Bit of a project…
I don’t watch much TV, but when I do, I’m (dumb)struck by the commercials. I’m usually revolted or irritated, but sometimes find some that are rather creative. Wondering which ones you love or hate (feel like taking a sledgehammer to your tv screen).
And have you noticed how they play the same ones in succession? Why?
The evil twin skin whitener ad is still on! Gad! 
The Domino’s guy needs to be put out of his misery…
I like the KTV ad with the nice-looking Chinese guy singing in the shower and then he starts coughing really hard.
I’m tired of the dandruff shampoo commercials. Pert? It’s the green bottle.
I don’t watch a whole lot of TV so I don’t see to many ads. The ones for the skin whiteners I find very annoying.
The ads for the gum, the ones that are badly dubbed. One is a wedding, the other is a magic show… SO BAD…
There also used to be the furniture place in Neihu that advertised all of the time with the really loud and horrible song… haven’t seen it in a while though!
Stuck in front of the idiot box yesterday daytime at the in-laws and saw an ad that must be pretty disturbing for kids – a Psycho parody featuring the stabbing-in-the-shower-scene. They were selling some kind of TV. Anyone seen that one?
[quote=“Sharky”]The ads for the gum, the ones that are badly dubbed. One is a wedding, the other is a magic show… SO BAD…
There also used to be the furniture place in Neihu that advertised all of the time with the really loud and horrible song… haven’t seen it in a while though![/quote]
Hahaha, yes, the Li-Li Furniture store commercial, haha. Even my Taiwanese friends laugh at it, and say it’s such a horrible and annoying commercial.
The funniest thing is that one of my friends saw that song in the book at a KTV place.
There’s that one and the hotel/spa commercial…the pirated commercials. I think the all-time bad commercial since I’ve been in Taiwan is the Lux commercial with Liv Tyler…you know the one where the woman says,‘The sun and sea wind seriously damaged your hair. What can I do?’ and she replies, ‘No problem’…I still shudder everytime I say ‘no problem’ because I get flashbacks of that stupid commercial.
“Liv Tyler, welcome to Sydney!” :finger:
There’s a cold remedy one where an “obasan” and a housewife type are at a market, the housewife coughing for all the world like she’s got some terminal disease, and the obasan pushes a few cold pills on her, always cracks me up.
as for the domino’s guy, grasshopper, don’t know if you knew but he’s the owner of domino’s in taiwan. not too much misery happening over there
[quote=“ImaniOU”]There’s that one and the hotel/spa commercial…the pirated commercials. I think the all-time bad commercial since I’ve been in Taiwan is the Lux commercial with Liv Tyler…you know the one where the woman says,‘The sun and sea wind seriously damaged your hair. What can I do?’ and she replies, ‘No problem’…I still shudder everytime I say ‘no problem’ because I get flashbacks of that stupid commercial.
“Liv Tyler, welcome to Sydney!” :finger:[/quote]
And what is Liv during that commercial, high on life or …what?
‘The sun and sea seriously damaged your hair (and if I keep taking this “medication,” the serious damage may spread). What can I do (about this spacey look just below my great skin and hair)?’
My favorite isn’t a commercial but a 15-minute infomercial for a TCM alternative to Viagra (can’t remember the name). The look on the guy who pulls his underwear out away from his belly and, looking down, feigns shock at the new growth is priceless, imo.
Think of TV ads as BGM, background music, for the news segments. Think of them as cosmestics for the visually sleepy. Eye candy for those pure moments of bliss. Teasers from the outer planets of our brain. Take no enemies!
[quote=“ImaniOU”] I think the all-time bad commercial since I’ve been in Taiwan is the Lux commercial with Liv Tyler…you know the one where the woman says,‘The sun and sea wind seriously damaged your hair. What can I do?’ and she replies, ‘No problem’…I still shudder everytime I say ‘no problem’ because I get flashbacks of that stupid commercial.
“Liv Tyler, welcome to Sydney!” :finger:[/quote]
And where is she coming from when she arrives at Sydney Harbour? Don’t they even check her passport?
She looks about as gormless in LOTR, so maybe she’s just arrived from NZ on hiatus from filming.
That Penelope Cruz Lux one too. “LUKES THUPER REECH”
[quote=“ImaniOU”]There’s that one and the hotel/spa commercial…the pirated commercials. I think the all-time bad commercial since I’ve been in Taiwan is the Lux commercial with Liv Tyler…you know the one where the woman says,‘The sun and sea wind seriously damaged your hair. What can I do?’ and she replies, ‘No problem’…I still shudder everytime I say ‘no problem’ because I get flashbacks of that stupid commercial.
“Liv Tyler, welcome to Sydney!” :finger:[/quote]
Believe it or not, the redhead that works on Liv’s hair is a friend of mine.
The commercial that is getting to me is some runt offspring of the Everready Bunny just beating his little drum, and beating and beating and beating…aaaarrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
I like the Heineken commercials. The one with the girl from Friends and the older one where the guys freeze their arms off trying to find a Hienie in the barrel.
The bad ones are the “buy insurance before the Grim Reaper comes” commercials. Bad taste. Also the guys playing chess with real people. All for a bottle of whiskey.
I want to add one more thing. In the states, it is considered bad form for stars to do commercials, so you can see people like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie doing commercials here where you can’t in America.
I started to see this one the other day. Cracks me up everytime. There are these two twenty-something guys riding a wild rollercoaster. Everyone is screaming with excitment but these two are sitting there looking bored out of their minds. The one guy even rolls his eyes at the screaming couple in the seats in front of them. Then we see the guys walking out to their SUV truck. They start the truck and it launches and they start to scream like the people on the rollercoaster.
I’m not sure what they are advertising – whether it is gas or maybe a kind of truck or something. The steering wheel in on the opposite side so I’m assuming that the ad is from England. If anyone has seen this one and knows what’s being advertised I’d appreciate knowing.
Hans
I can’t stand this one either…or the earlier one where the dubbed announcer says, “Lady and gentleman, Liv Tyler!!!”
How about the Charlie Therezon (sp.?) commercial where she asks a random stranger in the elevator to be her “double” (puts her hat on the hapless stranger and runs away to wash her hair).
Or the gum commercial for the bride with the (too) tight wedding dress, who is only able to say “I do” by chewing the gum.
Ahh…I think I’m watching too much TV. 
Did she REALLY work on her hair? I could have sworn it was done in front of a blue screen… Details, Details!!
How about “mod’s hair”. That ad really helps disple the stereotype of the gay hairdresser!
I like the stupid ad for Hinet withthe kid rapping and the Taichi old guys.
There was a good ad a few years ago. Guy drinking Taiwan bebr. Semi naked women on the telly. Gets up to adjust the set. Sits the beer on the telly. Reception fine. Removes the beer. Reception bad again. Does htis a few times and sits back ont he couch to drink the beer, despite being unable to see the naked women.
brian
[quote]There was a good ad a few years ago. Guy drinking Taiwan bebr. Semi naked women on the telly. Gets up to adjust the set. Sits the beer on the telly. Reception fine. Removes the beer. Reception bad again. Does htis a few times and sits back ont he couch to drink the beer, despite being unable to see the naked women.
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Stolen. I used to see that ad on TV for some kind of Scottish beer way back in the early 80s.
[quote=“scooter”][quote=“Toe Save”]
Believe it or not, the redhead that works on Liv’s hair is a friend of mine.
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Did she REALLY work on her hair? I could have sworn it was done in front of a blue screen… Details, Details!![/quote]
I don’t know what details you want. I was sitting in front of the idiot box, like I am most nights, and this stupid commercial comes on with that horse face Liv Tyler…I mean, c’mon, her old man is an ugly Mick at best, why oh why are we continually subjected to this drug-induced offspring of his…but I digress…anyhow…I don’t have the details of the shoot, but I’m willing to bet that Hollywood North struck again as you all thought she was in Sydney, when in fact it was Vancouver…I wasn’t on set to know, but I’m guessing she was acting like a hair stylist…
The female actor’s name is Leslie Wilson…she’s been in quite a bit, I’m sure a search at some dmb will result in a few matches…I cast her in Othello as Iago’s wife and she stole the show. Won a Jessie (Vancouver’s TONY) for it.
Like you can remember anything from the early eighties…I bet u can’t even remember when the early eighties were.
[quote=“Toe jam”]Like you can remember anything from the early eighties…I bet u can’t even remember when the early eighties were.
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After click-clacks and before Transformers, if I recall. Gold eyeliner, backcombed hair, frilly shirts and suede pixie boots … and that was on the men.