Girls have lost a poker game to guys. They want to have a rematch. Ross jokes that he is just happy to use any extra cash. Rachel is trying to bug him about it:
- So you get your ya-yas by taking money from your friends.
Ross:
-Yeah.
Chandler comments:
- Yes, and I get my ya-yas from IKEA. You have to put them together yourself, but they cost less.
Obviously Rachel and Chandler are talking about different "yay-yas". But what are they in those cases? The official dictionary has no clue. The Urban one has too many definitions...
They are using "ya-yas" as a slang word for "thrills." This is not a common term. Rachel is trying to annoy Ross. The word implies a sexual nature to the "thrill." Chandler is playing on Rachel's strange use of the phrase and removing all sexual innuendo by pairing it with the assembly of flat-pack furniture.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess it should be it with the sexual nature of Rachel's use of "ya-ya" word. But with Chandler it gets more clear with a zoombie-d0g comment.
DeleteChandler is also playing on the fact that all IKEA products have Swedish names. The names are never translated, so people who don't speak Swedish are left wondering what a FRAMSTA is, where the FLORT goes, and why a HJUVIK is so expensive. Chandler is implying that a 'YAYA' could just as easily be Swedish to his ears as anything else the store sells.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Swedish liking sharing the culture via IKEA product names should be a whole other blog theme. And I think it is a fare observation. Guess unlike here IKEA was quite well known in the USA in the 90ies.
DeleteFirst yaya means that stuffs that make you thrilled, pleasured.
ReplyDeleteSecond yaya means that a furniture or stuff which you bought it from IKEA. (here YAYA thought like a Swedish furniture name like FRAMSTA (you had better read zombie dog's comment) )