Kikko-PUNCH! Kikko-BANG!

April 30, 2004 11:45 AM

The oddest bit of Friday flash that I've yet seen. It's apparently an ad for Kikkoman soy sauce... but it's the most bizarre ad I've ever seen. A caped superhero type guy with a whole fish for a head rides on a motorcycle, pours soy sauce on people, apparently drives a cute little kitten to suicide, then goes to bed with the condiment-based superhero world's answer to Sailor Moon. Deeply weird.
posted by Shoeburyness (23 comments total)

ahem.
posted by funkbrain at 11:48 AM on April 30, 2004

This is hilarious and weird, even though it has already been discussed at metafilter.
posted by funkbrain at 11:54 AM on April 30, 2004

Well, dangit. That thread is two years old, though...
posted by Shoeburyness at 11:54 AM on April 30, 2004

The cat.
posted by mcgraw at 11:58 AM on April 30, 2004

everything old is old again.
posted by crunchland at 12:26 PM on April 30, 2004

Old, but a classic. I think I still know the words to the Kikkoman song, and to Yatta.
posted by PrinceValium at 12:28 PM on April 30, 2004

Here's the translation, for those interested:

The great hero Kikkoman!
Soy sauce makes the difference
Pour it, taste it, be amazed!
Restaurants are no mach to him
Take his blow the "Kikko-punch"!
(Eat sunny-side up with soysauce!)
Show me Show you Kikkoman Kikkoman
Show me Show you Kikkoman!
The Star of Soy has send him here
The cool guy called Kikkoman!
Try soy sauce and be healthy
Did you know that it kills germs!
Sauce? Ketchup? Nonsense!
Vanish them with "Kikko Beam"!
I said eat eggs with soysauce, idiot!
Show me Show you Kikkoman Kikkoman
Show me Show you Kikkoman!
Alright!
posted by PrinceValium at 12:29 PM on April 30, 2004

It's peanut butter jelly time!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:39 PM on April 30, 2004

Is the Show Me / Show You thing a pun on shoyu?
posted by CunningLinguist at 12:47 PM on April 30, 2004

Here it is with subtitles
posted by unreason at 12:48 PM on April 30, 2004

I wonder who would win if he went "vs." Pepsi-man.
posted by codger at 12:56 PM on April 30, 2004

Is the Show Me / Show You thing a pun on shoyu?

Yeah, it's a play on words.
posted by vorfeed at 12:58 PM on April 30, 2004

I love this. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo."
posted by blucevalo at 1:02 PM on April 30, 2004

Yep, there's your answer, fishbulb.
posted by turaho at 1:07 PM on April 30, 2004

hey turaho
posted by mcgraw at 1:42 PM on April 30, 2004

There's a version of the catchy little song, by an Amsterdam band called Ghorar Deem Express, downloadable here.
posted by different at 4:42 PM on April 30, 2004

Why am I vaguely aroused after having watched that?
posted by fenriq at 7:50 PM on April 30, 2004

cary the car says...

"___ __ ___ ____, ____ ____!"
posted by quonsar at 7:57 PM on April 30, 2004

Seriously, you people need to stay out of my private affairs.
posted by Kikkoman at 8:07 PM on April 30, 2004

Kikkoman, I've already called the SPCA and PETA. You can't go coercing kitties to hang themselves and get away with it.

And what's up with the fishhead?
posted by fenriq at 10:08 PM on April 30, 2004

Yep, there's your answer, fishbulb.

Hey, thanks.
posted by fishbulb at 11:52 PM on April 30, 2004

Thank you for this waste of time, mcgraw. Hee!
posted by cortex at 8:44 AM on May 1, 2004

All good, cortex. But I have to give credit to turaho, as he's the one who posted it.
posted by mcgraw at 11:23 AM on May 3, 2004