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A discussion place for ABC's show Fresh Off the Boat. Inspired by chef Eddie Huang's memoir, FOTB follows the (fictionalized) Huang family as they blend their Chinese roots with their American dreams in Orlando.

Welcome to the home of Fresh Off the Boat. Based off of Eddie Huang's memoir of the same name, Fresh Off the Boat is the first Asian American fronted television show since Margaret Cho's All American Girl.


Starring:

Randall Park as Louis Huang

Constance Wu as Jessica Huang

Hudson Yang as Eddie Huang

Forrest Wheeler as Emery Huang

Ian Chen as Evan Huang


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What do you think about about the boys' relationship?

Eddie and his boys are giving me mad flashbacks of my childhood. They do seem vanilla compared to the trouble I got in at their age but all and all they do all the stuff me and boys did growing up in the late 90s.

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2024/04/20
00:35 UTC

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Help me remember: what is it Louis gift wrapped to look like a pen?

I don't remember the episode or even the season, but there was this great understated joke I'm trying to remember. Louis is talking about his skills at wrapping presents and/or disguising what they are and mentions that he once wrapped something to look like a pen. I'm trying to remember what that something was, I only remember that it was way too big to make sense. Does anyone remember what it was or could point me in the right direction to figure it out?

3 Comments
2024/04/15
10:31 UTC

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Brothers reunion

Brothers in Harvard together!

2 Comments
2024/04/14
08:49 UTC

4

Indefensible behavior

I hate when the shows defends Jessica's toxic traits as a parent, wife, friend and employer. In several episodes Jessica gets critiqued by other characters for her behavior but by the end the conclussion is that her hard approach has its purpose and is done out of love.

4 Comments
2024/04/12
11:13 UTC

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A friendship like theirs....

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2024/04/09
14:59 UTC

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Pls explain joke

In Huangsgiving, lois says Steve played charades & mimed ronald McDonald. Jessica says "your guess made everyone uncomfortable". I don't understand this. Pls explain

3 Comments
2024/03/21
15:06 UTC

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Eddie

Poor Eddie. S5 x ep15 makes me feel bad. I know he plays pranks and does stupid things. But the way his mom said she didn't want his screw up juice on her perfect son. I'd personally never recover. I know its a sitcom but that made me hate Jessica even more

1 Comment
2024/03/11
21:33 UTC

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Who went through the most pain throughout the whole show?

3 Comments
2024/03/08
07:47 UTC

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What attracted Honey to Marvin

Marvin and Honey are a paradoxical couple. They work so well on screen you forget the age difference. They actually seem more comfortable with each other than Jessica and Louis. Their timing is great and personalities seem to mesh well for it to be funny.

However, when I step back and try to figure out what attracted Honey to Marvin originally I can't think of anything. Sure he's succesful and somewhat charming. But Honey is probably late 20s when they met? She a pretty good catch, unless she was crazy then.

The only thing that makes sense is if Honey was a gold digger, but eventually got to genuinely love him. And she's a good enough person to put the money motive aside.

2 Comments
2024/03/07
23:43 UTC

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Jenny Huang's english

Why does Jenny Huang understand English perfectly but never speak it?

5 Comments
2024/03/03
11:55 UTC

2

Hudson Yang Discord Server?

I am pretty sure Hudson Yang had a discord server at some point. Is it still a thing? If so, does anyone have a link to join it?

0 Comments
2024/02/20
13:44 UTC

2

Season 6: Jessica Town

In this episode they say "Christmas 1999" has to be a big Christmas but didn't they have a previous episode about it turning over to 2000, the millennial, and everything going crazy?

3 Comments
2024/02/14
08:51 UTC

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So I started reading the book and right off the bat, why is the grandfather not in the show?

Title

4 Comments
2024/02/10
17:59 UTC

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Music from the Sexual Harassment Video (S1E5)

Hey everyone! I only just started watching Fresh Off the Boat yesterday since I realised I could stream it off Disney+ and I just finished S1E5. In this episode Eddie has a sleepover with his friends where they watch a movie that turns out to be a sexual harassment video, but the music in the background seemed extremely familiar to me. It took me a while but I realised the music was from a childhood video game franchise of mine called "MySims". Not sure if this is common knowledge or not but I thought I would just put this out there because of how random it is.

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2024/02/08
10:18 UTC

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Which episode Grandma Jennie walk off wheelchair?

I swear I watched that episode where Jennie walks off the wheelchair but I forgot what episode it was. Can anyone name me the episode or am I just imagining stuff.

4 Comments
2024/02/06
01:44 UTC

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Where can I watch fresh off the boat?

7 Comments
2024/02/05
12:34 UTC

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Jessica Huang is so annoying and needs to leave Honey the fuck alone

I can't stand Jessica Huang. Jessica wants everyone to live by her standards, and thinks that she is much more superior, and when something doesn't go her way, she tries looking into it because she thinks she is so perfect, she even blames people for HER mistakes and faults, even projecting all her problems onto others. Her book wasn't even that good and didn't even make sense when Louis read it. There's so many scenes in Fresh Off the Boat involving her that really just make her so fucking annoying. FOR EXAMPLE.

S4, E3>!Honey and Marvin decide that they want a baby, but Jessica (+ Louis) who think they are doing good in the world, assume, "Oh, due to my shitty experience with my shitty kid, Eddie, I will not let YOU have a baby that I will not be birthing. Why? Because I just got out of kid jail!!! And YOU won't hang out with me!!! You also need to snap back into reality, and not get what you want because I don't want you too". Then in the karaoke room, once Honey finds out what Louis and Jessica did, Jessica has the nerve to tell Honey, "It's a big decision. One that all four of us need to be 100% on board for." !<

S4, E19>!When Honey just wants to have a little vacation before the baby comes, Jessica makes it about herself, and thinks, "No. My book is amazing, Stephen King would never reject me." and decides to just reroute and not go Key West like Honey wanted. Although she did make up for it in the end, it's still not fair that she got her way, and Honey never got the vacation she wanted. They ended up going back home just for Jessica.!<

S5, E2>!Once Honey finally gets the time to relax and make up for the time she didn't rest for her "vacation", she decides to have a drink to calm herself, when all of a sudden, Jessica intrudes her home, sneaks up on her, whacks her drink out of hand and has the nerve to tell her she was helping her then offers her another drink. Then once Honey drinks it, she starts to control her and rules her like she's a toy telling her, "You can't be cold. You can't shower," blah, blah, blah. She even invades her home and privacy and doesn't let her do what a human being can do because it's "Chinese culture". Then once Honey escapes and Jessica finds her, she expects her to do it all over again. I don't know what's wrong with Jessica, but that whole episode was wrong and shitty, especially since she got her way and instead of the main focus being Honey, it was Jessica who actually had the spotlight in the end because her book was a failure.!<

S5, E12

!Jessica and Honey are playing Battleships, and for some reason, in the span of 1 hour, Jessica hasn't been hit a single time. Then once revealed she was cheating and not playing the game right, Honey plays her way which is, 'moving the ship because when you're under attack you don't stay still'. Then throughout the episode, Jessica takes advantage of Marvin and uses him because she 'didn't know what to get Louis for his birthday'. She takes the present that Marvin bought with his own money, steals it and claims it as her own, then buys a card, and writes what Marvin said to her and not only that, Louis LOVED it. But I guess she made up for her mistakes in the end by apologizing and doing what Louis wanted rather than what she wanted.!<

Anyone notice that Jessica got a little... rounder on the face.

11 Comments
2024/02/03
13:49 UTC

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I'm the only one person got bored after the season 4?

(Sorry if my English is bad, it's not my first language). I started to watch this serie between December 23' and January 24', bc I've seen the serie in TikTok about the first and second season. I found it too funny and I started too see the serie.

In my opinion, the first season was the best, the characters are so funny and have an important paper in each episode, I was very "hooked". More or less the same in the second season. We can see how the family Huang have adapt in their new place, Orlando and see how developed the life of the characters...

The 3rd season was good, nothing to stand out, it was still entertaining, we can see more of Louis and Jessica relationship and the life's of the three kids.

A days ago, I started the season 4, I've been watching until the episode 20, and I got bored, Idk how or what, but each episode start to be "repetitive" and I began feel "bored", I don't fell the same "hook" like the firsts seasons and I think that it's not happening nothing (exception the broke up of Alison and Eddie).

Reading the other people's opinion, I'm reconsidering to leave the serie.

What do u think? What do u recommend me? Without spoilers, does something important occurs?

(Cr to Google translator and WordReference, sorry if something can't read bc my orthography)

I'll read your opinions...🙃

23 Comments
2024/01/30
14:06 UTC

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Problems with the timeline

Eddie says he is saving up for an n64 at release and play goldeneye which doesn’t come out at release.

Release was September 96 but goldeneye doesn’t come out until August 97….

5 Comments
2024/01/29
03:28 UTC

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“Asian Sheldon is not real, he can’t hurt you” Asian Sheldon:

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2024/01/29
03:16 UTC

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That friend of eddies

Whats the name of the actor who plays eddies friend . I think he plays as the cool guy . He has this really sharp face and now I feel like he has grown up and prolly plays in some watt pad adapted movie he just has that face

4 Comments
2024/01/20
17:50 UTC

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I have the same bowl from FOTB

1 Comment
2024/01/16
23:22 UTC

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S03E01 Coming from america is the realest episode as an immigrant!

I moved to the US in 2011, moved back to Germany in 2021, plan on moving back in 5 years or so.

honestly… I watched coming from America just now and it’s so real! how they realise they don’t belong in either place how both places have pros and both have cons.

I hate being in both places I love being in both and I miss the other depending on where I am currently.

this sucks.

1 Comment
2024/01/11
19:32 UTC

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Do you love Garfield like Grandma Huang?

2 Comments
2024/01/07
10:23 UTC

2

Who is actually the main character

Who is the main character or does it change throughout the seasons, I can’t tell

6 Comments
2024/01/05
23:28 UTC

108

Evan is in Harvard for real!

4 Comments
2024/01/05
22:26 UTC

11

I love Jessica Huang

She gets me in a fits of laughter and as a Asian myself i got auntie like Jessica

1 Comment
2023/12/22
20:52 UTC

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Christmas Episode - The Real Santa (2.10)

This is a charming if untraditional homage to Christmas! I loved Jessica’s model village and how it was used for scene transitions. Jessica wants to make Santa a more aspirational figure for Evan, which starts by making Santa a scientist (meaning whoever plays Santa at Cattleman’s Ranch will have to answer complex math questions) and ends with Evan meeting “Laoban” (or “Boss”) Santa, a Chinese woman with multiple degrees and a LeBaron she leases, as its better for her taxes. She makes a pretty compelling point - who else would be thoughtful and organized enough to keep a detailed list of what every child wants but a woman? Who else could figure out the complex science behind a flying sleigh, yet be slight enough to fit down a chimney? To quote Evan, that dude Chinese. Meanwhile, Emery had lovingly handcrafted the last missing piece to Jessica’s model village, but Honey gives her the exact piece. Eddie’s advice is to let the situation work itself out, seeing the pro in procrastination. First he suggests Emery calligraph a poem Eddie wrote, but it turns out to be plagiarized from Tupac. In the end, Honey’s figurine is accidentally smashed, and Emery’s backup homemade piece saves the Christmas village. This episode is unabashedly about Christmas - literally rewriting Santa’s origin story and debating thoughtful vs novelty gifts.

12 Days of Christmas Episodes - countdown here!

0 Comments
2023/12/16
18:56 UTC

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