#392 Morimoto Calibration Device
I’m going to skip making that page with trite jokes about the differences between Japanese and American toilets. The honest truth is that 90% of Japanese toilets are just like American ones. In very fancy places, you’ll sometimes see the Japanese toilets with buttons. And in really old places you’ll find what we call “squatters”, named so because they’re basically a trough in the ground with no seat, and using them requires taking off your pants halfway. But a person could easily visit Japan and never see anything besides regular toilets. It certainly doesn’t warrant a page where one of our characters presses the wrong button and has some “hilarious” consequences… especially when some of our characters thought the toilet was a washbasin earlier in the comic.
So if you absolutely wanted to see cliched foreign toilet mishaps, you’ll need to watch Cars 2. This page is better spent telling you why they’re in Japan in the first place.
Hmmm, that plan is way to simple and straightforward to not fail in some spectacular and unexpected way. Just a question how it will fail/get more complicated.
@Chrsitopher, Brooke could get kidnapped by the local Anime con
The French apparently have squat toilets as well. Quite some time ago, I was visiting a Greenland field camp for a European science agency. Most of the scientists were French, as was the manufacturer of the toilet module (which was as a squatter). One Danish researcher had insisted they install a fold-out shelf for the purpose of having something to sit on in there… which the French guys found hilarious.
great page
…They’re not going to try to steal it from the Yakuza?