What does Long Duk Dong say in Sixteen Candles?

What’s happenin’, hot stuff
Long Duk Dong makes his first entrance in the movie upside down, hanging from a top bunk, waggling his eyebrows at the female protagonist of Sixteen Candles and trying out his conversational English: “What’s happenin’, hot stuff?”

Who played Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles?

Gedde WatanabeSixteen Candles
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Gedde Watanabe as Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles. In Thursday’s post about failed Asian-American TV shows, I called actor Gedde Watanabe’s notorious performance as Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles “cringeworthy.” Some of you piped up to ask, Hey, what’s wrong with Long Duk Dong?

What kind of car does Jake Ryan Drive in Sixteen Candles?

944 Porsche
The license plate on Jake’s red 944 Porsche is an Easter Egg.

What happened to Jake Ryan 16 candles?

Michael Schoeffling is the actor who played Jake Ryan in ‘Sixteen Candles. After Sixteen Candles, Michael went on to book roles in critically acclaimed features like Sylvester, Belizaire the Cajun, and Longtime Companion. He announced his retirement in 1991.

Who is Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles?

One of the most controversial elements of Sixteen Candles is a visiting student named Long Duk Dong, who attends the school dance with the reluctant Sam. When the film came out, the New York Times described this character as “unfunny” and an “offensive stereotype”.

What is the name of the Chinese guy in Sixteen Candles?

For a generation of Americans, the answer to that question is a name: Long Duk Dong. He is the foreign-exchange student, fresh from some unidentified Asian country, in the popular 1984 high-school comedy Sixteen Candles — comic relief in a movie with more than its share of slapstick.

When did the movie Sixteen Candles come out?

In 1984, when Sixteen Candles came out, some Asian-American groups decried Long Duk Dong as stereotypical, racist and part of a long history of Hollywood’s offensive depictions of Asian men. “It took me a while to understand that,” Watanabe says.

Who was the foreign exchange student in Sixteen Candles?