Last week I introduced you to Learn English Conversation With Carol, the web series from batsh*t Taiwanese cartoon magnate Next Media Animation, wherein a Taiwanese lady named Carol teaches viewers conversational English phrases and terms (like “Bandwagon” or “he’s got a good head on his shoulders”) with the help of Jeremy Lin. And not just normal Jeremy Lin … a computer generated Jeremy Lin from a parallel dimension where the Knicks renamed their team LIN and people still give a f**k about Jeremy Lin.

Episode 1 was about discovering Lin, and episode 2 was about jumping on the Lin bandwagon. In episode 3, the fans are watching a game and complaining about how Lin keeps turning over the ball and needs to defend when he dribbles, but things turn out okay in the end. If we’re going by any sort of real life timeline, episode 4 should mostly be about Carmelo Anthony, and in episode 5 everyone will be wearing Heat jerseys.

Episode 3 (‘sup, Carol? Call me.) is below.

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Are you an international With Leather reader looking to learn a little English so you can have colloquial conversations with the locals about basketball? If so, would you feel more comfortable learning it from a cute Taiwanese lady and a Who Framed Roger Rabbit?-style living cartoon of badly-animated Taiwanese Jeremy Lin? If you answered yes to either of these questions, who the f**k are you and how do you exist?

Anyway, Taiwan’s Next Media Animation project Learn English conversation with Carol! is my new favorite web series. I enjoy the premise (especially if it ends with LeBron James lowering animated Lin into a vat of The Dip) and I like knowing there’s still a place in the world where people think Jeremy Lin is inspiring and great at basketball.

For your viewing pleasure, I present episodes one and two. In episode three, Carol issues Order 66 and the sh*t goes down.

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