Japanese Commercials: Better Than Your Commercials
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
While in America chains like Pizza Hut® and Domino’s® advertise their consumables with footage of slathering, half-starved, middle income families, clawing hungrily for the new Cheese Injected Deep Dish Obscenely Large Meat Fister’s Pizza With Cheese And Meat™, the Japanese chain, Pizza-La®, takes a different tact. In their ads, animated, anthropomorphic pizza ingredients dance behind a boy with a slice of pizza for a head. This is all well and good until the end where, having extended thanks to his topping friends, said dancers turn their backs on Slice Boy, condemning him to a lonely, black existence. Food can be so cruel.
japanese pizza commercial [YouTube] : Laughing Squid : Cynical C
Categories: WTF, Anthropomorphism, Food, Japan, Advertising, Animation, Dance
Posted at 10:29 am on January 23, 2008
8 Comments -
I’ve known about this for awhile, and that time has been the happiest period of my life. I watch this at least once a day. Nothing makes me happier, except perhaps the sublimely bizarre Tarako commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5QlQkojQYI
Comment by Stefan White — January 23, 2008 @ 11:03 am
Reminds me of the inside of my Tokidoki purse.
(For reference)
Comment by Giania — January 23, 2008 @ 11:11 am
There was a garlic with a hitler moustache in there.
Comment by Jakkar — January 23, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
They’re sorry, but this video is no longer available.
Comment by V. Blame — January 23, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Ha, I didn’t even see Onion Hitler!
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — January 23, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
damn it, thought I’d be the first to point out the Hitler Onion. =[
Comment by jontk — January 23, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
I remember the Pizza-La commercials from when I lived in Tokyo. One of the more bizarre was the ones featuring Bob Zapp. I couldn’t find the one where he said “Fou-fou” in excess, but this one is also weird. It doesn’t really make me hungry for pizza:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUgJ9hEufGU
Comment by Hans@Trondheim — January 23, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
gods. i love japanese commercials.
Comment by groonk — January 24, 2008 @ 9:30 pm