Green Eggs and Ham

Ciao,

This post it's not going to be long, because I'm coming to you only with a curiosity.

Lately, we were made to write an essay about the audiovisual translation. We were supposed to chose one film/Tv serial and find some interesting examples of translations.

I've chosen a TV serial "How I met your mother", because it's one of my favorites and I love watching it over and over again. I chose the episode 4 from 6th season called "The race" (probably). On the one scene Robin said "Is anyone else craving green eggs and ham?" what has absolutely no sense in polish or italian, but some traductors decided to leave it in its original version. So I started digging and I discovered it's an establishment to an popular book for children called "Green Eggs and Ham" written by Dr. Seuss and  it's about Sam-I-Am, trying to convince the narrator to try green eggs and ham. He spends most of the book, offering the unnamed character different locations and dining partners to try the delicacy. In the end the unnamed character relents and eats the green eggs and ham, and end up loving it. From that title came out a saying "green eggs and ham" as something you don't wanna try, but you're probably gonna love it.
So knowing it the scene has completely different meaning, so as the future traductors we should pay attention to all the details like this one.

Baci,
Oliwia

P.S. There a TV serial on Netflix based on that story - worth watching too. :)