Does anyone here watch Futurama? I noticed in some episodes, Amy Wong is speaking in a foreign tongue-Is she actually speaking Chinese, or is it just jibberish?

From the episodes I watched, except for "ai-ya," it's pretty much all gibberish.

all gibberish, supposed to be speaking cantonese though.

What does "ai-ya" mean in English?

Isn't ai-ya a Chinese exclamation of frustration, annoyance, anger, etc.?

yeah dat is wat it is used for

^it's similar to english's "man!,...."

i think it is more like OMG!!!!!

"ay-ya" is a term all chinese people use to express their unapproval...ay-yea loosely means to correct the situation..

She's like the cartoon version of Lucy Lui, or every white washed Chinese girl.


U C WAT I DID THUR?

is that Veronica Zemanova in your sig Poonin?

AND IS THAT BOBBY LEE? ( ) x 100

LOL

no..it is more like man..

OMG, is more like wo de tian ya...

u are viet..u don't know anything..step out please

O..fight, fight!!!!

How long has ai-ya been in use within the Chinese language?
Since the Ming Dynasty

jibberish...ive heard some vague canto words but the tones are like a foreigners. add onto that the exaggerated tones to make fun of it. in the end, i dont find it entertaining. but then again i dont watch futurama. still amused there is a Chinese character though.

interesting

Why is it funny that they included a Chinese character on the show?
I think she's on there for the same reason Hermes is-token minority characters.

i didnt say it was funny. i said it was amusing lol.

what is funny is she is voiced by Lauren Tom an korean-american .......yes she was in the joy luck club....tyical huh?........she also play one of ross's girlfriends in friends....

no it is more like man

omg we use wo de tian

lol, I can sometimes make out what she's saying actually. She speaks broken Cantonese with a heavy English accent. it's so funny.

that's because lauren tom is korean

lol, what the...they got a Korean to do her voice? I hope they did that for comedic purposes and not because they were actually ignorant about us Asians.

nope

^ Ah, then that's good to know. They weren't that ignorant after all.

who cares what she is .....all i know is she so white wash and can't speak chinese ..that's bad in my books......being born in chicago is not an excuse for not knowing jack about your heritage

^ True. Being born in Chicago is not an excuse.

its a funny show, i watch it almost ever night on adult swim.

i think at the end of the credits it shows that a lot of the animations are done by koreans.

guys are gonna bag on Amy Wong now?

I now remembered that Lauren Tom was in the Joy Luck Club. That was a pretty decent movie.

I think she should do other things besides being a voice actress in Futurama.

Is Joy Luck club a movie worth checking out? What is it about?

It’s been awhile since I last saw it. It’s a story about three women from different generations. They were mostly telling their own life story living in the US. I just thought it told good image of how most Asian American women had some residing hardships and cultural conflicts.

Here’s the movie if you want to know more:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107282/

One of my reasons for coming to these forums is to learn whatever I can about Asian culture.

What other movies and books on Chinese pop and youth culture would you reccomend?

i really hate that movie......here's why 99% of asian guys hate that movie and aberwhitewash Amy Tan..



"It does nothing to enhance or balance the prevailing image of Asians in the American media. Instead it caters to the most chauvinistic impulses fueling Hollywood portrayal of Asians. Not to beat around the bush, the movie caters to two groups: Caucasian men and Asian women who are discomfited by Asian men. And it does so entirely at the expense of Asian men, and ultimately, of all Asian Americans.

The movie is premised on the suffering of four Chinese mothers whose lives are so un-credibly pathetic (bathetic?) that they verge on the comical. How many Asian American women have been forced to abandon two daughters by the side of a road, drown an infant son to avenge the cruelty of her playboy husband, or forced into concubinage by her own malign family? Not one of these unfortunate women's stories contains a single sympathetic Asian male character. Their tales of woe depict Asian males as crass, cruel, weak or simply non-existent. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? It's typical of the worst products of white Hollywood exploiting Asians as a handy foil to demonstrate the superiority of white America.
Here's the payoff. Each of these unfortunate women bears a daughter who, to a greater or lesser degree, is given the option of suffering her mother's sorry fate by proxy or escaping this whole gruesome Asian scene by marrying a white man. Well, what is a rational girl to do?
Of the four daughters, the two who are more spirited and physically attractive marry Whites. Both white husbands are successful and attractive notwithstanding one or two cute, understandable flaws corrected in the course of the movie. One is a lawyer, the other is the dashing scion of a publishing family.
The third of the daughters -- the simpering loser of the bunch -- is given an Asian husband who is financially successful but pathetically miserly, geeky and cold. He insists on maintaining separate checking accounts and keeping a list on the refrigerator of every item of grocery either of them buys so that at the end of each month they can split the total. I found this character not only offensive but downright un-credible. "

Hello Verae. One of my reasons for coming to these forums is to learn what I can about Asian culture.

I noticed that sometimes on Futurama Amy Wong uses the expression, "G'uh!". Is that another Chinese slang term?