SEWER RAT 10,617 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 gifs from the episode Monday’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother†on CBS continued an ongoing joke about a slap bet between Marshall and Barney. In order to win the bet, and give the best slap to Barney, Marshall explains he learned the “Slap of a Million Exploding Suns†by seeking wisdom from three great masters. It turned out these supposed wise ones were played by Marshall’s friends — Colbie Smulders, Josh Radnor and Alyson Hannigan — in yellowface. People went to Twitter with #HowIMetYourRacism to takedown the episode. http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/32-powerful-tweets-that-takedown-yellowface-on-how-i-met-you view tweets @ source The apology seemed decent for a change I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teru 22,363 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Jung 19,680 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 at least they apologize it neatly and sincerely though as part Asian myself i'm not that offended by it?... and still dying at Ted's supposed to be name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXXXXXx 1,252 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 im sorry but “Slap of a Million Exploding Suns" lmao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reckless 1,320 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 There is a difference between being ignorant and satirizing a genre. This was the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinata 1,532 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 The episode kind of sucked though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Jung 19,680 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 The episode kind of sucked though *Slaps your wrist with the Slap of Three Billions Exploding Sun* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Pryde 686 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I can see how they didn't think it was going to be problematic because it was meant to satirize kung fu movies and was written to include Marshall's friends (so therefore no need for real Asian actors). Unfortunately it still offended people and probably could've been handled differently to truly come across as satirical. Still love this show though... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hinata 1,532 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 *Slaps your wrist with the Slap of Three Billions Exploding Sun*NUUUUUUUUUUUU D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemlock 1,537 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 show has sucked for the last few seasons. I stopped watching it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aripod 2,721 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 The apology was actually an apology, so good for them. I hope they don't do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawolSONEexo 2,135 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 That apology was acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimswamswum 1,063 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 at least they apologize it neatly and sincerely though as part Asian myself i'm not that offended by it?... and still dying at Ted's supposed to be name Right? I wasn't offended by it at all. It was pretty clear that it was a satire on martial art film cliches and tropes. The first glimpse of it caught me off guard, but it became quickly obvious what they were doing. And to help, it had the sensei in the beginning and Barney wtfing the 'tale' the entire episode. It's true HIMYM does skeevy jokes, but this is one instance where the extreme criticism isn't warranted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXXXXXx 1,252 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 *Slaps your wrist with the Slap of Three Billions Exploding Sun* LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexa_VM 37 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 The apology was fine & I love this show, sure with ups and downs, but nevertheless funny & enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Jung 19,680 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 NUUUUUUUUUUUU D: it's a slap that can wreck a jukebox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your Juan and only 5,432 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I'm sorry but I thought it was funny. I didn't see it as yellowface though. Ted and Robin's face look tanner where as Lilly's is lighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sane 16,342 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I don't get what's racist about it... O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyoyeon~Minzy 12,109 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Is this even yellowface? Its not like they stretched their eyelids to the side or even tried to look stereotypically asian aside from the hair. I do understand how people would find this offensive, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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