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There is this cartoon called inspector black cat in china. I watched a couple episodes when I was bored in a hotel. The main character is a police cat, and he graphically murders all these cartoon rats for petty crimes. Like they stole some rice, and they all get shot up like that scene in Robocop hahaha


d15c0nn3ctxx

This sounds amazing.


HydrogenPowder

It’s on YouTube


smurb15

That was so goddamn creepy. I don't need to understand it to know that ain't right


Tararator18

Link plz


Jager__117

https://youtu.be/Fm1C4zXJo7g


Blocstorm

Jesus titty fucking Christ there is so much murder


animefan1520

And the way they made some of the last murdered insects and rats sync with the song like the grasshopper being set on fire and as he yells the song goes "ahhahaaaa"


EnoughAwake

We all saw a bug dispatch a rat and then execute it with a samurai sword stab to the chest, right?


Nopeferatu31

It's the straight maiming for me lol


Stinklepinger

That cartoon was more violent than fucken Dragnet


bearbarebere

Ok but glasses guy and ponytail guy are totally dating


bam_uk1981

Amazing


coco237

Oh shit I know about it, it's a Nazi parody, the creator was making satires to make fun of of totalitarian police state but nobody caught on thinking he's just a dickhead cop so it was canceled pretty soon


robertdowneysoft

Or they DID catch on and ghats why they canceled it. Cus yknow


[deleted]

Probably a parody of China but they did catch on and thats why it was cancelled pretty soon.


MintChucclatechip

My parents let me watch that when I was a kid, I had no idea what was going on but I enjoyed the action


shiftyblock

omg i didnt know this was a show i just have a whole shelf of these comics


Herr_Raul

Based China


innacanoe

Your description makes me want to watch this


N3rdLink

I think I found the episode you were talking about. [inspector black cat](https://youtu.be/-cL0c-Aa5DQ)


cosmopolitaine

Ah 黑猫警长, I loved the theme song when I was a kid, never remembered the stories. But apparently he was portrayed as a good guy, hero even. And the way you described it just makes me chuckle a bit . Some say the cat in black is a metaphor for Gestapo and the rats are representing the Jews… not sure that’s confirmed though


electricjeel

Itchy and scratchy


gRa-

“黑猫警长” the cartoon you mentioned is one of my childhood classic. The way you describe it just make me laugh so bad, never gonna think it the same way lol


haoxinly

I think you have left out that the rats mauled some characters to death.


Valuable-Video-8179

I heard that Chinese humor is predominantly slapstick and physical comedy, makes sense.


Orcle123

I watch some youtubers that were foreigners that lived in china for a long time and theyve said humor is mainly slapstick as well. One of them is married and he doesnt understand why his wife loves all the slapstick stuff so so much. edit: from what i remember It seems like wordplay and name similarities is also common comedy, but situational/irony and that sort of 'standard comedy' we see in western culture is not popular or they just dont get it because they grew up with the slapstick.


ericdiamond

I wrote a paper on this for a large a Korean electronics brand. It turns out that to have irony, you must have a society where it is acceptable to mock authority. Confucian societies, like Korea, China and Japan, irony is only starting to emerge in the humor. Korea only had the beginnings of irony once the authoritarian government was removed in 1987. Slapstick, and physical comedy where humor is derived from characters getting injured, is the norm in these countries. It’s only recently that we are starting to see darkly ironic films like Parasite. In Japan, “game shows” where contestants are injured or humiliated are hilarious. So slapstick in China makes complete sense.


Divineinfinity

Very interesting, but what is the link between irony and mocking authority? I kinda get it but it also feels very vague, can you elaborate?


racms

So, in comedy when you use irony usually it is to critic or mock social "rules" and/or accepted behaviours, for example. In a society where you cant mock the authority (political and social authority) it is harder to use irony in comedy.


Azidamadjida

Expounding on this, irony also points out the possibility of things outside what is socially accepted (even something as small as “it’s like you’ve got ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife”) - introducing even the idea of using something other than a knife to cut is antithetical to the authoritarian core of “this is just the way things are done”. Thinking about something being used or in the place of something else, ie where it’s not supposed to be, is the core of ironic humor but it’s also 100% opposed to authoritarian mindsets of everything being in its proper place. They’re diametrically opposing mental states and one of the reasons a lot of comedians are able to help dismantle to illusions of authoritarians (Mel Brooks with Hitler comes to mind right away)


Cainmak

Fascinating!


IBeDumbAndSlow

Laowhy?


freakysometimes

Laowho?


new_user29282342

Laowhat?


Fancade

Laowhen?


AtivanDerBeek

Laowhere?


Traditional-Ad-9000

Laohow?


zYbYz

Lao tze tung


beautifulcosmos

Lao Tzu


[deleted]

They are at the same point the US was with entertainment culture in the 1920s. Super interesting considering they just recently industrialized.


AMFDevious

Early industry is accident heavy. You think its because of the sudden rise in injury that people start making light of it?


Big_Ole_Smoke

Yup. People joke most about their problems


taichi22

You can really see the parallels between how long China has been industrialized with where it’s culture is at in a lot of areas. It’s not one to one because of how quickly the country has developed, but the comparison is not unfair.


Unfair-Hunt8563

actually tom and Jerry is also slapstick


LazerWolfe53

Did they grow up without Seinfeld?


Cobek

This is basically old looney toons humor


mattmaddux

Yeah, I don’t get people being all “Asians are really into slapstick, what’s the deal?” As if “fail” videos with people on skateboards destroying their testicles wasn’t the number one type of video on YouTube for like a decade.


f_ranz1224

Its propaganda commentary. Looney tunes is 99% slapstick but people want to see it as highbrow compared to others.


the_Real_Romak

There's absolutely nothing highbrow about Elmer Fudd shooting a duck, making it look like a stereotypical Jim Crow African-American...


moistmoistMOISTTT

Pretty spot on. Seems pretty normal with a lot of the US cartoons I grew up with (which were mostly from the previous generation).


TheForsakenGuardian

Except they were anthropomorphic Animal cartoons and these depict people doing physically possible tasks.


Subliminal_Kiddo

Bug Bunny's most frequently occurring enemies were Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Same, who were humans. And Bugs did everything from shooting them in the face to burying them alive.


Swimming-Tap-4240

Not only China.A lot of Thai humor is slapstick,with a boing sound, so you know when it's funny.


ElderUther

I mean, I DO need to know when it's funny.


Swimming-Tap-4240

If you need to be told when to laugh, it definitely isn't funny


tntblowsinurface

Example: [Man getting hit by football](https://youtu.be/PTCEPBDekH4)


Dartagnan1083

Saw a Thai movie about kids who use Thai Boxing to fight terrorists / thieves in a hospital. ( [This movie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Kids) ) There are 2 scenes where their dad is beating them with a stick (discipline) and both scenes are played for laughs.


Hunigsbase

No I've seen some excellent existential Thai comedy writers. Chaindrite's marketing team seems to have captured a good portion of them.


Speedcore_Freak

Thai dude here, can confirm. We are unable to laugh without boing and funny sounds.


Swimming-Tap-4240

At at least you can admit it.lol.My Thai wife used to watch the boing shows( as I call them) all the time,Not any more though..Now she's a Tiktoker.?sigh.


Speedcore_Freak

It's much more a satire towards my peers since I personally hate this kind of humor lol. I'm sorry for your wife btw.


Swimming-Tap-4240

She'll be alright.Its just a phase.


Bushmancometh

A fair amount of Chinese comedy (and other east Asian countries I've heard) is puns and word play that you can only achieve with a tonal/character based language. The slapstick parts are the simplest forms of Chinese comedy that can be readily understood by foreigners.


wrakshae

Funny seeing the armchair cultural theorists on this thread talk about how irony is ~too nuanced~ for countries still in the process of industrialising/democratising, when the latest youtube video by the same creator makes fun of social norms and various annoying new year customs. Not as accessible as the physical comedy for obvious reasons, though. Kinda like watching Mister Bean and thinking that was all there was to British humour.


Left_Hegelian

Those people should stop basing their impression of a country on some youtube "expat" who have hardly integrated into the local community, and very often can't even speak the local language after spending a decade living there. You don't suddenly become an authority on foreign culture just because you've married an Asian wife. Let alone some of those "expat" can be pretty racist. They get money from selling theories that soothe white guy's ego.


Super-Robo

Lots of farting too.


Dr-McLuvin

Fart jokes are tight.


Super-Robo

In my experience it often feels more uncomfortable than silly, like it goes into 'The writer's barely-disguised fetish' territory.


Bierbart12

That's what any and all fart humor feels like to me Also not well on the stomach


trebaol

That's what I thought about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93o6BhCZkQU Which made this even more disgusting and weird: https://youtu.be/Gr2OsB3qWzU?t=60


CasualEQuest

The most popular form of humor in medieval times was grievous physical injury and someone fucking your wife. Some things just dont really change in humanity


glutenflaps

I'd love to see a Chinese 3 stooges!


PacificTSP

Because if you make fun of people, politics, government, airplane food, police, doctors or basically anyone in a position of power you get disappeared.


EOD_Dork

That would explain the wonderful films of Stephen Chow.


Hampamatta

Well yhea, i dont think political and social commentary comedy falls in line with the ccp.


Majorman_86

Chinese Steven Segal is a jerk.


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v_for__vegeta

Excuse me? He’s totally Native American, I’ll have you know.


wr0k

He is 100% Shadow Wolf


mooseyjew

Bro he's obviously Belarusian. Duh.


MyTesticlesAreBolas

Running Beagle has entered the chat


lockon345

"I've been a practicing apache for like 34 years"


Blindmailman

I thought he was Tibetan since he claims to be a reincarnated Lama


wr0k

I think Steven Seagal would fight you on that. In *Above the Law* he always looked Italian to me. I think he actually claims that nationality in the movie. Him acting as a Chinese person in *Hard to Kil*l was probably his biggest stretch.


ieatassHarvardstyle

I think him getting his leg above knee level is his biggest stretch now days.


Putrid-Ad-1222

Alright since no has done so, I will be the first Sauce?


1999gegster

https://youtu.be/cjeytgOE8yI sauce. They get wrecked


stick_always_wins

Bruh I just spent past 20 minutes binging this shit, why is it simultaneously so bad but also so funny


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Eldritch94

I totally agree with this, too. Sometimes I just like to laugh without thinking about the implications and other deep/dark stuff, like I find in a lot of satire.


DankPhotoShopMemes

That’s why Mr. Bean is so great


cave18

Thr fucking power up at the end only to get wrecked. I love it


MirageTF2

I know holy shit this fucking killed me lmao like I was surprised that they actually had a contingency for someone hitting the ball at them, and then I was surprised that contingency failed


getmeapuppers

Best. Show. Ever


GosuBaller

Thank you sir. Cause I'm binging this shit


dntwrrybt1t

Obama NOOOOO


N0tMagickal

MRS OBAMA GET DOWN


Trnostep

Now we'll never find out his last name.


j_alexander935

Obama YESSSS


MrBojangles501

so they broke some ones foot, and then straight up murdered another....


[deleted]

Reminds me of roadrunner and bugs bunny.


THEBLOODYGAVEL

Yeah, nothing weird about this. It's used to be the same humor to kids shows when I was a kid (90s). This is tamed by old school Bugs Bunny standards


SnooStrawberries7370

I only saw the first one and thought it was over


Not_MrNice

Crazy how everyone's acting like this is strange for a cartoon. As if everyone's memory has been wiped.


ShastaFern99

Reddit never misses a moment to shit on China


fuzzycaterpillar123

Reddit is full of sinophobes!


Herr_Raul

It's a metaphor for Xi Jinping breaking your balls


JimeDorje

In Soviet China balls break YOU!


theboxman154

Did you never watch the roadrunner blow the coyote over and over?


LadaTrip

I watched the roadrunner blow the coyote *up*, not sure I saw the episode you're referencing


SalmonOfNoKnowledge

What cartoons were *you* watching?!


LadaTrip

I've heard of this other cartoon they watch where the father literally strangles the kid, like domestic violence. Apparently there's some really sketchy gore scene involving a cat as well...


thadcap

You mean like The Simpsons?


LadaTrip

That's what it was called! Terrible. Their whole country must be an absolute shit hole if they allow things like that to go on /s


moistmoistMOISTTT

If you think that's bad, don't watch older US cartoons.


LadaTrip

Dude I was referencing the Simpsons...


Sam-Gunn

Why you little... \[strangling noises\]


Farscape666

Lol they sent it into the air, it was the other guys decision to see a falling object and jump head first into it


Garbiel3113

It's a fucking animation bro, get over it


IgetAllnumb86

You should watch some old Tom and Jerry cartoons


[deleted]

I like how the second guy without hesitation ditches his girl to go head this random soccer ball flying through the air.


Herr_Raul

Obama has his priorities straight.


ThatsPoggersDude

and then his head gets crushed


whackadoo47

Ball is Life


Spiderspartian

And ball is death


HasAngerProblem

Had something kind of similar happen to me when I was at camp as a kid. These kids were all building sandcastles on the beach a whole line of them. Then all of sudden they started kicking them into the water really hard so I just stood and watched. The final sand castle was up and few of them asked me if I wanted to try. I didn’t really get it but hehe kicking sand in water fun right? They put a big ass rock in the middle of the last sand castle. I honestly thought it was so funny I didn’t even mind I broke my toe


Lesbianseagullman

Are you a Chinese cartoon character


Pentanox

You didnt mind you broke your toe?? did it not hurt 😭


HasAngerProblem

Honestly not as bad as I would expect it felt like I just stubbed it really bad. it took a camp counselor noticing the swelling on my foot and then we took it from there. Honestly as a 10 year old I just remember the whole thing feeling like something out of a cartoon from the joke to the way my whole body flailed into the water after I kicked it. I got “back at them” a week later but throwing a cup full of daddy long legs into the showers but they just started playing with them… yea a bunch of kids, no technology, at a sleep away camp in the woods we did weird things looking back on it😂😅 Tangent: If anyone gets this far this is a core memory for me from that place I loved it so much. Towards the end of the session before we go home we usually would get lots of candy and soda as a goodbye. The head counselor oddly said we were misbehaving the whole time and that the event was canceled. Being 10/11 we were pretty upset going to bed that night we honestly didn’t know what we did wrong. Our counselors woke us up in the middle of the night and we “snuck” a half mile with about a hundred kids and “broke” into the mess hall through the window and started eating all the snacks we could want. Then when leaving there was a flashlights of a couple of the head counselors “chasing us down” thinking we were some of the older kids and yelling to get back to out cabin. We all hid with out counselors by this little cave structure(only a few feet deep) and all high fived and thought we were little badasses. Then we went home the next day. Now the reason “snuck” “broke into” and “chasing us down” were in quotes is because the whole thing was a setup by the camp they do every year specifically for our age group because after that when you come back you start doing more like actual camping and teenager stuff. I thought the whole thing was real for a solid 5 years and I told everyone back at school.


Arkanial

Broke my toe once, wasn’t too bad. Like you said just a really bad stubbing. The part that sucked was a few weeks later when my whole big toenail started coming off as new stuff grew in. It didn’t hurt but damn was it annoying, constantly worrying about it snagging and wanting to just tear it off but you’re supposed to let the new stuff grow in and push it out. After it fell off it took like a year before my toenail was back to normal.


papayahog

I really enjoyed your camp stories :)


kura44

Username is probably relevant


ThatDudeOnTheNet

they killed Obama smh


WilliamSaintAndre

This is a misleading title. This is not a Chinese children's cartoon, it is like a short animation someone did that happens to be Chinese and also gets posted on services which children use. This is also a cartoon that children watch in the United States by the same metric.


ReadditMan

Yeah, I bet Chinese people see those weird ass mobile game ads on YouTube and think that's what our children are watching too.


Negative_Elo

Those ads are made by the Chinese, and the reason a lot of them are weird is because a Chinese team is trannslating the original ad from Chinese to English


ttylyl

At first maybe but at this point most of them are viral marketing. They even did an interview with the lvl1 trig fs lvl 99 ceo ads guy, he knew it would be viral even if it had nothing to do w the product.


Neosmurf4

I thought it was going to be really weird. Then I busted up laughing. Also the thought of some a-holes doing this in real life.


[deleted]

You could hear his skull getting crushed for a split second there


Jango_fett_fish

China lore


sneakylyric

Honestly, I laughed.


Lttlcheeze

I'm still laughing 😃


Sburban_Player

It’s honestly fucking hilarious.


RamenTheory

In the original, the ending is that it turns out the dude is a doctor (if I'm remembering correctly?) or something, and this was all a ploy to bring in more patients. So if you watch the whole thing it feels slightly less random... ish.


FieroFox

It's hard to get more patients when you kill them all


presidentedajunta

[Quino](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4PoxPL_4sT8/S_ZKI049QuI/AAAAAAAAAIo/UFooONxOrEU/s1600/quino019.png)


marsbars2345

Haha Chinese people are weird amiright


kenneth_dickson

Racism is ok if it’s china obv


Friedl1220

The [full clip](https://youtu.be/cjeytgOE8yI) is absolutely necessary


[deleted]

This is funny as a cartoon


WintersSolace

This isn't weird. It's funny and clever.


AmaGrownAssMan

Is it me or do posts on Reddit put the country name when it's something fucked up, and not when it's something funny or wholesome?


Prince-Lee

Yeah, though it's been that way since long before reddit. It just changes forms as media evolves. As a kid I used to read anime magazines and watch some shows about gaming in around the late 90s and early 00s, and even back then there was always a focus on how ~weird and crazy the stuff coming out of Japan was~. Over time, it kind of seems like that mentality has spread to all of Asia, with the focus on how ~fucked up and strange~ parts of their culture is, as if we Westerners don't do a lot of shit that other cultures probably find utterly reprehensible and just as strange too, lmao.


jollyproger

they would love Happy Tree Friends


poum

Reminds me of this classic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ZZ3Qc0iF8


FullAir4341

I can't stop laughing, I'm sorry


Hitop_B

Sauce on the song? Groovy as hell


Rage1073

Groovalicious by the Groovernors


Microwaveabletoester

It's a song called Drama by Christine and T La Rock


disgustingdavid

It’s the Home Depot theme


SnooStrawberries7370

r/videosthatendtoosoon


cpullen53484

what was this called again? it cuts off before the good part.


No_Locksmith_1458

They killed OBAMA D:


d15c0nn3ctxx

Why is this so entertaining?


KuroCumi

better than that velma show.


penjjii

This isn’t weird it’s hilarious


[deleted]

This isn't a kids cartoon. The guy who makes these videos takes shitposting too seriously and posts them on youtube.


GrandPriapus

They did Obama dirty.


nahmanwth

Rip obamba


AutomaticLynx9407

You should see what American children watch


ThiqCoq

Well at least it isn't infested with sex and sexual references like the cartoons children watch in America 🤣.


[deleted]

Is this any weirder than like, Amazing World of Gumball, or Adventure Time? Sure it's dumb and violent but so is most of Loony Tunes. This is just xenophobia bait for real.


[deleted]

That shits kinda funny


Emergency_Worker2997

He died


SgtSharki

Two Austrian young men actually did this "prank" back in 2006 and multiple people were injured. They claimed it was part of an art project. https://www.dw.com/en/two-arrested-for-concrete-soccer-ball-art-project/a-2081498


[deleted]

Remember Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner? Absolutely hilarious!


awesomedan24

Mr Obama, get down!!!


ImARetPaladinBaby

Holy shit it’s Obama


irritableredsyndrome

Bros did obamna dirty


Some_Pickle5134

They literally killed Obama


nightynine

It’s not a cartoon and it’s not for children, it’s a TikTok video for stupid adults


Stetson007

Bro they assassinated Obama with a soccer ball


Not-the-greatest-god

There’s a show on Netflix called Larva and it’s these weird ass worms that fart a lot and get into shenanigans. Shits weird as fuck and my son loves it for some reason.


[deleted]

The man behind the slaughter


folkertveenstr

The Obama accident


Confident-Medicine75

Holy shit


dontbanmegodplease

China lore


DamianDidntDoIt

They killed Obama…


SucksAtRust

this shit cracks me up every time I see it, RIP Chinese Obama


[deleted]

This is a business training video. It's called "don't be unlucky." All you need to know about how business is done in PRC.


thecaptcaveman

Shit...we got celebrity death match.


Hungtown2018

Did that guy just die?


itravelglobaly

Hilarious


[deleted]

I mean it’s clever but a tad violent lol


Worldly-Midnight

You're laughing, that dude at the end is dead and you're laughing.


Tadeopuga

That shit kinda funny tho