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Funny commercial for bananas from Dole (English translation below):

Girlfriend: We have been going out for almost 3 years…
Boyfriend: Delicious.
Girlfriend: Why are you eating that banana…
Boyfriend: Sorry.
Girlfriend: It’s about time (I introduce you to my parents)…
Boyfriend: Delicious.
Girlfriend: Why are you eating bananas…
Boyfriend: Sorry.
Girlfriend: After going out for 3 years, it’s time we…
Boyfriend: Delicious.
Girlfriend: Are you [...]

Around 34 seconds into the video, you can see the dog make a big grin when his master asks “wanna go for a walk?”.  He doesn’t seem to smile at all to strangers (1:14).

The master goes on to say that his dog really started to smile a year after he took him in. He is [...]

Geddan （ゲッダン）, Engrish for “Get Down” is a meme phenomenon from Japan that has already come and gone, but started to catch on a bit in the US last year.  Geddan is a weird funny dance that originated from an intentionally made glitch in the Nintendo 64 video game “Goldeneye” and eventually made its way [...]

You may recall the Clash Engrish post from way back when (we also made stickers out of this design).  Well Kirainet.com, run by a Spanish blogger in Japan, made a fun video from the clash signs they found at Hamamatsucho station in Tokyo. Nice to see real life Engrish on video!

Here is a pic that [...]

I recently stumbled across this on Youtube:

This is the type of bad manufactured Engrish from the western mind (albeit 1960’s mind) that I try to avoid at all costs. Every once in a while I’ll have to delete captions (comments) on the main site because they sound like this Jello commercial.

I checked it out - this thing is actually legit!

This music video was shot for the Japanese band Sour - for their song entitled: ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of Everyday). The cast were selected from Sour’s fan base from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

SOUR / 日々の音色 (Hibi no Neiro) MV from Magico Nakamura.

OK, at 5 million views some of you may have seen this one already, but if you are in the mood for silly stuff it couldn’t hurt to watch it again (the signs even have Engrish):

The above video is taken from the comedy duo Downtown’s tv show “Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!“, which often features [...]

I just caught this video from Japanese TV for the first time:

I previously linked to this commercial through Twitter, but it has since been submitted to me repeatedly so I thought it best to share again here. Warning - might be a bit gross for some: