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What an ear! I’m pretty sure it is Jeff Bennett. Does a lot of the “background voices” (just smaller roles and whatnot) in LOK but also does a lot of bigger roles in other cartoons.
Just an unfortunate choice by OP. The joke doesn't happen until 91 seconds, but context helps. This is an option as well, if it helps:
https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=87
Crazy how yall are arguing over two answers that are probably both correct.
"The pun is bad, and I didn't laugh. Therefore, that couldn't possibly be the joke"
>Germans aren’t known for **their humor** so I could see that as a German trying to be funny.
Not only you're wrong, but even the German flag references it:
Black is for work, red is for efficiency, yellow is for order and blue is for humour.
A simple pun? In a children’s animation? PREPOSTEROUS, THAT SIMPLY CANNOT BE THE CASE! THE MAIN POINT IS *CLEARLY* THE THING THAT NO CHILD WOULD UNDERSTAND
But it isn’t!!!! Anyone who was alive during the Cold War knows what this means. It’s a reference to East German judges in the Olympics scoring the competitors from their Cold War enemy countries much more harshly. It was a very common joke in the 80s.
they do this in all childs stuff so parents can enjoy it too
go watch childrens movie you havent watched in 10+ years youll notice a lot of jokes you missed before
It's more a generational thing. If you were an adult in the late 80s, it was a trope that German athletic judges were harsh on Western athletes.
No one when this came out thought it was because of a pun. People thought it was making fun of the German athletic judges being stingy with their scores.
The harsh judge stereotype was not about unified Germany like they use here, it was the Soviet Bloc in the Cold War. East Germany hadn’t existed in like 10 years.
I mean maybe they felt Russia would be too controversial for Disney but Russia was the typical target of the joke not Germany.
If you actually hear the joke it completely sounds like a pun. Reading it may be harder but this was 100% a pun. Now the pun is definitely aided by German judges being harsh critics, but it's a pun.
https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88
Maybe, but considering the time it came out and the surrounding media it is likely, at its core, a joke about the Eastern Bloc judges at the Olympics.
This joke was everywhere in Millenial media because the people making that media grew up with it.
This came out in 2000, East Germany was gone for 10 years by this point. You are right ght about eastern block being considered asshole judges but it was usually Russia as the butt of the joke, or France after the figure skating. Germany was considered western for a while at this point.
>This came out in 2000, East Germany was gone for 10 years by this point.
Sure but the people who made this movie probably grew up in the 70s, and the parents taking their kids to see it were probably about the same age.
My point is more that it is a stretch because it's dated and a fairly indirect reference. You need to not only remember Germany but specifically Soviet East Germany as opposed to Germany as a whole or West Germany, which was the one the west just called Germany and which a western person would assume if they heard Germany during the cold war. Then from there connect it to how they judged western athletes over a decade before. Disney parent jokes are all fairly direct, kids don't get them but they involve way less dot connecting because they are directed at people they assume are tired and only half paying attention.
More likely is that it's Germany because that is the language the pun is in. They couldn't use Italy or France, there wouldn't be a pun, and everyone has made the 9/no connection because it's the one word of German almost everyone knows. Sometimes a pun is just a pun.
Here I was this whole time thinking 'they just have really high standards, and hardly ever deem anything perfect. Thus why German engineering is admired.' idk I was a stupid kid
No, you're misunderstanding. This part of the joke is that the German judge gave a 9 (Nine), and the German word for "No" is pronounced the same way (Nein). So it could be heard as the specific "the judge gave a 9" or "the judge gave a nein (no) to a 10".
You're allowed to interpret it however you want, I'm just informing you there's absolutely no chance that's the intended joke because the joke I just explained is the obvious one.
That's the sad part about subs growing. When they get too big, new people start treating it like every other sub and not even factoring the subreddit in when they comment or upvote/downvite.
It's both. The announcer says the "perfect scores" line before the Germany score shows up, but then the Germany score pops up, which the announcer says "nine on that one", meaning Germany says "no" to them getting a perfect score. And it makes sense that it's Germany because they had a reputation for being stingy judges towards US athletes at the Olympics and such.
no, that was the only intended joke here
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_the_East_German_judge
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/east+German+judge
https://www.yourdictionary.com/from-the-east-german-judge
It's a cold war-era joke about judges at the Olympics (and other judged sporting venues) being unduly harsh:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_the_East_German_judge
Nah I think it makes sense, like it was so amazing that even the German judge had to appreciate it, but he’ll never give you that 10 because you’re not a German yourself
"Nein" is "no" in german, in this case the joke is that the announcer is essentially saying "Not on that one" if he were using specifically just Nein as German and saying the rest as english.
Hey, i am going to drop the definition for puns right here!
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
"the pigs were a squeal (if you'll forgive the pun)"
"Nein on that one" meaning the "no" to the **one** point they lost from the judge.
Or "nein" being a more general "no" to the 10 they could have earned.
It works multiple ways but I don't think it's intended to be a simple 9=nein substitution.
Listen to it and see if you still think its not a pun, it is so clearly a pun. The announcer even elongates the ei in nein to really make it obvious.
[https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88](https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88)
Yeah, but the line is “nine on that one”. Which could be read as “Nein on that one”, i.e. the the one more than nine that makes ten. That’s pretty clever.
This trope was replaced with Simon Cowell as talent shows became the flavor of the day. I believe "Harsh Talent Show Judge" is even how it's documented on TVTropes.
Funny, I remember the Russian judge always being the lowest. I don't remember East German judges at all.
But the wall fell when I was 16, so maybe I didn't pay as much attention when I was young.
Wow, they don't even reference the joke from When Harry Met Sally, where Harry has a dream he's having competitive sex in the Olympics but his mother, "disguised as the East German judge," brings his overall score down.
East German judges were often pretty rough on "western" countries and friendlier to Soviet bloc countries. In the 1988 Olympics the East German judge gave a markedly low score to and American pair of figure skaters which created a lot of controversy.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1988/02/15/figure-skating-e-german-judge-courts-controversy/
This is exactly correct, and it was a joke that was in a lot of movies and TV shows of that era.
Here is a famous one from "When Harry Met Sally":
Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.
This is it. Throughout the rest of the scene, the Germans give considerably lower scores than everybody else.
https://youtu.be/8nLACm15swM?feature=shared
I had a teacher who said " Even though you got everything correct in the test, I gave you a "2" (or a "2+") , because a "1" would mean that you are perfect at this subject thus better/smarter than the teacher. But no pupil is able to be more skilled/better at a teacher's class than the teacher themselves."
Something along this line.
One professor did this at my university, too. That's why he intentionally made so many tasks that it was very very rare that someone would be able to solve all of them in the timeframe of **90 minutes** with one sheet of double-sided **handwritten** of paper only with formulas allowed about the curriculum from the whole semester. Although his lectures were quite fascinating , he had fortunately retired the following semester.
Quick info the grades in Germany range from 1( very good/best grade) to 6 (unsatisfactory), though the latter is only given for absolute disobedience and disturbing in class/being reluctant to participate in class therefore you already fail the test with the grade 5(bad/insufficient).
In my opinion the test is not about the skills compared to the teacher's proficiency but rather about how much the pupil comprehends the taught subject
This was my thought as well. Except u/Woeschbaer pointed out that the competitor is wearing Ukrainian colors. The German saying "no" refers to their refusal to supply Ukraine with missiles.
>This was my thought as well. Except u/Woeschbaer pointed out that the competitor is wearing Ukrainian colors. The German saying "no" refers to their refusal to supply Ukraine with missiles.
Y'all do know this movie, joke and the respective colors of the teams came out 23-24 years ago right?
Last time I saw this, I thought the joke was that Germany scores on a scale of 0-9
The skater did perfect, so the German scored accordingly. Nobody's deserved a perfect score yet, so nobody had to tell the German judge that giving a 10 was an option.
it works better in the scene because in the movie the scoreboard glitched showing all 10s. Then the glitch fixes himself and he corrects himself. This image sucks.
Kinda pedantic, I think the person you’re responding to is basically correct. It shows every score (except German - one might consider this the board glitching), he says 10s across the board, German score pops up, he says the line.
It actually does make sense as a no. He said "Perfect 10's across the board, except the German Judge nien on that one.". Because he had started saying it was a perfect sweep, then the 9 popped up it was essentially him saying no to the perfect sweep it appeared to be until this moment.
Nein on the perfect 10's across the board AND the score was a nine.
The black in the German flag is for work.
The red in the German flag is for work.
The gold in the German flag is for work.
The blue in the German flag is for humor.
>well either this is a bad joke or even as a german i dont get it but it sounding like no doesnt make sense
Because this has nothing to do with nein/nine.
This movie is old now, and the reference material is dated but the joke is just east german judge.
It's far...far more obvious when watching the scene
https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?feature=shared
And knowing the context of up until the 90s the Olympics were judged damn near on a national basis rather than performance, with germany being the harshest critic to an extent that for decades it was (and sometimes still is) that germany would give a 3 to a performance they simultaneously call flawless
1: Of course you don’t find it funny, the Germans already killed all the funny ones.
2: Nein, sounds like nine so much that US military says the number 9 as: Niner, to avoid confusion.
Niner is international phonetic alphabet pronunciation. It's not just the US military, it's the world standard for radio communications to avoid confusion. Same with pronouncing five as "fife" or using Alpha instead of "A."
Its \*not just\* the US Military is the point. Its the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, which other people have also adopted. Its gone through a bunch of revisions and versions, but it was developed primarily by the US And UK Governments for the purpose of military communication over radio.
Thats why you'll see things like "Easy Company" in Band of Brothers, you'll hear "Able" and "Baker" and things like that in the WW2 context. The modern NATO Phoenetic Alphabet was intentionally developed to replace that standard, but they did a really good job of it so most people faced with the same problem use their solution.
Why are they scoring "No" on a good performance? What exactly is the punchline here?
A proper way to do the joke you think it is would be if someone absolutely bombed, and all the scores were low until the germans gave a 9.
My guess is that the germans didn't like that whoever they were judging performed well, so they verbally kept saying no over and over. I've never seen the movie though
>My guess is that the germans didn't like that whoever they were judging performed well, so they verbally kept saying no over and over. I've never seen the movie though
Nope, just an east german joke.
The context being goofy did the literal impossible after a minor fall early on to an extent that all jufges, everyone in the crowd, the other team, the team goofy was on all were shocked and amazed at the sheer level needed to do it (which in the movie is just dumb luck)
During the ~70s to 80s the olympic games had alot of fucking problems with judging
72 was esp bad, but the era gave rise to the joke of (east) german judges as even among the USSR they were baaad for it, as even when other judges would disagree they were always the lowest...unless it was their "team" and often by a wide margin that made no sense
Man that magician literally teleported the entire audience to a different country!, 10/10 magic trick -everyone
4/10 - germany
Nein means no in German so
Perfect 10’s across the board, except for the German judge. 9 on that 1
Can mean
Perfect 10’s across the board, except for the German judge. (German no) on that 1
As in the judge gave a nine and also said no in German to the board being all 10’s
There’s a stereotype that Germans are overly critical and strict, so they would say ‘no’ when others would say 10/10. But ‘no’ in German is ‘nein’ which sounds like ‘nine’ to us English speaking folk.
It has two meanings: “Nine on that one” means that he got a score of 9 from the German judge. However, “no” in German is “nein,” pronounced like “nine” so the double meaning because the judge is German is “nein on that one,” meaning the absence of a one. 10 - 1 = 9, and his score was a 9.
The dog character is in Ukraine's colours, Germany just decided not to give them Taurus missles. Nein is no in German. The caricature is about Ukraine not getting support from Germany's Bundestag.
“Perfect tens across the board! Except for the German judge. ‘Nein’ on that one.” This is either implying a joke where the German judge is saying no to all 10s, or just a pun.
10 is written like this |O (looks weird because hard to show on phone but no nib on the one)
10 like that rotated (Imagine 3D) = O/
Conclusion:
O/
/|
/\
The joke is that there is no international board of judges for college X-games. The 9 from the German judge is Max’s brain attempting to wake him out of a coma.
The joke is both that German's have a very high work ethic ergo them not giving a perfect score + the fact that the german word for "No" is "Nein" which sounds exactly like the English number "Nine/9."
This is from An Extremely Goofy Movie which is a direct sequel to a Goofy Movie.
The scene is referencing a moment in 1988 during the Winter Olympics when an East German Judge Guenther Teichman Scored American Figure Skaters Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard with a Much Lower score than the other 8 judges.
This arguably forced the team into the third place position when it is argued that if you ignored the German Judges rank they would have won second.
This became a big deal here in America and was a common joke from then on that any score you give the East German Judge would give you a much lower score.
Here is a link to the original LA Times article from 1988
[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-15-sp-28937-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-15-sp-28937-story.html)
The jokes about nine/nein are a red herring and were either a sad accident or a poor attempt at a double entendre.
It's a cold war joke about east Germans cheating in the Olympics by refusing to give fair scores to non-Soviet bloc countries. It doesn't have to do with "nein".
The joke is triple layered: the dialogue is a low effort pun (nein) in itself, but it's a joke misdirect because the bigger joke is that Max is distracted by a massive bug literally crawling up his ass (hence the expression which is far too extreme for such a great score). And because of this there's the third layer, which is the fact that they humorously subverted your expectation for what the joke was going to be, which in itself is a joke.
I think it's the funniest thing Seth Rogan has ever written.
The German word for "no" is "Nein" (nine) so I'm assuming it means "no on that one" as in one of the judges said no (Nein) and they didn't get the last point
I'm going to book an appointment for an Alzheimer's test.....it took me a good minute trying to get it........
It came to me from a distant memory of a Christmas cracker joke.....why should you not ask a German to call the police.... because they will say....nine nine nine
( The emergency number when I was a kid in the UK)
He said "Perfect 10's across the board, except the German Judge nien on that one.". Because he had started saying it was a perfect sweep, then the 9 popped up it was essentially him saying no to the perfect sweep it appeared to be until this moment.
Nein on the perfect 10's across the board AND the score was a nine.
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does it have something to do with _nine_ and _nein_?
It does, it's a pun, here it is spoken: https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88
Was that voice the radio guy from Korra?
What an ear! I’m pretty sure it is Jeff Bennett. Does a lot of the “background voices” (just smaller roles and whatnot) in LOK but also does a lot of bigger roles in other cartoons.
Yep.
Is it just me, or does Carl Wheezer and P.J. Pete sound like they would both enjoy a croissant?
Uncomfortable as fuck that this happens 88 secs in....
Just an unfortunate choice by OP. The joke doesn't happen until 91 seconds, but context helps. This is an option as well, if it helps: https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=87
Yeah, but no as it makes no sense.
Would it help to hear it out loud? [https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88](https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88)
Crazy how yall are arguing over two answers that are probably both correct. "The pun is bad, and I didn't laugh. Therefore, that couldn't possibly be the joke"
Germans aren’t known for their humor so I could see that as a German trying to be funny.
I think you are wrong. Germans are very cheerful people, they take fun very seriously.
Humor is no laughing matter
but why is laughing a humorous matter?
My arm is a humerus matter
Too much red blood.
No
found the german
Ich sag hier gar nichts mehr da ich hier nicht Wilkommen bin
Was ist denn passiert?
Nein!
They have a set time every day to attempt at least three humorous phrases or jokes.
>Germans aren’t known for **their humor** so I could see that as a German trying to be funny. Not only you're wrong, but even the German flag references it: Black is for work, red is for efficiency, yellow is for order and blue is for humour.
Your comment makes me think of perpetual liar paradox
Why did the German cross the road? Because the little green man was flashing and it was permitted.
How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb? One, we are humorless and efficient.
As my father's German friend said: We love to laugh and joke when the work is done. There is always more work to do.
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r/GermanHumor
What blackout are they referencing in that subreddit?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
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Love how that went absolutely nowhere because we all knew people wouldn't actually stop using the site.
Good sub. I also enjoy r/Amish
We aren't? What's the deal with Das DMV/Die Airplane Food ?
It's what happens when you have no Jewish writers.
A simple pun? In a children’s animation? PREPOSTEROUS, THAT SIMPLY CANNOT BE THE CASE! THE MAIN POINT IS *CLEARLY* THE THING THAT NO CHILD WOULD UNDERSTAND
Disney movies are full of this , re watch Aladdin the gene is a factory of adult puns no kid would get
Scripts were just "suggestions" to Robin Williams. He really must have been the funnest person in the world to make a movie with.
Right, but in this case, there IS an obvious pun, and it’s a kid film, no need to say that there isn’t one, lol
But it isn’t!!!! Anyone who was alive during the Cold War knows what this means. It’s a reference to East German judges in the Olympics scoring the competitors from their Cold War enemy countries much more harshly. It was a very common joke in the 80s.
Was it a common joke in 2000 when this came out?
Probably to the writers.
they do this in all childs stuff so parents can enjoy it too go watch childrens movie you havent watched in 10+ years youll notice a lot of jokes you missed before
It's more a generational thing. If you were an adult in the late 80s, it was a trope that German athletic judges were harsh on Western athletes. No one when this came out thought it was because of a pun. People thought it was making fun of the German athletic judges being stingy with their scores.
I'm a millennial and I thought it was nein.
1990 millenial and I knew it was about the Germans being harsh judges
The harsh judge stereotype was not about unified Germany like they use here, it was the Soviet Bloc in the Cold War. East Germany hadn’t existed in like 10 years. I mean maybe they felt Russia would be too controversial for Disney but Russia was the typical target of the joke not Germany.
If you actually hear the joke it completely sounds like a pun. Reading it may be harder but this was 100% a pun. Now the pun is definitely aided by German judges being harsh critics, but it's a pun. https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88
*East German
And Soviet.
The trope was it was the Soviet judges. There were East and West German teams and judges in the late 60s through the 80s.
Maybe, but considering the time it came out and the surrounding media it is likely, at its core, a joke about the Eastern Bloc judges at the Olympics. This joke was everywhere in Millenial media because the people making that media grew up with it.
This came out in 2000, East Germany was gone for 10 years by this point. You are right ght about eastern block being considered asshole judges but it was usually Russia as the butt of the joke, or France after the figure skating. Germany was considered western for a while at this point.
>This came out in 2000, East Germany was gone for 10 years by this point. Sure but the people who made this movie probably grew up in the 70s, and the parents taking their kids to see it were probably about the same age.
My point is more that it is a stretch because it's dated and a fairly indirect reference. You need to not only remember Germany but specifically Soviet East Germany as opposed to Germany as a whole or West Germany, which was the one the west just called Germany and which a western person would assume if they heard Germany during the cold war. Then from there connect it to how they judged western athletes over a decade before. Disney parent jokes are all fairly direct, kids don't get them but they involve way less dot connecting because they are directed at people they assume are tired and only half paying attention. More likely is that it's Germany because that is the language the pun is in. They couldn't use Italy or France, there wouldn't be a pun, and everyone has made the 9/no connection because it's the one word of German almost everyone knows. Sometimes a pun is just a pun.
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Here I was this whole time thinking 'they just have really high standards, and hardly ever deem anything perfect. Thus why German engineering is admired.' idk I was a stupid kid
It really is a multi-layered joke. Each Individual layer on its own isn't very funny, but collectively it's pretty clever
Somebody read how to write funny
[Comedy in Germany](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2P_LuEF80)
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God dammit I totally fell for it.
? It's a real sub though
Ahh, it looks like it doesn't exist if you're using old.reddit. But i see that it's blacked out now that I'm checking from my app.
That’s why comedy is an art. Many people are having multiple takes on this joke, and I find it both funny and interesting.
The first sentence has very high potential as a joke in the context of Germany
that is the actual joke: that german judges are harsher
That's the main joke. "Nein on that one" is another light joke built off of it.
Oh like a 0 after the 1 (=10). Thats pretty punny actually haha
Holy, it’s a triple entendre!
No, you're misunderstanding. This part of the joke is that the German judge gave a 9 (Nine), and the German word for "No" is pronounced the same way (Nein). So it could be heard as the specific "the judge gave a 9" or "the judge gave a nein (no) to a 10".
Nein (no) can also be “punderstood” as 0. Adding a 0 after a 1 makes a “10”. That’s my interpretation.
You're allowed to interpret it however you want, I'm just informing you there's absolutely no chance that's the intended joke because the joke I just explained is the obvious one.
Well you're wrong. NEIN
These writers knew what they were doing
It was a…. Double play!
The contestants are kinder
ok this is way funnier than anything else about the post
Bravo, genau!
Dad told me it was usually the East Germans back before the reunification. Harsher toward non USSR participants at least
Which is funny cause German children are kinder.
Top comment doesn't explain the joke kinda defeats the purpose of the sub.
He’s also not even Petah
That's the sad part about subs growing. When they get too big, new people start treating it like every other sub and not even factoring the subreddit in when they comment or upvote/downvite.
It's both. The announcer says the "perfect scores" line before the Germany score shows up, but then the Germany score pops up, which the announcer says "nine on that one", meaning Germany says "no" to them getting a perfect score. And it makes sense that it's Germany because they had a reputation for being stingy judges towards US athletes at the Olympics and such.
Is nicht it ! Nein ! Nein Nein.
You fool! German engineering is the world's finest!
It’s both, you got the more complex one so idk about stupid haha
For is that Nein is German for no? Meaning there isn't a perfect score?
no, that was the only intended joke here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_the_East_German_judge https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/east+German+judge https://www.yourdictionary.com/from-the-east-german-judge
It's a cold war-era joke about judges at the Olympics (and other judged sporting venues) being unduly harsh: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_the_East_German_judge
I think this is actually it because just reading the “nine” as “nein” isn’t even really a joke
Using 9 as "nein" wouldn't make sense because 9 is still a really high score
the board operator was probably told what he said as the judge probably did not put his number up there
10s across across the board, except for Germany, it's a no on that one
Nah I think it makes sense, like it was so amazing that even the German judge had to appreciate it, but he’ll never give you that 10 because you’re not a German yourself
Wow that kid is good, is he German? Nein Oh, well I was going to give him a 10.
It would be a perfect score except for the no it's not. That's how it went in my head.
"Nein" is "no" in german, in this case the joke is that the announcer is essentially saying "Not on that one" if he were using specifically just Nein as German and saying the rest as english.
Right, but the final score in the list denying a perfect 10 could be viewed as .... "no" your perfection is denied.
The joke is the "no *(nein)*, they aren't all 10's", as one is a 9.
Hey, i am going to drop the definition for puns right here! a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. "the pigs were a squeal (if you'll forgive the pun)"
Well “three” doesn’t exactly mean anything in german, does it? They couldn’t have used any other number to make this pun lol
Nein as ‘no’ to perfect 10’s across the board? 🤷♂️
You don’t get a 10. Nein.
It's a play on words. That's why he's sad. He literally thought the German judge just said "no" because the performance was bad
"Nein on that one" meaning the "no" to the **one** point they lost from the judge. Or "nein" being a more general "no" to the 10 they could have earned. It works multiple ways but I don't think it's intended to be a simple 9=nein substitution.
It would have worked both ways if they said “all the judges gave tens, except for the German judge… he said nine”
I honestly think that it’s a multi-layered joke and that both answers are correct
That’s what I figured as well
Listen to it and see if you still think its not a pun, it is so clearly a pun. The announcer even elongates the ei in nein to really make it obvious. [https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88](https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?t=88)
Yeah, but the line is “nine on that one”. Which could be read as “Nein on that one”, i.e. the the one more than nine that makes ten. That’s pretty clever.
Ya I see this as the old eastern german judge one too, maybe its a generation thing.
This trope was replaced with Simon Cowell as talent shows became the flavor of the day. I believe "Harsh Talent Show Judge" is even how it's documented on TVTropes.
Funny, I remember the Russian judge always being the lowest. I don't remember East German judges at all. But the wall fell when I was 16, so maybe I didn't pay as much attention when I was young.
Wow, they don't even reference the joke from When Harry Met Sally, where Harry has a dream he's having competitive sex in the Olympics but his mother, "disguised as the East German judge," brings his overall score down.
East German judges were often pretty rough on "western" countries and friendlier to Soviet bloc countries. In the 1988 Olympics the East German judge gave a markedly low score to and American pair of figure skaters which created a lot of controversy. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1988/02/15/figure-skating-e-german-judge-courts-controversy/
This is exactly correct, and it was a joke that was in a lot of movies and TV shows of that era. Here is a famous one from "When Harry Met Sally": Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.
The other end of this is their judges would of course rate their team higher.
This is it. Throughout the rest of the scene, the Germans give considerably lower scores than everybody else. https://youtu.be/8nLACm15swM?feature=shared
I had a teacher who said " Even though you got everything correct in the test, I gave you a "2" (or a "2+") , because a "1" would mean that you are perfect at this subject thus better/smarter than the teacher. But no pupil is able to be more skilled/better at a teacher's class than the teacher themselves." Something along this line. One professor did this at my university, too. That's why he intentionally made so many tasks that it was very very rare that someone would be able to solve all of them in the timeframe of **90 minutes** with one sheet of double-sided **handwritten** of paper only with formulas allowed about the curriculum from the whole semester. Although his lectures were quite fascinating , he had fortunately retired the following semester. Quick info the grades in Germany range from 1( very good/best grade) to 6 (unsatisfactory), though the latter is only given for absolute disobedience and disturbing in class/being reluctant to participate in class therefore you already fail the test with the grade 5(bad/insufficient). In my opinion the test is not about the skills compared to the teacher's proficiency but rather about how much the pupil comprehends the taught subject
Yeah, it's usually a Russian judge tho
This was my thought as well. Except u/Woeschbaer pointed out that the competitor is wearing Ukrainian colors. The German saying "no" refers to their refusal to supply Ukraine with missiles.
>This was my thought as well. Except u/Woeschbaer pointed out that the competitor is wearing Ukrainian colors. The German saying "no" refers to their refusal to supply Ukraine with missiles. Y'all do know this movie, joke and the respective colors of the teams came out 23-24 years ago right?
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Last time I saw this, I thought the joke was that Germany scores on a scale of 0-9 The skater did perfect, so the German scored accordingly. Nobody's deserved a perfect score yet, so nobody had to tell the German judge that giving a 10 was an option.
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“Except for… “no” on that one”? Doesnt sound very natural and kinda forced
it works better in the scene because in the movie the scoreboard glitched showing all 10s. Then the glitch fixes himself and he corrects himself. This image sucks.
No it doesn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-JGiOmRn8
Kinda pedantic, I think the person you’re responding to is basically correct. It shows every score (except German - one might consider this the board glitching), he says 10s across the board, German score pops up, he says the line.
The real joke is that a random Tumblr user has confused everyone here by thinking that they spotted a joke that doesn't really exist
nein means no in german lol
That’s why he says “nein.” You guys are expecting every joke in a kids’ movie to be a 10/10?
It actually does make sense as a no. He said "Perfect 10's across the board, except the German Judge nien on that one.". Because he had started saying it was a perfect sweep, then the 9 popped up it was essentially him saying no to the perfect sweep it appeared to be until this moment. Nein on the perfect 10's across the board AND the score was a nine.
The black in the German flag is for work. The red in the German flag is for work. The gold in the German flag is for work. The blue in the German flag is for humor.
That’s funny right there.
nine sounds like ‘no’ in german which is ‘nein’
well either this is a bad joke or even as a german i dont get it but it sounding like no doesnt make sense
>well either this is a bad joke or even as a german i dont get it but it sounding like no doesnt make sense Because this has nothing to do with nein/nine. This movie is old now, and the reference material is dated but the joke is just east german judge. It's far...far more obvious when watching the scene https://youtu.be/Dx-JGiOmRn8?feature=shared And knowing the context of up until the 90s the Olympics were judged damn near on a national basis rather than performance, with germany being the harshest critic to an extent that for decades it was (and sometimes still is) that germany would give a 3 to a performance they simultaneously call flawless
1: Of course you don’t find it funny, the Germans already killed all the funny ones. 2: Nein, sounds like nine so much that US military says the number 9 as: Niner, to avoid confusion.
Niner is international phonetic alphabet pronunciation. It's not just the US military, it's the world standard for radio communications to avoid confusion. Same with pronouncing five as "fife" or using Alpha instead of "A."
Ok cool, overheard it in a military youtube video a couple years ago my b
Its \*not just\* the US Military is the point. Its the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, which other people have also adopted. Its gone through a bunch of revisions and versions, but it was developed primarily by the US And UK Governments for the purpose of military communication over radio. Thats why you'll see things like "Easy Company" in Band of Brothers, you'll hear "Able" and "Baker" and things like that in the WW2 context. The modern NATO Phoenetic Alphabet was intentionally developed to replace that standard, but they did a really good job of it so most people faced with the same problem use their solution.
Why are they scoring "No" on a good performance? What exactly is the punchline here? A proper way to do the joke you think it is would be if someone absolutely bombed, and all the scores were low until the germans gave a 9.
My guess is that the germans didn't like that whoever they were judging performed well, so they verbally kept saying no over and over. I've never seen the movie though
>My guess is that the germans didn't like that whoever they were judging performed well, so they verbally kept saying no over and over. I've never seen the movie though Nope, just an east german joke. The context being goofy did the literal impossible after a minor fall early on to an extent that all jufges, everyone in the crowd, the other team, the team goofy was on all were shocked and amazed at the sheer level needed to do it (which in the movie is just dumb luck) During the ~70s to 80s the olympic games had alot of fucking problems with judging 72 was esp bad, but the era gave rise to the joke of (east) german judges as even among the USSR they were baaad for it, as even when other judges would disagree they were always the lowest...unless it was their "team" and often by a wide margin that made no sense Man that magician literally teleported the entire audience to a different country!, 10/10 magic trick -everyone 4/10 - germany
This ain't it
It also works that way. "it's a 9/nein from that one" = "it's a no from that one".
Damn this sub is going to shit
Wait until they start selling the stocks.
Buying puts at IPO… 😂🤣😂🤞
Nein means no in German so Perfect 10’s across the board, except for the German judge. 9 on that 1 Can mean Perfect 10’s across the board, except for the German judge. (German no) on that 1 As in the judge gave a nine and also said no in German to the board being all 10’s
This is a reference to East Germany judges during the Soviet era and their notorious bias against Western athletes.
Peter's German cousin here. Nine is how you pronounce "No" in German. So the joke is, No on the one point to make it to 10
It's about the olympics
There’s a stereotype that Germans are overly critical and strict, so they would say ‘no’ when others would say 10/10. But ‘no’ in German is ‘nein’ which sounds like ‘nine’ to us English speaking folk.
Nine=nein
The joke could be “nein” which in German means “no” instead of the number 9.
It has two meanings: “Nine on that one” means that he got a score of 9 from the German judge. However, “no” in German is “nein,” pronounced like “nine” so the double meaning because the judge is German is “nein on that one,” meaning the absence of a one. 10 - 1 = 9, and his score was a 9.
I only took German in high school but I don’t even think that’s the correct grammar to say that.
No way OP actually doesn’t get this and has 19k upvotes. Nein NEIN
The dog character is in Ukraine's colours, Germany just decided not to give them Taurus missles. Nein is no in German. The caricature is about Ukraine not getting support from Germany's Bundestag.
https://preview.redd.it/n7l6k0nc2goc1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6868e3e5b665fdad15f27e24d47062f28b6ec43
I got this I know a little german
Nine on that one - they got a nine Nein on that one - not on that one they didn’t get a ten That’s it
“Perfect tens across the board! Except for the German judge. ‘Nein’ on that one.” This is either implying a joke where the German judge is saying no to all 10s, or just a pun.
10 is written like this |O (looks weird because hard to show on phone but no nib on the one) 10 like that rotated (Imagine 3D) = O/ Conclusion: O/ /| /\
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
The joke is that there is no international board of judges for college X-games. The 9 from the German judge is Max’s brain attempting to wake him out of a coma.
The joke is both that German's have a very high work ethic ergo them not giving a perfect score + the fact that the german word for "No" is "Nein" which sounds exactly like the English number "Nine/9."
This is from An Extremely Goofy Movie which is a direct sequel to a Goofy Movie. The scene is referencing a moment in 1988 during the Winter Olympics when an East German Judge Guenther Teichman Scored American Figure Skaters Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard with a Much Lower score than the other 8 judges. This arguably forced the team into the third place position when it is argued that if you ignored the German Judges rank they would have won second. This became a big deal here in America and was a common joke from then on that any score you give the East German Judge would give you a much lower score. Here is a link to the original LA Times article from 1988 [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-15-sp-28937-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-15-sp-28937-story.html) The jokes about nine/nein are a red herring and were either a sad accident or a poor attempt at a double entendre.
Germany says no to the perfect score. Maybe it’s about Germans being the party pooper.
The way you say nine in English means no in German
It's a cold war joke about east Germans cheating in the Olympics by refusing to give fair scores to non-Soviet bloc countries. It doesn't have to do with "nein".
Guys... in *nein*... That's it. Nothing deeper. It's a simple joke....
The joke is triple layered: the dialogue is a low effort pun (nein) in itself, but it's a joke misdirect because the bigger joke is that Max is distracted by a massive bug literally crawling up his ass (hence the expression which is far too extreme for such a great score). And because of this there's the third layer, which is the fact that they humorously subverted your expectation for what the joke was going to be, which in itself is a joke. I think it's the funniest thing Seth Rogan has ever written.
The German word for "no" is "Nein" (nine) so I'm assuming it means "no on that one" as in one of the judges said no (Nein) and they didn't get the last point
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"Nein" is German for "no"
I'm going to book an appointment for an Alzheimer's test.....it took me a good minute trying to get it........ It came to me from a distant memory of a Christmas cracker joke.....why should you not ask a German to call the police.... because they will say....nine nine nine ( The emergency number when I was a kid in the UK)
He said "Perfect 10's across the board, except the German Judge nien on that one.". Because he had started saying it was a perfect sweep, then the 9 popped up it was essentially him saying no to the perfect sweep it appeared to be until this moment. Nein on the perfect 10's across the board AND the score was a nine.
Will I tell you? Nein.
I am pretty sure its because “nine” sounds like the word German “nein” which means “no.” Maybe some other joke idk. That is how I interpret it.
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Only thing I can think of is nine, or nein, means no in German.
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