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Sometimes, we CAN have nice things

Pandagon

Such as this video, which wins forever.

 

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Posted by Auguste on 05:51 AM • (34) Comments

Panda cheese?  How do you milk a goddamned panda in the first place?

Comment #1: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  09/23  at  06:55 AM

Very, very carefully.

Comment #2: TheRealistMom  on  09/23  at  07:28 AM

It’s funny until you realize that the message is more or less ‘Buy this or we’ll mess you up’. I mean, you know it’s too over the top to be true (kinda like with the Stride Gum messages) but still… I have to wonder what marketing genius came up with the idea to threaten their customer base.

Comment #3: BlackBloc  on  09/23  at  08:46 AM

“It’s funny until you realize that the message is more or less ‘Buy this or we’ll mess you up’.”

Sometimes a panda is just a panda.

Comment #4: preying mantis  on  09/23  at  08:51 AM

I like how he just stands there and stares blankly after going nuts in the joint.

Does anybody what language that is or what country these advertisements run in?  I’m kind of a linguaphile and I like hearing other languages.

Comment #5: speedbudget  on  09/23  at  09:17 AM

These adverts are not at all surprising, since we already know that Pandas are nightmare creatures with black hearts! Thanks to Sifl and Olly.

Comment #6: apikoros  on  09/23  at  09:18 AM

That’s not funny. My mother died in a hospital after a panda unplugged her IV in a pique of rage over being rejected.

It’s taken years of therapy just to be able to post at a site with the word Panda in its name. I am DONE with Pandagon!

Comment #7: Mighty Ponygirl  on  09/23  at  09:25 AM

I want a panda enforcer!  The world shall feel my disturbing-yet-oddly-adorable wrath!

Comment #8: damnedyankee  on  09/23  at  09:29 AM

I guess that struck someone as funny, but it seems pretty vin ordinaire to me.

Comment #9: DBK  on  09/23  at  10:08 AM

Kermit the Frog was invented for a similar series of ads in the 60s.

Comment #10: Amanda Marcotte  on  09/23  at  10:12 AM

We need to show these ads to teabaggers. “Look, guy, Muslims aren’t evil, they’re living their lives pretty much just like we do, except for the panda attacks.” Either their heads would explode, or they’ll start dragging panda bears to their mosque protests…

Comment #11: Scott  on  09/23  at  10:25 AM

Sorry, but gotta do this - ad dudes goofed.  Showing overweight people (like the kid and dad) being forced to buy MORE cheese because the kid wants it and the Panda backing up the demanding kid?  Even with the cute furry thingy, I’d have a VERY hard time buying.

And it didn’t seem a blank state, but rather a continued endearing look, juxtaposed to the actions - eternal babyhood.

Comment #12: phylosopher  on  09/23  at  10:44 AM

You’re right. Fat people should never be shown on the TV, and if they are, they should be shown feverishly starving themselves in an effort to not be so disgusting.

Comment #13: Mighty Ponygirl  on  09/23  at  11:07 AM

The effect of watching the commercials back to back is especially awesome. The cumulative effect is making me nervous about the lack of Panda cheese in my refrigerator.

Comment #14: brainz  on  09/23  at  11:16 AM

Not only is there a badass panda out there making you buy cheese, but he’s backed by BUDDY FUCKING HOLLY.

Righteous.

Comment #15: Angus Johnston  on  09/23  at  11:19 AM

I love how they put all the ads together… repetition really drives home the joke, as it were.

Comment #16: atheist  on  09/23  at  11:23 AM

“Christ, what an asshole.”

Comment #17: Dan Watson  on  09/23  at  11:25 AM

I agree.
Pandas are assholes.

Comment #18: cynickal  on  09/23  at  11:30 AM

#5, The youtube comments suggest that the language is Turkish.  I was going to guess something Ugro-Hungarian, but the cast didn’t look Finnish or Hungarian and the product name and substance didn’t make me think it would be something associated with immigrants to there from where they looked like they’d be from.  Still, I can’t figure out why it’s called Panda.  But that’s not the point, either.

And even as a picky eater from hell, I’m not bothered by this humorous use of force to imply that cheese should be purchased or used.  The humor comes from the fact that it’s a panda, not from its bullying.

Mostly I’m just reminded of this .

Comment #19: 3letterjon  on  09/23  at  11:36 AM

I love how they put all the ads together… repetition really drives home the joke, as it were.

Definitely! My giggles got louder each time the panda would pop up again. Just seeing that sweet face with the gentle music and knowing he was about to lose his adorable panda shit.

Also, apparently pandas can’t get laid because they are sociopaths. :D

Comment #20: Bagelsan  on  09/23  at  12:03 PM

Furthermore, Mighty Ponygirl has ruined it for the rest of us by winning the thread only 7 comments in. Bastard.

Comment #21: Bagelsan  on  09/23  at  12:04 PM

Ponygirl@7: Trigger warning!

Comment #22: Cris  on  09/23  at  12:08 PM

Apparently, it’s an Egyptian cheese company, judging from what I’ve found around the net:

http://www.arabdairy.com/index.htm

Comment #23: Dark Avenger Guardian Chow Mein  on  09/23  at  12:16 PM

You’re right. Fat people should never be shown on the TV, and if they are, they should be shown feverishly starving themselves in an effort to not be so disgusting.

I agree. The panda shoulda just slapped that cheese right out of the kid’s hands. “No Panda for fatties!” could be their secondary tagline. (Also, everyone knows that dairy products are terrible for growing children!)

Comment #24: Bagelsan  on  09/23  at  12:21 PM

When Panda tipped over the grocery cart, I was hissing, “kick it! kick the groceries!” at my screen. And then he did. And it was awesome.

Comment #25: erinelizabeth  on  09/23  at  12:25 PM

It’s Turkish.

And these are awesome. I’d much rather see a surrealist ursine freak-out over cheese products than yet another douchenozzle woman-hating ad for some shitty light beer.

Comment #26: Dan, Grand High Emperor of Bananas Foster  on  09/23  at  12:37 PM

@Comment #7: Mighty Ponygirl on 09/23 at 07:25 AM

*applause*, *blow kisses*

Comment #27: atheist  on  09/23  at  12:58 PM

I didn’t say it wasn’t funny. I said I found the message disturbing. There’s a lot of things that are funny precisely because they’re disturbing.

Comment #28: BlackBloc  on  09/23  at  01:35 PM

Very true, BlackBloc. In this case, cute & disturbing at the same time.

Comment #29: atheist  on  09/23  at  01:40 PM

#26, really? it sounds like egyptian dialect of arabic to me. i even understand some of it (though egyptian dialect is pretty hard for me to understand since i only studied standard arabic and haven’t spent much more than a few weeks in egypt). they clearly say “gibna” for “cheese”, which is how the egyptian accent would pronounce the standard arabic “jibna”. and “cheese” in turkish is “peynir”, i never once hear them use that word in all of the commericials.

Comment #30: upyernoz  on  09/23  at  03:26 PM

I’m going to remember this the next time I type a disagreeing comment under a post, lest the Pandagon panda appears outside my front door staring at me unnervingly until either he starts throwing my coats off the rack and smashing the stairposts or I go back into the room and delete it.

Comment #31: Stubborn Kind of Fellow  on  09/23  at  06:21 PM

I couldn’t help giggling every time the panda appeared and the song started to play, but the tantrums and the forcing people to get the cheese, especially the “this order is without cheese”, made me remember all that discussion here about the Salon article on tricking a vegetarian woman into eating foie gras. And I could do without a slogan that basically says you have no right to say no.

Comment #32: colorlessblue  on  09/23  at  07:28 PM

Yes, it is definitely Egyptian Arabic.

Comment #33: micheyd  on  09/23  at  11:10 PM

Seems like the video has been put behind a privacy wall.  :(

Comment #34: libdevil  on  09/24  at  09:26 AM
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