In Toy story 2 (1999) When Al is about to hang up with the Japanese Toy museum buying Woody. He says “Don’t touch my mustache”. This is him mispronouncing. “どういたしまして” (Dōitashimashite) which means You’re Welcome in Japanese.

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image showing In Toy story 2 (1999) When Al is about to hang up with the Japanese Toy museum buying Woody. He says “Don’t touch my mustache”. This is him mispronouncing. “どういたしまして” (Dōitashimashite) which means You’re Welcome in Japanese.

Adlib29 on May 8th, 2019 at 10:10 UTC »

Toyota Story

Miki-Corkrei on May 8th, 2019 at 10:15 UTC »

I remember my half Japanese dad (I’m a quarter Japanese) would explain this joke every time I watched it and I always laughed really hard. Thanks for bringing back memories, OP :)

yellowzealot on May 8th, 2019 at 11:14 UTC »

This is also how they taught American GIs to interact with Japanese civilians after the war.