12 Japanese TV Commercials Movie Stars Don't Want You To Find

6. Hulk Hogan - Big Flow Air Conditioner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCROasz8F0 Hulk Hogan€™s done a lot of terrible stuff in his life. Claimed he was shortlisted to be Metallica€™s new bass player. All that racist nonsense he€™s been recorded spouting as pillow talk while having sex with his best mate€™s wife. His creepy relationship with his daughter. Starrcade 1997. This commercial is not one of them. It€™s a wonderfully life-affirming production, in which a bare-chested Hogan, framed against a blue sky backdrop flecked with clouds, sings €˜The Days Of The Week Song€™ happily, even enthusiastically. Cue Hogan, propped up on one arm, gazingly lovingly at someone just off shot. Cut to shot of a smiling naked baby. Hold on, what? Cut to Hogan, still singing the nursery rhyme, but now it sounds sinister, like the ones in A Nightmare On Elm Street. Cut to full length shot of Hogan singing. He€™s wearing a pair of white boxers and nothing else, and carrying an air conditioner. Somehow, he manages to make the air conditioner sexually threatening. I was wrong. There€™s nothing okay about this commercial. You can add it to the above list€ although not above Starrcade 1997. There€™s some stuff which should never be forgiven, or forgotten.
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