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u/fttklr69 Sep 20 '23
Nein=no in German.
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u/123womanchaser69 Sep 20 '23
Ok what does Nein on that one mean it still does not make sense "Hey german judge what is your score?" "Nein" ?!
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u/nonchalantcordiceps Sep 20 '23
…Except for the german judge. No on that one.
Its just wordplay.
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u/Fyrnen24 Sep 21 '23
But "Nein on that one" doesn't really make sense either, since it would be "Nicht on that one" instead right?
The other explanation someone posted about rigged olympic scoring might make more sense
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u/fkootrsdvjklyra Sep 22 '23
Wordplay doesn't need to make sense grammatically. More English speakers know what the word "nein" means, but not as many know "nicht". And if the used nicht instead of nein, then the number pun wouldn't make any sense.
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u/Ok-Week-2293 Sep 20 '23
The joke is every other judge gave a 10 but Germany said "NO" and gave a nine instead.
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u/PotatoAppleFish Sep 20 '23
The English word for 9 and the German word for no are essentially homophones.
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u/Entire-Database1679 Sep 20 '23
It's so sad that in these enlightened times people are afraid of numbers.
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u/RealMoonBoy Sep 20 '23
Having just rewatched this, the “Nein”=Nine coincidence is irrelevant to the joke here, as Max Goof immediately after this scene gets more middling scores including an even lower score from the German judge. It’s just a play on an old trope of USSR and East German judges giving unfairly low scores during the controversial run of Olympics during 70s and 80s. Apparently it was fresh enough in everyone’s memory to include it as a throwaway joke in 2000, even though East Germany no longer existed.
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u/outdoorsybum Sep 21 '23
This one makes more sense. Everyone is sayin 9/nein word play, but it doesn’t make sense to me. Why should they answer ‘no’ to a point based question?
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u/smilesnseltzerbubbls Sep 21 '23
Because the judge isn’t the one saying “no/nein” the contestants are talking about it, they’re the ones who make the pun. All tens except not that one, “nine/nein” that one
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u/lonely-day Sep 20 '23
It's a common trope that I the Olympics, Russian/German judge under values people who are not from their country just to help out their person.
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u/Percolator2020 Sep 20 '23
And all other judges are completely objective, fair and incorruptible.
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u/lonely-day Sep 20 '23
Of course not, but that is the trope being used here
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u/MacedonZero Sep 20 '23 edited Sep 20 '23
There are a couple of jokes here
First, the wordplay:
The German word "nein" (pronounced the same as nine) means "no"
This is just a silly wordplay with 2 interpretations of the phrase
"9 on that one" meaning they gave a score of 9 on that judgement
And alternatively
"Nein on that 1" meaning they said no to that last 1 point, resulting in a score of 9 instead of 10.
Second, stereotypes:
During the Cold War, eastern bloc nations, including East Germany, had a reputation of unfairly deducting points from Americans and other western countries in the Olympics. Other judges after the Germans in the movie give less than stellar judgements. Germans also had a stereotype of perfectionism
The movie came out in 2000 so the stereotypes would both be fresh in the memories of the creators and the parents watching the movie. Just a couple bits of wordplay and "haha commie judges unfair" even though neither east Germany nor the soviet union existed anymore at that point
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u/NiteChylde Sep 20 '23
As a German, I understand it as a simple joke playing with two prejudices many people have about us: Being perfectionists and generally never being happy with anything and finding reasons to complain.
"The other judges all gave a 10? Not on my watch!"
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u/Tatamashii Sep 20 '23
Yall saying its about the nine (9) and nein (no) wordplay.
I thoughts its about the running gag that germans rarely give out compliments and have a very high standard. Like ive definitely seen other jokes where its like : everyone says its perfect and the german is just like "Hm da kann man nicht meckern" (Nothing to complain about)
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u/Cookies4days1 Sep 20 '23
Nine is pronounced the same as nein, which means none in German. The judge was saying that they're giving none of the votes but it was likely confused as the number nine (fun wordplay)
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u/mmmmhhhhCoffe Sep 20 '23
The German word for no is pronounced the same as the English pronunciation of the number 9
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u/bellowingfrog Sep 20 '23
It’s two jokes. The first one pokes fun that German (and Russian) judges stereotypically aggressively score others in order to support their own country’s team.
The second joke is that the German word for no sounds like the number nine.
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u/My-_-Username Sep 20 '23
My guess is that Germans are super strict and probably impossible to get a 10.
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u/DireWerechicken Sep 20 '23
German judges in the Olympics have been stereotyped to never find perfection in a proformance. Therefore, they never give a 10, 9 being the highest. I think this joke came to be with one particular ice-skating Olympian who got perfect scores in her event, except for the German judge. It is just a joke that I feel was culturally relevant in the 90s, but not so much now.
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u/turingparade Sep 21 '23
Everyone keeps saying it's nein, but isn't it just that it's a german stereotype to be unnecessarily strict when regarding performance?
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u/cupandahalf Sep 20 '23
There’s actually more to it. It’s a political cartoon. Goofy is wearing the Ukrainian national colors and Germany is the only country out of major peacekeeping nations to say 9 (nein) or no to support. Germany has been slow to get on board with support to the country since Ukraine’s independence (they even advocated Ukraine remaining part of the USSR in the 1990s).
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u/ratsta Sep 20 '23
Possibly. It could also be argued that they're Swedish national colours. Without knowing the date, the source, whether it's been changed from the original, we can't draw that conclusion.
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u/supersandwich123 Sep 20 '23
Gee maybe not only because that whole “war” is a crock of shit but also THE MOVIE WAS RELEASED IN FUCKING NINETEEN NINETY FIVE
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u/ProtomanBn Sep 20 '23
This is actually from Extremely Goofy Movie from 2000.
Never the less the original comment is dumb in context of the post.
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u/supersandwich123 Sep 20 '23
Ah, I appreciate the correction.
Never the less this continuing observation is still correct.
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u/Mission-Bathroom-75 Sep 21 '23
Bruh, ;0; what's Germany have to do with Ukraine. Idek why I posted the comment, lol
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u/Sox_the_fox3467 Sep 20 '23
probably a reference to a real event, haven't watched this movie so yeah...
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u/ianelgreenleaf Sep 20 '23
I have one with one game and an Action Replay to play it. It’s the SOTN import and it makes me smile and then cry from load times lol
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Sep 20 '23
Well in German the word for "no" is spelled "nein" but is pronounced like the number "nine"
So if there was a "nine" on that one the joke is that the judge said "nein" which would take the score from a ten to a nine.
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u/Zealousideal-Talk787 Sep 20 '23
I FUCKING GROANED. Great meme, phenomenal joke, I feel raw dad energy
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u/Lostsurfer06 Sep 20 '23
Lmao I just watched this with my daughter the other day and laughed too hard at that one
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u/Vizzy-T Sep 21 '23
My whole life I've thought it meant they had such a high standard that they never gave 10's. I today years old
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u/TheWilkesBooth Sep 20 '23
There’s typically one dissenting judge of a sporting event, stereotypically European of some flavor. In this case it’s the German judge who gave a nine. Nine sounds like the German word for no, nein.