Showing posts with label tv commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tv commercials. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Tommy Lee Jones Acts Like a Boss for Suntory

Tommy Lee Jones Boss Coffee Remember Bill Murray's struggling Suntory whiskey endorsement in Lost In Translation? Well that same maker has been producing a humorous TV commercial series for Boss Coffee starring Hollywood heavyweight Tommy Lee Jones.

Apparently, the original story line for this long-running ad campaign is that Tommy Lee and other Hollywood celebrities, are real supernatural, outer space aliens who lived and worked in Japan. Then after working various jobs, one day they all have to leave and return to their home planet. Sound familiar? Well for this series, one special extraterrestrial (TLJ) just has to come back to earth and Japan for some more Suntory Boss Coffee. And in this hilarious episode Tommy Lee really acts like a boss as a very strict high school teacher:



Note: The above clip is episode #34. For even more laughs be sure to see episodes 1-23 here.

See also: Funny Japanese TV Commercials for Softbank.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

WTF Japanese Milk Commercial #2

From WTF Japan Seriously here is yet another very wild and wacky Japanese TV commercial about milk. But instead of high-end graphics and actual milk itself, this commercial employs some synchronized pop and lock dance moves as well as many incredible acrobatic stunts. Also if you watch closely, you will see the mother engaged in the all-new Japanese sport of split walking :







And in case you're wondering "What is the #1 Japanese Milk Commercial?" Well, here it is:







See also: Hilarious 7up Chinese TV Commercial

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Hilarious 7up Chinese TV Commercial

Recently, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television in China banned, among other things, time travel on TV. Perhaps this hilarious WTF Chinese TV commercial for 7up had something to do with that WTF decision:



Hilarious 7up Chinese TV Commercial

See also: Chinese 'Kung Fu Fighting' Bicyle Video

Monday, September 21, 2009

Funny Japanese TV Commercials for Softbank

Here are some funny Japanese TV commercials for Softbank. They're all in Japanese only with no English subtitles, but basically the dog is the "father" who, of course, is one of the most important members of any family. And, with Japan's current "dog boom" still showing no end in sight, the comic premise of these commercials includes a satirical stab at many Japanese dog owners who, believe it or not, consider canines as 'humans' and that dogs are more important than children: