We've heard that the MADtv Korean soap opera parodies are even funnier in Korean, because the subtitles don't match and Bobby Lee's Korean is terrible. Here's our attempt to translate some of the extra humor.
Translations by Hanjin Kim, Sam Kim, and Julie Hong
Transcribed by Ada Tseng
(Frequently, what's heard in the Korean dialogue is different from what is conveyed in the English subtitles. In those cases, we've translated the original Korean dialogue and included it in italics underneath the English subtitled text.)
EPISODE THREE
[Previously on Attitudes and Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive]
Mother: Stop! Stop the violence! Immediately!
Long Bong and Dr. Poon Ji-Sum: Mother! Huh? Huh?
[Cut to pool scene]
Mother: Please to scrub lower on me, daughter.
Long: It is my honor, dear Mother.
Yes mother
Please to scrub higher, dear brother.
Dr.: Yes, dear sister and former lover.
Yes Long Bong Sister
Long: Were it not disclosed already recently by our dear mother that we are indeed siblings I would still to be your lover, my love.
If we didn't share the mother, I would still have feelings for you.
Mother: Switch! Everybody switch now!
Dr.: But how is it that she is my sister and yet I did not aware of this important fact?
Why did you lie to me, mother?
Long: And how is the world to being so cruel?
Why is this world so hard to live in?
Mother: Let a merry smile cross your face right now. You are siblings, and yet, at th same time, not.
Long: Huh?
Mother: Do not be so confusing. The answer is as following...
[Mother is shot]
Aaahhhh!!!
Long: Mother! No!
Dr.: But who?!
Murderer!
Murder of my Mother!!
[Dr. doggie paddles to the other side of the pool as song plays.]
[Song: Quickly Quickly / Find the murderer of my mother! / Quickly quickly / Do not let him get away! / Thank goodness I took swimming lessons / As a young one / Flutter Kicks so he does not get away ]
[sees another girl who looks just like Long Bong]
Long & Dr: Huh?
Long #2: Huh?
Long & Dr: Huh?
Caption: What goes on now is an unsolvable mystery until perhaps tomorrow when you tune in and find out.
Onward...to episode four!
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