http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso.swf
Would someone please explain to me what the fuck this is about? I can’t begin to describe the aspects of this that I found disturbing, yet I find “Show me! Show you! Kikkomannnnn!” going through my head on endless loop.
It’s a soy sauce commercial.
In japanese.
They want you to buy soy sauce.
Here are two other threads about Kikkoman:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153072
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=144891
I still don’t understand.
In Japanese, “shoyu” is soy sauce. Hence, “show you.”
I wonder, though, how many Japanese speakers actually made the connection to “Show me” and “Show you.”
Zippy th’ Pinhead had this as a subject recently. It’s not yet posted at http://www.zippythepinhead.com/index.html but I expect it will be soon.
Funny stuff.
God I love those crazy Japanese flash movies.
Don’t forget Kikkoman soy sauce is kosher too!
There was a thread about another wacky flash movie about a year back. hehe
Thanks for the links. Some guy just sent me this, and it kinda floored me. Shoulda searched. Never underestimate the teemers.
I just saw the English version (it’s linked to on one of the linked threads).
Gee, thanks guys. Now I’m going to have nightmares for weeks about cats being hung, fish-headed guys wearing sumo belts, and the bottle of Worcestershire sauce in my cupboard being attacked by the soy sauce.
EEEPP!
I live a block away from a Kikkoman manufacturing plant. I guess I should be on the look-out for fishheaded superheros and keep the cats indoors.
Wow.
That is seriously demented.
Sometimes I think that Japan is on a whole 'nother planet and we just haven’t noticed yet.
Why did the cat hang himself? Why?
Anybody else think of the Mr. Sparkle commercial from The Simpsons?
I’ll have to ask my wife when she gets back from work tonight, but I remember her telling me earlier that there was some sexual play-on-words involving either his name or the kanji on his loincloth.
Dunno why the cat hangs himself, though.
BTW, a lot of these flash animations are made by some folks at a message board called Mona. Here’s a page from their site that contains links to other flash files.
http://salami.2ch.net/mona/kako/1018/10180/1018056023.html
Not all of them work.
Not all of them are safe for the office.
Most of them are pretty weird.
I don’t think that cut hung himself.
It looks to me like the cat was being forced to put soy sauce on omelette, and when it refused Kikkoman killed it.
This led to a fight with a young girl who was the cat’s owner, who Kikkoman than molests.
Kikkoman versus the Ambiguously Gay Duo.