Pete Holmes Takes on Chun-Li in a Battle of…Human Resources
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True story: during my freshman year of college, when most of us were obsessed with the Street Fighter II arcade game, one of my acquaintances – a clueless Korean kid, who also once stated that he couldn’t understand why anyone would have sex and risk a disease – opined that he thought it would be funny if you could rape Chun-Li after defeating her. Especially if you played as Balrog, because Mike Tyson, right?
We eventually convinced him that he was saying an incredibly terrible thing, at which point he denied ever having said it. But it came to mind again watching the Pete Holmes skit above, in which an awkward human resources manager lectures the strongest woman in the world (Lilan Bowden) on her inappropriate attire, before announcing he’d be down for “fun in the Chun.”
The Holmes skit is funny and the creepiness obviously fake. But it works because boy, did Chun-Li ever inspire inappropriate thoughts in folks I knew.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist