Besides, why pick on the Japanese again. The French or the Chinese are more irritating today.
poJanuary 28, 2019, 2:04 PM
Does anybody watch this stuff and remains sane?
EskymanJanuary 28, 2019, 2:06 PM
Perhaps it’s only because I’m a “long looong mannnnnnn” myself, but I appreciated those!
American TV isn’t my forte, I gave up watching it over a decade ago, but if it had commercials that were as fun-looking as those were maybe I’d still watch it sometimes. All the prescription drug commercials & gee-aren’t-men-stupid commercials helped kill it for me; now Jillette has taken up the challenge with their hold-my-beer latest, but I won’t be seeing it on TV.
Now: where can I get a new mouse? The ones in Japan look a lot more fun- and versatile!- than the one I’m using now!
PA CatJanuary 28, 2019, 2:11 PM
Just for Miss Olive: a 7-minute compilation of Japanese commercials focused on cats: the first one features a salaryman being personally transported to work by a giant cat; and at 2:10 ff, a commercial in which a cat allows a crowd of neighborhood cats (and a pigeon) to invade her home after the human leaves for the day– with Frank Sinatra singing in the background. Well, they’re different, and I think the Editor should have a vote too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-pFuqH-Q2E&ab_channel=CompilationExtraordinaire
PatJanuary 28, 2019, 2:32 PM
The young adults are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Their energy should be spent marrying and having children, not acting like children.
Mad CeltJanuary 28, 2019, 2:50 PM
I’ll have one of whatever they’re drinking!
steve walshJanuary 28, 2019, 3:05 PM
That is some weird ass shit. Tommy Lee Jones appearance reminds me of Bill Murray’s character in Lost in Translation. Perhaps if I understood the language the ads would make some sense.
Once again strengthening my theory that the Japanese are actually aliens from outer space still trying to fit in unobtrusively with humanity and not entirely succeeding.
azlibertarianJanuary 28, 2019, 6:29 PM
I’m an airline pilot in my real life, and have spent most of the last 5 years travelling almost exclusively to Japan. Their commercials (and some of their talk and game shows) are worthy of snickers, but then if you turn the volume off of American commercials, you might come to the same conclusion.
I like the Japanese. They are polite, shy, and efficient. It is an amazing experience to get on a Tokyo subway car (packed to the gills) and see no one….not one person….talking on their cell phones. Sure, they’re reading something or playing some game, but no one would dare to interrupt a fellow traveler’s peace by exposing them to their cell phone conversation. And you should see their homeless. They keep neat and orderly camps….adjectives completely missing when describing the American homeless.
Hale AdamsJanuary 28, 2019, 7:19 PM
… by which I am reminded of just how big the soft spot in my head is for oriental women ……
Dayum.
Hale Adams
Pikesville, People’s still-mostly-Democratic Republic of Maryland
Steve in GreensboroJanuary 28, 2019, 11:56 PM
The first time I saw the “Japs, nuked too much or…” line was in Miss Kathy Shaidle’s FFF blog probably attached to a video like this one. For a while she burned brightly, generating almost Florence King like levels of wonderful misanthropy. But she seems to have gone into a quite period. Hope she is OK.
HJanuary 29, 2019, 5:29 AM
If Tommy Lee Jones hadn’t already been nuked to me for life for being a flaming liberal masquerading as a manly-man, his “work” in this contraption would have finished it off.
arcsJanuary 29, 2019, 7:25 AM
It’s nice to see your tumblr come back.
Bill in TennesseeJanuary 30, 2019, 6:42 AM
Not enough, apparently. I know the purpose of an ad is to generate excitement about a product, but these folks seemed to have jumped the shark decades ago. American ads are, by comparison, quite tame… but I still mute them, ignore them, and go off to the kitchen or the bathroom when they come on. I can’t recall the last time I saw or heard a TV commercial from beginning to end, except maybe subliminally when I have dozed off for awhile.
Not JapaneseJanuary 30, 2019, 8:05 PM
If you can be weirder than the Japanese, you have really achieved something.
azcatsclawJanuary 31, 2019, 6:22 AM
Baby Shark came out of South Korea, way more annoying
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Just right?
Besides, why pick on the Japanese again. The French or the Chinese are more irritating today.
Does anybody watch this stuff and remains sane?
Perhaps it’s only because I’m a “long looong mannnnnnn” myself, but I appreciated those!
American TV isn’t my forte, I gave up watching it over a decade ago, but if it had commercials that were as fun-looking as those were maybe I’d still watch it sometimes. All the prescription drug commercials & gee-aren’t-men-stupid commercials helped kill it for me; now Jillette has taken up the challenge with their hold-my-beer latest, but I won’t be seeing it on TV.
Now: where can I get a new mouse? The ones in Japan look a lot more fun- and versatile!- than the one I’m using now!
Just for Miss Olive: a 7-minute compilation of Japanese commercials focused on cats: the first one features a salaryman being personally transported to work by a giant cat; and at 2:10 ff, a commercial in which a cat allows a crowd of neighborhood cats (and a pigeon) to invade her home after the human leaves for the day– with Frank Sinatra singing in the background. Well, they’re different, and I think the Editor should have a vote too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-pFuqH-Q2E&ab_channel=CompilationExtraordinaire
The young adults are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Their energy should be spent marrying and having children, not acting like children.
I’ll have one of whatever they’re drinking!
That is some weird ass shit. Tommy Lee Jones appearance reminds me of Bill Murray’s character in Lost in Translation. Perhaps if I understood the language the ads would make some sense.
I feel: entertained.
I am: hungry for noodles!
Nuke them again for spite is my vote.
Wow, the residual effects of radiation poisoning are a bitch. The girls are hot though.
Once again strengthening my theory that the Japanese are actually aliens from outer space still trying to fit in unobtrusively with humanity and not entirely succeeding.
I’m an airline pilot in my real life, and have spent most of the last 5 years travelling almost exclusively to Japan. Their commercials (and some of their talk and game shows) are worthy of snickers, but then if you turn the volume off of American commercials, you might come to the same conclusion.
I like the Japanese. They are polite, shy, and efficient. It is an amazing experience to get on a Tokyo subway car (packed to the gills) and see no one….not one person….talking on their cell phones. Sure, they’re reading something or playing some game, but no one would dare to interrupt a fellow traveler’s peace by exposing them to their cell phone conversation. And you should see their homeless. They keep neat and orderly camps….adjectives completely missing when describing the American homeless.
… by which I am reminded of just how big the soft spot in my head is for oriental women ……
Dayum.
Hale Adams
Pikesville, People’s still-mostly-Democratic Republic of Maryland
The first time I saw the “Japs, nuked too much or…” line was in Miss Kathy Shaidle’s FFF blog probably attached to a video like this one. For a while she burned brightly, generating almost Florence King like levels of wonderful misanthropy. But she seems to have gone into a quite period. Hope she is OK.
If Tommy Lee Jones hadn’t already been nuked to me for life for being a flaming liberal masquerading as a manly-man, his “work” in this contraption would have finished it off.
It’s nice to see your tumblr come back.
Not enough, apparently. I know the purpose of an ad is to generate excitement about a product, but these folks seemed to have jumped the shark decades ago. American ads are, by comparison, quite tame… but I still mute them, ignore them, and go off to the kitchen or the bathroom when they come on. I can’t recall the last time I saw or heard a TV commercial from beginning to end, except maybe subliminally when I have dozed off for awhile.
If you can be weirder than the Japanese, you have really achieved something.
Baby Shark came out of South Korea, way more annoying
Don’t change, Japan!
Ah….schoolgirls..no, stop that.
100 megatons stat