Chiitan: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

we turn to Japan the country that gave us Pokemon and oh my god it's a Jigglypuff I've never seen one of these in the world before okay stay calm stay calm quick take out a pokeball and slowly and carefully promise you ready and anyway where was I oh that's right Japan there is something amazing happening over there right now as we've discussed before Japan is home to thousands of mascots for everything from museums to prisons to entire towns and cities you may remember we loved that idea so much that we actually made our own unofficial mascots for various US government agencies well it turns out we're not the only ones who've decided to make some less than official mascots a rogue mascot is causing a lot of controversy in one japanese Sumeet sheet on the unsanctioned otter mascot that is gaining popularity on social media thanks to its edgy personality video of cheatin swinging a weed eater and you can see him there dancing on a pole oh my goodness yes your eyes are not deceiving you that is video of a Japanese mascot on a stripper pole presumably at a strip club called there are way more people are into this sort of thing than you think but it is my absolute honor tonight to introduce you to cheat on and you're gonna be glad that I did I know that he may look like half a Vienna finger that took too much ecstasy in the 90s but chi-town is in his own words a zero year old fairy baby who plays around super actively every day as you can tell she tan is a giant otter wearing a turtle as a hat which is incidentally already my favorite sentence of all time right next to welcome to the John Oliver koala chlamydia wart but the story the story though of what's going on with Chi Thanh is a little complicated but but in a nutshell there's a city in Japan called Sasaki su sakis official mascot is Shinjo kun a magnificent giant otter wearing a ramen dish for a hat excellent until recently the city also had a honorary tourism ambassador an actual otter named Chetan as it happens cheat on the actual otter has a mascot otter and that is what Chetan is the point is there are three otters two of which are named Chetan and the mascot Chetan was never formally affiliated with the city of Sioux sake it's that simple and the unofficial mascot Chetan has been producing some bizarre videos not just the stripper pole one but also this one where cheatin flips a car with its bare paws now Sasaki reportedly received over a hundred calls from around Japan complaining about GTRs behavior and earlier this year the city is empty to distance themselves from it by declining to renew the real Chetan as its tourism ambassador basically the city cut ties with the real otter because of the things the fake otter did which is a real shame because cheatin has been a lot of fun it's Twitter account is full of crazy like this [Music] now you might be wanting to ask how does an umbrella wielding coked-up otter being assaulted in a windowless room encourage tourism to the small Japanese port city of Sasaki well I'm on TV and I'm talking about the small Japanese port city of Sasaki so that should answer your stupid question the point is every two time video is a work of art take this one for example titled with my friends it's understandable to have a lot of questions after watching that like what am I watching who's the karate cat and why's cheat aren't angry with that inflatable Pole but you'll notice that a my board is not one of the questions you're asking there violence is actually something of a theme with Chetan here's another video that starts charming and then has a bit of a turn [Music] it is a testament to the utter brilliance of that video that I've watched it literally dozens of times and not once have I given a moment's thought to whether or not that person was okay honestly it doesn't matter cuz even if they weren't it was completely worth it as good as these videos are cheat on is somehow even better at Twitter with a virtuosic deployment of memes just look at this hello burp hello Pulitzer Prize for poetry here's another magnificent example don't ever talk to my son or my son son or my son son son or my son son son son ever again just try saying that without laughing it's physiologically impossible asking me to pick a favorite cheat on tweet is like asking me to pick a favorite son or son son or sunset the point is it'll be difficult but I would probably have to say this one in which cheatin standing next to a small kangaroo asks is this a pigeon I mean come on clearly the question is rhetorical Chetan is famously excellent at recognizing burbs when's the last time Twitter made you happy when's the last time anything made you happy the problem is even I will admit the cheeto has occasionally gone a bit too far like with this video titled Chetan is going to visit your house I accept even the most generous interpretation of that is that she's hot he's gonna come to your house and beat you to death with a baseball bat and I do get why a city might not want that message delivered by a self-appointed unofficial mascot but I am sorry for Sue sake that he's gone and I'd also like you to spare a thought for their official mascot Shinjo Koon who is also as we've established excellent not as splashy as cheat on shore but still wears a noodle bowl for a hat and that's not nothing is it Shinjuku was clearly overshadowed by an unhinged psychotic unsanctioned often well I'm sure that there's an element of relief there fishing Joe there's also gonna be a massive cheat on shaped hole in its life now the two mascots were together a lot and I have to say whenever you see Shinjo alone now the obvious sadness there is absolutely heartbreaking but what I will say here is it's clear that Shinjuku needs a new friend this time one that won't disappear or threaten the citizens of zoo sake with a baseball bat luckily as we now know anyone can make an unofficial mascot for a city in Japan and if you don't already know where this is heading you clearly never watch this show before because of course we made our own mascot of course we did please meet it's a forty one-year-old nearsighted English fairy baby now ordinarily when there's a new mascot on this show I get up from this desk and walk over there to introduce you to him in person the bad news is I can't actually introduce you to cheat John in person tonight the good news is the reason I can't do that is because these are already in Japan it's true here he is having the time of his life in Tokyo okay I get it John you just created a mascot to go to Japan and with people but no you don't actually get it you don't get it at all we may cheat John with the sole intention that he locates and comfort shinji-kun and fill the hole that cheat on left in his heart and for a sense of whether he was able to do that you should probably take a look at this after a long flight Chi John arrived in Tokyo he'd never seen anything like it because he just got classes the day before tomorrow he'd visit suzaki but tonight belong to Tokyo [Music] violently hungover Chi John got up the next morning and as he looked through the clouds towards Sasaki he remembered the reason he was here Shinjo gone he was 100% sure they were meant to be together and 40% sure he was looking at Sasaki all the way to the train station Qi John's heart pounded each step was a step closer to his destiny after a while he got tired of taking steps and took a rickshaw each step of his rickshaw driver was a step closer to his destiny at last Sasaki Shinjuku was everywhere on the stairs of the sidewalk of walls and in the streets on his way she John introduced himself to all the local fish this is the path that falls at Shinjuku ng's feet this is the breeze that cool Shinjuku n--'s face this is the Sun that warms the noodles that shinji-kun wears as a hat and knowing this filled t-jon with joy the final steps to his destiny were uphill aren't they always finally Chi John saw Shin joke on his new best friend ginger Cole didn't know if he was ready for a new best friend he had had a best friend cheat on and it had been a living nightmare but she John seemed different less upper body strength for one thing at the local arcade they used sticks to whack moans not each other though they share an Appetite for Destruction destroying something together is an act of creation Shinjo could made she John happy and she John wanted Shinjo Kunta have a Shinjuku Shinjuku could be happy to her but she John couldn't get into a Kona shinji-kun and this made them sad now sadness was another thing they shared she John tried to cheer shinji-kun up he put on ginger cones thinking cap suddenly he knew just what to do introduce themselves to some local fish ginger couldn't torch to John how to take one stick and make two sticks it was the best day of their lives without the sadness of the claw machine shinjuku never would have felt this joy and if his old best friend hadn't left his new best friend never would have come that's too much soy sauce ginger said no replied she John it's not enough fish Shin drakul had fouled his new best friend a little chaos fulfills the spirit and prepares us for all the claw machines ahead they saw their path and felt their breeze and saw their son where is our son going Chi John asked do not worry said Shinjo kun will have our son back tomorrow and our Sun Sun and our Sun Sun Sun and our Sun Sun Sun one of us thought this was where I shall was going tonight and yet here we are now G John and this is true is still in Japan the city of Sasaki have now officially taken ownership of him so if you ever want to see Qi John in the flesh or in the fur you will simply have to go there

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Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 28 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/JonArc]

And now they're in a twitter beef.

[u/eojen]

The adventure of the two at the end was perfect. It's nice to see a segment of Last Week uploaded that is 100% lighthearted.

[u/DontTedOnMe]

That's too much soy sauce.

No. It's not enough fish.

[u/MIERDAPORQUE]

My son’s, son’s, son’s, son

[u/Crazyripps]

Chiitan put out a new tweet with the coming to your house John Oliver # teamchiitan #teambritshbirb

Who ever runs that twitter is a god.

[u/Bannakaffalatta1]

I'm so happy they uploaded this segment to YouTube. It's absolutely phenomenal and I laughed way to hard at the Chiitan videos.

[u/Docbr]

FYI: r/chiitan is an actual sub. A lot of videos.

[u/noskill1]

I fucking loved this segment. It perfectly encapsulates Last Week Tonight's bitingly satirical yet strangely journalistic style.

[u/hyg03]

The Chiijohn segment is perfect