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Bad Subtitle Special: Week 9

The time has come yet again to comb through Google’s automated captions for another week of Strange Paradise and take the piss out of the most inaccurate or otherwise hilarious mistranscriptions of the dialogue. These aren’t all the incorrectly-transcribed lines, only the ones that I find the funniest or most notable.

In Episode 42, subtitle!Holly continues her bizarre, possibly acid-induced philosophizing, this time about the Rabbit of Evil:

Holly thinks the rabbit is the rabbit is she.

Later, in the same scene...

Reminds me of how Jean Paul reminded many cast and crew members of Jerry Layton, whom they nicknamed "Mickey Mouse."

Another of those odd moments where the actor successfully (IMO) covers up their Canadian accent and yet the subtitles transcribe their dialogue as though the character had one.

From Episode 43:

What is it with monitor room scenes and horny voices from the beyond?

From Episode 44:

I swear, the subtitles have never got the Conjure Man’s name/title right. As for this subtitle, I’ll leave the meaning of “pleasure contraband” up to your imagination.

This is probably the closest they ever got.

From Episode 45:

As a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, this one amused and surprised me. I imagine that, in an ASOIAF AU, Raxl would have little use for the Faith of the Seven. With her dramatics and her use of magic and effigies--not to mention her tendency towards black-and-white thinking--she would be a far better fit for the cult of R'hllor.