Introducing Choki!

**Introducing Choki!** is the fifth episode of Season 4 of Dumb Teacher and the forty-fourth of the series. It originally aired on February 14, 2008. This episode marks the first appearance of Choki Takahashi, according to the title.

## Synopsis

Choki Takahashi, a transfer student from Japan visits and stays in America for the first time. Dan and Logan immediately befriend him and get him hooked on suburban American culture, but his parents might not allow Choki to stay at Greenhill Elementary if they find out what he's been doing lately.

## Plot

The episode begins at Greenhill Elementary, where McNeese is seen announcing his classroom's first classroom student from Japan, Choki Takahashi. Choki sits next to Dan and Logan, and when it is study hall time, McNeese sarcastically advises everyone to read a book, which every student in the class takes seriously. Choki takes out the fourth issue of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga from his Totoro backpack and starts reading it, Dan and Logan are fascinated by his copy, as it is in Japanese. At lunch, Dan and his friends invite Choki over to sit with them, he accepts, only to have his spot taken by a bully. Choki advises the bully not to rudely take his spot, but the bully ignores him and calls him a Jap, which is a racist slur for Japanese people. Choki is shocked and advises him not to call him that slur again, otherwise he will have to use self-defense. The bully still ignores him and calls him a Jap once more, prompting Choki to use self-defense against him, impressing Dan and his friends. After school, Choki asks Dan if he can come over to his mini-home, there, Choki explains that his parents are owners of the Takahashi Technologies corporation, and that he has saved up enough money to transfer to an American school, further increasing their relationship.

When Dan and Logan walk with him around downtown, wanting to show him around Greenhill, Choki stops in front of an electronics store window display, where he sees a cartoon playing on one of the TV screens. Choki claims that he has heard of but has never seen Western animation before and is very fascinated by it. Dan agrees with him. The three stop at a 7-Eleven to get a 4-pack of Red Bull, which surprises Choki because in his country, children have to be supervised by a parent in order to purchase energy drinks, and his parents do not allow him to drink energy drinks. Dan purchases a single can of Red Bull for him, he tries it, and really enjoys it, even being fascinated by its flavor. Dan then invites him to see Quest for the Masks at the movies, where Choki is amazed by the qualities of El Kadsreian cinema, and enjoys the Maxibon ice cream bars served there. He also talks about how his parents forbid him from doing stuff untraditional to Japan. The three then have fun together,, dancing at arcades, watching Toonami recordings, and other types of fun stuff. Choki begins to enjoy the, "suburban American lifestyle", but starts to worry when his parents, Akihito and Hayami call him and let him know that they are going to visit his mini-house. Choki then has a bad dream where his parents kill him, similar to a popular scene in Fist of the North Star, after seeing the posters and cans in his room.

The next day, at Aaron's Ice Creamery at the Greenhill Mall, Choki tells Dan and Logan that his parents are coming over, and they hate him doing things that aren't traditional to Japan, and believes that they would be furious at him because he drank a lot of Red Bull, and his parents don't approve of him drinking drinks with taurine in them. To cover it up, Choki hatches a plan to disguise Dan and Logan as other Japanese transfer students named "Haiyama" and "Tomoya", since Dan knows Japanese due to him being an Elkadsreophile (El Kadsreians speak Japanese), while Logan doesn't and has to use a micro translator Dan created in order for Choki's plan to work. Choki also cleans up his mini-home off-screen. The same night, Dan and Logan arrive in their disguises and are prepared to meet Choki's parents, when they arrive, the five have a Japanese dinner, which Logan finds disgusting but still has to eat otherwise. They also participate in activities, such as watching Choki's parents make offensive portrayals of El Kadsreian Islanders, which causes Dan to go outside and cry in sadness over the offensive words he had to hear and pretend to enjoy in order to not blow his cover. The plan goes well until the end, when Choki's parents are about to leave, and Akihito takes his coat from the murphy bed's handle, which he mistook for a coat hanger, it is revealed that rather than actually clean up the mess of Red Bull cans, Choki hid them in his murphy bed. A can of Red Bull rolls onto Hayami's foot and she picks it up and examines it. Akihito then asks what the meaning of the empty can of Red Bull is. Choki, not wanting to lie any longer, emotionally confesses to his parents that he has become interested in American culture, and that his Japanese transfer friends are actually American.

However, after hearing the confession, rather than angrily punish him for breaking their rule, Choki's parents burst into tears, revealing that they, too, were into American culture, but due to their parents' abusive nature and huge hatred for all things American, they threatened to beat them to a pulp, and ever since, they promised themselves to do the same for Choki. As a result, his parents apologize to him and allow him to stay in Greenhill, including post-school year since their parents believe he's responsible enough, despite the cans of Red Bull seen on the bed. The next day at school, Choki and his friends talk about how last night went, and then decide to go to Dan's house to play some video games.

## Trivia

* This episode, according to the title, introduces Choki in the series.
	+ Choki, however, does not make an appearance in the following episode, Mommy Stinky Part I.
* Dan abridgedly explains his father being a "Carefree Sugarless Bubblegum dad". Carefree was a line of sugarfree gum made by The Hershey Company.
* Dan makes a reference to the famous Technic Heroes slogan, "Guaranteed it's like nothing you've seen before", which is often used in trailers for Technic Heroes movies.
* The movie Dan, Logan and Choki see at the Majestica Theatres is Quest for the Masks, which was coincidentally, referenced in the previous episode as a poster in Dan's bedroom.
* The music playing during the montage of Dan, Logan and Choki having fun together is "Barbie Girl" by Aqua.
* This episode marks the final time Toonami was referenced in Dumb Teacher until the episode, Michael Turner: The Father of Logan, as the block had shut down on September 20, 2008. The aforementioned episode was also dedicated to the block, and the opening scene involved Logan watching Toonami's final broadcast.