Casually flipping through Chinese TV channels and was introduced to the Catalan TV show Polseres vermelles, the original Red Band Society, in which a group of kids learn to be friends and deal with their illness in the pediatric war. And my God, what an amazing show. 5 minutes in and I'm hooked!

Culture shock of the day: I saw urinals in China that analyze your pee and give you health advice. I didn't pay to get my result though.

Every English TV program is like "Nanjing, which means the Southern Capital" or "Hong Kong, the Fragrance Harbor". But they never have the guts to say "Heifei, an ancient town meaning United Fat"

Thinking about how Crazy Rich Asians and Shang-Chi never got their sequels.

The hallway is getting suspiciously long. So you turn around and go the other split path. And then a cutscene starts

Here's something weird. The Chinese equivalent word for "Son of a Bitch" is 混帳, meaning "Mixing Tents". We don't really know where the word came from. Some suspect it was a Mongolian insult aimed at young men who snuck into women's tents to get naughty.

On the topic of anachronistic adaptations of epics, here is a 1591 illustrated edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which soldiers don't wear armor, generals wear Ming dynasty official garb, the ships are tiny boats, and the guy on the top right gets an arrow in the ass.

Good vibes protocols: Fatal Termination is a 1990 Hong Kong movie that features perhaps the single most shocking stunt sequence ever. Okay, maybe "good vibes" is the wrong term. Anyway, this sequence directly inspired a similar stunt in The 2026 action film The Furious.

The *most replayed moment* is just our female viewers being down bad for Brigette Lin.

I can't get over the fact that vaping and pot are so normalized in Canada, cosplay conventions in Montreal now smell like tobacco. This hipster city I swear.

Tired thought of the day: ...

Everyone complains about The Odyssey being historically inaccurate; meanwhile, China was like, "Western China looks like India, right?" And then adds in the Blue Mosque... ...in a Journey to the West movie 🫠

Maybe because I'm used to Japanese adaptations of Journey to the West and Three Kingdoms with Japanese casts, I have a much higher tolerance for seeing an American cast in The Odyssey. Seeing Odysseus' crew being multi-racial is like hearing We Will Rock You in A Knight's Tale. It kinda works.

Tired thought of the day: I should make a video on A Chinese Odyssey just to confuse people.

So it was a spiritual remake of Oppenheimer

Does the YouTube "depressed office worker living alone" vlog trend also appears in other countries? So far I've only seen the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Singapore versions, and I have this weird urge to collect them like cursed pokemon cards.

For a fraction of a second, I thought to myself: I should review Mulan II. I'm tired.

Resisting my masculine urge to make a video on the embarassing history of the Chinese football team.

Honestly, props to The Shadow's Edge (2025) for simply hiring a random guy who looks nothing like young Jackie Chan, and trusting the audience to suspend their disbelief.

In my research of depictions of Hitler in Asian cinema, I have discovered that India has made Hitler (1996), Hitler (1997), Hitler (1998), and Hitler (2024), none of which have anything to do with Hitler.

Chinese robo-deathmatch, featuring decapitation and Donnie Yen shaking his head in the audience.

In this episode of Bad Movies World Tour, we take a look at the infamous "anime" from Colombia. youtu.be/qzw4dqP80qA

The Worst Colombian... Anime?? | Bolívar el héroe

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People keep pointing at floppy disks as this mystical artifact that baffles the kids. You know what truly baffles the kids? Landline phones still work when the power goes out.

I accidentally deleted Ado from my timeline! That's what I get for working to 4AM.

Question: does pop music from your country like to include random foreign language words for flavor? It's getting rarer in Mando-pop these days, but Hong Kong canto-pop still includes English semi-frequently.

Suddenly burning up by restlessness. What YouTube video/channel do you binge to calm yourself? Here's mine, from History of the Universe. youtu.be/FpftRRm0jfA

How Early Could Life Have Appeared In The Universe?

YouTube video by History of the Universe

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Games that look like movies ❌ Games that look like a fever dream ⭕⭕⭕

Let's go over the original Ballad of Mulan, and compare it, verse for verse, to the 1998 Disney animated film. Let me show you why that is the best adaptation, better than half a dozen Chinese versions that came before and after. youtu.be/ItQGmNcovdA

Original Mulan vs. Disney Animation

YouTube video by Accented Cinema

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