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A recent sketch from NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Few things escape the giant unblinking eye of S., the satirist/blogger/criminal mastermind behind Drepank. His penetrating gaze recently focused on a comedy sketch by Conan O’Brien that managed to mislabel the republic of Slovenia. (No points for guessing what the wrong label was. I’ll give you a hint though: They don’t call it the eternal Slovenia-Slovakia mix-up for nothing.)
S. explains:
He was doing a comic segmet based on the story that the US Postal Service is putting out new stamps … and that there will be a "President Bush’s nicknames for other countries" series. Then he displayed a few pictures.
Here’s what the one for Italy looked like:
The new stamp for Italy. Note Slovenia’s shiny new name.
There are two possibilities here:
1) Supreme irony: While making fun of Bush’s geographic ineptitude, the writers fall into the same trap that Bush famously fell into many years ago.
2) Supreme genius: The writers remember that moment very well and intentionally throw in the wrong name in order to evoke it, and perhaps get a laugh from the six people in the audience who would notice it and get it.
I guess we’ll never know the truth.
(Thanks Drepank!)
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I go for #1. It wouldn’t be too ironic anyway.
BTW: Sicily and Sardinia are parts of Italy and should be yellow. Another trap there
If they went for #2, you could be damn sure no one in the audiance would ever notice it. It’d be interesting, if the map was a bit bigger, so we’d see what they’d put in where the real Slovakia is supposed to be. Probably Czechoslovakia.
No. There they put Slavonia. :p
Retards.
An attempt at #2.
Bush is famous for mixing up Slovakia and Slovenia. While most Americans don’t know the difference between the two themselves, I can’t see why the author would bother going through the trouble of naming all the surrounding countries/islands.
Enough is enough with this “eternal mix-up”.
Will it ever end? Is it really the case that so few people can infer ‘Slovakia’ from ‘Czechoslovakia’? Don’t their memories stretch back to before 1992?
Having said that, would they know where Czechoslovakia was?
Aaaaaargh.
mmmmhhh Loxias…be patient.. when Americans try to create a Mexican environment, in MANY occasions they use traditional music and clothing from Spain which is very different from Mexican… and we are talking about neighbor countries, so don’t expect too much
Criminal, Michael?? 8| I’m not a crook!
S.
Yeah suddenly Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily became independent states as well! Oh well. My slovene friends, don’t feel bad, many americans think my country (Portugal) is somewhere in Spain, which, in it’s turn, is somewhere in South America, be glad they know which continent you live in
PS: I’m moving to this house in Lisbon with a guy from… Slovenia. Definitely, this country is part of my life.
“Will it ever end? Is it really the case that so few people can infer ‘Slovakia’ from ‘Czechoslovakia’? Don’t their memories stretch back to before 1992?”
Maybe it’s part of the human memory process: I once lived in a house at 35 Grace Rodd and they always delivered our pizzas (amongst other things) to 35 Grange Road.
Plus, all those ex-socialist states, everyone knows they’re all the same and they all speak russian.
JS: don’t forget that we speak russian for sweds, too.
few months ago they wouldn’t let me and my friends on the boat trip because we wre russinas :). and russiands were (i have no idea why) not supposed to be there.
not to mention my supervisior from states. she put slovenia next to bosnia (remember the war) and bosnia next ti india :). i agreed …. hahaha
I don’t mean to sound like an American who can’t take a joke — I laughed mightily in Bosnia at the IFOR/SFOR American soldiers saying that they had to go to "Bangialuka" for example. However, I have experienced the other side of the coin. When someone from Europe asks where I was born and I say "Pennsylvania," I often am asked if it is near Philadelphia :-)
Slovenia, Shmovenia, who gives a rat’s ass.Most Americans don’t know the name cause it changes every friggin couple of years and we got more important things to do besides remembering the name of some small East European country.Now if you had oil, oh baby that would be an entirely different story. We would be all over your ass helping you to become a true democracy if it killed yah. ;o]