History GratuitousEnglish / LiveActionTV

* [[NinjaWarrior Ninja Warrior's]] stages contain obstacles that are almost entirely named in complete or partial English. Aside from the competitors' names and periodic use of 'Sasuke' (the show's original name), this is all most watchers of the show are likely to understand.

** During the transformation sequences in ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'', English words scroll across the screen, ostensibly listing systems activation and computer jargon. It is, in fact, completely random words seemingly picked out of a dictionary-dartboard hybrid. [[FreezeFrameBonus If you care:]]

** It turns out that the words come from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_%28album%29#Track_listings track titles from the band Electronic]], fittingly enough, albeit a bit jumbled.

* ''Series/PanelQuizAttack25'''s {{CatchPhrase}} is "ATTACK CHANCE!"

* In Series/{{Best Motoring}}, Creator/{{Akira Kamiya}} will sometimes use English words in his speech to convey excitement. The later announcer was known for this, as well.

* In Series/{{Best Motoring}}, AkiraKamiya will sometimes use English words in his speech to convey excitement.

** None of the English is subtitled, but most Russian learn at least basic English in schools these days.

* Parodied to hell and back by TheFastShow 's Chanel 9. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKeDrrOrsE Like here!]]

* The Italian GameShow ''[[AvantiUnAltro Avanti un Altro!]]'' has a category called the "English Lesson," where all of the questions are asked in English.

* The Russian medical sitcom ''Interns'' has an American named Phil Richards as one of [[DoctorJerk Bykov]]'s interns. Despite his pretty good Russian (he's played by a Russian-American actor), he frequently swears in English or says things like "You've gotta be kidding me!" or "Please kill me" when agitated (upon hearing the latter phrase, Bykov says that he doesn't know what it means, but it sounds good). One episode involved the hospital administrator being sent to an international medical conference in London, so she enlists Richards's help in improving her English, which turns out to be so horrible that he feels physically sick to listen.

** And, of course, ''KamenRider555'' has... Psyga! There was no real reason for the ''real'' one to say all his lines in English, and strangely, nobody had trouble understanding him.

* Most ''SuperSentai'' series feature a usual amount of Gratuitous English for attack names and such, but ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'' deserves special mention for having the team uniform be covered with it. Extra-special mention for Hant (Go-on Green)'s Gratutious Japanese along with the English. ("Doki Doki Delight")

** Jiraiya/Ninja Black in ''NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' indulged in this quite often. It helped that he was a faux-McNinja played by Kane Kosugi.

** As does Hoji/Deka Blue in ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger''
** And Shurikenger in ''NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' makes it part of his whole schtick, [[CatchPhrase baby]].
** Ironically, the page image is Takeru/Shinken Red from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger,'' a sentai series with a samurai theme that tries very hard to convince the kiddies that kanji really is cool. (A lot of younger Japanese citizens, by this point, don't know kanji, preferring the phonetic alphabet to the fancy one.) It's also one of few series to keep the attack names in Japanese. Yet Takeru seems to own few shirts that aren't covered with (utterly incomprehensible) Engrish.

** A LOT of the HUD in ''GoGoSentaiBoukenger'', sometimes veering into {{Engrish}} territory.
*** One thing that is generally used across all seasons, it seems they use the English words for their Ranger colors more than the Japanese ones. Like in [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger the 35th season,]] they're [=GokaiRed=], [=GokaiBlue=], [=GokaiYellow=], [=GokaiGreen=], and [=GokaiPink=], with their SixthRanger [=GokaiSilver=]. Even in some of the older series, where the Ranger designations aren't ''always'' colors, they are in English ([[JakqDengekitai Spade Ace]], [[Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Vul Shark]], [[Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman Change Phoenix]], and so forth, though exceptions exist.)

** During the transformation sequences in ''DenjiSentaiMegaranger'', English words scroll across the screen, ostensibly listing systems activation and computer jargon. It is, in fact, completely random words seemingly picked out of a dictionary-dartboard hybrid. [[FreezeFrameBonus If you care:]]

* The second Rider of ''KamenRiderKiva'' is named ''Kamen Rider IXA'', which stands for "Intercept X Attacker". While this is a less oddball example compared to others on this page, it's still probably not something a fluent speaker of English would ever codename a hero. Other seasons of KamenRider can be bad or worse with this type of thing.

*** More fun with IXA and GratuitousEnglish, when Diend summons IXA in ''KamenRiderDecade'' we get an inside view of his helmet, which has the words, "Return it to the life and the god" scrawled across the heads-up display, which is a crude translation of Nago's CatchPhrase "Return that life to God". As an added bonus, IXA's partner in this scene is [[KamenRiderFaiz Kamen Rider Psyga]], who simply says "It's showtime!" - made even more gratuitous by the fact that Psyga's original actor was a Taiwanese-American and spoke [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish perfect English]]. ("Good to see you guys. Taking care of all of you is also part of my job. [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull Henshin!]]"). Decade's Psyga ''didn't''. After "It's showtime," he yells "Let's enjo-oy!" before whooping like he thinks he's in a cowboy movie while firing. It's ''hilarious'' if you remember the real Psyga, but not so much if you ''liked'' the real Psyga.

** In one episode of ''KamenRiderSkyrider'', the villains are loading boxes of "DINAMAIT."

* The [[ShortRunners short-lived]] series ''DoctorDoctor'' had an episode in which a Japanese television crew did a [[{{Mockumentary}} documentary]] within the hospital. At the end of the shoot, they left several Japanese gifts for the hospital staff, including a t-shirt that said "DOCTORS ARE BIG SEX."
* In ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' "Episode Zero - Birth of Sailor V" prologue, the jewel thief Cutie Kenko (who can only be described as [[XMeetsY Tuxedo Mask being played by David Bowie]]) speaks gratuitous English as part of his attempt to be cool. While preparing the next heist he quotes the English expression "time is money", and answers each his minions' reports with a lazily drawn out "ooo-kay!"

** One episode of ''RescueSentaiGoGoFive'' has writing in the HumongousMecha cockpit say "The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion!" in an out of the way place that looks like typical Ranger HUD stuff.

*** One thing that is generally used across all seasons, it seems they use the English words for their Ranger colors more than the Japanese ones. Like in [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger the 35th season,]] they're [=GokaiRed=], [=GokaiBlue=], [=GokaiYellow=], [=GokaiGreen=], and [=GokaiPink=], with their SixthRanger [=GokaiSilver=]. Even in some of the older series, where the Ranger designations aren't ''always'' colors, they are in English ([[JakqDengekitai Spade Ace]], [[TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Vul Shark]], [[DengekiSentaiChangeman Change Phoenix]], and so forth, though exceptions exist.)

* The Russian medical sitcom ''Interns'' has an American named Phil Richards as one of [[DoctorJerk Bykov]]'s interns. Despite his pretty good Russian (he's played by a Russian-American actor), he frequently swears in English or says things like "You've gotta be kidding me!" or "Please kill me" when agitated (upon hearing the latter phrase, Bykov says that he doesn't know what it means, but it sounds good). One episode involved the hospital administrator being sent to an international medical conference in London, so she enlists Richards's help in improving her English, which turns out to be so horrible that he feels physically sick to listen.

* The Italian GameShow ''[[AvantiUnAltro Avanti un Altro!]]'' has a category called the "English Lesson," where all of the questions are asked in English.

* The [[TooGoodtoLast short-lived]] series ''DoctorDoctor'' had an episode in which a Japanese television crew did a [[{{Mockumentary}} documentary]] within the hospital. At the end of the shoot, they left several Japanese gifts for the hospital staff, including a t-shirt that said "DOCTORS ARE BIG SEX."

* In an episode of ''NewsRadio'', Jimmy James' book "Jimmy James: Capitalist Lion Tamer" becomes popular in Japan, so for some reason he has the Japanese version translated back into English... and it ends up pure GratuitousEnglish. The title becomes "Jimmy James: Macho Business Donkey Wrestler", and the book now features lines like "Glorious sunset of my heart was fading. Soon the super karate monkey death car would park in my space. But Jimmy has fancy plans, and pants to match."

** Both of these examples can be seen in the ''PowerRangers'' versions. The [[PowerRangersInSpace Space]] morph is identical to the Mega morph but for "Morphing complete" replacing "Mega[Color] Ready," and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion can be seen in [[PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed]] when the Megazord is fighting Queen Bansheera when she visits the human world in her full form for the first time.

* Gutiérrez, a character in Colombian telenovela ''YoSoyBettyLaFea'', does this a lot.

** Ironically, the page image is Takeru/Shinken Red from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger,'' a sentai series with a samurai theme that tries very hard to convince the kiddies that kanji really is cool. (A lot of younger Japanese citizens, by this point, don't know kanji, preferring the phonetic alphabet to the fancy one.) It's also one of few series to keep the attack names in Japanese. Yet Takeru seems to own few shirts that aren't covered with Engrish.

*** Kotoha has shirts with english on them too.

** The English bits added to the new version of Let's Go, Rider Kick from the ''OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders!'' take it UpToEleven. "Rider Kick at the dark and black force! Rider Jump to the next generation! Rider Chop with the fighting in the truth! Let's go the hero, Kamen Rider!"

** And, of course, ''KamenRider555'' has...Psyga! There was no real reason for him to say all his lines in English, and strangely, nobody had trouble understanding him.

** Some of the character songs are insane. "Get the Memory! Fight the scary!" "The bullet is running!" ItGetsWorse.

*** One thing that is generally used across all seasons, it seems they use the English words for their Ranger colors more than the Japanese ones. Like in [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger the current season,]] they're [=GokaiRed=], [=GokaiBlue=], [=GokaiYellow=], [=GokaiGreen=], and [=GokaiPink=], with their SixthRanger [=GokaiSilver=]. Even in some of the older series, where the Ranger designations aren't ''always'' colors, they are in English ([[JakqDengekitai Spade Ace]], [[TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan Vul Shark]], [[DengekiSentaiChangeman Change Phoenix]], and so forth, though exceptions exist.)

** "What did you mean when you wrote, bad clown making like super American car racers, I would make them sweat, war war?"

** During the transformation sequences in ''DenjiSentaiMegaranger'', English words scroll across the screen, ostensibly listing systems activation and computer jargon. It is, in fact, completely random words seemingly picked out of a dictionary-dartboard hybrid. Something about the "puppy canoe of hope".