October 20th, 4: 30 pm.
Because in the United States, including high schools, students usually finish school at two or three in the afternoon, and parents are not home from work yet, 4: 30 pm is the prime time for animation.
At this time, most of the children have already gone home, and the parents are still working hard. The television belongs to the children, so of course, this is the prime time for the children.
However, it is worth mentioning that Simpson's Family airs at 8: 30 pm. Although the style of Simpson's Family is more cartoonish, the content is more adult. There are a lot of complaints about society that children can't understand at all. Only adults can enjoy it. Therefore, Simpson's Family usually airs during the prime time when all the family members can sit in front of the TV.
On such a normal afternoon, there were about 40 million young people in the United States who had returned home.
Some of them turned on the Fc game console in their hands and started an exciting game war.
Some of them chose to play with their friends. In the end, about 10 million children turned on the TV.
However, the children above 10 years old started to try to watch adult TV shows. Only the children with less than 6 million were excited to find some TV stations that would air cartoons during this time.
In the end, only the children with less than 1.2 million turned on Fox.
"I got Pokemon!"
The sudden shout shocked all the children who were watching Fox. However, it was different from the version played on Nintendo. This sentence was no longer in Fusang, but was changed into a Chinese version by Boss Jia.
Yes, that's right. The most eye-catching first sentence in the Pokemon OP was changed into a Chinese version. Not only in the United States, but also in Fusang, Europe, Latin America, etc., all 19 TV stations used the same opening.
And no matter how many episodes of Pokemon were released in the future, or how many times the opening song was changed, the opening would always be a Chinese shout.
This was the result of Boss Jia's call to Hua Xia yesterday morning.
Boss Jia called Dynasty as soon as he returned to the hotel yesterday. He got Dynasty to modify the first ten episodes of the American version of the Pokemon TV that they had already produced.
The original United States version of Pokemon was completely English, from the opening song to the dubbing to the ending song. In any case, everything with text was changed into English. The purpose was naturally to better open up the market in the United States.
In addition, the versions sent to other countries were all perfectly localized. These tapes were sent to the TV stations two or three days in advance.
However, yesterday morning, Boss Jia suddenly requested that the opening sentence of the OP, "I got Pokemon", be changed into Chinese.
This sentence could be accompanied by English subtitles, but it had to be shouted in pure Mandarin. All the versions in the world, regardless of whether they were already being shown or not, had to be changed. This sentence had to be shouted in Chinese.
Boss Jia's order almost made the Vice President of Dynasty Animation collapse. However, Boss Jia's order was very firm. If he couldn't do it, then he had to leave. Someone else who could do it would be replaced as the Vice President.
Thus, the Vice President started at 11 in the morning. He directly forced more than ten staff members to work in the editing room for an hour. Then, after running more than ten red lights and receiving more than twenty tickets, he successfully boarded the plane to the United States before 2 in the morning.
The Vice President personally went because he was the only one in the company who had applied for a visa to the United States in advance. He originally planned to make a trip to the United States in half a month, but now he had to leave early.
Finally, at 3 in the afternoon, the tape was handed to Boss Jia. Then, Boss Jia personally sent it to NBC to change the version of the tape. Just in time, it was changed to 4: 30 in the morning, so that all the United States viewers could hear this sentence in pure Mandarin at the beginning of the animation.
"What language is this?" Of course, most of the children in the United States didn't have much of a reaction when they heard this sentence in Chinese. After all, it was only one sentence in Chinese. After that, it was still in English. It didn't affect their ability to watch the animation at all.
However, in the ears of some people, such as a chubby boy who had also been paying attention to Pokemon for a long time, waiting in front of the TV in anticipation of the premiere of Pokemon. When he heard this sentence in Chinese, his whole body instantly froze on the spot.
Not only the little fatty, but all the Chinese families in the United States who saw this scene and heard this sentence in Chinese were basically stunned. This was because this was the first time in their lives that they had heard Chinese on television. This was something that had never happened before. To them, this was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue, and it was unforgettable for them.
Years later, when some Chinese people recalled hearing this sentence in Chinese when they were young, they would tell reporters. That day, they suddenly realized that their language wasn't a lowly language, but a language that could appear on TV. It was such a loud language!
Later, when many people in the United States discovered this, they lamented on the Internet, "This is the first sound of Hua Xia defeating the United States!"
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"How is it? Is the data for the first episode out?" After the broadcast of the first episode of the animation ended, the program director in the office waited anxiously for two hours before his subordinate finally arrived.
"It's out!" The subordinate smiled bitterly as he placed the viewership data in front of the director.
"620,000 viewers!" Seeing this viewership data, the director instantly sighed. He really shouldn't have had too much hope. In the end, it was still the same result.
"Actually, sir, this data isn't too bad!" The subordinate said carefully, "Because this is a newly released animation. According to past experience, the viewership of this animation is generally below 500,000. This animation can get 620,000 viewers, which is actually very good!"
"Is that so …" The program director cheered up a little. "Then according to past patterns, how many viewers do you think the second episode will get?" “
"Well, it can range from -80% to 50%!" The subordinate whispered, "This mainly depends on whether the animation is good and can capture people's hearts. Therefore, tomorrow's viewership should be between 200,000 and 900,000."
"Is that so?" The program director sighed and said, "I don't expect it to reach 900,000. As long as it doesn't fall and can rise above 700,000, it will be enough. Otherwise, I won't be able to explain it to the board of directors!"
"…" The subordinate lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.
The people at NBC didn't know that when the first episode of the animation ended, almost all the Chinese people in the United States who saw it picked up their phones and quickly said to their friends on the phone, "Let me tell you, I just watched a super awesome animation. And it looks like the animation was made by the people of Hua Xia. You must watch it!"
Well, the reason why these Chinese people knew that the animation was made by Hua Xia was because after the animation ended, a promotional advertisement for the game "Pokemon" appeared directly. In the last scene of the advertisement, it was written in Chinese, "Hua Xia Daqian Group · Fusang Rocket Team Game Production Company."
This paragraph was bold and black, as if they were afraid that the audience couldn't see it clearly on TV.
Such conversations continued to ring on the phone. Some people even made the same call to five or six good friends.
Among them, the little fatty made the most calls. He called a total of 26 of his friends.
But after making all these calls, he felt that it wasn't enough, so he mustered up his courage and dialed a number marked with the words "White People" in the phone book. "White, it's me. I know this call is a little presumptuous, but I want to tell you that there's an animation called Pokemon. It's really good. You must watch it!"
In fact, it wasn't just the Chinese who were excited. In fact, at this time, many other people who had watched the animation also excitedly called their friends to recommend this extremely interesting work.
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