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Thems Orientals Makes Great Punchlines!

By Andrew Belonsky February 4, 2008 at 10:02am · 7 comments


We forgot about or repressed all memory of this overtly offensive Super Bowl commercial. Thankfully Mollygood’s Cord Jefferson reminded us that Asian racism still exists!

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7 Comments

  • Gorgeous Black Women

    Yeah. My racism radar definitely went off with this.

    February 4, 2008 at 12:02pm
  • charlie tu

    yeah – i was a bit shocked when i saw this. stupid asian pandas.

    February 4, 2008 at 2:02pm
  • Bryan

    Yes I was TOTALLY FUCKING SHOCKED at this commercial. We had to stop it and because we didn’t believe our eyes. The whole thing was grotesque (I started to list what offended me but it became too long of a list!

    February 4, 2008 at 3:02pm
  • Meeg

    Wow! Really stupid and kind of racist. I’m surprised there hasn’t been more backlash about this (then again I guess salesgenie.com isn’t exactly Pepsi)

    February 4, 2008 at 4:02pm
  • boy6221

    Other than “back to the zoo” I see little racism. Are they not just giving the characters, well, character?

    February 4, 2008 at 5:02pm
  • Mike

    What was racist about it? The accents? So what if they had actually used real Chinese immigrants as the voices – would that have been racist then?

    Is Apu on the Simpson’s racist?

    Maybe the reason its not getting much attention is because all of your over sensitive pc meters are out of sync.

    February 4, 2008 at 6:02pm
  • hells kitchen guy

    Racist, shmacist, it’s just a lousy ad. Can’t even tell what it’s selling.

    February 5, 2008 at 10:02am

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