The feeling is very familiar though. 😅
The fact that Carly pretended to be disappointed that they were going to Canada is hilarious but hurtful 😂🇨🇦
Me thinking about in Victorious how everyone had cracked at least one joke about beck being Canadian and how jade was so dam surprised that he never said anything about it to her at first 😭💀
Nickelodeon got sum against Canadians 💀😭
Lmao ik 🇨🇦
@@samiyahwilliams206 I really think they think Canada is so boring cause we are literally across the border and minus the cultural and political differences we are identical
@@ameliaarrows2790 hmm really
The japanese people actually speak japanese in this movie which is somehow a big win in comparison to contemporaries
My one takeaway from this episode is Sam should've been way more happy to go to Canada considering the Fat Cakes situation
Yeah but Canada has French people
canadians are mean dont listen to what anyone else says
@@mercury_no1394as a canadian the french are NOT the problem here. there are more immigrants than french lmao
@@mercury_no1394true
@@mercury_no1394wtf does the French do theyres more Indian people
Alex Meyers is still one of the most authentic and hilarious youtubers on the web! All of his videos are awesome!! Never change, you keep on making my days better!!
I especially like this video, that Alex Myers made, about iCarly.
Punto
Same I like the video he made about icarly
I had watched this when I was a kid and even I knew that it wasn’t accurate. My dad had business trips overseas and at some points he went to Japan. He would tell me all about how great the people were, how unique everything was, the awesome sights, even the weird game shows like ‘Wasabi Ball’. Despite all the differences though, he did nothing but praise how wonderful it was. Here’s a quote from him that I’ll always remember:
“There’s some pretty weird things over there, but it’s a good kind of weird. We think it’s weird because it’s not the norm for us. People out there think we’re weird too. But what really matters is meeting them. If you really want to know what people around the world are like, you need to get out there and see them yourself.”
A few years after he told me this, he, my mom, and I went to France. Tons of them definitely thought mom and I were hilarious because we were the complete confused tourist stereotype (a group of guys teased us by saying ‘bonjour’ in the evening). I think a comedy radio show mentioned the word ‘Americans’ at some point in a joke, but aside from those instances, a huge majority of them were really wonderful and patient with my mom and I’s dumbassery. A group even helped me out when I was lost despite the language barrier. They were obviously not the French caricature that was shown in the special and I’m positive that France has web shows that are WAY better than the one depicted as ‘France’s best’.
Overall, this was just a plain racist special that painted other cultures in a bad light. Yes, Japan is different. Yes, France is France. That doesn’t define the people who live there though.
Boom mic drop 🫳🎤
@Mirsty Nice bait
@@MetaGiga ahhh, that makes sense
You can’t be racist to Japanese people. They aren’t a race dumbass💀💀💀
@Mirsty but having it be so far off, plus a few scenes, is wrong if you ask me. so he should at least do a little research into japan. it doesn't have to be spot on 100% accurate, just accurate enough so people aren't assuming things about Japanese people and japan itself.
iCarly is a drama I loved when I was a child. I also saw the story of visiting Japan, but Japanese and Japanese seemed to be different from the actual Japan.
Many Japanese don't care too much because they see the wrong depiction of Japan as a comedy. The actress playing Kyoko seems to be Japanese A merican, but she doesn't look Japanese because of her makeup and clothes.
Japanese Americans and Japanese who were born and raised in the United States look like people from other countries.
iCarly is a very hit and miss show. Some episodes are genuinely entertaining, and some are just boring or annoying. It varies.
yeah i was binging it once and sometimes i had to mute it because of how obnoxious it got at some points
iCarly was basically one of those shows built on the “random=funny” mindset.
If it’s worth anything, I Carly was one of the only shows on television that genuinely made me laugh
So true! But it’s definitely more good ones lol
*hit OR miss
Felt nice to get a tiny little nostalgia trip, I haven't watched iCarly in ages. The one word that describes that show would be " Chaos " , and at the time I loved it.
It’s kinda memorable for it’s time I didn’t think it’s amazing
8:18 this is also how teen sitcoms intercepted Africa too, every time I say that I’m from Africa my class mates are always like “Did you have to hunt for your food?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Literally!!! They start asking "did you ride lions" and stuff
@@aly.sadventures I saw this one tictok and it was like “What people think when I say I’m from Africa, and it shows him saying stuff like “Ahh, finally killed my lunch” and stuff like “Man, it takes a while to get to school” 🤣🤣🤣 so accurate
Other cultures do it too. I went to college with a woman from India and when she told her parents she was moving to the Rockies they would say things to her like "But what about the cowboys and Indians out there?" Portrayals in media stick.
The “do you you eat dogs”question I got throughout my whole childhood for being Asian 😍😍😍
@@Sirens_kai for only living in Korea for two years I also got asked this question. People are silly
lmao they couldn't even get actual background footage of japan in this movie, at 10:57 it's literally just Los Angeles on the green screen
I also lived abroad for a few years and it feels like I left a whole other life behind when I returned to the US. If there’s any time to pick up and move to a new country just cuz it seems cool, your 20’s is the time to do it!
Funny you say that cuz that's what I thought living in the US would be like
I would move to a different country in a heartbeat but you know...broke. 🙃
I'm only a teenager but I want to move out of the U.S as soon as I can, I haven't been outside America my whole life and I wanna see so many places so that's what I'm gonna do
_I just need to figure out how to get all that money_
7:03
You could’ve just said “Well this is exactly like Japanese game shows” because it is. Japanese game shows are wild.
I feel so bad for everyone who had to work with Dan Schinieder
I never realized just how weird these Dan Schneider shows were until I re-watched them as an adult. Some of it was just downright gross🤢
Dan Schneider is downright gross.
@@Orion_Otaku F E E T
@@infinite-sadness ok?? It's not foot fetishes that I'm bothered (I don't kink shame unless it deserves it) it's Dan Schneider I'm bothered. Honestly, I'd rather be friends with Quentin Tarantino than with Dan Schneider.
@@Orion_Otaku little girl feet to be accurate to this situation
@@infinite-sadness Yeah. At least when Quentin wanted his actresses to show their feet, they were his age.
Dan Schneider, on the other hand, did it on younger actresses who aren't in his legal age gap. (He also did a lot of questionable stuff to them, even worse so with Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande. 😔)
“…living in your like early twenties. How did I lived the way I lived?”
As a person in their early twenties, that’s a huge mood. Basically the story of my life
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I’m 33 and lived in 2 different countries before moving back to my hometown after almost 9 years. Really feels like it happened to someone else or that the lives I had in other places didn’t really happened. Nice to hear that I’m not the only one feeling like that.
My dad watched this with us growing up. He still watches it with my younger brother. He's a 63 year old mexican man. Like, born on the dirt floor in the village his family lived in, getting up at 430 am to work in the corn fields instead of going to school at 8 years old so the rest of his siblings could get an education. Like dirt poor village at the foot of a mountain, where like 80 other families live in the village and for 200 years they've had the same 1 building that is the school Monday to Saturday and the church on Sunday.
What im getting at is that iCarly transcends pop culture or nostalgia. iCarly is just good funny fun
Hey Alex, I know you probably won’t read this, but I just want you to know how much your videos helped me. Last summer, I was going through some of the worst anxiety I’ve ever experienced and I remember discovering your videos and they acted as sort of a distraction/ coping mechanism for me. Everything from the format of your videos to your voice which is relaxing and somewhat nostalgic similarly to movies/shows your videos are often about. That bit of nostalgia from old stuff I used to watch helped calm me last summer, and although it may be weird, the nostalgia from your voice, personality, and animation has helped me this summer. I’ve always thought that nostalgia is one of the best passive feelings in the world and watching your new videos and even rewatching old videos really helps me. I can’t explain exactly how it helps me, but I’m thankful and I want you to know that your videos do a lot for people, at least me, beyond entertainment.
The fact you started this with “you probably won’t read this” says it all. Be confident in yourself. You’re putting this in his comment section because you WANT him to read it. You don’t need a caveat if no one likes it or an excuse if people think you wrote too much. Be authentic to yourself, that will get you far.
Last summer I also dealt with a lot of anxiety/paranoia
Ironic he gives you nice nostalgia while he takes a dump on others nostalgia
I remember loving iCarly unconditionally, like it was the greatest show ever, but as I rewatched it it's not as good as I remember it being. My love for Sam, Spencer, and the buttersock still stands.
what about gibby? sam, spender, and gibby are the top 3 characters
@@blooddoomer Eh, he never really leaved a big impression on me as a kid. He was just that kid who took off his shirt or possibly abused just for the sake of it, if I'm remembering correctly. I'm not sure about later season Gibby tho Netflix only has 2 seasons and a movie(?)
It was just the first show that got our hormones going as kids lmfao
Rewatching a lot of old shows is never as entertaining as I expect i am always let down
It's still good, you just fell for this weird revisionist trend that demonizes it for no reason just so ppl can feel like activists.
At this point, I watch Alex's reactions more than some of the actual content he reviews.
Same, if Netflix makes a bad movie i wait for Alex to review it before i watch it. Also I don’t even keep up with Riverdale anymore, I just have Alex to keep me updated
Same
I feel like I watched Riverdale, but never saw 1 second.
"With just the fakest katakana."
I call it "Fauxrigana."
There's nothing wrong at all with the iCarly japan episode, it's great :)
Yes, the content talk at the end makes so much sense to me, my family used to be really poor like I’m talking stealing toilet paper from public restrooms, only being able to eat once a day and more so just thinking back on it now that my family has a nice house and financially stable with a job I feel like I’m watching a movie like no way did I live that way but I did.
13:03
i knew a kid in high school named billiam. BILLIAM.
11:40 Yep, its Dan "hold her tighter she's a fighter" Schneider alright.
You lived in Japan which was made by Icarly
I don't think Alex realizes how similar ICarly's humor style is to his own videos
Is this a hate comment?
@@youtubeoutofcontext3153 No, I like ICarly
@@youtubeoutofcontext3153 Even if it was, what are you gonna do?
You take that back you sick bastard
@@Canna-Mike like are you gonna call the police or sum?
I can’t believe you didn’t include the one line that relates the most to you Alex
“The pain helps you learn”
I could imagine you going
_Yeah that’s what I told myself for years, and I turned out just great_
Even as a weeb, I can tell you that Japan might not be a great place to live in. There's a lot of cultural differences compared to the US and Europe you'd have to get used to, and Tokyo is an extremely busy, noisy city. In the end, Japan is not some magical land, it's just another place where life happens to you.
5:18 Don’t let Poofesure hear you say that.
The synergy is pretty amazing. A reviewer who lived a decade in Japan, commenting on a show going to Japan, sponsored by snacks from Japan? That's the hat trick!
I did rewatch the show recently and it surprisingly still made me laugh and had good jokes in it, despite certain things being written by a creep that didn’t age well, I still found the show to be entertaining. I think this episode specifically was over exaggerating for the sake of comedy and some of the lines just sounded more ignorant than straight up racist.
Speaking of Japan I never really understood why so many people seem to view it as some magical holy place to live or be, my guess is that a lot of people just assume their own culture is pretty bankrupt in a sense to want to seek out another so bad.
I've had a lot of friends and people that I knew that were obsessed with it, learning to speak/read/write in Japanese and viewed any food or snack/drink as immediately better simply because it was Japanese. I really do respect their commitment to hard work and superior quality in a lot of things but people have to realize it's a place like everywhere else, just because it looks like fun in anime doesn't mean it is in the real world.
If people out there feel like where they live is really boring (and hey it may be that) I'd encourage you to just travel period, go to Asia, go to Europe and check out other areas (even if you live in the US or Canada for example)
id say it's mostly bc of anime & manga that ppl assume it's this 😱 amazing cool magical place with awesome people who can do no wrong 🤩😁🥰😍 since those r potentially the only forms of japanese media they consume. like yeah anime is super cool! but most times it's not reality
Yeah, humanity has always had a "grass is always greener on the other side" form of wonderlust (which is kinda really deeply set in our DNA, since ancient hominids used to migrate a lot).
It kinda reminds me of how early Hollywood would advertise a lot of glitz and glamour back in the '20s/'30s through their movies and radio, enough for people to glorify it as a paradise when it wasn't always that way (something similar to how the Gold Rush was advertised as well). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I fhought it was because its safer & crime is lower there.
Not no crime. Just less.
weeaboos
There was a group I used to hang out with in high school that made plans to live in Japan together. Not sure if they ever followed through but their reasoning was because “Japan is more advanced than America.”
The best thing about this movie is the sign saying "I don't speak Spanish" IN ENGLISH
I grew up in a area with a very large Japanese community, and even had some Japanese lessons in elementary school, so seeing this as a kid was just so bizarre. Like, I couldn't understand why this was what people thought Japan was like. Then I grew up and realized that the answer was just 🌟xenophobia 🌟.
Edit: I can tell you, it *is* xenophobia because of the way this trend of treating Japanese people as either crooks or idiots started. In the wake of WWII, it was extremely common to depict everyone from Japan as seen in this episode. It's specifically because of the fear and hatred of that nation and what they did that this behavior can still be seen in our media. The episode isn't about Xenophobia, but it is absolutely dripping with the effects of it.
I think this depiction of Japan is less xenophobia and more Orientalism
Not really xenophobia, more like just plain ignorance/misinformation through the lens of exoticism.
The place I live I wouldn’t say had a large Japanese and Indian population, but there is a group of Asians and Indians in the community that didn’t take up most of the population of the town, but took up some of it
Why'd you put stars around the word xenophobia 🤨 Also xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreigners that wasn't what was happening in the episode.
Yeah, I remember watching some of Dan Schneider’s other stuff not too long ago, and the way he presents foreign cultures is something else. I just thought, “this couldn’t have had a positive effect on the kids who grew up watching these shows.”
I went to a boarding school halfway across the world from where I live and that's exactly how I feel! The whole thing ended just as suddenly as it started, and since coming back home Ive tried explaining it to a few people. The only way i could describe it was that it felt like a dream and had never really happened, but they didnt seem to really get it. Its been a couple years and its still crazy to think about. Like, how did that happen??
Its weird to leave and go do something completely different and then come back and have to get readjusted to place you grew up in
Cool :)
How did u do that?
13:42 dude literally put up a sign that said, “I don’t speak Spanish,” in English…🤦🏾♀️
Man ICarly goes to Japan sure is a movie, that exists
The part of them having a karate fight because they are japanese really got me in stitches
6:12 same man. That was indeed painful
“Get up and show him what your foot tastes like” had me legit giggling for a while.
I can’t imagine moving across the ocean to another country at EIGHTEEN?! I have so much respect for those of you who have done that😂
Let me guess you're american?
@@user-kr9ci4qh6g or west european
I mean it’s very common to go to university for a lot of people.
very common for europe flight attendants
@@user-kr9ci4qh6g let me guess you're a snooty European
Never was a big iCarly fan so I had no idea about this movie but I remember a Japanese episode for Suite Life on Deck. I think there was so many episodes set in foreign countries because we as a whole in the US know so little about the culture in other countries such as Japan that we misunderstood & fantasize it which leads to tend to lead to harmful stereotyping of that culture. I mean most of us only know what we've seen in anime, read in manga, or some dishes/snacks we've had which is surface lvl at best of the culture
To be fair, it's pretty much the same over there too. The most exposure Japanese have of western people, is holloweird.
@@THETRIVIALTHINGS This is true. They have a surface lvl of our cultures too & don't understand that we as a country have different cultures depending on were in the US u are & the family that raised u. They just think we're all mostly overweight, loud, & abrasive
@@claratalbot7613 Or good-looking, oblivious and can't speak a lick of Japanese. Many Japanese people will be surprised if you can speak proper "non-anime" Japanese in a native way.
That is very true! I think this too whenever a US kids show had a British character or they visited London. It’s always like the character has stepped out from the 1800’s and talk like rich gentlemen with top hats. We have progressed since then, and I’ve never in my life seen a man walk around with a top hat on 😂.
It’s always a stereotype but one from 200 years ago. It just highlights how little these shows cared about normalising a character or cultures that are from somewhere outside of the US
@@jimmehsullivan123 Yep. The most cringy one was the mom. Nothing against the actress but the talking slowly towards someone from another culture or country is so bad especially when they've been speaking perfect english. I understand sometimes an accent is really thick but it just means that u may have to politely ask the person to repeat themselves. The other thing is just to listen better & pick up as much as possible. I've been lucky enough to be around strong accents like German & I while understand that it can be hard but one of the worst thing u can do is insult the person by talking slowly to them. It gives the impression that they're dumb & can't understand anything
5:08 Me whenever I get bullied or teased or framed for something.
I was so unaware of the racism growing up. Rewatching these episodes was a nightmare
Dont read my name!.....Dont read my name!.....
Eh, don't think it's exactly racism. More like not knowing anything about Japanese people and relying on stereotypes.
Pretty sure it was more of an American show not knowing anything about Japan rather than intentionally being racist
@@CoolScratcher it’s ignorance and disrespecting a culture, misinforming others (children) about that culture too, it’s racism because it’s ignorance and misinformation
@@CoolScratcher perpetuating stereotypes whether it’s intentional or not is still pretty racist. I don’t think they had ill attentions but it definitely causes harm in young audiences
What a great video on icarly going to Japan. RUclips, you should recommend this channel to more people. ;)
Dont read my name!.....
@@MbitaChizi shut up
I agree about how weird an experience like that can feel afterwards, I went on vacation to Japan 7 years ago and now it just feels so strange looking back on it, there’s still a part of me that’s like “Was that even real?”
Great videos, love the animations. Keep it up Alex
Looking back at the show now that I’m older, it’s pretty cringey but it definitely has its moments.
I agree
Thank God there are people that think Dan “Get I. The Van” Schneider’s shows are full of bad qualities that date this show even more than your average 20th Century product, but yeah, I guess they have their small share of good moments…
@@kieranstark7213 that's a sentence
it's hilarious idc what anyone says
aside from the schneider moments icarly can be pretty funny, especially to its target audience
I like the old days of the internet and like that there's a show revolving around it
I remember being like a youngish teen when this show was on, and even then I was never really super into it cause I found it too loud and annoying haha. Great video! xx
same!
Yeah I watched it like 8-11yrs old and I absolutely loved it. My grandma didn't like it and I would beg to watch it, or sneak it on tv when she was out
I never understood the web show itself, if was so.... Odd? Off? Unhinged, and not in a funny way...?
Not sure what it was really, but the rest of the show wasn't the worst..
@@jazzerzzz22 I assume the “web show” was either when “so random” comedy was in, or what the writer thought kids found funny, or both.
@@jazzerzzz22 the rest of the show was rly goood bc of the amount of stuff you noticed dan schneider got away with. so much feet stuff, it was perfection.
As someone who grew up with Icarly
In the case of nostalgia- some shows age like fine wine -Teen Titans, Chowder, and Neverending story
While others age like milk- including Icarly
A good old cheese always fits with wine
@@otakudanieru Good point
Lol iCarly is doing pretty well still
@@panda22518 u must not have looked into Dan Schneider and all his scandals. all of his products are in a way ruined
@@sidology1.0 Thankfully the new seasons of iCarly don't have him involved, and they are quite good
Icarly is a fever dream
I live in Canada and that reaction they had to going there was amazing, given that like half of Canada's history was just no one wanting us but not wanting other country's to own Canada.
I think it's the fact that Canada is not far from the US and is not too different of a culture, so they're disappointed it's not a bigger trip.
@@bel8910 I know.
Actually their specific reaction in the show (to my knowledge) is because Sam is legally not allowed in the country
sam was blacklisted at the Canadian border in an earlier episode
Even before how they handle the super cereal bat virus nobody wanted to go there.
7:15 "Are you winning, son????"
This will never stop being funny 😂
The last segment is so relatable, I sometimes even question if anything from me living abroad was real. And because I went back to the life I lived right before moving, my brain casually erases some of my abroad memories just to make some sense out of my current lifestyle.
Talking about part of of your life feeling like you didn't actually live it?
Yeah. Yeah, I feel you on that one.
8:55 “and his seven shirt collars” NO 😭😭😭
As a Japanese speaker living in Japan I laughed so hard when Kyoko and Yuki spoke Japanese it was SO bad
"You will play Japanese guy no 4"
"I'm Filipino and grew up in Sherman Oaks" lmaooo
16:59 I relate to growing up like that. Until my late 20s I just barely got by on random jobs and some student loans until I was able to graduate college and get a full time job. My daily life is so much different now compared to those days.
10:40 GET YOUR MIND OUT THE GUTTER ALEX
When you mentioned "how did I do that..." about your time living in Japan for more than a decade in your early 20s hanging by a thread, I felt that. Looking back, it was the same for me. Great video as usual!
15:17 HOLY SHUT THATS THE PRE WW2 JAPANESE FLAG ON THE COVER 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
gotta remember dan schneider and the feet thing lol
I’ve studied abroad in Japan and now that a few years passed, I still can’t believe I did it. And when I came back to the states, nothing in my life changed and I fell back into my old, non-adventurous routine so me going to Japan by myself really feels like something I didn’t do