When I talked about my next vacation to go back Hokkaido, Garth let me know the episode in which Homer tried to find out why Homer's face is on a Japanese dish detergent box. I checked the episode on the google movie search pages. In the video tape which was sent from Japanese company, their Japanese are full of mistakes but there was a true story about Hokkaido. We do have beautiful nature forests in Hokkaido. :)
And I have to say this: there's no "Mr. Sparkle" soap in this real world.
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Homer: Akira, can you read this for me? [hands Akira the box]
Akira: [reading] Ah, yes. This is a product called, "Mr. Sparkle."
Very popular dish detergent. Hey, [points to box
illustration] he looks like you. Ah! Ah - ha! Ah! Ah!
Lisa: What's he saying?
Akira: He identifies himself as a magnet for foodstuffs. He boasts
that he will banish dirt to the land of wind and ghosts.
Lisa: Wow.
Akira: Yes, you have very lucky dishes, Mr. Simpson. This soap is
from the sacred forests of Hokkaido, renowned for its
countless soap factories.
Homer: [thoughtfully] Hokkaido, eh?
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We went to see the new 007 movie, Quantum of Solace. As I expected it has great action scenes and "a few" Sony product placement. Also, for geeks, there's a scene inside of MI6 they were operating a huge screen on a table with multi touch, like the Microscoft Surface. Quantum of Solace follows right after the events of Casino Royale with a car chase so that you'd better watch Casino Royale (again) before the new one if your memory isn't good. For example, who was Vesper, who is Mr. White or something like that. Actually, I couldn't understand details of the story but I enjoyed those tricky and crazy action sequences.