WTF Japan Seriously!?

[Blue_Tires]

[bluesbassman]

1. I may have to take up smoking weed and learn some Japanese...

Loved the dog mooning the peeps on the ground!

[Baitball Blogger]

2. He wasn't mooning them.

He was using his tail as a power motor.

It was a Japanese power motor. That's why you didn't recognize it.

[bluesbassman]

3. I see. Well that makes sense that I didn't recognize it, because this is a power motor...

Allison V12.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. I bet you can't guess what the ad is for

[Blue_Tires]

8. I'm almost afraid to guess

[Scuba]

5. I liked it. What am I supposed to buy?

[Blue_Tires]

10. Steroid-based foodstuffs for pet dogs and birds?

[Scuba]

11. Didn't you hear what he said? That dog was way to smart to eat crap food!

[pinboy3niner]

6. I thought the original Toto was much better--and he didn't overact

[progressoid]

7. How about the umbilical iPhone charger...

[sharp_stick]

9. The sad thing is

I'd probably buy that just for the looks I'd get at meetings when I said I had to plug my phone in.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. It's for a family cell phone plan that lets you include

students who don't live with you. (A new thing for Japan? I don't know.)

[Art_from_Ark]

14. The dog's name is Kai-kun

and he's been the spokespooch for SoftBank for years. He's become quite a celebrity, and when he didn't appear in commercials for a while, it led to the Japanese version of the "Paul is dead" rumors.

[davidpdx]

13. I've found some of the commercials here in Korea a little strange

The talking dog was actually pretty cute.

Here's a good collection of Korean commercials:

This is not Korean, but it is perhaps my favorite foreign commercial:

The sound isn't great on it, but it has subtitles.

[Jamaal510]

15. When

the dog was wagging its tail, it reminded me of one clip I saw on the MTV show Ridiculousness, where they showed a hippo wagging its tail while taking a shit.