{"id":562,"date":"2006-08-14T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=562"},"modified":"2006-08-15T07:23:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T12:23:56","slug":"full-metal-washpan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Full Metal Washpan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Steven has a post<\/a> about a cliche anime gag that involves a commonly recurring washpan that bonks characters on the head.  I hope Steven will pardon me for poaching one of his screenshots.  He is an example from <em>Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve never seen:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/hmtlv_washpan.jpg\" title=\"Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This caught my eye because I&#8217;ve never seen it before.  When people talk about overused anime gags that I&#8217;ve never even seen <em>once<\/em>, it reminds of just how little anime I&#8217;ve seen!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of hours after reading that I sat down and watched <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/reviews\/FullMetalPanic.shtml\" title=\"Full Metal Panic\">Full Metal Panic<\/a>, Disc 4.  Well! <em>Lookie what we got here<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/fmp_washpan1.jpg\"\" title=\"Full Metal Panic\"\/><br \/><small>DONK!<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There it is! Same color. Same Size. Different show. Same washpan. I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;d just read Steven&#8217;s post, so I knew this was a running gag and not random wierdness.<\/p>\n<p>Kaname is bellyaching (again!) about the fact that instead of going to the beach they have come to an AS (giant robot) tournament.  Then Kaname&#8217;s friend Mizuki points out how it is her own fault she&#8217;s here. She <em>chose<\/em> to come.  The moment of realization hits her, and to drive the point home the joke washpan falls out of <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HyperspaceMallet\">hammerspace<\/a> and donks her on the head.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/fmp_washpan2.jpg\" title=\"Full Metal Panic\"\/><br \/><small>A second one! I didn&#8217;t see that coming!<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mizuki heaps shame onto crybaby Kaname, and the washpans continue to pile up. I like how it&#8217;s obvious that Kyouko (left) can see the washpans.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/fmp_washpan3.jpg\" title=\"Full Metal Panic\"\/><br \/><small>Okay, the joke is old.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Small wonder how the joke got worn out, really&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven has a post about a cliche anime gag that involves a commonly recurring washpan that bonks characters on the head. I hope Steven will pardon me for poaching one of his screenshots. He is an example from Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite, which I&#8217;ve never seen: This caught my eye because I&#8217;ve never seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}