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Tag Archives: commercials
Asian American Commercial Watch: Bounce’s “Don’t Let Wrinkles Ruin Your Meeting”
https://youtu.be/nTeDJNPDEwU I caught this recent Bounce commercial: “If only Harry used some Bounce to dry, he would be less wrinkly and winning at life. Toss wrinkles, static, lint, and pet hair goodbye.” This businessman is pitching something to a group … Continue reading
Asian American Commercial Watch: Annabelle & IBM Watson on Life Experience
https://youtu.be/vqjndtS8jQU When I saw this IBM TV commercial about Watson (“… a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data.”), Annabelle reminded me of my niece – who … Continue reading
Posted in 8Series, Asian American Commercial Watch, Technology
Tagged actors, Asian-American, commercials, ibm
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Asian American Commercial Watch: ‘Office Holiday Party – Discover it Card Rewards’
I caught this commercial Discover credit card commercial recently and found it pretty entertaining, though I’m not surprised the Asian American female office worker had dated a white male co-worker named Gary last year, but admits that he was a mistake … Continue reading
Posted in Asian American Commercial Watch, Comedy, Entertainment, TV
Tagged actor, actors, Alice Lee, Asian-American, commercials
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Controversial Groupon Super Bowl Commercial Exploits Tibet for Laughs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOwJOcp-Mxk I was only half-watching Super Bowl XLV today, but my attention was piqued when an ad featuring Asians (Tibetans) appeared on my TV. It turns out, it was an ad by Groupon, featuring Timothy Hutton which opened with what … Continue reading
Posted in Observations, Sports, TV, WTF
Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertising, advertisments, commercial, commercials, Groupon, Super Bowl, Tibet
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Michelle Wie in McDonald’s Ad
I was channel surfing the other night when I came across a Chinese version of this McDonald’s commercial on the Bay Area’s local Chinese channel KTSF. I had wondered why a Korean American would be in a Chinese language commercial, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, TV
Tagged Asian American Commercial Watch, commercials, mcdonalds, Michelle Wie, television
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SuperBowl Ad features Doritos Samurai Throwing “Ninja Stars” and Swinging “Nunchucks”
Here’s a SuperBowl commercial that annoyed me, courtesy of Doritos. In this ad, some guys in a gym take Doritos from samurai– and suffer the consequences!!!111!!1 OMGLOLWTFBBQ! This ad was popular enough that it ranked in the Top 20 of … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Drink, Observations, TV, WTF
Tagged ads, advertising, commercials, Doritos, karate, Karate Kid, kung fu, martial arts, Super Bowl, tae kwon do, television, trailer, user-generated
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