"When you buy a franchise, you enter into a family" I'm reminded of a really good tweet. "if a job hire u on the spot and say welcome to the family you bout to encounter multiple human rights violations"

@CrusherX1000

Жыл бұрын

"...and this family gets abusive >:)"

@Primalxbeast

Жыл бұрын

What about Tomasino's? They're mafia themed. They probably get away with using the term, family.

@fogrepairshipakashi5834

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you just described Russian Foreign Policy there.

@Tsukiru

Жыл бұрын

@@Primalxbeast I think dedication to the bit would be excluded, personally.

@Primalxbeast

Жыл бұрын

@@Tsukiru I don't know, even the statue of a chef outside is missing a hand. I wonder what he did, they usually just cut off fingers.

As long as John Oliver has a contract, HBO's lawyers will have jobs.

@jessstapf426

Жыл бұрын

He’s a jobs creator!

@davidpeterson5647

Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see Jared's Diet Plan to try...

@whazzat8015

Жыл бұрын

No jury would ever convict him.

@RB-hj7qc

Жыл бұрын

I doubt Subway will sue HBO. They will lose and give Oliver more fodder for his show. Just like what happened with the coal guy.

@jschuler53

Жыл бұрын

@@whazzat8015 Because his defense is no one would take anything he says seriously. He's a comedian after all and this is a comedy show. Parody, satire, sarcasm puns are all protected speech. Uh Huh.

as a Korean this parody looks 100% accurate, like if it was made by real K-drama staffs

@sinbad6319

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I would watch this for shits and giggles

@juliebraden6911

Жыл бұрын

@@sinbad6319 bullshit. You would watch it because you love it and you would be all over social media about it and wear shirts and hoodies with the show logo and when it got cancelled, you would cry. Don't lie to us.

@mwadams1

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. A little humor is exactly what most K-drama needs, and I would watch years of something that can laugh at itself but also make you feel something.

@kenneth5355

Жыл бұрын

@@juliebraden6911 Well that's a bit rude innit

@KahlevN

Жыл бұрын

They especially nailed the tendency to in all Korean media have the female lead cuck the male lead for at least part of the story.

The funny thing is that the Subway plot line in Community is literally about the rampant spread of Subway and how they’re so intent on having a Subway at the school that they make a guy change his name to Subway and enroll him as a student and as the physical embodiment of the company.

@placeholderdoe

Жыл бұрын

When he said that I was like,”That’s an add!?!”

@zingzangspillip1

11 ай бұрын

@@placeholderdoe I always thought of that episode as more of a satire than product placement.

@jonathancharron7360

9 ай бұрын

They were also parodying mac and me with everyone dancing

@tijmen131

9 ай бұрын

@@placeholderdoe genius right, still getting paid and critisizing the company at the same time

@ybab-j

4 ай бұрын

classic dan harmon! pretend to make fun of something toxic while signal boosting and benefiting from it

You can tell the writers of the show actually watch Kdramas because this was so accurate, especially the acting of the villain

@marjanek1

Жыл бұрын

@@allnn2552 The acting might seem over the top but is never boring. There are so many Korean dramas that are just so much fun to (re)watch!

@Manganization

Жыл бұрын

Western series does that too. Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewifes come to mind.

@Lethgar_Smith

Жыл бұрын

@@allnn2552 I find all this rather fascinating.

@marjanek1

Жыл бұрын

@@Manganization I wouldn't put Ugly Betty aside Desperate housewives :D

@marjanek1

Жыл бұрын

@@allnn2552 Maybe a lot of them is. My beloved are Bridal mask, IRIS, My girlfriend is a Gumiho, Secret garden, Rooftop prince and also 3rd hospital and Equator man :) The "misogynistic" tone of Korean dramas is (for now) just cultural and regional trait. The ongoing theme is the rivalry between two brothers, who would guess what that allegory might be. I used to watch European dramas in the 90s on TV, but they were not in original language, so I didn't enjoy them quite enough. Are there some you would recommend from the recent time. Thank you :)

Never underestimate the lengths that John Oliver will go to for a joke. That ending segment was fantastic.

@monsieurdorgat6864

Жыл бұрын

That was one of the longer segments for the show, I think. Worth it lmao

@rudi_ghuliani

Жыл бұрын

A+ production value, too! When she pulled the meatball out of her pocket they had to cut because she broke! Too funny!

@applemauzel

Жыл бұрын

Personally, I totally thought the ending would involve the girl also buying a subway within the subway, then serve everyone meatballs.

@lil_tiggles

Жыл бұрын

I want a whole show written and produced 🤣

@Keviamaya

Жыл бұрын

It could be It's own show! Amazing :D

If the Korean lady had solved her lover dispute by opening _her own_ Subway franchise next to them think I would've died laughing. Thank you for not going all the way there.

@11SIMPLIFIED

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea

@EuroGuy85

Жыл бұрын

spite subway? like Larry David?

@hibiscusst523

Жыл бұрын

That would have been too perfect 😂

@hibiscusst523

Жыл бұрын

@@EuroGuy85 lol Mocha Joe

@thiruvetti

Жыл бұрын

@mhkpt - That would have been way better. I thought she was going to be the development agent in disguise.

I worked at a subway for a year. The owner of the shop was an amazing person. Gave small deals here and there that the company wouldn’t necessarily offer (think extra stuff on certain sandwiches he thought were bad deals). He also made sure every single employee had a job before we closed(I’ll get to that). I remember when the inspector would come down she’d proudly claim that we were the best subway in socal and she loved checking in on us. During the $5 footling I asked the owner “how do you afford to sell sandwiches at that price?” To which he responded “I’m wondering the same thing.” Poor dude had to close the whole shop a few months later and could barely afford to do so. I still have the order here sign as a memory of my first job

@placeholderdoe

9 ай бұрын

So sad

@4partmedia

6 ай бұрын

You got a "deal" on a fuckn sandwich here and there and you call that manager amazing? 😂😂😂

@Chrisko1492

6 ай бұрын

See, and that‘s why I don‘t have any sympathy for these people. Why did he not read the contract he signed? Why did he not use his brain? 90% of people who get fucked in this show‘s topics are dumb people, usually minorities. Sure, Subway & Co. are evil (it‘s the USA, after all), but if you have a functioning brain you can avoid most capitalistic traps. I just remembered the episode about Trump university and how people got scammed. Like…yeah??! It‘s fucking Trump, his whole stick is scamming people. Why should I feel bad for those single digit IQ retards?

@DutchKidRanger

4 ай бұрын

@@4partmediamaybe the full details were not expressed. The manager is likely a franchisee and promotional sales/giveaways are pennies out of their pocket, less for their families. They don't have to do promotions unless instructed, and they are under no obligation to put more stuff on the sandwiches, once again the franchisee earns less

@irondragonmaiden

2 ай бұрын

@@4partmediaHaving an owner who warns you the ship is going down and tries to make sure everyone gets a new job before the shop has to close IS a great manager. Most people would rather work you for the last penny.

Whenever John says "Our lawyers suggested..." you KNOW the funniest bit is coming right up.

@Barracius

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the best parts come after the magic words "and the reason I know that is..."

@TylerShacklefordDurden

Жыл бұрын

Their lawyers apparently also suggested he completely snub the city of Buffalo NY

@b1k2q34

Жыл бұрын

@@repentandbelieveinjesuschr5875 shut up

@lillimadsen3438

Жыл бұрын

Goddamnit WHY are you EVERYWHERE

@perec3674

Жыл бұрын

@@TylerShacklefordDurden how so?

Major props to the actors in that parody drama. They put way more emotion into those lines than anyone could have expected of them.

@funningames2243

Жыл бұрын

Someone calls you and you answer quite slowly,, Bacon mustachioed and cucumber eyes, Quan Nygat Pham and the sky of diaaamonds.

@jerryokazaki8626

Жыл бұрын

More emotion than any SNL Skit

@squee599

Жыл бұрын

The little trail of food crumbs across her face when he touched her with the gloves on absolutely killed me!

@TreyCapnerhurst

Жыл бұрын

The villain was perfect!

@andrew20146

Жыл бұрын

Some real sandwich artistry.

So, between this and the Multilevel Marketing episode, what I'm learning is "Never trust a company that says if you work for them you can be your own boss." Because that's not how being part of a company works.

@MuhammadKhan-py7md

Жыл бұрын

Summed up by the part 'if its not written in black and white, dont trust it'

@bon12121

Жыл бұрын

Have I got a business opportunity for you!

@ManoredRed

Жыл бұрын

The "catch" is precisely that you're not technically part of the company, they just lease some rights and equipment for you. However, you're subject to so many rules and regulations, that they may change at any time, that the "be your own boss" thing is indeed totally bullshit. The company decides everything and you just do very basic management at the location, like keeping it staffed and supplied, etc.

@Bootystank99659

Жыл бұрын

@@bon12121 NOOO

@famweefood7073

8 ай бұрын

@@bon12121ooooo tell me more!!!

Extra fun fact: that drama with the scene about the friend in a coma in the subway, the show is actually about a South Korean woman getting swept up in a tornado and dropped into North Korea. Eventually, the army men who find her become friends, the caption in love, and when she flees, they do too, and the men in that subway are also technically North Korean defectors learning that their captain woke up from a coma. We love k-dramas 😭😭😭

@ezelfrancisco1349

3 ай бұрын

Correction: It wasn’t the captain who was in a coma. It’s the captain’s love interest

@nyxxie-pooh

3 ай бұрын

@@ezelfrancisco1349 sorry yeah it was the main girl my bad, thanks, it's been a hot minute since I watched the show

@baileyj7968

2 ай бұрын

When you describe it like that, it sounds completely bonkers - and admittedly it is - but the whole time I was watching it I was so invested. I watched the whole show in a weekend and while I’m not gonna pull out some kind of cinematic analysis about the whole thing, I had fun 😂 totally forgot the subway product placement though

@ericamborsky3230

2 ай бұрын

That sounds frickin awesome.

@oreradovanovi5204

2 ай бұрын

Oh that was from "Crash landing on you"!!! One of the best.

I imagine HBOs lawyers love Last Week Tonight. Jon provides them a constant stream of job security.

@averageytber5547

Жыл бұрын

Their insurance provider too.

@SEAZNDragon

Жыл бұрын

If the SLAAP episode is any indication I would say yes

@tangentreverent4821

Жыл бұрын

One lawyer that I follow on here, who is not affiliated with HBO loved the SLAAP episode.

@andrefricke9998

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if they learned not to tell him what he can't say without him asking first. They are obviously giving him ideas 😁

@poocrafter2

Жыл бұрын

@@tangentreverent4821 You can just say Legal Eagle. It's obvious you're talking about Legal Eagle but you're trying to dodge around saying it.

The best and worst part is the fact that the acting and direction in that sandwich-centric Korean dramedy are both objectively excellent.

@jessicatschirhart3712

Жыл бұрын

The k drama actors are amazing!

@heathernks8

Жыл бұрын

I just read this comment a little further down. It had 1.4k likes. What is happening? It looks like a lot of comments have been repeated.

@sergiokaminotanjo

Жыл бұрын

l hope you are being sarcastic...

@LastRookie

Жыл бұрын

@@omi_god The best and worst part of the internet *is* how easily one can copy/paste someone else's comment to draw likes, but I still act dum and just retype it.

@DragonQuicksilver

Жыл бұрын

K dramas are generally excellent. Love them.

I LOVE how John is willing to put himself on blast by mentioning he was in a Subway commercial hahah! That was perfect.

@ratzae

Жыл бұрын

not a commercial, it was a Tv show.

@katharineeavan9705

Жыл бұрын

The fact that the Subway plotline itself is about the franchise forcing out small businesses and having extremely shady marketing tactics is... well, I'm not quite sure why Subway signed on to it. It doesn't exactly paint them in a good light and says absolutely nothing about their products from what I can remember. It's like if Nestle paid to be featured in a storyline where their company steals all the local water and sells it back to everyone while the characters working for them cackle maniacally over dangerously dehydrated children

@calebmcintosh1991

Жыл бұрын

@@bcatarino83 trust Community to take a Subway integration and portray Subway as the corporate baddies harming a small businesswoman.

@TheNinthGenerarion

Жыл бұрын

@@katharineeavan9705 same with the second subway episode where subway is buying the school. My favourite moment is the Dean in his office screaming “Why!”

@asecretone

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNinthGenerarion It's not the Dean's fault. He's a Level Seven Susceptible.

I applaud the restraint of the writers for not including a joke about a foot-long in a Subway romantic parody. 👍👍

@jessicabrown5058

2 ай бұрын

Had to include the vomit scene though 🙄 it's like every writer needs to find a reason to have some character violently throw up

Subway signing away the identity and rights of a human and enrolling them as a student named “Subway” in Community remains one of my favorite jokes in the entire show.

@calmbbaer

Жыл бұрын

Yep - saving Chuck and Community earned Subway a permanent place in my heart, along with their going along with that superficially anti-corporate plot on Community. Also the fact that, for many years in many places around the world, they were the only restaurant with a vegetarian option that was more than just fries (which themselves weren't even vegetarian at some chains). A loved one even talked about opening a franchise someday. Fortunately, she chose a safer life option - moving to Ukraine.

@ohkris10

Жыл бұрын

Also a huge fan of Chuck and Community!!

@wolftamer9

Жыл бұрын

Kind of insane that Subway's paid sponsorship resulted in several episodes where they were explicitly hyper-corporate villains. Like, did they make money off that exposure?

@Bombercules

Жыл бұрын

Seriously, John did them dirty by saying he forgot that arc, it was incredible.

@zenleeparadise

Жыл бұрын

@@calmbbaer this comment is insane and I love it so much I wish I could “like” it twice

I'd love them to do an episode on Nestle, but that'd get a whole season's worth of content probably

@starmaker75

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you think when comes to company that make shitty food and terrible policies, nestle would be talk about on show first

@MausMasher54

Жыл бұрын

And their water leases they need to have revoked....

@brandonayong5823

Жыл бұрын

" Where did you say you got the recipe from?" " My grandmother got it from her grandmother Nestlé Toulouse" "...... What was her name again?" " Nestlé Toulouse * "....... Do you mean Nestlé TOLL HOUSE " "........ Urg. You Americans always butcher the French language " If you know you know

@cherachapin3826

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonayong5823 🤣🤣🤣

@FatherTime89

Жыл бұрын

Well other people have made videos detailing the evil that Nestlé has done if you want something to show people who don't know how evil they are (or just watch yourself). Ordinary Things has a good one.

Thank you John for making my husband think I only watch K-dramas filmed in and in front of subways. Granted, K-dramas are pros at product placement in general- not just subway. They always leave me wanting some kind of coffee or noodles after an episode.

To be fair the community subway episodes were hilarious because they spent half the time ripping the piss out of it

@DTheCritical

5 ай бұрын

Which ironically can still result in people wanting it

I think my favorite recurring joke in this show is “our lawyers say I can’t say ________ … so I won’t”

@nasis18

Жыл бұрын

But he heavily implies otherwise 😆

@emberalexander7444

Жыл бұрын

I mean the most classic courtroom trick is to bring up something that the judge rules inadmissible but knowing damn well the jury heard it anyway, they know he gonna say it

@millennialmari2135

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant 😂

@johnnyjohnny2650

Жыл бұрын

@@emberalexander7444 Yeah, news shows, talkback shows, opinion pieces, do it all the time.

@onkelpappkov2666

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnyjohnny2650 _Do scientists truly believe the moon isn't made out of cheese? Well, they say it isn't... at least according to so called "observations". For legal reasons, I won't insist on the moon being made out of cheese but you damn well know that we're all aware of the truth._

Anyone who has worked in food service for more than a day knows that "You're family" translates to we're an abusive family that will gaslight you and abuse you.

@peachybuttercrunch4409

Жыл бұрын

over 25 years of experience in this field, has informed me that you are right. an abusive family it is. sexual harassment, cash, fraternasation, tribalism and so many other elements exist there. I used to be afraid to go in the fridge. it was an area without witnesses and one I couldn't avoid.

@3ggh3ad

Жыл бұрын

Major red flag when any business or employer says that

@ChromeDestiny

Жыл бұрын

My first job was at a cooperate fast food chain. I got 100% on a training quiz and wasted a day at a cooperate brainwashing/ team building thing in an extremely hot building and then they fired me for "Not getting through training fast enough." Also there was nepotism and other shady stuff going on with management. Looking back they actually did me a favour.

@XShrike0

Жыл бұрын

It is an attempt to trick people into giving the company more without having to pay the employee more.

@Gabe94dotcom

Жыл бұрын

Loooooool

Wtf, I had KZread on auto play on my TV and I wasn’t really paying attention to it. I looked up midway through the Korean romance drama/subway sketch and got REALLY into it, and now I’m disappointed there’s no more episodes

I was shocked to see Subway shops as a setting in so many K-dramas and Chinese dramas over the last few years. Placement has been huge in their Asia push.

@skunktotem8785

8 ай бұрын

I wonder if Herbalife will get in on the action (if they haven’t already).

The actors you got for the commercial truly deserve a standing ovation.

@shoutenry

Жыл бұрын

Actual Korean actors was great, all of them actually sounded like they spoke Korean. Which is absurdly rare in cinema, much less tv.

@giangkim8789

Жыл бұрын

ok

@jonesjermaine4387

Жыл бұрын

I feel ya bro, I had a transgender coworker we worked at a Tacobell and he/she would jizz in the sourcream called it "jizzzam" I suggested they call it "cumshot"

@kaliharper4698

Жыл бұрын

I would soooo watch a limited series of this. Maybe Subway: A “Love” Story

@hunterbidenparmesanimports5633

Жыл бұрын

Yeah John Oliver is funny but it’s all fake. He lies about so much just to make a joke , if he didn’t push it as real it would be funny but he’s moron.

The bread issue in Ireland was due to tax purposes. Bread is considered a staple food and has a lower tax rate compared to cake which is a luxury and has a higher rate. Subway bread was found to have much more sugar than bread normally does, so it was argued that it was cake. It's just bad bread.

@Ashesisemocutcutcut

Жыл бұрын

What is cake but sugary bread? (this is meant to be facetious, please stop taking this seriously!)

@bernardoserrano4439

Жыл бұрын

@@Ashesisemocutcutcut *me, adding a shit ton of sugar to a baguette*: BEHOLD, A CAKE

@alexkidd3d

Жыл бұрын

There was also a long court case to figure out whether Jaffa cakes were cakes or biscuits because of this tax issue

@briandowling8372

Жыл бұрын

@@alexkidd3d exactly. Very famous case!

@dmercury292

Жыл бұрын

Great, now go out and do your due diligence and see how good sugar is for your body. That’s why they add sugar and salt to food is to get your body addicted to both. Then look up the effects sugar and salt have on your body. Diabetes and high blood pressure are some of the effects.

The tuna thing was hilarious. The whole thing was that a DNA test was done on the tuna and didn't have tuna DNA. Nevermind the fact that it was pre-cooked tuna and the heat destroys the DNA. Once that point was made, the ones filing the lawsuit switched their argument to that the tuna wasn't sustainably sourced as claimed. At that point, it just proved they filed in hopes that Subway would settle and they could make a quick buck.

Jesus, that Hawaii Five-O segment is EGREGIOUS.

The amount of effort to write and produce a seemingly complete and fully staffed Korean (??) melodrama short is truly chef's kiss.

@NatalieMarie917

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it was Korean

@DapSchaf

Жыл бұрын

*Sandwich artist's kiss

@BiggusDickus_

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Korean indeed.

@pkjoesd

Жыл бұрын

As a Korean fan of John Oliver, it was so so so... I don't even have words. This may even be better than the Televangelist episode ending.

@rajeshupadhyay5683

Жыл бұрын

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

John Oliver put more effort into finding actors that can speak the language than anyone else in Hollywood ever did.

@dakrawnik4208

Жыл бұрын

If only Hollywood could hire the proper races of actors.

@andrewthezeppo

Жыл бұрын

Koreatown is right next to Hollywood

@kellyriddell5014

Жыл бұрын

I assumed maybe they outsourced the filming of this to a Korean film studio or something. Who knows.

@mzarectah

Жыл бұрын

@@kellyriddell5014 my thoughts exactly

@jonny-b4954

Жыл бұрын

@@dakrawnik4208 Meh, that's just silliness. Worrying about nonsense like that. That's kind of part of the problem. They overcompensated to appeal to the raging masses who are unreal and unreasonable. I mean, it's acting...... so you need to be a criminal to play a bad guy? Or a father to play a dad in a movie too?

"what if bread could fart?" John always asking the important questions

As someone who currently works at Subway, everything that happens in that Korean romance drama is 100% accurate to what I deal with at work every day.

I like how they accidentally nailed the Subway skit more than expected. The mean, corrupt boss keeping the humble, worker main character down is one of the most common trope in Korean dramas. This shit checks out

@lbatemon1158

Жыл бұрын

Whichever writer pitched the idea and likely wrote the majority of it is likely a fan of K drama.

@RachelDoesntknow

Жыл бұрын

Accidentally? That was the entire point.

@linwizz2126

Жыл бұрын

What did this cost? He had to build 2 subway sets, unless they already had them from some other project.

@briannelson3830

Жыл бұрын

@@linwizz2126 +the extra meatballs those add up quick

@Begeru

Жыл бұрын

Doubt it was an “accident”.

"my stomach was empty - and so was my heart..." Whoever came up with this immortal line, give that person a raise.

@AngryNotSoOldHippy

Жыл бұрын

:) I screamed laughter. I brayed like a jackass. :) I died and then came back so I would watch the rest of John's video. :)

@LuisLopez2

Жыл бұрын

I tried that line today at a local Subway with this really hot chick that works there..... It didn't work very well. 😂😂😂😂

@32a34a

Жыл бұрын

@@LuisLopez2 That's because she has no soul and no sense of humor

@Luna-sp7be

Жыл бұрын

I think it was Jughead Jones

@J3llyman

Жыл бұрын

My stomach was empty, and so was my heart. But now my bowels are full; I think I'm going to shart!

Honestly. The funniest thing will still be, that you can tell an actor every insane fucking thing they'd have to do for a scene with a straight face. AND LOW AND BEHOLD, they'll fucking do it. Even if it means, making a love confession whilst taking out a disgusting peace of meat out of their pocket. Really. These are TRUE artists!

I died at ‘Power bangs” 🤣💀

As a Korean, I am absolutely thrilled by the K-drama of the ending. Accuracy of actors' language, music, impression, chef kiss.

@JE-zl6uy

Жыл бұрын

I particularly loved our clear villian in the business analyst...

@KuruGDI

Жыл бұрын

I was actually interested if the language and the actors were good. So thanks for your comment :D

@livinginthisgalaxy7961

Жыл бұрын

adhusji

@kshitijakhade4164

Жыл бұрын

I was really hoping that was a real show 😂🤦🏻‍♀️🙈

@TMS9918A

Жыл бұрын

Knowing John, this was probably made in Korea. He loves to go beyond your expectations (and HBO's budget) for a punchline.

The subway themed Korean drama at the end was actually strangely good like wtf why was I so invested in such a short amount of time? It had no business being that good

@cleopatrasrevenge

Жыл бұрын

I almost clapped for the leads when they kissed! It's also the exact right length an episode should be; I never have the patience for full blown 60 minute long K-drama episodes lol

@Funkopedia

Жыл бұрын

A true artist puts 100% even into a joke.

@WinWin-oo4uk

Жыл бұрын

Well they got the guy from Billions (Daniel K. Isaac) to be in it.

@dark7element

Жыл бұрын

The guy who plays the "new boyfriend/second subway owner" has real talent, he went all-out for such a small role in a silly skit.

@Mugruncher

Жыл бұрын

I feel like I need to get into Korean soap operas

I watched this for my high school econ class, and voluntarily looked it up at home and watched it again. That's a hell of an endorsement.

Is it bad that I was totally hooked to the k-drama at the end of the segment? The actors did a great job!

i love the fact that even in the Community episode Subway was representing the ultimate corporate greed.

@Drekromancer

Жыл бұрын

I came to this video to find the Britta x Subway shippers, and I was not disappointed. 😂

@billwilson8374

Жыл бұрын

It was a disservice to Community to mention it so briefly like it was product placement. They were not particularly kind to Subway. (the restaurant OR the man)

@ABLW100

Жыл бұрын

@@Drekromancer "The Bread is stale"

@ArthurDamato

Жыл бұрын

The episode of community where they introduce a corpo-humanoid that Britta falls in love w is my favorite episode. “You had sex with Subway, and I recorded it!”

@OverseerF1

Жыл бұрын

@@ArthurDamato And Corporate was willing to let it slide until they got to the part in the tape with the butt stuff.

when I was at subway, the server asked "is that good", I said "yes that's perfect", and he said "that's what you get when you work at subway for 5 years: perfect sandwiches and depression".

@marilynmonheaux6356

Жыл бұрын

Damn that’s sad 😞

@jasonhowell9319

Жыл бұрын

I'm that person except I have 6 years there

@favoritemustard3542

Жыл бұрын

Eeyore jumps to mind...

@Pikachu-qr4yb

Жыл бұрын

@@favoritemustard3542 don't jump 🥲

@favoritemustard3542

Жыл бұрын

@@Pikachu-qr4yb lolol why does he think that's a funny Jœk? Was it ever?

John, this was a great episode. I'm a Brit who has lived in Kazakhstan, China and now Thailand. Thailand seems to have a similar problems with 7/11's. From my nearest mall to home there are 10 shops on the main roads. They regularly spring up within 200 meters of each other. Thailand now has more stores than Japan, plus the largest 7/11 in the world in Pattaya. I loved you Korean drama . . . You've come along way from Mock the Week! Best wishes from Bangkok.

This is a little irrelevant, but one of my first jobs was at a Subway at age 16. My first day on the job, the coworker training me stole money from the register during close that night and tried to blame me the next day I came to work. He got fired shortly after, and I didn't realize I'd pick up all of his 12-hour shifts where my manager would " go to the bank" during lunch shifts and dinner shifts. They did a good job exploiting young workers who had never had a job before. They told me when I first applied that it would be great experience, and it really gave me the experience to 1) know my worth 2) quit that job as fast as humanly possible.

I’m glad he talked about subway in kdramas cause it’s literally crazy how many shows have pivotal plot points that take place at subway

@goma3088

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping he'd mention the prevalence of Subway in Kdramas so when he did I cackled in glee. I'm pretty sure there was one drama in which a character died after eating a subway sandwich. A shoutout to that would have been icing on the cake. I definitely witch-cackled my way through that ending clip too.

@t3sc0.

Жыл бұрын

I just watched Hotel Del Luna and I just barely realized that subway was in it too :’0

@em5522

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of how ppl doing kdrama stereotypes videos tend to use their logo to parody how we tend to always see Subway as a kdrama sponsor.

@mlamarana

Жыл бұрын

@@t3sc0. RIGHT!! Crash Landing on you also have that annoying Subway placement I hated

@kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061

Жыл бұрын

The other major franchise is Baskin Robbins. Both subway and Baskin Robbins show up in Dokkaebi (Goblin).

The "Someway" guy's lines were amazing. Nothing has ever been written better than a man completely and justifiably confused about a woman repeating her love about a sandwich he forgot about.

@billbill4444

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKh3pNWpprysnJc.html

@FakingANerve

Жыл бұрын

LOL!! You're not wrong! 😂👍

@rajeshupadhyay5683

Жыл бұрын

Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

@lezliewhicker8450

Жыл бұрын

@@rajeshupadhyay5683 I'll suggest you lookup Priscilla Dearmin-Turner, she's our real investment prodigy since the crash and have help me recovered my loses

@davidhudson3001

Жыл бұрын

A news host spoke so highly of this💕 woman Priscilla Dearmin-Turner and her loss prevention strategies been trying to get to her ever since

I always love how far this show goes to make it both informative and incredibly fun to watch. The lengths they go to is hilarious

That kdrama bit at the end was awsome. I was seriously rooting for the main characters while laughing at the story all at the same time 🔥🔥🔥

I love when John does stories like this. It’s nice to take a break from the realm of war and politics to do a story mocking a horrible sandwich shop.

@jamesc7894

Жыл бұрын

This is only half the show. He still does those things on a weekly basis.

@jschuler53

Жыл бұрын

Living myth. Yes I thought so too at first but I think he picked the biggest and worst bc the others will follow in public perception as they are also egregious businesses. However, it's all intertwined. To many world wide this is a livelihood. To just say I'm not going to eat there anymore is not really the answer. there are people stuck in the middle who are hurting and I imagine it isn't limited to Subway. It's a big problem that DOES stem from the Capitalistic idea of owning your own business, being your own boss, and that kind of mythological independence we're taught is so easy to attain.

@g.d.graham2446

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@Dave_of_Mordor

Жыл бұрын

I like their egg and cheese flatbread sandwich...

I think it's important to note that even Subway Jared's original Subway in Bloomington, IN has closed and been replaced by a local cafe. Nature is healing.

@Mikaylap713

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s important to note that I worked there right before it closed and someone carved “Jared’s subway” in the bathroom stall lol

@Turquise8

Жыл бұрын

@@Mikaylap713 It's always gonna be Jared's Subway, they'll never be free of him

@jamesc7894

Жыл бұрын

Because the hard working people of that store were in on it ? Turq8 takes being an asshole to another level. He celebrates businesses failing and people losing jobs because of the actions of someone else.

@davidpeterson5647

Жыл бұрын

Since you say this happened in Indiana, I'm a bit skeptical. Especially given that nearby Columbus was mentioned in the story.

@danang5

Жыл бұрын

does it close before or after jared got exposed?im curious

This man is bringing to light what SO many franchisees want to tell outloud

The bit about "obviously not" being the spiciest an economist would go is so true. Usually, our answers revolve around "it depends" and we are highly sceptical about "obvious" things.

I love that they had to block the man's identity for genuine fear of what the higher ups of Subway could do to him or his family like it's the fucking Mob.

@sodaaccount

Жыл бұрын

They dont say you "join the family" for no reason...

@rektspresso7288

Жыл бұрын

Disney is the same way except instead of franchise owners it's the "cast members"

@benmeltzer

Жыл бұрын

You "love" that?! I'd hate to enter a business relationship with you.

@chunnil4898

Жыл бұрын

@@benmeltzer Kink shaming is not the way. Be better.

@thoatran2718

Жыл бұрын

ok

I was half-expecting the girl would open up her own Subway next to the other 2 so she could have all the spicy meatballs she wanted.

@mythreepants

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought would happen

@pyronymph-868

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was expecting!!🤣

@Jockustoe

Жыл бұрын

But of course there’s a spam bot in our comment sections now. Why wouldn’t there be…Jesus Christ!

@girlinterrupted9792

Жыл бұрын

Me tooooooo😅

@zagreus5773

Жыл бұрын

Report them, it helps.

I worked at a subway in a small town and what baffled me was Subway would be sending out coupons and getting people 'excited' about promotions, but many of the locations couldn't afford to honor them. Even right now the subway by me has a sign on the door that says "We are not accepting any coupons, we want to stay in business"

I wish we got a day in the life video of a HBO lawyer, in the week when the LWT team pitches a story idea.

As a previous Subway employee, who's store was shut down instead of them fixing the black mold that was in the walls and ceiling, this is all hitting too close to home

@fatbgmanbg975

Жыл бұрын

Big OOF!!

@spritemon98

Жыл бұрын

That's alarming o_o

@uwufoxie

Жыл бұрын

@@Spearca Well, he did get out of it technically since they shut the store down eventually

@HungryLoki

Жыл бұрын

I don't see the rapport, fixing mold in a store is definitely the responsibility of the store owner, not the franchise.

@uwufoxie

Жыл бұрын

@@HungryLoki The landlord frequently lied for years to the franchise, saying he fixed it to which the owner would frequently have to say that he was lying. For years, three of which my sister worked there and one year I worked there. They should have shut it down earlier or at least told the employees before closing the store down with no warning.

My favorite kdrama of all time, Goblin (Also called "Guardian: The Lonely and Great God", which is the first kdrama clip they used here), has Subway as a sponsor. My favorite product placement was when a character saves another from coming suicide then in an "eat something, you'll feel better" kind of way, hands him a perfectly wrapped Subway sandwich

I’ve never spit out anything while eating, but thanks to the “if bread could fart” joke we made history today.

@nbeutler1134

Ай бұрын

13:44 Im dying

As SOON as John started talking about in show advertisements I was like “if he doesn’t talk about kdramas being notorious for it...” and he not only did but went above and beyond my wildest dreams LMAO That drama parody was SPOT on.

@apriljoy5754

Жыл бұрын

Saaame ‼️. They dominate K Dramas 🤣

@user-jo3go8fe3g

Жыл бұрын

SAME!!!

@lurklingX

Жыл бұрын

even the vomiting was. idk WHY but k-dramas often like to include vomiting.

@A.H.A.J

Жыл бұрын

Omg I thought the same

@Asummersdaydreamer14

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping for an instant intro to a pop ballad when they kissed with the camera angle switching to 3 different angles for no reason except to make the moment feel more important. Also give Crash Landing on You a chance if you like silly romcoms with heart even a little bit.

as an avid kdrama watcher, y'all are scarily spot on with the directing of your own drama - the kiss, the music, the sound queues everything was perfect

@lucrezia6923

Жыл бұрын

Omg so true… I was dying of laughing so hard 😂🤣🤣

@justlurkingat8

Жыл бұрын

The awkward kiss but it's the actors just touching lips...

@Laitalafraise

Жыл бұрын

I agree!

@GoldSrc_

Жыл бұрын

I mean, this is HBO budget we're talking about, they obviously have the coin to spare lol.

@anthonyking2475

Жыл бұрын

Cool, was looking for a response like this

Sending this to my subway eating friend to validate my position on subway.

I don't know a word of Korean but that "bad guy" was a perfect casting!

That fake Korean rom-com at the end there was nice way to circle back to John's roots in Community. Who knew you could serve so much satirical bite in a single sandwich?

@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491

Жыл бұрын

girl no meat No Meat !

@tiraXpyrrha

Жыл бұрын

Wait, it's fake? I want to see where the shitty sandwich K-drama goes!

@22espec

Жыл бұрын

Fake? Why is it fake? Those are real korean actors.

@shadowmanwkp

Жыл бұрын

He means it's not a real series. Regretfully so.

@Tanavids

Жыл бұрын

If I recall that episode of Community - wasn't it ALSO about how Subway is aggressive and creepy with its franchise model?

My MIL opened Subways in the early 2000s and this was pretty much exactly her story. She had one in a gas station on one side of an interestate in a small country town. Subway allowed someone else to build one on the other side of the highway before hers even opened.

If you think Subway is a crazy, look into Jimmy John’s. My first job was at the store in Milwaukee near UWM. One of the written rules upon being hired was “Don’t let the owner inside after 10pm”, because he would come in coked up and drunk and fire the whole staff.

Who ever made that K-drama parody, give 'em a raise. The dialogue was the most impressive, the script sounds like a legit K-drama, this really captured the way Koreans speak, but I also like how Subway is depicted as a Chaebol, which I suppose it is.

@samreid6010

Жыл бұрын

I am 100% on board with restaurants creating dramas inexplicably centered around their products. I desperately want to hear a hot Korean guy say “you’ve hamburgled my heart”

@juzoli

Жыл бұрын

Likely it was created by the Korean film industry (maybe by the same people as the original), and HBO provided “only” the money and the script. So this is a Korean product for an US client.

@thomashughes_teh

Жыл бұрын

Movie: Demolition Man

@theoutsideperspective3230

Жыл бұрын

@@samreid6010 You've made me the happiest mcman in the world... will you mcmarry me?

@Apostrophe4035

Жыл бұрын

The completely passionless kiss? What attention to detail!

That man had way too much fun playing the development agent in the ending segment and I’m living for it. I would love to see any excuse to bring him back.

@cloudbrooks

Жыл бұрын

fr that guy was great! i noticed the way he played the character the moment he got on screen, it was great

@mxlazarus190

Жыл бұрын

bad guys in k-dramas are ussually like that, they are the best.

@MariaVosa

Жыл бұрын

I. Loved. Him!

@orrinfreeman5672

Жыл бұрын

My man was going full Anime antagonist!

@cooldrop02

Жыл бұрын

I hope any, absolutely ANY sketch get they bring him back for has him speaking exclusively in Korean.

I'm a Korean who doesn't watch k-drama but still know that Subway ppl is everywhere! I was just about to mention this on the comments and John started talking about Korea. 😅 I didn't know about the web drama though. Thanks for the info, as always! Big fan of your show!! Though I can only watch clips on KZread (legally, that is)

I can’t get over how good a metaphor that little movie had. I wanna watch the whole thing now.

I absolutely love how, because John Oliver has the protection of HBO lawyers, he can rip into to any corporation he wants to tell it like it is. Meanwhile their own employees are scared shitless of retaliation.

@5fingerjack

Жыл бұрын

I'm kinda feeling like going to buy a Subway to support the poor Lollipops. The franchisees didn't ask for this.

@10-AMPM-01

Жыл бұрын

That sounds accurate to me. It takes teams of lawyers to deal with defamation and retaliation.

@maxdanielj

Жыл бұрын

After doing a story on Taiwan that was honest about the situation the potential blowback of pretty much anything else is tiny in comparison, after all a single tweet made Jon Cena speak Mandarin

@Lethgar_Smith

Жыл бұрын

As long as it is satire, you can say pretty much anything about a company or public figure.

@Raulbikcube

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping John would buy out a franchisee so they could curse out Subway management to their heart's content.

As a Korean speaker I can tell you, that this was clearly translated from English into Korean. The translator then said to themself "This doesn't quite flow right, so f* it, I'm going to throw in some puns for extra sass". A work of art. 👍

@bluecanine3374

Жыл бұрын

As annignorant English only speaker, csre to elaborate?

@nanyukang8316

Жыл бұрын

Well at least they used actors that actually speak Korean. Must have been a bit awkward for them to do their lines cuz of the Korean script not sounding quite right

@NekoChanKarate

Жыл бұрын

Localization staff are heroes.

@matthewheadland7307

Жыл бұрын

The music and flow of the show seemed pretty flawless tho haha

@LlyleHunter

Жыл бұрын

That’s so good to know.

I remember in the 90s there were no Subways, and then suddenly there were three fairly close. Back then, they'd be open much later than everywhere else, until midnight on weekdays and 2 AM on weekends. As a teen who'd get off work after 11 PM, this was one of the few places you could eat. I actually remember liking the sandwiches then, especially compared to the McDonald's alternative. They only had two kinds of bread, so it was usually freshly baked. Subway was one of the closest places to eat near the high school too, so it was always packed at lunch. I didn't eat Subway for a while, came back and they had like 7 kinds of bread. Every single time I got a sandwich in the future (usually while traveling on a road trip and needing non-McDonald's/Burger King etc food), the sandwiches were horrible because the bread was almost always stale. I haven't eaten at a Subway in years now, usually picking Jimmy John's when road tripping for some "fast" food. The K-Pop at the end was a thing of beauty and perfectly done to the point that it looked legit until the tuna thing. :)

Haha the ending was gold. The subway opened inside! The other subway hahaha 😂🤣

The development agent's acting was gold

@jw7268

Жыл бұрын

i cant stand their drama plots but Korean acting is A+

@afreaknamedallie1707

Жыл бұрын

so much ham I loved it

@MikeyPee

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was upset that his performance wasn't getting more laughs. He was fantastic.

@Molue_

Жыл бұрын

You could practically *feel* the *_slime_* dripping off of him. It's probably because of the *_tuna._*

Whoever directed the kdrama bit at the end did their research!! Everything was spot on. From the music to the barely-touching-lips kiss

@TheMongooseOfDoom

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they hired an actual k-drama production studio.

@eshbena

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMongooseOfDoom The actors looked rather familiar, but then I watch a lot of K-dramas. XD

@goma3088

Жыл бұрын

That whole bit had me in a paroxysm of giggles. And just as I got a hold of my emotions the chaste "kiss" at the end set me off again.

@Olan315

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMongooseOfDoom is not crazy for it to have been produced in korea, probably a cheaper cost to produce over there i imagine

OMG. John Oliver knows exactly where the red line is… and steps over it every time. 😎

Honestly, "It's art, and it's cinema, and it's sandwiches" is a pretty lit slogan that Subway itself could use.

I'm fully convinced that John just discovered Korean drama shows and wanted one for himself so badly, he made this whole segment just as an excuse to make his own k-drama.

@macgoryeo

Жыл бұрын

crash-landing-on-you is very entertaining and funny - and I must confess, the only one from that list I had seen, but there are countless other series which contain subway sandwiches or some other product placement like Benz, Audi, some coffee brand

@markcab2055

Жыл бұрын

well you have to admit he hit a grand slam on this one.

Well that's awkward...watching this in Korea in an actual Subway eating a tuna sandwich for lunch... I wish I was kidding

@rogwheel

Жыл бұрын

That wasn’t tuna you were eating and I’m not kidding

@chelseamodl8628

Жыл бұрын

Well it is the only place to get a savory sandwich in this country so... I also watched this in Korea after ordering a subway sandwich 😅

@vxxiii4160

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@danielcarrapa3632

Жыл бұрын

Love your Videos Anton! Glad to see we have more than one thing in common!

@jamesc7894

Жыл бұрын

Channels trying to leech off other videos with a fictional story for a shameless plug. Great PR work Anton. I am not kidding

that evil guy's smile is so good

I can’t tell y’all how moved I was when he said “………………..what?” Literal tears, tears that fell directly onto ny subway Italian bmt sandwich

This gives the Subway story in the show "Community" a whole new level of being true and scary

@lucienfortner841

Жыл бұрын

That was literally the first thing that sprung to mind for me.

@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN

Жыл бұрын

GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T, THE POPE DIDN'T EITHER, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR KZread STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP IDOLIZING & WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE! JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY VERY SOON WITH JUDGEMENT (THESE ARE END TIMES)! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU! Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33 “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23

@spamrich9952

Жыл бұрын

My exact thoughts

"You enter into a family" and other similar statements are always chilling, even beyond any mob family implications.

@courier6960

Жыл бұрын

Whenever you hear that phrase you know your about to have the worst work experience in your life, never EVER has that phrase been uttered before something positive.

@seigeengine

Жыл бұрын

"Now that I've hired you, we're a family, so I'm expecting that you'll never show up, will only get in touch with a birthday message on Facebook, and that we'll pretend we're really close if we ever randomly meet in public."

@peachybuttercrunch4409

Жыл бұрын

it is the subtext for me...you're correct chilling foreshadowing disclaimer

@Unknown_Ooh

Жыл бұрын

I already don't like my family. I don't want a second one to deal with.

@kieranjaegar

Жыл бұрын

That being said, I would legitimately like to enter into a REAL family.

I used to work for subway and they treat the employees soo bad. The assistant manager was a perve who they just kept shuffling to other stores rather than fire. They left me alone in the store for hours, knowing I had a high risk pregnancy and a seizure disorder, to run the line plus the drive through, phone, and online orders. They paid 10$ an hour. Highest priority was to keep labor costs as low as possible. The % of sales that went to labor was 8% or less. Sometimes we were at 5%. Industry standard is under 21%. They also made you watch the training videos off the clock on an app you had to download on your own device. Schedules were posted late every week and constantly changing

"The tuna tasts like shit !" I was ROLLING !

I was an accountant for a landlord who had tons of Subway tenants. They were always struggling and I was always giving them rent relief because they couldn’t make the rent. They would complain about Subway corporate to me all the time.

@dirkteundekoning4365

Жыл бұрын

@PersecutedForTruth - Linguistics MegaStar Why not both? All who work there would likely not keep Subway on their CV.

@funningames2243

Жыл бұрын

@Excellent Ohms that is freakin hilarious! I can see it now.

@mchevre

Жыл бұрын

@Excellent Ohms My interpretation of what OP meant by landlord and tenants was like, the landlords of the strip mall buildings the subways are in, and the tenants being the franchisees renting out the space the subway restaurant is in, rather than talking about the apartments they're living in.

@dirkteundekoning4365

Жыл бұрын

@Exeunt Omnes Well, that's bracing. I've been told my grandfather was baking bread during the second world war to help unfortunate people through hard times. I'm starting to talk with my friends in the Netherlands on how to operate and be (more) self-reliant. One of the Subway locations in Leeuwarden closed a few years ago, a new restaurant set up shop there. The zoning laws of the Netherlands didn't allow for a Subway restaurant to be so close together, so one was forced into being closed down. Subway couldn't leave things be it seems, to opened up another location near our train station. You couldn't pay me to get over there years ago, and certainly not now. Sorry I ranted on for a bit there.

@dirkteundekoning4365

Жыл бұрын

PS: I wonder if the bread my grandfather baked was of better quality then that Subway bread. How my mind wanders after perceived trauma.

They forgot to tell that in Canada, the public broadcaster produced a show where they basically demonstrated that the chicken was not chicken, but instead it was a mix of flour and chicken. Subway sued the broadcaster and lost the pursuit.

@Happytravellerkimmy

Жыл бұрын

And Subway sued a public university for the lab work they did for CBC. It was actually that their "chicken" is a mix of soy and chicken and not strictly chicken. Now here's the thing: most cheap commercially prepared "beef" burgers have like 50% soy because they keep their shape and don't shrink down when they are cooked. It also makes them cheaper so the profit margins are better. So, I believe CBC and Trent U actually did solid lab work because adding soy to meat is such a common practice in the food industry and Subway's chicken always looked formed like it had been pressed in a mold. It's only a problem if you want to actually know what's in your food.

@RitzStarr

Жыл бұрын

And then it was immediately debunked as a fake stunt for money like the tuna, yeah.

@Happytravellerkimmy

Жыл бұрын

@@RitzStarr nope. Subway lost in appeals court. They had to pay Trent's legal fees. Honestly, if you knew anything about the food industry you'd know that the soy in meat is a pretty open secret.

@robertt9342

Жыл бұрын

@@Happytravellerkimmy . That 50% number seems completely made up. I am not saying it couldn’t happen, It just does not seem likely or widespread.

@answeris4217

Жыл бұрын

I remember them going to multiple fast food stores and subway has the least by a large margin

Gosh that drama was the cherry on top!

My daughter worked at a Subway and I once witnessed the owner making her remove olives from a sandwich she was making, saying "too many olives, just put on 6". Six slices of black olives. Six. And right in front of the customer who asked for olives. The customer said "never mind" and walked out.

@fruehlingsobst8123

Жыл бұрын

And that customers name?! It was Albert Einstein!

@Mugruncher

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes toxic managers pull this shit because they think that this is what the customer wants to see, like “let us bond over me berating this peasant”. Those kind of managers are always shocked if the customer rejects the behaviour, because those kinds of people truly believe that everyone enjoys unkindness and therefore being unkind to employees on behalf of the customer is “good service” I’m a hotel maid (/bartender/waitress) and one of my managers once came in and started needlessly berating me in front of a guest while I was doing room service, pointing out all these errors that didn’t exist, and that guest actually stood up for me. I’ll never forget the confused shock on my managers face. Like she could not figure out why the guest was rejecting her offer to partake in bullying me, or at least enjoying the show.

@colbyknightcomedy

Жыл бұрын

@@fruehlingsobst8123 underrated comment ☝🏻

@countryinnsuitescountryinn1492

Жыл бұрын

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@kaitlynm9463

Жыл бұрын

@@fruehlingsobst8123 I worked at subway and this definitely happened. Do you not leave your house? Interact with people?

The segment at the end was amazing and the people who wrote it (and the actors and everyone else of course) did a brilliant job!

@TheDunningKrugerEffectisReal

Жыл бұрын

Wtf was going on with the crowd? :s

@denimchicken104

Жыл бұрын

I would watch hours of this show if it was real.

@jonesjermaine4387

Жыл бұрын

I feel ya bro, I had a transgender coworker we worked at a Tacobell and he/she would jizz in the sourcream called it "jizzzam" I suggested they call it "cumshot"

@thomasw.5344

Жыл бұрын

As usual 😉

@sonvan6714

Жыл бұрын

ok

Oh shit the kdrama parody is GOLD. Truly top tier - It could be on Netflix 😂 thank you ❤ 22:37

My last visit to a subway was terrible! The air conditioner was broken, the store was dirty, one of the sandwich artists (whom I want to school with) was COVERED in oozing open sores and there were flies everywhere. I used to work at this subway and idk how it fell apart so badly. I'm impressed its still open because it was pretty gross.

I worked at a Subway for years. There was something called the rule of threes which was how many of each item you put on a sub. I remember putting extra product on my subs. I think it helped increase sales (especially when I was working). My franchise owner, who was actually a good person, always lived in fear I would be working during a visit from quality control. Taught me there is little freedom in franchise ownership.

@movoroch

Жыл бұрын

I remember being taught the rule of threes. It was ridiculous when you were dealing with things like black olives...I followed the rule of threes for the first few shifts I worked and then just stopped altogether (unless the boss was right there). Still ended up becoming a Night Manager at one of the franchises...and I remember how absolutely broken-hearted my boss was about the contract she was trapped in. When I finally quit she left within a few weeks and sold her franchise to the guy down the street who owned most of the other Subways in town. Fuck Subway.

@borrrden

Жыл бұрын

Oh snap back in the early 2000s I don’t think this was a thing. I always got handfuls of stuff. Now in Japan they literally put on three pickles and I am heartbroken. I assumed it was just Japan being stingy but damn….

@quesee08

Жыл бұрын

@@movoroch this makes me think. so it means the only way for franchisee to survive is to have multiple locations wtih in the vicinity. only rich people can afford that really

@metaloom

Жыл бұрын

I've been working for subway for over a year and I have never heard of that. We just put however many veggies the customer wants on the sandwich and call it good

@Thenoobestgirl

Жыл бұрын

That's insane

Had a family friend who was a Subway franchisee. They decided to try to have their "own" business instead of buying a house. It was when the 5 dollar footlong was big and Subway was relatively popular. Long story short, it was smooth sailing for a couple years and then they opened up 3 more locations within a few miles, sales dropped, $5 footlong went away, and corporate forced them to shut their doors. They lost everything, declared bankruptcy. That was over 5 years ago, they have yet to recover. Fuck Subway.

@spamrich9952

Жыл бұрын

Dang.

@SAFbikes

Жыл бұрын

Fuck Subway? Sounds more like your family friend spread themselves too thin done fucked up! It’s so trendy now to sign a contract and then freak out when you have to follow said contract you agreed to. Take some personal responsibility

@hugegamer5988

Жыл бұрын

This is what separates the big players from the small ones, with highly leveraged loans and shell companies large players don’t lose much of their own cash when something fails, and any one bankruptcy does not directly affect others because of how the companies they own are isolated from each other. The small player, if they can even get a loan, is put up with their own collateral and in the event of corporate bankruptcy it can wipe them out personally.

@sugahbabydoll1

Жыл бұрын

Many of these franchises work the same. The condition of opening one store is that you have to be able to expand & open X amount of stores in X amount of time. To me it feels similar to pyramid schemes.

@anitralarae_mahjacat

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like what happened to the other Sandwich Chain Franchisees.

I was a owner of the subway 13 years ago. I 100% Agee with you. That’s exactly why I walked way from subway.

This is so painfully true for most subways, I do the accounting for one in Canada, it loses anywhere between 5-10k a year, I've never seen a profit

when he said how easy it is to open a Subway franchise, I really thought we were heading towards "so we did"

@yal100

Жыл бұрын

lmao 😀 that would have been even more awesome

@anaibarangan4908

Жыл бұрын

Watch this show and will never want a Subway franchise. Funny but very informative. Very much a scam for franchisee. The only one where I live, recently closed down. It was in the smaller part of a two part commercial property, in a great location, but I don't know why have not been able to rent it all now. The bigger one has been empty for over a decade ago. It used to be a drugstore. I don't remember which one. it's a mystery property right smack in the middle of the town, also on the main strip road and highway. Meanwhile just about everything else commercial property is gone, sold, rented, and being built on. I think that the problem must be the lack of parking space. They're going to have to tear it down, and build something else much smaller, that leaves more parking lot.

@MonkeyJedi99

Жыл бұрын

But they took the next cheapest trick and bought a sub from each Subway within a mile of the studio. - - On restaurant density: I live in a small town in NW Massachusetts. There is a Subway in my town, and there were two, now one, in the next town (one in the center of town, one that closed that was in the WalMart). This is on top of a McD's, a Wendy's a Taco Bell (no KFC menu there, dang it!), A Dominos, two Chinese restaurants, a Chinese/Japanese restaurant, an overpriced fine dining place, a seafood place, 3 single-owner pizza/sub shops, the deli counter at the Hannaford's grocery store, and around a half-dozen prepared food counters at the Market Basket mega-grocery store. There may be a couple I missed.

As someone who's seen waaaay too many Subway product placements in Kdramas over the last 5 years, I really couldn't tell at first if the skit was legit or not until the tuna part. But this was hilariously perfect - all it needed was a character getting hit by a car or truck, or one of the characters ends up in a coma over their heartbreak because the bread wasn't real after all....

@MeloraCarabas

Жыл бұрын

What I missed was when they kissed (closed mouth of course) he should have had the surprised wide open eyes

@FranK-vs4zu

Жыл бұрын

Or a character needing an organ transplant after eating a sandwich. 🤣 (Although, I've been noticing more Quiznos product placements recently. 🤔) Btw, I loved watching 'the Ghost Detective'.

We lived near a Subway when we lived in Seoul and I swear it was built just for TV shoots. There was a film crew there at least once a month and we kept seeing it pop up in dramas.