Fruity Oaty Obsession: Help Me! by RocketJock

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Fruity Oaty Obsession: Help Me!

POSTED BY: ROCKETJOCK
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 15:54
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Friday, December 23, 2005 11:30 AM

I made some Fruity Oaty Bars for Christmas! They turned out pretty well!

I'll let you all know what others think!
(or if anyone busts out of their blouse...)

-JWV

“Can I suggest something that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd?”
–Wash

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Friday, December 23, 2005 11:35 AM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.

I'll have to make some and then find a mouse. On second thought, that would be a very, very bad idea. Nevermind.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 2:27 PM

RIVER6213

THINK! You are having a topic about the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that was shown for less than 2 seconds in the movie.....get a grip people.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 2:36 PM

SLOWHAND

Put the DVD in. Make sure "play movie" is highlighted. Press left on your remote. Enjoy.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 2:46 PM

CARTOON

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
THINK! You are having a topic about the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that was shown for less than 2 seconds in the movie.....get a grip people.

THINK! We are having a forum discussion about a TV series that was shown for less than 14 episodes.

Okay. So, what should we be gripping?

Got the DVD on Wednesday, and watched it three times. Must've lost my grip.

BTW, I love the show (and movie), and this is my first post here. Only good thing about my not having discovered this show sooner, was that I would've been disappointed to see it end so prematurely, contemporaneous to the event. As a late-comer, I got to read about it's demise (a few years after the fact, granted), before I got hooked.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 3:14 PM

RIVERGODDESS

Welcome to the foray, Cartoon! I'm a fairly new newcomer also(saw Serenity late October...moonbrained fan ever since)
You'll love it here. One big shiny family. I'm really impressed with this fanbase, too. How often does a cancelled tv show get made into a movie that is now a best-seller, with it's tv series that came out 3 years ago selling just as well? Boggles the mind!(in a good way!)
*starts singing Fruity Oaty Bar again*

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

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Friday, December 23, 2005 3:58 PM

JAYSONAYCH

Quote:
Put the DVD in. Make sure "play movie" is highlighted. Press left on your remote. Enjoy.

Or if you're a cheater like I am, you can use a DVD player on your computer to mouse over to the triangular-shape of the dial graphic on the right hand side of the main menu...

Neat little easter egg...has anyone found any more? I couldn't find any others...

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Friday, December 23, 2005 4:13 PM

CARTOON

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverGoddess:
Welcome to the foray, Cartoon! I'm a fairly new newcomer also(saw Serenity late October...moonbrained fan ever since)
You'll love it here. One big shiny family.

Thanks. I've been reading the posts for a few weeks before deciding to jump in, myself.

I sort of recall hearing about "Firefly" before it originally aired, but I never watched it -- probably because I heard a reference to the Companion character (and not being as "progressive" as many today), I opted not to watch.

My next brush with the Firefly universe was in seeing the trailer in August, while taking my nephew & niece to see some other film. I was so intrigued by the trailer, that I ran to see "Serenity" on the first day, Since then, I was hooked.

And thanks to the Sci-Fi channel, I'm getting to see the series.

While the show's not perfect, it's one of the best written (and acted) shows I've ever seen. The actors have done wonders with their characters, and it's a shame the series didn't last longer (or hasn't been subsequently renewed).

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Friday, December 23, 2005 6:30 PM

JEALOUSGHOST

Fruity, oaty presents taken from the movie! Plus a new gif!

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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:10 PM

JEALOUSGHOST

And hey, for the song, check this out. It's on "Can't Stop the Signal"'s site on myspace: http://www.theidlekind.com/FruityOatyBar.swf

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Sunday, December 25, 2005 4:38 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
THINK! You are having a topic about the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that was shown for less than 2 seconds in the movie.....get a grip people.

No.

Refuse to grip anything "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat."

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Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:02 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
...really impressed with this fanbase, too...

Check out the documentaries on the "Serenity" DVD, wherein Joss & the cast show up at last years Comicon in San Diego; I think the one I'm thinking of is called something like, "How Do You Paint a Firefly?"
In case you haven't heard the story, the convention booked the "Serenity" folks into the biggest space they had available. Five THOUSAND people showed up just for them (man, I was proud of the Browncoats that day) - stayed for the next presentation ('cause it was the Wachowski Brother' "V for Vendetta" and Natalie Portman & Joel Silver were both part of it, so... I mean.. c'MON... who wouldn't've stayed, eh?) and then, when the " for Vendetta" crowd left... the crowd all took off for all the subsequent presentations.

Anyway, one of the documentaries records that day and it's mighty impressive: Joss getting on stage to a THUNderous standing ovation, getting flustered & spinning around like he can't believe what's happening to him

Anyway... as you said,

Quote:
...really impressed with this fanbase, too...

Keep amplifying ...'The Signal'... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:08 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Neat little easter egg...has anyone found any more

Should I presume i have to use the disc in my computer to find the easter eggs? ...problem being, my old mac doesn't have a dvd player.

Sure would like to know about all the easter eggs, though.

mumblemumblemumble ..."or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat.

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Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:13 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Fruity, oaty presents taken from the movie! Plus a new gif!

WHOA! ...just like Christmas around here. Thanks jealous...

Dance... DANCE(!) i say, ya lily-livered, pasty-faced, buncha... DOODS... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:18 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
And hey, for the song, check this out.

Say, wraith-of-jealousness... forgive my ig'nance but... what's a '.swf' file? It won't do a thing on my 5-year old G-3 Yosemite with OS 10.0. I mean, sounds promising, premise-wise, but... no FOB's

I'm sure you all mean well "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat."

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Friday, December 30, 2005 3:52 AM

KOZURE

A question for those who have found and viewed the easter egg:

Select to view spoiler:

The full ad features a Chinese man who is described by Joss as "the extraordinarily shamed gentleman who has not gotten the Fruity Oaty Bars and shamed his family".

Can anyone who speaks Chinese (presumably Mandarin chinese)translate what he says? I'm guessing it's something abot shaming his family by not buying Fruity Oaty Bars, but you never know.

Kozure the Kamikaze Highlander

"Put Book front and centre; he's our friend, we should honour him. Kaylee, find that kid who's taking a dirtnap with baby Jesus, we need a hood ornament. Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their $#@&."

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Friday, December 30, 2005 7:02 AM

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

I SO want a t-shirt with that pink octopus on it.

~~~~~
"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

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Friday, December 30, 2005 7:57 AM

URSULA

Quote:
Okay. So, what should we be gripping?

Can I grip Jayne's muscular buttocks?

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Friday, December 30, 2005 11:07 AM

NEEDLESEYE

Quote:
Originally posted by jealousghost:
And hey, for the song, check this out. It's on "Can't Stop the Signal"'s site on myspace: http://www.theidlekind.com/FruityOatyBar.swf

aaaagh! I can't. turn. it. off!

*desperately tries to click mouse to close link... fails!*

brings new meaning to "cant stop the signal"

OK, how much money could be made if Fruity Oaty Bars were actually manufactured and available in stores and advertised with this commercial? It would be a lot of cash dont you think?

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 3:32 PM

IVY

Hey - I've been a lurker for some time now...but the Fruity Oaty Bar thread was too good to pass up. I have just watched the easter egg about 10 times and made my husband listen to the song on my computer (thanks for the link) another 20 times. Can't wait to torture (er...entertain) everyone at work tomorrow!!

One question....what does the Chinese guy say before he says "fruity oaty bars"? Is it English? Can't make it out.....must know!!!

Love the site....love the show.... love the movie (although it did take me a while to get over it and watch it again...and again...and again). Wish I had been involved from the start...you all put up a hell of a fight!

Thanks everyone.

Ivy

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Tuesday, January 3, 2006 5:26 PM

ELEKA

It's still in there...not leaving. not whole. broken. always broken.

Damn you Fruity Oaty bars...i can't think without that song being there and now all my granola bars look like Fruity Oaty bars to me. They're wuite tasty though...all fruity and oaty.

Just now turning mice to men and making my blouse bust...yet.

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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:22 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by Eleka:
now all my granola bars look like Fruity Oaty bars to me. They're wuite tasty though...all fruity and oaty.

Just now turning mice to men and making my blouse bust...yet.

I was in a "99-Cents Only" store this weekend, looking for a 99-cent hip-flask for... YOU know... my "rheumatis' medicine:.. and, what should I find... some damn brand of cereal called "Fruity Oaty Cereal." ...Bet it's from China...

All you with blice need ta bust 'em or "your friends will think you're stupid, inbred slabs of meat."

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:30 PM

ELEKA

Just realized I really can't spell...it's the Fruity Oaty Bars, they're getting ot me.

oooo! I have to go and get some Fruity Oaty Cereal, bet it's all subliminal and tasty!

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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:30 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
I SO want a t-shirt with that pink octopus on it.

This page should take care of that:

http://www.cafepress.com/fireflycargobay/1020465

Working to help all blouse-wearers bust out of 'em "or my friends will think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:36 PM

GUENEVER

Start singing the Mc Donalds Big Mac song instead. Sesame seed bun, ...

It's longer at least.

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:38 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by Kozure:
Can anyone who speaks Chinese (presumably Mandarin chinese)translate what he says? I'm guessing it's something abot shaming his family by not buying Fruity Oaty Bars, but you never know.

dunno if the phrase-in-question is in here but... if it's anywhere, I'll bet this'd be the place. And if it's not, I'll bet Ying will take a suggestion to translate it for you

...just trying to be helpful "so all y'all don't think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat"

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:41 PM

UNSARDONIC

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
if it's anywhere, I'll bet this'd be the place. And if it's not, I'll bet Ying will take a suggestion to translate it for you

dang... inCLUDE the freakin' link next time, why dontcha:

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

"Now all y'all DO think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat"

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006 6:41 PM

ROCKETJOCK

Quote:
Originally posted by Guenever:
Start singing the Mc Donalds Big Mac song instead. Sesame seed bun, ...

It's longer at least.

How about in Latin:

"Duo tomacula bubula, condimentium peculiare, lactus, casseus, muirae, oniones, in pane sesatimata."

Spelling is phonetic, I fear; taught to me by a very bored Roman Catholic chaplin deep in the western Pacific..

"She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true." -- Zoë Washburn

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Saturday, January 7, 2006 12:37 PM

ANUSIEN

[url]
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/FOB/
[/url]
The Fruity Oaty Bar Commercial in avi and mp3 formats. Enjoy!

Fruity Oaty Bars
Make a man out of a mouse
Fruity Oaty Bars
Make you bust out of your blouse
Eat 'em all the time
Let 'em blow your mind

Fruity Oaty Bars
Fruity Oaty Bars

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Saturday, January 7, 2006 2:20 PM

UNSARDONIC

I Have not laughed SO HARD since... since... (I dunno) - the LAST time I ...laughed so hard.

Thanks to whomever posted this as it actually worked very well on my antique Mac & iTunes v.1 (!). Very little will work on that antique stuff, y'see, & previous postings were simply unusable.

See how many adolescent, girlie-weapons you can unleash into a murderous, killing rampage with the FOB commercial at your next party "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Sunday, January 8, 2006 1:42 PM

SAMWIBATT

Quote:
Originally posted by liminalosity:
They are not a Blue Sun item. Not available at WallMart, either I hope.

Here I thought that too - but then at the start of the ad the first thing that happens is a blue sun rises over the hills. I'm guessing that means they *are* a Blue Sun product?

Blue Sun: There's No Escape. Makes me think of the whole "We're Beatrice" thing some years ago.

Many thanks to Anusien for uploading the rip.

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Sunday, January 8, 2006 5:42 PM

LIMINALOSITY

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
at the start of the ad the first thing that happens is a blue sun rises over the hills.
Blue Sun: There's No Escape. Makes me think of the whole "We're Beatrice" thing some years ago.

Obsessing about a single instant in the obsession. Why hasn't this bloody commercial been in one of those conspiracy theory threads, I ask you....maybe we've all been programmed with an obsessive fan subliminal Joss had Zoic sneak in there.
No, this must be what going insane feels like.

Gaak, it's stuck in my head again. I watched it on slow mo' a few times before answering, and Sam I don't see a blue sun. There's a sort of wine colored expanding circle near the beginning, when the background photo shifts from the cartoon fruit trees to something that looks (to me) like palm trees in a hurricane, then the background switches to power station stacks, then to something that looks like a version of the optometrist's photo of your retina
http://www.stlukeseye.com/anatomy/Retina.asp
then River goes off into nightmare space where the reavers are...but I never saw a BlueSun.
BlueSun is like Beatrice Foods, isn't it. I remember reading about them. They had a 'go to sleep and trust us' vibe to their commercials then. Mwah haa ha. It was spooky how much they owned, and that concept of the mega-nested-corp hasn't exactly gone away. Ok, Ok, no more conspiracy theories, I promise.

Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

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Sunday, January 8, 2006 6:33 PM

SAMWIBATT

Quote:
Originally posted by liminalosity:
Sam I don't see a blue sun. (...)

It doesn't show up in the movie, but if you watch the easter-egg "making of" and the whole commercial it's there. Here's a grab:

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Sunday, January 8, 2006 8:27 PM

LIMINALOSITY

Hot spit. That's a blue sun alright.

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:19 PM

DIDDYWOLF

Quote:
Originally posted by jcprice:
Am I the only one thinking this would make a fun ring tone ... ?

...

:)

jason

I did it! It's on my phone now. And I got woken up to it in the middle of the night too, made me have a really trippy dream for the 3 seconds before I woke up!

--DiddyWolf

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Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:22 PM

GRIZWALD

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Quote:
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
I SO want a t-shirt with that pink octopus on it.

This page should take care of that:

http://www.cafepress.com/fireflycargobay/1020465

Working to help all blouse-wearers bust out of 'em "or my friends will think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

Yeah... I was wondering about that, and what kind of copyrights/trademarks apply there. CafePress is not all that particular about who posts what there. Anybody know if this person is legit in doing this?

And yes, this is my first post here.

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Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:32 PM

RHYIANAN

Quote:
Originally posted by firelily:
Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
And it was only the fifth time around that I realized they were singin in English and not Chinese.

Ha! I didn't know it was English either! (I figured out the "fruity oaty bar" part only after reading on one of the boards

They were singing in English?????? Wow, how'd I miss that...

Wash: Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction.
Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.

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Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:03 PM

ASHBURNBROWNCOAT

I posted the whole commercial on Google Video.

She was in Congress?
-Jayne

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Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:18 PM

RODWY

Fruity Oaty Bars
Make A man Out Of A Mouse
Fruity Oaty Bars
Make You Burst Out Of Your Blouse
Eat Them All The Time
Let Them Blow Your Mind, Pow
(man speaking in Chinese)
Fruity Oaty Bars
Fruity Oaty Bars
(giggling)

No not again I just got it out of my head, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

---
Mal: Define Interesting
Wash: Oh god, Oh god, We're all gonna die?

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Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:17 PM

MISTERNISHKA

I must confess, I too am subject to singing that tune all day long.

Does anyone have an html code for me to post it on my firefly pimped out myspace?

--------------------------------------------------
"Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!"

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Friday, January 27, 2006 4:56 AM

OCCAMSSPORK

*sigh* And I had just gotten this song out of my head too...

I give up. It's getting set as a ringtone now, so at least it won't be only in my head.

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Monday, January 30, 2006 9:43 AM

ANUSIEN

try

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/FOB/Commercial.mp3>

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:20 PM

SPAINT2K

The Chinese guy in the ad says the following:
"Wo hen jiaonian??? - wo meiyou chi Fruity Oaty Bar!"

Which means "I am/feel so ???, I haven't eaten Fruity Oaty Bars"

I don't know what the third word is or is supposed to be (I thought at first it might be "diu lian" = "lose face/feel shamed"), and neither does my Chinese wife. If anyone else can figure it out I'd be interested in knowing.

Steve
PS. My wife can't get the song out of her head now either. The problem wasn't helped by me looping the DVD and playing the jingle ten times in a row.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:58 PM

SAMEERTIA

At a party this weekend, this girl walks by - she's wearing an underbust corset with a blouse. The blouse was unbuttoned - not just cleavage but most of her breasts bursting out.

I can't help it. The first words out of my mouth were, "She needs to lay off the Fruity Oaty Bars."

The guy I was talking to spurted his soda. I think I impressed him.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:25 PM

ASARIAN

Can't help you there, dude. Im fact, I had half a mind to congratulate you on this your rite of passage to the 'verse. :)

Hearing you say this, tough, I'm beginning to wonder whether the subliminal message they stuck in for River was the only one.

"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:21 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Yeppers! It's "shamed" -- there's an Easter Egg on the Serenity DVD about how the FOB commercial was made, and the Japanese is described and the gentleman himself shown taking direction during filming.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006 2:29 AM

ASARIAN

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Hey! where'd you get that screen grab? And are there some bigger ones?

Now, lets see if this board takes HTML:

P.S. Board apparently does *not* take HTML.

BTW, I thought everyone would have the Serenity DVD ISO permanently mounted for occassions like, well, this. :)

"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam.

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Monday, March 27, 2006 11:27 AM

CKURUMADA

Quote:
Originally posted by spaint2k:
The Chinese guy in the ad says the following:
"Wo hen jiaonian??? - wo meiyou chi Fruity Oaty Bar!"

Which means "I am/feel so ???, I haven't eaten Fruity Oaty Bars"

I don't know what the third word is or is supposed to be (I thought at first it might be "diu lian" = "lose face/feel shamed"), and neither does my Chinese wife. If anyone else can figure it out I'd be interested in knowing.

Steve
PS. My wife can't get the song out of her head now either. The problem wasn't helped by me looping the DVD and playing the jingle ten times in a row.

My Chinese informant also says "jiao nian" doesn't make any sense. I believe it is should be "diu lian" (to lose face), as well.

BUT what gets me is the Japanese katakana on the Fruity Oaty Bar itself. It says "MA RA SE TA" which my Japanese informant says is also jibberish. At the top it says, "KO HA WA MA RA SE TA SU KA TE SA". More jibberish. I think they dropped to ball on this. They could've just as easily written "FU RU CHI O CHI"

Craig in Arcata

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:36 AM

BIGAPE

Hi folks, I am not a Serenity fan, I am just warning about a serious infraction, a break in the traditional (and critical) separation between scifi fan geekdom and the rest of civilization.

Google landed me on this site because a radio station (89.7 FM) in San Jose today, I think its a college station, was playing some stupid jingle over and over and over for at least the last hour... and for some reason on my ride into work I could not turn it off.

All I could make out was "Makes a Man out of a Mouse" and "Makes your bust out of your blouse" and then something in Japanese.

I'm putting you all on warning! Stop this silliness!

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:48 AM

GRIZWALD

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