China Hush recently posted an English translation of the top 10 most annoying TV commercials in China, according to members of Chinese forum Netease.

Annoying or not, some of them are absolutely hilarious.

My personal favorites are:

Beer tea 啤尔茶爽

From CH:

This beverage is not beer and not tea, a carbonated beverage which tasted like beer and tea, but has no alcohol. According to the commercial, drink beer-tea during class, drink beer-tea while driving and drink beer-tea while working. If you don’t then you are “out”.

In the commercial, a school teacher is not familiar with beer tea. The students are quick to inform the teacher: “Teacher, you are OUT.”

To emphasize just how IN they are and just how OUT anyone who does not drink beer tea is, they say OUT in English.

Fu Yuan Jie 妇炎洁

Female hygiene product ‘Fu Yuan Jie’ aired this ridiculous commercial for years, and I was actually sad when I stopped seeing it.

In the commercial, a Chinese couple in a pharmacy picks up the product, and a Caucasian couple notices them. The Western woman says (in Chinese with a heavy Western accent), “Hello! I also use Fu Yuan Jie!”

Things then became insane when her partner speaks. The Gillette Mach 3 actor stand-in agrees in Chinese with the most ridiculous accent I’ve ever heard: “Washing is healthy!”

The funniest thing is that the foreign actors are dubbed, and the Chinese voice actors are deliberately trying to imitate a heavy Western accent.

Heng Yuan Xiang 恒源祥

This commercial made Chinese netizens livid. So much so that is was eventually banned from TV. Here is a transcript of this commercial:

• Static screen with a Beijing 2008 Olympics logo

• Deep announcer voice says product name: HENG. YUAN. XIANG.
  

• High pitched child voice says Chinse Zodiac animal name: Yang yang yang! (Sheep sheep sheep!)
  

• Deep announcer voice says product name: HENG. YUAN. XIANG.
  

• High pitched child voice says Chinse Zodiac animal name: She she she! (Snake snake snake!)

[repeat for ALL 12 Chinese Zodiac animals]

How anybody thought this would be a good idea is amazing. How this idea made it through enough people to be turned into reality is unbelievable.

Either way, this is easily my favorite commercial in the history of television.