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Destroyer · Joined: 11 Dec 2005

I wanna compile a video of bad English TV commercials. I'm trying to think of shining examples of crazy English on TV, but all I can come up with is Daniel Henny saying "Let's Bravo" about an icecream cone and "Are you Gentle?" about a car. This guy is everywhere, mangling his native tongue for a few sponsership bucks...

Anyone got any other commercials for me to keep my eyes open for?

mithridates · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

We have a whole category on that:

http://wiki.galbijim.com/Category:Slogans

'Milk Itself' is one of the best.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Wow, I totally forgot about "Let's Bravo." That deserves a big WTF? Especially since the actor is a native English speaker . . . he has no business pulling that shit.

There's been a few threads here about the commercial with "makes me wanna kill myself" playing in the background. I've still yet to see it.

And one that always pissed me off---though I can't remember the product---was about a turtle ship that travels through time and winds up in Korea circa 2005. The guys get out and they're talking about something or other to a gaggle of reporters. The last question is, in English, "So how about Korea these days?" God damn . . . two Konglishisms in one small sentence. That was always got to me.

Merlyn · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Location: Korea

Another one on these days a lot, says something like "It is my pride". Can anyone give more details. Think it is about banking. Bad though.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

jennateacher · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:24 am Post subject:

One of my favs is a realestate/apartment comercial "I love view" no need for articles or to pronounce the v.

maeil · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Location: Haebangchon

What I'm seeing a lot lately is the incongruous use of the word 'scandal.' The only two examples that I can come up with are:

1) For a television phone - I can't think of the name brand. One with a girl looking under the couch, watching her television phone, the other with a girl peeling an apple, watching her television phone. They end with a the slogan, "TV Scandal."

2) On the Style channel recently, I've seen a commercial showing all the types of things you'd expect to see on that channel: celebrities, fashion, money, makeup, etc. As these images are flashing, dangling from various locations on the screen is a sparkly, metallic pink dog tag with the words "Pink Scandal" written on it.

What the hell is a pink scandal? Or a TV scandal, for that matter?