天下制覇

Did… Did they ask any English speakers if that translation of the title made an iota of sense?

Impressions:

Anyway, this was a pretty hilarious episode, but not for any of its godawful attempted jokes. The whole thing is spent decrying their poverty, how hard they have to work, how hard they're trying for each other and THE FAMILY. Meanwhile, every shot of where and how they live reveals that they're in a goddamned mansion with massive immaculate landscaping, literally the only home with a yard, right next to what appears to be both a large park and the school. Their house is packed to the brim with expensive crap and they they shake out their piggy banks and lament how little they have. All this on a teacher's salary. I'm sorry. Were your dead parents millionaire day traders? Did you win a $10 million lawsuit over their wrongful deaths? Since you're obviously paying somebody to landscape your entire 4000 square foot house, why not just hire a housekeeper?

Those were the thoughts filling my head every time characters bemoaned their fates and how much they were trying to take care of each other, which was a lot. And since this is a very cheap show, there were plenty of shots of the house and its hugely elaborate and expensively maintained yard. There's nothing here except aggressively inoffensively mewling "I'm just trying to help!" over and over. As they went through the entire set of brothers, each in turn saying it, along with the peanut gallery announcing to themselves and each other how brave and caring each was, I was already checked out… and there was still another ten minutes and the inevitable "I know you care and I care too" speech to come, complete with the kind of fireworks display that would make New York blush, not to mention set off every car alarm in a 3 mile area.