Ok, I grew up in western culture and along side of that came watching the simpsons, southpark, ren and stimpy, etc ---- all toilet humor

my parent didn't let me watch these and im pretty happy that they didn't because you do get brainwashed (though sometimes i watch anyways!)

Toilet humor is funny indeed but it seems to be getting really toilety these days if you get my drift, and at some points lame.

In Viet Nam the humor is more innocent. There's the high end humor with adults and poetry (you know - that tough vocabulary dissin and stuff), and theres also humor for kids, etc..

Thang bom was hilarious and enjoyable because it's what i consider younger generation humor but there is effort placed into the comic relief. Remember this movie was prewar times so its old and you should keep in mind that comparing to the movies of today can be misleading in some aspects.

Anyways i dont remeber all of it but one parts goes as so:

Thang Bom (Tha(`ng Bo+m) is the youngest in the family. At this particular scene he lives with his father and grandfather in a small house with a fence around it. The tradtition of the Bom family is that absolutely everyone is horribly stupid - no questions asked.

So one day Bom is carrying this long bamboo stick home along the road and comes to the front gate of his house. There a fence around the house and the gate is an open type (no door) with poles on the side and a little mini roof on top. Ummm.. sorta like this

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gate ^


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babmboo^

The bamboo stick is longer than the width of the door so you need to poke it through if you wanna get in. Bom doesn't do this (cause he's stupid) but instead he just slams himself with the bamboo horizontially trying to squeeze through the gate. He does it a few times and notices he can't get through. His father is sitting in the distance watching and nodding his head in disagreement as to how stupid his son is but lets his son continue in hopes of success. Next Bom finds a solution - he's gonna chops the ends off of the stick to make it fit (duh - there goes his nice long bamboo!). But again, since he's stupid he chops it like so:

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he cuts it here^


resulting in:
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new bamboo^

So with this shortened bamboo - he shoves himself into the gate again - but it's still too long. So he cuts the other side off like so:

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^he cuts it here

resulting in:
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new bamboo^

And continues to shove it in, but still too long! So father is completely tired of this nonsense and decides to come teach his son a lesson. This is also when grandpa comes out to sit off somewhere in the distance. Father comes out scolding something along the lines, "how dumb you are, you must use your head more intelligently - let me show you how it should be done". So all seems going uphill - but wait father is apparently a dummy too and he sticks his head under Boms legs and gives bomb a boost onto his shoulders to throw the bamboo over the gate onto the other side (hahaha - im sorry if its not funny, but you gotta see it yourself). So they made it across the fence and grandpa is clapping his hands cheering them on what a smart son and grandson he has!

So the next thing father notices is that there are too many gourd vines (ba^`u - like squash as in vegetable) to bring the bamboo closer to the house. So father the recommends to slash down a path. So father and son Bom go on a hack and slash craze to make way for the bamboo stick. They make it after some hard work and reach the front area of the house. There grandpa cheers them on and father decides to celebrate on what a successful day they've had. So they pull out the tea and goodies. After a minute or so, Bom asks father what was bamboo for cause he forgot. Father replies that the bamboo was to make a frame for the gourd vines to climb!!!! So bom sits there a little while crunching his math and then says - but we just chopped down the vines. Father interjects and says don't worry about it now, just celebrate first and worry about that after!

--------- I laughed so hard when watching this that my jaw muscles went numb and it hurt - man it was funny - sorry my story is no where near the reality of watchin the real thing - but im here to share what i can. There are more parts to that movie like when he gets a wife and looks for a job, but Ill post just this for now.

Hope you enjoyed!

lol, they're sooo dumb!!.. that's hilarious !!!.. i would die if i watch that.

sorry about the diagrams - they came out weird when they got posted

I have this movie at home, the funny part is the gate. LOL.

And when the dad hits the son, the grandpa says "mày đánh thằng cháu tao, tao treo cổ thằng bố mày," and he tries to hang himself.


LOL.

what are you guys talking about?

It's an old Vietnamese movie about Vietnamese society in the old days. It's really funny because the dude in the movie is so bờm. LOL.

I know the story about Thang Bom, but unaware that there are such movie about it. Where and when was it made?

^ it was sold more in VN so i guess it's made in VN..


awwwwwww!!

Oh yess - how could I forget that part:

translated for any of you who need it:


- The part where father hits his son Bom saying he's a dummy and then grandpa comes in and scolds father:

grandpa: If you hit my grandson then I'll hang you father (which is grandpa himself)

so he steps up in a chair with his wobbly posture of an old man and trys to hang himself - hahaha

Anyways if Dai Viet has this movies he pretty good at finding stuff.

When I went back to VN this movie was available to the public because its so old and was kept in the national archives. I had connections ;-) so i got a copy. I would upload it - but I don't have the computer power to do so.

There's also the part where he trys to land a job as a "Thay Do/Thay Bua" (a doctor that uses talismans. Maybe Dai Viet remembers a bit more. Anyways Bom sitting in this little quan tra (teahouse or some place) and people see him as a doctor. By the way he got this job because his wife's father is rich and well respected. His wife is pretty and intelligent too! So some people come to him and I think this couple is having trouble having children and they desparately ask doctor Bom to help out. So (since Bom is stupid) he resisits at first but does write down a talisman (magical paper) that we don't see what is being written - and tells the lady of the couple to eat the talisman (hehe). So the couple goes away - we'll hear from them later. The next person comes is someone who's having stomach problems and the related poo-poo problems too. Doctor Bom gives this person a talisman also and he leaves - oh and he tells the person to eat the paper too (heh). Times pass and the forst couple comes back and thanks Doctor Bom whole heartly that they are able to have a child. So 1 point for Doctor Bom. Next comes the constipated person and he's furious saying he's gotten worse and chases after Bom. Bom runs away and bumps into his wife and they both get out of the ay. Then his wife asks "what did you write that got you screwed results" (that's my version - not a real quote!). So Bom explains (since he's no real doctor - just pretending to fill the shoes of this job) that he didn't write anything! He instead drew a picture of a monster for the lady so when she swallowed the sheet, the monster would scare the baby out of the mother! Also he drew a dog for the constipated guy so that when the paper was swallowed the dog would eat all the poo!

Hahaha

Yup, I remember that part vn1234.

And another part is when Bom was walking along a river and saw these ladies were bathing in the river, he came up and said, "Bờm chào mấy cô ạ." LOL. And then he got chased by those angry girls to this village.

In the village, he saw this husband was trying to errhh... you know? Making babies with his wife, but his wife is so tired of it (she has about 8 kids already). So the wife ran from him around the house. Bom thought that man was harrasing her, so he went in the house and tried to protect her while she was on the bed. LOL

His wife is really intelligent, she gave him that poem "trên trời có đám mây xanh, ở giửa mây trắng chung quanh mây vàng" or something like that (it's in the other topic).

Bom's society also reflects the corrupt government of the current day.

Bom is so funny. I

oh.. that's so funny!!.. Bờm chào mấy cô ạ... he's so dumb.. lol

LOL. I think he said "Bờm chào các cô ạ."

Do you know the main actor? He's Đỗ HỒng Quân. Hes also a musician. So funny!
And his uncle is Trịnh Thịnh, an old and knowledable Việt Namese actor.I like them all.

TherE are a song about thang bom... i try to find it....n post it up...

Thằng Bờm có cái quạt mo,
Có ông phú họ cho một con trâu...

Blah blah blah... la la la la...


LOL.

Thằng bờm có cái quạt mo
Phú ông xin đổi ba bò chín trâu
Bờm rằng bờm chẳng lấy trâu
Phú ông xin đổi ao sâu cá mè
Bờm rằng bờm chẳng lấy mè
Phú ông xin đổi một bè gỗ lim
Bờm rằng bờm chảng lấy lim...

Tự nhiên quên mất tiêu,

Yeah = he would never exchange his stinkin' ripped grass fan for heaps of gold and buffalos - heh!

Any of you read the "Trang Ti" comic books series - I got numers 1 - 30 something and missing few

Its humorous and super smart too.

In one issue thre kids (Trang Ti - main character - he's actually Trang Quynh as a kid, Ca Meo - a snotty rich kid, Suu Eo - a village girl, and a Map - a chubby boy) go to school with the cheapest teacher in town (he's the cheapest guy in the village) and they learn about not wasting stuff. So the teacher asks his students to make clothing out of leaves and he will mark them on the aspects of not wasting materials. Suu Eo goes first and makes royal clothing with a cape and crests and the works - she fails. Ca Meo goes a little less - he fails. Trang Ti makes something that hits the spot - like a hawaiian grass skirt - but he fails. Map goes and uses only 1 leaf to cover his "cu" and he passes!! heh its good stuff.

I love Viet humor!

Bờm Có Quạt Mo
Nguyễn Nghị

Hôm qua ra đứng vườn sau
gặp cô láng giềng tôi đùa đôi câu
Ðùa rằng
“Bờm có quạt mo
mai đem cau trầu xin nàng làm dâu !”
Và đùa rằng
“Bờm có đàn trâu
mai đem cau trầu qua nhà cưới em !”

Làm cô em gái thẹn thò
Bờm ơi, giữ lấy quạt mo
Bờm ơi, giữ lấy quạt mo
Bờm ơi, giữ lấy quạt mo
Bờm ơi, giữ lấy đàn trâu
Bờm ơi, giữ lấy đàn trâu
Là la la lá la la
Là la la lá la la
Là la la lá la la
Là la la lá là la

Mo cau làm cái quạt mo
Trầu cau anh đến xin nàng làm dâu
Mai anh dẫn đến đàn trâu
Trâu anh xin đổi, nàng dâu anh cầm

Hôm sau ra đứng vườn sau
gặp cô láng giềng tôi nhìn bâng khuâng
Nhìn nàng, thẹn chín tầng mây
Tình trong ra ngoài như chàng trâu ngoan
Mà nàng cười
Bờm tính tình vui
Tình trong ra ngoài giống chàng tân lang

Và cô em gái thẹn thò
Bờm cho em lấy quạt mo
Bờm cho em lấy quạt mo
Bờm cho em lấy quạt mo
Bờm ơi! em lấy quạt mo
Bờm ơi! em lấy quạt mo
Là la la lá la la
Là la la lá la la

Bờm cho em lấy quạt mo
Ðể em che nắng che mưa
Ðể em che nắng che mưa
Bờm ơi! Em lấy quạt mo
Là la la lá la la
Là la la lá la la

Và cô em gái thẹn thò
Bờm cho em giữ đàn trâu
Bờm ơi! Em giữ đàn trâu
Bờm ơi! Em giữ đàn trâu
Ðể ta nên sắc nên duyên
Là la la lá la la

Yes I like it very much. It's a comic. I buy it everweek and read with my brother.

Cool - you're like living in VN!!! So lucky

I love the first book and how Trang Ti got punched as a god being to loose his teeth. Later as a human baby he still has his teeth incomplete.

What number are you on now?

I have to wait for friends and family to go back to VN in order for me to get new books and stuff.

Hm,, let me see ! Ah, 56. Haha ... I expect it everyday. Poor You !Do u Know about The author? I have a good news for u , "Than Dong Dat Viet " has been translated into English !

Really - but of course the English one's will never be as good as the Viet one's

Whoa 56 already

I got Than Dong Dat Viet as a gift - I don't really know what books to ask from people going back to VN, so I was lucky my friends braught me "Trang Ti" - he da man!