Small Fish, Big Pond

The band US Metal band “Steel Panther” created a stir on the Japanese NHK program West Wind for all the wrong reasons. I saw the post on Japan Probe and thought, “Here we go again…”

You see, alot of Morning Musume fans are mad that somebody touched one of their precious idols. It’s absurd but their fans are that obsessive.
But I just watched the show (overseas “torrent delay”) and apparently I’m the only one because nobody has mentioned the real fun of that clip.

During the Q&A one of the questions was “At your house, what family rules do you have?”
Steel Panther response:

Seriously. This is a screen cap from the broadcast show.
Update: A foreign friend of mine isn’t up with US slang. For people still in the dark here (slightly disturbing wikipedia page).

Nobody in the guests panel, the crowd, or the hosts seems fazed; they didn’t ever react that much at all. Probably because the (rough) translation at the bottom is “If you dirty the sofa clean it up.” It’s hilarious when they pan back to the panel and you see all the “clean, pure, virginal” Musume members smiling or nodding their heads as if they’re saying “Yeah, that is a problem.”

The follow up rule given by Michael Starr, “Always flush the toilet after you go poop” got lots of laughs and comments. Chalk the first one up to being completely lost in translation.

Thumbs up to Steel Panther for getting this on TV, or thumbs up to the translator trying to figure out how to keep this from being an issue for the broadcasters. Or maybe the translators just thought it was a slang term for getting a sofa dirty and though the goofy gajin were really obsessed with living room cleanliness.

But Kamei Eri likes the gajin and gives them a big thumbs up. Or maybe that was for the Jizz comment, we’ll never know.

Update:
The girl that got rubbed up against, Kusumi Koharu, just announced she’s leaving the group AND the whole project. I told you they take this shit seriously.

Apparently there aren’t any hard plans on what she’ll do but she want’s “to be a model”. Yeah, good luck with that. Who’d leave a project that is built around selling modeling books to a brainwashed fanbase to be a model.
No, “leaving to be a model” means either she was sick of their crap, or they were sick of her’s.