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{{trope}}
A celebrity may be willing to do certain things for [[Money, Dear Boy]], but they'll also have a set of standards for what they'll do. You may think it's reasonable that they have their principles, but you forgot that most successful celebrities sold their principles and sense of shame bundled with their soul and 92-year-old grandmother [[Deal
Deep down, not all successful celebrities believe that there is [[No Such Thing
Some celebrities are also willing to do foreign commercials as a way of keeping themselves visible in that market, when they don't have a movie being released over there at the time. Doing talk shows and TV appearances in their home country is feasible since they don't have to travel very far. Doing talk shows in a hundred different nations every other month would be nearly impossible. With a commercial, they only have to shoot it once, and it will be aired fairly often.
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* [[Jean Reno]] did a commercial for a canned coffee drink in full Viking regalia, including [[Horny Vikings|a horned helmet]].
** Reno did it again, but this time playing ''[[Doraemon]]'' of all things to promote Toyota's "Fun To Drive Again" series of ads where it shows the Doraemon characters 20 years later. Reno appears in 2 of 3 ads so far in the series. [http://kotaku.com/5900234/jean-reno-makes-a-great-anime-cat/gallery/1 See the ads here.]
* Kiefer Sutherland of ''[[
* American soccer player Landon Donovan made some ads [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Dz0wD1jeQ for a sports-based lottery in Mexico].
* Madonna has a long history of pimping Japanese goods, including campaigns for Mitsubishi in the 80's (where she performed various songs in person), Elleseine makeup (where she rides an elephant), a 1995 campaign for Takara beer (where she fights poorly-CGI'd dragons before enjoying a glass) and, most bizarrely, a 2007 campaign for a high-rise Japanese condo development.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Lost in Translation (
* Referenced in ''[[Mean Girls]]'', although the character appears to consider it unequivocally cool:
{{quote| "I hear {{[[[Alpha Bitch]] Regina}}] does car commercials. In Japan!"}}
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Joey from ''[[Friends]]'' is at one point a mid-level daytime [[Soap Opera]] star and ends up doing this from an advert for Ichiban Lipstick for Men. The advert is very much a [[Weird Japanese Thing]]: Joey is wearing bright blue lipstick while bright blue animation and dancing schoolgirls interject a number of flash cuts. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CQTnYcFGg You watch it, you can't un-watch it].
* Mo Harris on ''[[Eastenders]]'', of all beings, makes reference to the practice as part of an [[Aesop]] about how you should never sell stolen goods near your home turf and should do it a few boroughs away instead (it's not a very [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|good moral]]). ''[[Eastenders]]'' is fond of transparent ploys to be relevant so most likely, one of the writers saw ''[[Lost in Translation (
* In the ''Chinatown'' episode of ''[[Entourage]]'', Ari persuades Vince to do a very well paid Chinese energy drink commercial.
* In one episode of ''[[
* ''The Big Book of [[Top Gear]]'' features [[The Faceless|The]] [[Memetic Badass|Stig]] in one such ad.
* On ''[[Would I Lie to You]]'', one of Jimmy Carr's lies was that he'd done a commercial for snuff (of all things) in Japan.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Hot in Cleveland]]'' Victoria dreams of the day that she's achieved enough fame that she can sell out for a boatload of money. She ends up doing a commercial for adult diapers. (They preserve the freshness of crotch!)
* Conan O'Brien did a [[Super Bowl Special]] commercial for Bud Light, where he did an embarrassing ad in Sweden which got released in the United States. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13MkCDNKlo\].
** He would also use the above Schwarzenegger ads for clips for ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien''.
* On ''[[
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* http://www.japander.com/ is a Web site devoted to cataloging these.
* [[Cracked]] has made [http://www.cracked.com/funny-3966-japanese-commercials/ a] [http://www.cracked.com/article_17080_8-humiliating-japanese-ads-starring-oscar-nominees.html few] [http://www.cracked.com/article_14924_the-5-most-ridiculous-celebrity-cameos-in-japanese-ads.html articles] on this.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zb6fKHYCwA This gem] from ''[[
* ''[[The Onion]]'' parodies this by having [[Barack Obama]] appear [http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-earns-money-for-us-by-appearing-in-japanese,21292/ in a Japanese advertisement] to earn money to help the U.S. economy.
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