{"id":243593,"date":"2020-01-30T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243593"},"modified":"2020-01-30T23:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T04:58:13","slug":"superstore-characters-exchange-filipino-swear-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/30\/superstore-characters-exchange-filipino-swear-words\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Superstore&#8217; characters exchange Filipino swear words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably something satisfying in hearing characters deliver our everyday curses in the most <em>malutong<\/em> way, knowing that sometimes it\u2019s these <em>bad words<\/em> that can just embody the stress we feel (and maybe because it isn\u2019t censored by television laws). Bonus points if it\u2019s done in a foreign land. Oh and maybe for a television show too, with the <em>crisp<\/em> still preserved.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why this clip in the US sitcom \u201cSuperstore\u201d is a big hit for netizens when two characters just started arguing with Filipino swear words flowering their mouths.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Mateo Liwanag (played by Fil-Am actor Nico Santos) and Marcus White (portrayed by Jon Barinholtz), workers at the fictional Missouri store <em>Cloud 9<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth season\u2019s 13<sup>th<\/sup> episode entitled \u201cFavoritism,\u201d amidst the English-speaking community, Mateo blurted out \u201c<em>Tarant*** ka talaga!<\/em>\u201d at Marcus during a work evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Now the audience may already be in shock, but it soon escalates when Marcus gasped and started responding with, \u201c<em>Narinig ko \u2018yon, gag*!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mateo and Marcus arguing in Tagalog is everything we never knew we needed.<\/p>\n<p>Stream last night&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Superstore?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Superstore<\/a> now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rvdakMwMTU\">https:\/\/t.co\/rvdakMwMTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8DHoqiRqyh\">pic.twitter.com\/8DHoqiRqyh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Superstore (@NBCSuperstore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSuperstore\/status\/1220783087044329472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That didn\u2019t stop yet when Marcus continued, \u201c<em>Kapal ng mukha mo, alam kong ikaw kumuha ng gamit ko, tumigil ka na!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This scene earned nods and laughter from several Filipinos and the show\u2019s Twitter even dubbed it as \u201ceverything we never knew we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Superstore<\/em> follows the story of Cloud 9\u2019s store number 1217 employees. Stars include America Ferrera, Lauren Ash, Colton Dunn, Nichole Boom,\u00a0 Mark McKinney, and Kaliko Kauahi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is probably something satisfying in hearing characters deliver our everyday curses in the most malutong way, knowing that sometimes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":243609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243617,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243593\/revisions\/243617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}