Sapporo!!!

Okay some ads rise above the rest.

This isn't tras.
I think this is "brilliancess."
(like a brilliant princess- smart and hot)

Sapporo made a series of ads with two
guys fighting over food, the Karaoke mic,
and then a snowball fight / apocalypse.

The first one is the weakest but we have to start somewhere:

Last bit of beef


Karaoke Mic



Snowball Apocalypse




I shouldn't give any points for these
cause these guys are pros and otherwise
I'd have to give points for all the great bud lite ads...
but I like how sapporo tastes ,
so +1 japan.

More Comedy that's hard to pronounce... but less beardy

Kumail Nanjiani, his comedy isn't the most innovative
-it's just observational based rants- but it's funny.
plus he often opens for Zach Galifianakis.

Yeah, so they'd share an bill, "it's Galifianakis with Nanjiani!"
I wish I could take my grandparents to their show- just to
watch them try and pronounce it.





Bonus
Japan is insane.
This is not what I expected with little red riding hood.


okay
Japan +1
US and Pakistan relations +6

Banana!!!!

I have a guest staying at the house,
so I don't have a lot of time to write sillyness
So let's just jump in okay?

This is a Japanese ad for Dole, Banana, and Mcdonalds...
and insanity.

(2 quick bits of tasty sillyness.)






and as a counter point...
this video inspired the last treatment t was working on, called "A Dance of Shadows"
The Vide gets a bit slow towards the end- but It's neat.

So you think you can Japan Dance!

Engrish yes!

"Japan's Best Dance crew"
or "Dancing with the Japan."

Yes, all Engrish ways I could have titled this entry.
and all shitty shitty puns

-Regardless
the clips are awesome

This is a P&L crew out of Japan which are amazing.

I Fucking HATE when they won't let you embed a Clip... So instead you have to make a LINK (like this one). It's so stupid.

This is just ridiculous



Awesome



Bonus Polysic video.
Eventually Polysic will probably get there own entry-
I mean how can you not love a japanese Devo cover band
that turned into a noise dance essemble while living in Silver Lake.
also this video is just fun.




JAPAN +3

Sweet Sweet Sweden

Sweden
Disciplined soccer players, former vikings, Ikea globalists, and democratic socialists.

I've only known a couple sweds in my life.
(excluding their american decedents - i.e. The state of Wisconsin)
All three sweds I encountered were tall, pale skinned, blond girls... a cliché to point.
None of them were very good at drinking and all three made some mistakes
in dating choices- especially the one that dated me for 6 months.
(Seriously, a bad move on her part).


So culturally I can't say much about it as a country.
but I believe These three clips... they speak for sweden.

Before alcohol. (I dare you to make it all the way through)


After alcohol


The Morning After
Link


Sweden +3

Wanna Fanta?!

Yes, Yes and YES!
I've been a fan of the Fanta ads and Fanta girls ("Wanna Fanta") a while
(esp the red one)

Wanna Fanta


But Japan's ads blow away ours

see Lemon men



wtf was that?
How do you pitch that.
-Director - "okay, so the 96 poud weakling is swinging a lemon tied to his head..."
- Fanta rep- "wait, what?"


but these are even better
a series of adds dedicated to
3rd graders encountering bad stereotype teachers
(my fav is the DJ)

Southwest Airlines

Okay, lets remember that last year Southwest airlines kicked
Kyle Ebbert off of a plane for wearing a mini-skirt.
Keith, a southwest flight attendant, told her-
"This is a family airline. I'm sorry your dressed to provocative to fly on this flight"









Uh, okay...
Lets look back Lamé-ites at Southwest's glory years

"Remember what it was like!"

!







+bonus
not period, but lets face it
stewardess r hot, and I'm a dude




USA +1 (could have been plus two if airlines didn't suck now)

(whoops sorry I set this post to the wrong date everybody- should have appeared yesterday)

Fight Back Japan!

I present Tarako Roe noodles.
Sure Skittles ads are awesome
but Japan seems to have created the "WTF"
commercial concept

This is an endurance contest for all you Lamé-ites
Sure you can probably survive the first one...

The original and longest...
(yes, that's your brain melting)



but what about surviving the remixes?
Let the invasion begin!
#1


They just keep coming....
#2


... like Mercyless kawaii zombies....
#3


Endless Endless....
There is no surrender
so we must hold the line!
#4


but insanity takes its coin from us
#5


All is lost.
#6


I dare anyone to try and listen to them all at once
that is the sound of Ragnarok.

Japan +2

Thailand!

This is possibly the best commercial
I've seen this year.


This is just wrong


holy crap!


ouch


Thailand +3
(hell the first one made me laugh so hard I give it +3)

Glico

Oh hell yeeeah!
Pocky is the candy equivalent of heroin addiction
You think, "Well. yes I'll take just one. They're tasty- but whatever..."

Then you eat another one.
....
Then your staring at an empty box.
...
Then it's 2am and your wondering where you can get some more.
....
Then you find yourself looking at youtube videos of Pocky.
.....

Lets start you on a simple Methadone.
A world of Pink.
Strawberry



Alright, now lets add some disco supreme base:



Okay now lets add a some flava,
Yeah bonjoirno! (sic)




Now, lets get a little funky with your transvestite grandpa.
Wait, what?!?



Wait wait stop..
WTF is happening?
something is terribly wrong here...
Why am I scared of this candy now...?



Horror candy?!



Uh... too much, too much
I think I'm od'ing
What is this...?



Please
Please....
Make them stop.
please..



ugh...
I suffer for you
Japan gains +1 point; rehab; and diabetes.