Fred Savage's Sweet Load

[ccovell]

http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/misc/WizardJPsmsm.jpg

Larger picture and info here: http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secrets9.html#sweetload

A masterpiece, now in Japan. Discuss.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

I've always wanted to participate in a thread titled this. Although I'd venture to say it's more tangy than sweet. Eat more pineapple Fred!

[CelticJobber]

This thread title brought some disturbing images to mind...

[The 1 2 P]

This thread title brought some disturbing images to mind...

I'm glad I'm not the only one:yipes:

[skaar]

Quality.

[slip81]

where can i get his sweet load, or does jenny lewis already have it?

[Tupin]

Why even release this in Japan?

And that title? It's even worse than Germany's Joystick Heroes.

[Matt-El]

I love Fred Savage's Sweet Load. It feels so good coming out of my mouth.

[Ed Oscuro]

A masterpiece, now in Japan.
For how many years? That spine is faded to hell.

@ the fun references: NO. THANKS. Hey is that Travolta?

Great info on that page though, the strips are great and the Arthur / Goemon thing blew my mind. Well, sorta.

[wataru330]

wow Chris, this takes me back. followed the link to your old page and nostalgia waved over me like crazy...your page and superfami.com were places i visited often, along time ago.

glad to see you are still in Japan, still on the web, and happy in Tokyo. you and the gal ever need a nice date on the next holiday: check out Jiyugaoka if you haven't already. fun neighborhood to trip around, grab a bite to eat, and just chill.

Cheers!

[Ed Oscuro]

you and the gal ever need a nice date on the next holiday
Yes. Anything that stops the horrible Japanese-to-romaji puns. ROFL

[Li Wang]

Awesome. I assume it's dubbed?

[ccovell]

Nope. Japanese subtitles. Old movies given cursory VHS releases will never get the expensive voice-over treatment.

[betamax001]

I liked the comic on that page about the Lynx. That was funny!

"heh Sweet Load is that a porno or a kids movie?"

[XYXZYZ]

私は、パワーグローブの愛...
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/nes/wizard-lucas.jpg

非常に悪いです！

[Superman]

When I saw the title, I actually wasn't thinking of any puns (this time). I thought it was a description of his huge game collection or a big game purchase he made recently.

[Sonicwolf]

私は、パワーグローブの愛...
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/nes/wizard-lucas.jpg

非常に悪いです！

I love the Power Glove... it's so bad

[Icarus Moonsight]

How do you get 'Sweet Load' from 'The Wizard'? The translation equilibrium method? Epic thread title. LOL

The search for equilibrium EDIT:

Eng: The Wizard
Jpn: 魔法使い
Eng: Magical using
Jpn: 魔法の使用
Eng: Use of magic
Jpn: マジックの使用
Eng: Use of magic - equilibrium.

Alright, now I'm even more confused...

[Sonicwolf]

The title of this thread is kind of.. bad thoughts.

[mobiusclimber]

How do you get 'Sweet Load' from 'The Wizard'? The translation equilibrium method? Epic thread title. LOL

The search for equilibrium EDIT:

Eng: The Wizard
Jpn: 魔法使い
Eng: Magical using
Jpn: 魔法の使用
Eng: Use of magic
Jpn: マジックの使用
Eng: Use of magic - equilibrium.

Alright, now I'm even more confused...

You didn't read the article? It's "Sweet Road," but can be read as "Sweet Load" because of the L/R sound in Japanese. They basically changed the title to something that had more meaning to the movie.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Ah, maybe I should have used an engrish-japanese translation then. LOL
No didn't read the article. I suffered a minor trauma just from the thread title. :p

I'm sure some were hoping it had something to do with Winnie from the Wonder Years. :o

[Push Upstairs]

"Winnie" turned out to be a math genius.

http://eplteen.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/math-doesnt-suck.jpg

[thom_m]

"Fred Savage's Sweet Load", "Math doesn't suck"...lots of absurd movie titles here today, huh?
Some valuable considerations:

aI see the power glove guy posing like that, think of "Fred Savage's Sweet Load", and it's just i,possible not to make conclusions. Your Power Glove will be even worse after that, my friend!

b)Winnie is now hot, brainy, and I'd sure hit that (given the assumption that she'd allow me, which is highly unlikely). But she's still no match for Madeline, Kevin, you dumbass.

[Push Upstairs]

That is actually the title of a book she wrote.

[kupomogli]

So she's not just a math genius then? She's talented in the art of literature as well.

Even though her face isn't really hot anymore, I'd still hit it though. It looks like shes got a big head and a small body on that book cover too. Maybe the way her head is tilted.

[ccovell]

The top 11/12ths of that book look really useful for teens... So why is it that the bottom 1/12th reads like it's written for airheads and morons?

[thom_m]

Oh, it's a book, my bad. That cover's design looks a lot like a poster, though. And the title is still absurd! :)


So she's not just a math genius then? She's talented in the art of literature as well.

Even though her face isn't really hot anymore, I'd still hit it though. It looks like shes got a big head and a small body on that book cover too. Maybe the way her head is tilted.

Actually, I thought her face look better now - at least, taking it form the book cover. But I still think that she was the ugliest amd most annoying of Kevin's girlfriends. Even so, depending on how you interpret the series finale, she was the only one who ever got in contact with Fred Savage's...no, damn it, I won't actually WRITE that!!

[NE146]

Well maybe it'll come out of his "big banana".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkUsHqEUMg#t=42s

And yes, that is Fred Savage if you didnt already know he voices Oswald.

[thom_m]

Well maybe it'll come out of his "big banana".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmkUsHqEUMg#t=42s

And yes, that is Fred Savage if you didnt already know he voices Oswald.

LOL The little kid at the end is just priceless! "I know!!"

And, of course, Winnie is around, going along with Fred "Oswald" Savage and his big banana...

[Icarus Moonsight]

I'm sure some were hoping it had something to do with Winnie from the Wonder Years. :o

HA! I told you so! LOL

[Baloo]

The top 11/12ths of that book look really useful for teens... So why is it that the bottom 1/12th reads like it's written for airheads and morons?

Yeah, it looks more like a magazine cover wit "Do you still have a crush on him" and "HOROSCOPE INSIDE!"

Yeah, because I definitely go reading books about math to find out horoscopes (which are garbage in the first place).

[ClassicGameTrader]

Winnie Cooper has a bangin' body...damn!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/7933117_d47f616fd3.jpg?v=0
"I can feel my dick"


"Winnie" turned out to be a math genius.

http://eplteen.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/math-doesnt-suck.jpg

[Sonicwolf]

This thread is really getting wierd.

[Push Upstairs]

Yeah, it looks more like a magazine cover wit "Do you still have a crush on him" and "HOROSCOPE INSIDE!"

Yeah, because I definitely go reading books about math to find out horoscopes (which are garbage in the first place).

I get that she made the book to appeal to pre-teen girls, and I don't recall middle school girls being 100% serious about math...but whatever.

All I know (if Wikipedia is not failing me) is that whatever math she wrote about in the book is probably stuff she could do in her sleep.

[BloodyThumb]

California....California....sweet load of memories is what this is!!

[Volcanon]

To be perfect fair, "roodo" could be:
Road
Lord

Going by the cover art, "road" might be what it's actually referring.

[ccovell]

That's the point I raised in the link (http://www.disgruntleddesigner.com/chrisc/secrets9.html#sweetload) I included (I guess nobody followed it...)


This is a really curious release for several reasons: Like many English-language movies released in Japan, the completely sensible title of The Wizard has been changed into a nonsensical title, still in English, mind you, but written in Katakana. This classic of modern cinema is now called Sweet Road. Although, given the lack of L/R distinction in Japanese, the latter half of the title can also be read as either "Lord" or "Load". I prefer to read it as Sweet Load just because of the uncomfortable innuendo it conjures up.

Hence, Fred Savage's Sweet Load.

The other curious thing about this movie is that it was released to video (I don't think it ever hit the theatres) in Japan in November 1992, way too late for the "Nintendo" aspects (read: all) of the movie to have any meaning. Hell, even if it had come to Japan at the same time as the U.S., in late 1989, Japanese gamers would have all said to each other, "So friggin' what? We've all been playing Super Mario 3 for what, like a year now?"

It's not a pun per se, 'cause it's not written in English or Romaji anywhere on the video package, so Road, Load, and Lord are all possible interpretations of the title. Which is why when I did a Google search on the Japanese title, George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" kept popping up too.