Video: Japanese Cheese Curry Cup of Noodles Commercial
The advertising world really does not flex the powers of maniacal cheese-faced men with curry-shooting laser gun fingers enough. Not nearly enough! I can't vouch for the tastiness of that orange goo but having Cheese Face Man himself pop through the window and blast your cup, now that is tableside service. This ad inspired a remix with Cheese Face Man deejaying (and busting his cheese curry gun moves on stage, obviously!) mashed up with cameos by Onion Bulb Face Man, Tomato Face Man, and what appears to be White Circular Blob Face Woman. The videos, after the jump.
Japanese Cheese Curry Cup of Noodles Commercial
Bonus: The Remix
[via Cold Mud]
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Adam Kuban at 12:35PM on 08/14/09
Yea!!! Cheeese curry! Chi chi chi chi chi chi!
Since we're on awesome japanese commercials you have to remember..
Show me! Show you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0
lysine at 12:59PM on 08/14/09
Chi chi chi chi: is he saying cheese? or is this a noise?
weird.
hungrychristel at 1:10PM on 08/14/09
Best. Commercial. Ever.
savageo6 at 2:31PM on 08/14/09
I can read a little bit of the text. Japanese folks like to use a phonetic alphabet called "Katakana" to write foreign words, and I can puzzle it out. (I can't read real Japanese, written in Kanji.)
Onion Bulb Face Man? The Katekana text says "garlic chip", so I think he's Garlic Bulb Face Man, and he shoots garlic chips from his hands.
Tomato Face Man? It does say "tomato soup". But look closer, I think that's another woman! (She's slim, seems to have hips, and instead of "chi" she makes a girlish noise.)
White Circular Blob Face Woman? "mozzarella cheese"
In the first commercial, the closeup of his fingers reveals that he is shooting "cheddar cheese" and "Parmesan cheese".
When Mozzarella Face Woman appears, and they shoot cheese together, it says "double cheese". You can even hear the narrator saying "daburu chiizu".
@hungrychristel: I think he is making the noise of "chi chi chi". At the end of the commercial, there is a picture of the cup of noodles, and in the background there is a single Katakana character all over; this is "chi". What does it mean? Aha! I studied the commercial some more, and I realized that each of these people has a Katakana character on his/her chest, like the 'S' for Superman. The characters are the first Katakana character of their word. So:
chi -- cheddar cheese head man
ga -- garlic head man
mo -- mozzarella head girl
to -- tomato head girl
So now you know... and knowing is half the battle.
steveha at 3:06AM on 08/15/09
I wanted to eat this even before I saw the commercial. I wish American commercials were in Japanese...
marchpane at 10:12AM on 08/15/09
Christ almighty. Imagine opening your fridge door for a midnight snack and discovering two superheroes dressed as pieces of cheese getting it on in there. That's the kind of thing which could scar a person for life!
misscay at 12:40PM on 08/15/09
@steveha - thx for the synposis; I'd be "to" ahahaha
hungrychristel at 9:46AM on 08/17/09
What a weird commercial. Even after having lived in Japan for a year, I'm still stunned by the things they come up with.
The cheese guy is labeled as "chiizuseijin," or, "man from the planet of cheese."
bearsonawire at 12:22PM on 08/17/09