'Fresh Air': Daniel Wu And Clean Air Network's Commercial For Avoiding Pollution With Canned Air (VIDEO)

Hong Kong's Clean Air Network has decided to ditch the frighteningly serious approach to raising awareness about the health concerns of air pollution, and is instead opting for a new hilariously sardonic method to draw in a younger generation.

In their new '80s-style commercial, actor Daniel Wu touts the wondrous qualities of "Fresh Air," a new product that allows Hong Kong citizens to "experience breathing like the rest of the world does" with a portable can of oxygen.

Wu says the product will help you master awesome new skills -- like balloon animals -- and it even comes in a variety of flavors, including the randomly amazing "horses."

The satire forecasts a comedic hyperbole of what could become reality if nothing is done to address toxic air pollution.

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Comments

[Maverickpower]

12:03 PM on 09/07/2010

Awesome , I live in the greenest cleanest air in the country , how do I start a bottling plant ????
Can I patent that ?? Who would have known we would sell water back in the day , natural progression I say .

[Daily Reusables]

03:03 AM on 09/06/2010

It's funny but it's really not. This could become a reality for future generations if we don't remove our heads from our keisters. www.dailyreusables.com

[Jim Shaffer]

04:52 PM on 09/05/2010

It's like that scene in the Mel Brookes film 'Spaceballs'. In the film Mel as President Skroob takes a whiff of air from a can labeled 'Peri-aire'.

[Mensch99]

05:00 PM on 09/04/2010

All seriousness aside, read the label on that “air-freshener.” It is poison. But a little bit of poison is OK, right?

[MamaSafi]

07:16 AM on 09/04/2010

He stole my idea-Well at least he has people thinking!

[cherokeemoon]

02:17 AM on 09/04/2010

Ok I know some places have alot of smog and such but reading this I started to think of the Mel Brooks movie Space Balls.

[jsarets]

05:34 AM on 09/04/2010

Yeah, Perri-air!

[RozTlp]

01:20 AM on 09/05/2010

Just what I was thinking... Great movie!

[Mark Harker]

01:01 AM on 09/04/2010

The phone number at the end in my opinion didn't fit with the comedic tone of the rest of the skit. I think it would have been better if they had used a fake but real sounding number.

[Liberty1967]

12:16 AM on 09/04/2010

Laugh out loud funny... but brings us to a serious topic: our Senate wouldn't/couldn't even pass a lame-ass excuse for a climate bill this summer, even with the BP disaster happening. Government signs off on massive pollution, from everything from factory farms to dirty energy subsidies. My question to y'all: at what point do we take back our power to save the earth (and, oh yeah, ourselves) from a do-nothing, industry-bought government? (And I make that statement regardless of which party is in power -- on this, it doesn't matter much.) What has to happen before we resist in a profound way?

[forest4]

02:03 PM on 09/04/2010

Liberty1967 writes: "My question... at what point do we take back our power to save the earth [and ourselves]?"

One way to deal with industry is don't buy products that are of concern. If people don't buy them, they won't sell them. Write to your representative that you want things Labeled.

Also buy items that you only have to buy once. For instance, buy a Maglite flashlight. It's made in America, and it doesn't break. Products can be made to last almost forever, if people demand it. Look at hard drives.

If China makes a better, long-lasting product, buy it. Don't buy American just to feed the landfills, following a sales gimmick patriotism.

Remember, with no trees, we have no air, and eventually no topsoil. Greece as a nation does not have enough trees to provide their citizens with air, nor do many large cities. Plant some trees, even indoor trees.

If possible grow some food. The midwestpermaculture.com page has 18 videos, one of them shows gardening [growing potatoes] on pavement in Chicago, with free mulch. Another shows how to berm your property to use rainwater and grow stuff, rather than have the rain flood city sewers.

It seems to me that the way to deal with industry is to be aware that we can take our time, our money, our energy, and go somewhere else and help the planet, and ourselves. We can be aware that corporate industries are Not the only game in town.

[mamacat]

10:28 PM on 09/03/2010

On hot, smoggy days and nights in Los Angeles, I used to take a few whiffs of medically pure oxygen. It seemed to clear my head.
I have seen canned smog on sale in L.A., never thought someone would sell canned clean air.
I cannot imagine living midst the smog of China.

[DorianCorso]

07:33 PM on 09/03/2010

Really this is considered a joke?

It wont be long until the polluters make this a reality and it wont be funny.
You can breathe all day long for just $19.95.
Pay us or die.

[steavn]

12:46 AM on 09/04/2010

You're right! It will be the same companies that did most of the polluting that will also be selling the air that we would need to breathe. Has anyone thought of that? Maybe that has been their strategy all along?

[AdamKidabra]

02:35 PM on 09/08/2010

It's like bottled water. The factories producing them produce waste that pollutes natural water sources. But don't worry... they have an alternative for you to use...

[littlepuffycloud]

11:34 AM on 09/03/2010

My friend uses a spray called 'ozone' to freshen her car...

[HawaiiSteve]

12:30 PM on 09/03/2010

I used to use Ozone when I was a kid in the 60's to cover up the smell of my favorite herb in my bedroom. My mother thought my room always smelled so fresh! Thanks for the memory.

[I3addog]

10:37 AM on 09/03/2010

I'm glad to see that people in other countries care about our planet, especially China. I must admit that I was under the impression that they didn't care.

[Liberty1967]

12:10 AM on 09/04/2010

China is actually doing a better job than we are controlling greenhouse gases.

[2riv1dra]

10:17 AM on 09/03/2010

Didn't Mel Brooks do this joke over 20 years ago? I want to go watch Spaceballs now.

[Amanda Groe]

04:34 PM on 09/03/2010

Bingo! That was my first thought too! Perri-air!

[S Rico]

09:41 AM on 09/03/2010

Love it! And, sadly it is too close to reality – I mean we already buy “clean” water in a bottle, so why not buy air in a can?

[right Alice]

09:12 AM on 09/03/2010

Too funny. Reminds me of my old college roommate who used to buy Plant Shine so that all our plants would be nice and shiny, hiding any dust that would normally accumate. The plants would eventually soon die. Which seemed to matter less than that they were dull or dusty.

[AdamKidabra]

02:41 PM on 09/08/2010

That product *exists*?! That's like brushing your teeth with turpentine.