

Kuragehime has my favorite eyecatch of all the anime I've seen:

[Kuragehime Eyecatch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu63VCPfye4)

It's very amusing, but the "tequila" is pretty irrelevant to the show. Tequila
isn't in any way relevant to the plot. It seems to be just a random word that
they chose to use.

Is there any explanation for why they say "tequila" in the eyecatch, or is it
just a random non sequitur for comedic effect?


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Is there any explanation for "Tequila" in the Kuragehime eyecatch?


Although it can't really be confirmed ( or has not been confirmed yet )

> It's a reference to a song from the 70's, which was mostly instrumental but
> contained one single lyric repeated throughout: "tequila." I guess the style
> was similar enough to the miniature music bit in that eyecatch to make the
> reference clear to everybody old enough to get it.
> [source1](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=279954)

Not sure which tequilla song they reffer to as there are about 20.


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There doesn't seem to be any sort of official reason given for "Tequila" being
in the eyecatch. I looked on every page I could find on their official website
(<http://kuragehime.noitamina.tv>) and could not find an explanation. You'll
have to translate the website into English to check.

The best explanation I can find is from
<http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/Kuragehime>, which says that
"Tequila" is [Inherently Funny
Word](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InherentlyFunnyWords).
According to the page:

> Fact: Whether by pronunciation, spelling, or use, some words are just plain
> funny to certain characters.

There are a number of websites that speculate about the reasoning but most
seem to conclude that there is no reason but that it's funny.
([Example](http://www.anime-evo.net/2011/01/01/kuragehime-review/))


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