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Veep

Pretty sure it's the type of face that bugs me...

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Helpful Finnish poster on the AV Club.

As I am from Finland I probably got some extra laughs from this episode as well. And not just because Finnish that was spoken in this episode was so shitty.... The Angry Birds clock was exactly something moronic Finland would give as a gift to the VP of USA, great cringe moment through and through (we love to underscore our success stories, since there are so few of them).

Most of it was covered in the episode, but some clarifications for non Finnish speakers:
- "Kassi" what Gary kept saying, indeed means "bag" in Finnish. It is also used as a euphemism for scrotum, but only in plural form. The joke still kind of worked.
- The gift book said "Suomi on raskas maa" (Finland is a heavy country), when they probably intended to write "Suomi on rakas maa" (Finland is a lovely country)
- The stuff Finnish Prime Minister said in "Finnish" after that was either just gibberish, or so badly pronounced it was incomprehensible
- "Anteeksi" = "Sorry", Anteeksi + Dan = Danteeksi
- Selina Puupää, literal translation = Selina woodhead (pretty oldfashioned and silly insult, hardly ever used. Equivalent would be... I don't know.. doofus?`)
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"The Veep does not have a window open and if she did it would be very high and you would be pushed out of it!"
 
"The drugs stop here!"

Basically everyone line Jonah said is worth quoting but I don't want to just list everything he said...

"I'll be updating more than I'm actually dating, which is a shitload!"

"They should call the 'Huff Po' the 'Puff Ho', cause Ariana Huffington is a ho that only writes puff pieces..."
 
I started watching it again with the new season. It's not as blatantly into "discomfort comedy" like Curb Your Enthusiasm so I can enjoy the absurdity of it more.

I'm also watching Silicon Valley, but I'm reserving judgment on that until I see a few more episodes. SO MANY THINGS ON SUNDAYS OH MY.
 
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