The TED volunteer translation project is a remarkable endeavor. And along with getting to see beautiful Arabic subtitles on my TED Talk, two super volunteers, Wolf Ruschke and Jens Heyer, did the German translation. Admittedly, Mister Splashy Pants is a bit hard to translate, but what they came up with is rather amusing: Mister Splashy Pants ( = wet/splashy/dirty underpants)