Skip to main content

Mr. Back From The Orient!

Ross is coming back from his work trip in China. Rachel is meeting him at the airport. Ross is concerned with her forehead bleeding after the fall. But she goes:

- Enough about me, Mr. Back From The Orient!

What is "the Orient"? Why all the letters are capital? Is there some chrachter in the US culture who have had this nick-name? Or it is just her improvisation?
Labels:

Comments

  1. Katie8 August 2012 at 04:44

    According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient

    Orient derieves from latin "oriens" which means "east". And it is a traditional disignation for anything what belongs to the Eastern World in relation to Europe. That explaines why she was giving him such a nickname.

    ReplyDelete
  2. zombie-d0g14 March 2014 at 10:43

    She is using the more old-fashioned term 'The Orient' to imply the mysterious, exotic nature with which the east was held, back when that term was more often used. Also, calling someone 'Mr' something or 'Ms' something implies that it is their defining or outstanding quality, but at the same time it is also a very weak, out-dated cliche.

    So: she is trying to exaggerate her interest in HIM, but in a joking way to show that she is also very at ease, and jokey, and not at all hurt.

    Of course she is not at ease, and she does not feel like telling jokes, and she is bleeding from the head, so it really just comes off as a really pathetic attempt to seem funny and folksy. The audience is mostly laughing because the situation is embarrassing and we feel bad for her.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Katie14 March 2014 at 11:32

      That is sure a new level of understanding for me! Thank you, I appreciate it.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Joey: Holden McGroin

Who is Holden McGroin? Joey looks for a new stage name. Over the episode he tries many of them on. By the end he appears on a stage and introduces himself with a name that gets lots of laughter from the audience. Joey: Holden McGroin. Who is Holden McGroin? And why is Joey taking that name is funny? At first I thought Holden McGroin is some all America-famous guy. But I googled and googled and nothing. But than I realized Holden McGroin is a play of sounds. If you say really quickly 'Holden McGroin' native speaker would hear not a name but three words 'holding my growing'. It is your first step in understanding the joke. The next step is that you got to know that 'growing' in slang means 'testicles'. The rest is pretty about putting two parts together. A man holding on to one's testicles in public is considered weird and therefore funny. I love this joke, not just because most of the traffic to this blog comes through googling 'Holden McGroin
24 comments
Read more

Chandler: You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance!

What does the phrase 'stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance' mean? Chandler needs new pants made and asks friends for a contact of a good tailor. Joey raises a hand - yep, he has a tailor. Chandler feels all set. But Joey starts to share way too much of boring detail. Joey : He did my first suit when I was 15... No, wait, 16... No, excuse me, 15... All right, when was 1990? Chandler :  You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance! What is Q-Tip? What is the whole "You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance" expression is referring to?  Apparently the joke was among few that Matthew Perry, the actor who played Chandler has improvised on the set. Also that is the joke some websites say that Matthew is the most proud of. So let's try and get it! Q-Tip is a cotton swabs brand name. You know the ones you use to clean your ears after a bath. Q here stands of "Quality". Americans say "Q-tip" but often mean not a particular
20 comments
Read more

All you want is a dinkle

What is a dinkle? Joey plays Dr.Freud. Suddenly he rises and does a little dance and sing: Joey: All you want is a dinkle What you envy's a schwang A thing through which you can tinkle To play with or simply let hang Why is this dinkle-song funny?  Joey is playing Freud in this show.  Sigmund Freud was a founder of psychoanalysis.  Freud is also quite famous for inventing the theory of penis envy. The idea that some women's problems take root in their deep dark desire for a penis of their own. Now this theory isn't all that popular. But it could be a fun referral, yes. Dingle and schwang in the song is a slang for penis. Tinkle is a cute children's word for peeing. It is either that or Joey's imitation of German accent what turns Dingle into Dinkle. An old penis-envy theory, slang and a sort of cute switch of Dingle to Dinkle are what make the song eventually funny.  If you are curious for another pretty awesome theory on how musical  Love, Torment & Lolli
8 comments
Read more