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I don't understand two fragments: 0:33-0:37 and 1:44-1:47 Could you help me, please?Link to the video:

Deadrat · Accepted Answer

The game being advertised is "Guacamelee!" This is a pun on the Mexican avocado dip, guacamole. The last two syllables have been replaced with the word melee, which means a free-for-all fight. Instead of guacamole gwak-uh-moh-lay, you have guacamelee, gwak-uh-may-lay. At 0:33, the announcer says, "I was going to get in at five but I had a six-hour guacame-layover in Chihuahua." Chihuahua is a Mexican city, the capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, both pronounced like the little dog. So the "joke" is that the announcer's flight was supposed to get him home at five o'clock, but there was a six-hour delay in the Mexican city. Such a flight delay is called a "layover," and since this was a layover in Mexico, the announcer put the prefix "guacame" on layover just the way the game put "guaca" in front of "melee."

The second game is "Moonchronicles." The announcer says in a bad Scottish accent "Is this the one about that time I mooned your mother?" You have to know two things to understand this aside. The first is that there was a long-running series of sketches on Saturday Night Live, lampooning the game show Jeopardy, where a panel competes to answer trivia questions. The host was Alex Trebek, and he's played by Will Farrell. The conceit is that the panelists are celebrities, and various actors impersonate them. One of those impersonated (by Darrell Hammond) is Scottish actor Sean Connery. Hammond (as Connery) refuses to play the game but instead makes rude comments about Trebek's mother.

The second thing you have to know is that "to moon" means in American slang to show someone your bare ***. For those who speak British English, that's "bare ****." So the announcer has taken the name Moonchronicles and spoken a line that might have come from the SNL sketch.

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Thank you very much for such an elaborate reply!

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