History Main / HongKongDub

--> "Everyone from UsefulNotes/HongKong speaks like this."

* From December 2000 until Taka's release, Kaientai's gimmick in the then-[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] was that the team were always Hong Kong Dubbed. And this wasn't just for the folks at home, either; they were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61A1dK9GXnI somehow dubbed in real-time via the arena's sound system.]] Don't ask how that was supposed to work; [[RuleOfFunny it was funny]]. Taka Michinoku would usually rant about how 'eeevil' they are (with the voice of Bruce Prichard) while Funaki would invariably say only one word: indeed.

* For a good amount of time, Kaientai's gimmick in the then-[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] was that they were always Hong Kong Dubbed. And this wasn't just for the folks at home, either; they were [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61A1dK9GXnI somehow dubbed in real-time via the arena's sound system.]] Don't ask how that was supposed to work; [[RuleOfFunny it was funny]].

** Observed in Rita Repulsa in the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. This was even preserved in the movie, where they actually could have avoided it, for the {{Camp}} value.

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* One of Horton’s ImagineSpots in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' is done in an {{Animesque}} style, with terribly translated English dubbing and mouth movements that don’t match up to the voices.

* The English dub of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', commissioned directly by the Japanese distributor and recorded at a barely-known studio in the UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} area, often has lip movements not matching the dialogue as well as they probably should. Not to explain that the ''original Japanese version'' of ''WebAnimation/LetsGoTamagotchi'' had this for one point during episode 11.

* In the first of the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies, Larvelle Jones (played by Michael Winslow, a.k.a. the guy who does the funny sounds) puts on a headband and flaps his mouth in imitation of this to intimidate some thugs.

* The Australian comedy film ''Hercules Returns'' is about a trio of cinema owners who have to hurriedly dub the film ''Samson and His Mighty Challenge'' during the red carpet premiere: this framing device takes up about 15 minutes of the film, with the remaining 65 given over to seeing their result.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'', during [[MundaneMadeAwesome the duel of the shiny objects]].
* [[RuleOfThree Parodied]] in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' with The Tickler, appearing in the episode "Karate Island".

* [[http://youtu.be/rTn-f__bDaU Parodied]] in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "Tofu-Town Showdown".

* Parodied in some of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s SomethingCompletelyDifferent episodes where the style shifts to anime parody.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
** Parodied in the episode "Popcorn Pandemonium" with the characters in a kung-fu film.
** “A Sucker for the Suck-O-Magic” also parodies this in a sequence referencing ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', where a bug that is clearly screaming is badly dubbed over by a voice saying that they must all flee the city from “Suck-O-Zilla”.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' does this when adapting a 60s ''Manga/{{Batman}}'' manga story, which is in the style of old, clumsily dubbed broadcasts of ''Anime/AstroBoy''. It's more subtle than most deliberate examples, but the dialogue spoken clearly doesn't match the lip flaps. There's also a bit where Robin says something very hurriedly, as if his line was too long to fit in the existing footage without ''Anime/SpeedRacer''-esque fast-talking. Bat-Mite implies that the dialogue was [[{{Bowdlerise}} hastily rewritten]] to [[NobodyDies conceal the fact that the main villain died]].

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Popcorn Pandemonium" with the characters in a kung-fu film.

* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'':
** Parodied by using advanced {{greenscreen}}ing technology to insert Creator/SteveOedekerk into scenes from a 1970 kung-fu movie... then replaced all the characters' lines with new ones. In silly voices. [[TalkingToHimself All by Steve Oedekerk.]] [[FillingTheSilence The movie even turned a scene with almost no dialog into a fight involving]] ''[[RuleOfFunny ventriloquists]]'':
--->'''Students:''' ''[singing, their mouths both shut the entire time]'' We are both ventriloquists, ventriloquists, ventriloquists, we are both ventriloquists and we practice every day.\\
'''Student 1:''' He carries the baskets.\\
'''Student 2:''' He carries the paper roll.\\
'''Students:''' And we don't have cysts. But one thing is for sure my friends, we are ventrilo--\\
'''[[BigBad Betty]]:''' ''[bursts in with goons and smirks]'' Ventriloquists, huh?\\
''[stuff happens and Betty starts beating the ventriloquists up]''\\
''[a voice comes from somewhere else]''\\
'''Voice:''' I'm the Chosen One, outside the wall!\\
'''Betty:''' Your mouth tricks will not work on me, ventriloquists!
** ''Kung Pow'' even went so far as to dub ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8E22ZLR3k a dog barking]]''. We see the dog bark, then it lies down on the ground, then we finally hear the bark.
** There was also when Steve grabs hold of Ling and screams at her,[[note]] "I'M SOMEBODY'S MOMMY!!", to be more specific,[[/note]] while his dub voice calmly says "I implore you to reconsider."
** As well as a good chunk of Ling's mouth flaps being translated as "WEOOWEOOWEOOWEOOWEOO"

-->'''Students:''' ''[singing, their mouths both shut the entire time]'' We are both ventriloquists, ventriloquists, ventriloquists, we are both ventriloquists and we practice every day.\\

** ''Kung Pow'' even went so far as to dub ''a dog barking''. No, really. The dog visibly barked, and only after it had sat down and laid its head on the ground was the bark actually heard.

* In the Hungarian dub of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the voice actors have to do ''a lot'' of ad-libbing, as if there was no dubbing director or any guidelines.

* All of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies from ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'' onward (except ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' and ''Film/Godzilla2000'') were released in America with crude "international" or "export" dubs commissioned by Creator/{{Toho}} (the studio producing the films) and actually created by Omni Productions in Hong Kong. The mismatched lip movement is at times painful to watch, and the acting and writing is pretty awful too. Some of the pre-''Gigan'' films have [[DuelingDubes both international dubs and superior dubs produced in the US]], but due to Toho's preference for the dubs they commissioned themselves, the American dubs having been getting harder to find in recent decades except for cases where there is no international alternative. Some of the international dubs are well-liked for their [[NarmCharm delightful silliness]] but others are maligned for just being flat-out awful.

* All of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies from ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'' onward (except ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'' and ''Film/Godzilla2000'') were released in America with crude dubs commissioned by Creator/{{Toho}} (the studio producing the films) and actually created by Omni Productions in Hong Kong. The mismatched lip movement is at times painful to watch, and the acting and writing is pretty awful too. Some of the pre-Gigan films have been released this way on DVD now by Sony, who didn't want to go to the extra trouble of getting rights to the original American dubs from God-knows-what company owned them, so opted to buy Creator/{{Toho}}'s dubs. (Luckily, the original Japanese audio was included on most of their discs, albeit mostly with dubtitles.) However, half the fun of the shows for a lot of people is the [[NarmCharm silliness of the dubs]].

->''"I wonder why Japanese people keep moving their mouths when they're through talking."''

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' was known for little lip sync whatsoever, even in the original Japanese. Starting with ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', later games attempted to avoid this by syncing the mouth movements to the English dialogue. The side effect is that the Japanese version greatly suffers.
** Back with a vengeance in ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Sonic '06]]'', which not coincidentally is the last Sonic game where the English dialogue is ''obviously'' a dub. Especially noticeable whenever the human characters are speaking. Of course, [[ObviousBeta Sonic '06 has a certain reputation]].

* The segment, A Fistful of Yen, from ''Film/KentuckyFriedMovie''.