# Thai-Themed Lightbulb Commercial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 13, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301 "2008-07-13T03:46:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301/1 "2008-07-13T03:46:09Z")

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See it [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z70zNOSZ160). This … is … funny. (All ghosts are actual ones from Thai culture.)

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301/2 "2008-07-13T04:02:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Siam Sam]  
See it [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z70zNOSZ160). This … is … funny. (All ghosts are actual ones from Thai culture.)  
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My favorite part:

And that’s the jackfruit ghost, right?

No, that’s a transvestite.

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301/3 "2008-07-13T04:06:20Z")

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My husband showed this to me last month. The hanging-guts vampire lady is scary, even with the lights on!

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**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301/4 "2008-07-14T14:48:07Z")

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Thai commercials are [pretty](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSSjm3_qgFk&feature=related) [darn](http://youtube.com/watch?v=6hiclFExDQQ) [funny](http://youtube.com/watch?v=nSebQ3VCKMQ) .

[This one](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TgPmaNMReKQ&feature=related) is adorable.

[This one](http://youtube.com/watch?v=E6Iup11cSy8), on the other hand, is not… 😃

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**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301/5 "2008-07-14T15:02:56Z")

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[QUOTE=Queen Bruin]  
My husband showed this to me last month. The hanging-guts vampire lady is scary, even with the lights on!  
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That’s a \*[phii krasue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasue) \*, isn’t it? They supposedly either drink your blood, chew on your intestines, or (as S.P. Somtow has it) eat poo…

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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thai-themed-lightbulb-commercial/456301/6 "2008-07-14T15:39:20Z")

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[paraphrasing from God-awful memory]

[father in commercial]: “That’s Kra-Sue. It goes around in the night looking for things to eat…”

Me: Cat name! 🙂