{"id":39556,"date":"2016-03-25T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=39556"},"modified":"2016-03-25T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:54:51","slug":"wit-life-299-portlandias-noodle-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/25\/wit-life-299-portlandias-noodle-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #299: Portlandia’s Noodle Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIT Life <\/strong><\/em><\/a>is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/a> (Kumamo<\/a>to-ken<\/a> CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with h<\/strong><\/em>er<\/strong><\/em>\"\" own obse<\/strong><\/em>rv<\/strong><\/em>atio<\/strong><\/em>ns.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Last night IFC’s Portlandia Season 6 finale featured a tsukemen ramen monster taking over the town, with potentially disastrous results.\u00a0 This monster was brought to life when leftover tsukemen noodles, intended to be just dipped and not soaked, were dunked into their broth due to a lack of refrigerator space.<\/p>\n

At a meeting deconstructing what happened, the Mayor (Kyle MacLachlan) recognizes that it’s as if the noodles were “baptized against their will.”\u00a0 They then realize that the only solution is to dip the noodles again to restore them to their original form, and one proposal is filling a city pool with ramen broth for this purpose.\u00a0 I found the episode’s overall handling humorous, though the Asian cliches felt a bit hackneyed.\u00a0 In conjunction with the episode, IFC is offering the chance to win 10 years worth of ramen<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations. Last night IFC’s Portlandia Season 6 finale featured a tsukemen ramen monster taking over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t