Subway: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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

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

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

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.

"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"

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 😭😭😭

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Wtf, I had YouTube 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