Subway: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

"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"

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 😭😭😭

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.

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.

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

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

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

Anyone who has worked in food service for more than a day knows that "You're family" translates to we're an abusive family that will gaslight you and abuse you.

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.

To be fair the community subway episodes were hilarious because they spent half the time ripping the piss out of it