Your Daily WTF: Nothing Says “Potato Chips!” Like A Creepy Dog Groping A Small Child
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
At first glance these may just seem like wacky, but unsettling, commercials for potato chips featuring a small boy and a creepy anthropomorphic dog….thing. It’s only after watching it a few times that one gets the impression that this is a recurring, if not daily, situation and that, perhaps, Mr. Dog has informed his young friend to never tell his parents about it because they would be very mad. Indeed, it appears that Mr. Dog and his young friend have a secret. At least there are potato chips though because, as Mr. Dog seems to know all too well, kids will do anything for potato chips.
Japan! [YouTube] : Japan Probe
Categories: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Your Daily WTF, Rape, Advertisements, Perverts, WTF, Japan, Horror, Food, Small Children, Advertising
Posted at 10:49 am on February 11, 2008
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Mogo used to see dogs and other animals doing stuff like this when he was in Japan in the 50s. Mogo was only 13, and he relied on hotel maids, porters and doormen for his information. The doorman at the Tokyo Imperial, a retired Kamikaze officer, said that the giant anthropomorphic dogs, cats, parakeets, octopi, etc. which would accost Mogo in the lanes and alleys around the hotel were embarrassing remnants of the war era, and it wasn’t considered polite to notice them. In this commercial, the dog is telling the boy that it’s OK if he gets a zero in school and eats junk food, a clearly antisocial act typical of its (the dog’s) class. During a stroll down the Ginza at night, Mogo’s mother stopped to consult a ragged fortune-teller. A nicely-dressed lady stopped to warn Mogo’s mom that the beggar was a fraud. This scene was conducted in English, Japanese and the fortune-teller’s dialect, but everybody understood everybody. If Mogo remembers rightly, his mom thanked the lady and continued getting her fortune read. Mogo recalls being astonished to see anyone down-and-out in the Tokyo of the time. Gosh, the past sure was a long time ago, wasn’t it?
Comment by Mogo the Mugger — February 12, 2008 @ 2:16 am
So great
Thank you for sharing
Comment by Pets — February 22, 2008 @ 4:55 pm