What if this popular Netflix hit were set in the Netherlands? We posed that question to our readers, and their answers had us in absolute fits of laughter. 🙌
Emily in Paris tells the story of Chicago marketing executive Emily Cooper, who suddenly finds herself launched halfway across the world for an unexpected job opportunity in Paris.
With the show reaching wild heights of popularity, the question on everyone’s mind now is…what if Emily in Paris were set in Amsterdam? 🤔
We tasked our wonderful readers with pitching ideas for ‘Sam in Amsterdam’, and here’s what they had to say!
Sam gets high, tries to bike, and falls into a canal
Oeps! 👀
By far the most popular suggestion involved Sam getting high as a kite on weed or shrooms, trying to bike home, and falling into the canal by accident.
Given how common it is for tourists, internationals, and even Dutchies themselves to fall into canals, we rate this as a definite possibility!
Sam is invited to dinner by Dutch friends (and gets sent a Tikkie afterwards)
Another responder suggested that Sam becomes intimately acquainted with one of the most definitively Dutch things in the Netherlands: the Tikkie.
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In this scenario, Sam gets invited to dinner by some friends of theirs, has a gezellige avond with all of them and then — horror of horrors! — is served with a Tikkie payment request for the meal the next day. 😱
Sam learns to dress better
One reader pitched a scenario in which Sam tries to follow Emily’s fashion sense, and gets utterly drenched by the oh-so-romantic Dutch weather. (Yep, there’s a reason Dutchies tend to dress the same!)
Another pointed out how Emily frequently wastes money on fancy clothes the entire show (with the occasional hilarious result, as seen in the tweet above).
Our reader hoped that some Dutch thriftiness would rub off on Sam, and they’d learn how to save money, instead.
Sam gets their third bike stolen
…during their second month in the Netherlands. 🥴
This seems logical to us! Getting one’s bike stolen is almost a rite of passage when you move to the lovely land of cheese, clogs, and quick-fingered cycle thieves.
Sam gets run over by bikes
Speaking of bikes, several of our readers theorised that Sam would end up getting run over by busy Amsterdammers on their beloved fietsen (bikes).
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As tourists walking on bike lanes in Amsterdam is worse than raising a red flag to a bull (with some complementary Dutch swearing 😉), this seems highly likely.
What scenarios would you pitch for ‘Sam in Amsterdam’? Tell us all about them in the comments below!
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in January 2023, and was fully updated in March 2023.
Sam in Amsterdam eats everyday Chocolate sprinkles on bread and realized it’s an too sweet breakfast so started to bike and reached in Belgium
She’ll do some “jogging” on the fietspad and will be called many “beautiful” names by the amsterdamers :’D
Sam will attend a friend’s party where a tray of mixed drop will be offered to him and he will have fun/be horrified tasting salt and ammonia/salmiak drop, as well as regular. His friend will explode into fits of laughter and the faces he makes while eating. Then later this will show up again in another episode, where Sam will desperately try to avoid picking the ammonia drop and a third time when he finally realized his best bet is to politely decline what is offered.