居酒屋で天ぷらばかり注文してツッコまれる回

What does ツッコまれる mean in Japanese?

This clip’s title says it all: someone orders nothing but fried tempura all night at an izakaya, dish after dish, and gets ツッコまれる — playfully called out for it by friends. ツッコむ literally means “to poke or thrust into,” but in everyday speech it describes pointing out something absurd, illogical, or repetitive, the way a comedy partner would. Getting ツッコまれる means becoming the target of that friendly ribbing.

The word comes straight from manzai (漫才), Japan’s stand-up double-act format, where the ツッコミ (“straight man”) reacts to and corrects the ボケ (“funny man”)'s nonsense, often with a sharp comeback or even a swat with a fan. That boke-tsukkomi rhythm has leaked into ordinary conversation: any time a friend does something silly and gets ribbed for it, Japanese speakers say they got ツッコまれた, far from any stage. In the clip, “天ぷらばっかりやん” (nothing but tempura, huh) is exactly this kind of gentle, comedic correction.