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VOICE OVER: Patrick Mealey WRITTEN BY: Lindsey Clouse Get ready for some serious secondhand embarrassment! Join us as we count down our picks for the most awkward, offensive, and just plain bizarre TV advertisements from around the globe. From racist washing machine ads to celebrities behaving strangely in Japanese commercials, these advertisements crossed cultural lines in all the wrong ways. Our countdown includes Leonardo DiCaprio's oddly philosophical Italian commercial, Nicolas Cage's wild pachinko machine ads, Arnold Schwarzenegger's energetic Japanese energy drink spots, Volkswagen's controversial Golf commercial, the creepy Calbee Dog, and the infamous Chinese food ad that transformed a German family. Which foreign commercial made you cringe the hardest? Let us know in the comments below! read more...