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[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

I dunno, but some other brother might deny

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

No, no, thoughts like that are the entire point of the internet, and language itself

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

[leadore@lemmy.world]

OK, I was gonna say it was because they don't have big fat butt cheeks like humans but I like your version better.

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

This makes so much sense.

I've only ever seen this scene in German, where the guy doesn't say "buns and thighs", he just says "Oberschenkelmuskeln" (which means thigh muscles) and I think that's beautiful.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

I've heard spongebob in German is a quality experience

[uniquethrowagay@feddit.org]

They put a lot of effort in the translation and voice acting. Whenever a joke doesn't translate, they come up with something in the same spirit. Sometimes, I like the translation better.

[foobarrington@lemmy.world]

As the other guy said, it's very well done, aside from very few impossible-to-solve issues*. There might be some bias at play since I grew up with it, but I'd say it's on par with the original dub. You can check out some examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOiBiRt-TOw

• example: The ghost, ghost, ghost, toast, ghost scene can't be translated, since no synonym for toast rhymes with "Geist" (German for ghost). So instead they just go with "Weißbrot" (a long synonym), which is very random, but honestly hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNV2XUfRr4

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

It's the flavor saver, Animal Planet edition.

[anunusualrelic@lemmy.world]

Does walking upright make the butts more or less visible? They're slightly higher but less prominently displayed.

[anunusualrelic@lemmy.world]

We'd have to engineer a race of humans without butts and see if they managed to breed.

[confused_emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Seems like that would result in a constantly itchy butthole? I guess one could get used to it.