Important Lessons Of Life Learned From Thai Tv Shows

[wintermute]

1) If you're a young hi-so woman your only worth is based on inheritance from your rich businessman family's wealth and being a socialite.

2) If you are a wealthy young hi-so man you spend all day tooling around in your luxury car slapping women around and generally not doing anything worthwhile.

3) Luk-kreung men and women apparently make up a high proportion of the wealthy elite with no visible skills beyond being pretty.

4) Rape is actually ok under certain circumstances.

5) Dark skinned people are bad or villains.

6) Rifle battles between hi-so clans are apparently commonplace.

7) Romance always starts as a love triangle.

8) Maids/housekeepers are always young and sexy. They always fall in love with the rich son who is the scion of the family's vast fortune.

9) All rich thai families live in spacious mansions with tacky gold colored furnishing.

Got anymore?

[smokie36]

If you switch off the TV you can save on the electricity bill.

[BigWheelMan]

The car crash scenes where Mercs and BMWs smash into each other, but no car damage is actually shown.

The 3 soppy policemen, who are the same 3 guys who appear in all the soaps, never meet any resistance, never speak and appear at a moments notice.

The middle aged father’s who for some reason always end up in a hospital, say what they need to say, then die.

The nasty middle aged women that go around bullying their daughters or nieces, slaps them around, but no one ever helps the daughters or defies the old hags.

The Korean and Taiwanese badly dubbed TV series, it`s always the same 1 guy and same 1 woman that do the Thai voice overs.

The maniac sons that are forever in dispute with family members and their girlfriends, end up chasing them and firing at them with guns, but no one ever calls the police and after a couple of minutes the whole incident is forgotten.

In one soap opera a young married woman is suspected of having an affair. Her husband’s family tie her to a tree and the husband’s mother stuffs a large white lump of cotton wool in her mouth. Then the husband’s sister smashes the girl in the face hard with a heavy piece of wood. The wool turns red from the blood and the girl’s slumps down dead.

I was shocked, it took me by complete surprise, was a horrible thing to have watched. Then in the next scene the family are all sitting down to dinner as if nothing had happened, even playing comedy type background music, with the bleeps and dongs cartoon sounds when one of the family members spills some food on his lap because he was drunk.

[JimShortz]

From the very small snippets of Thai soaps that I have been forced to endure (before I've been able to escape the room) I've learnt that all hi-so Thai women have pale skin, are complete bitches and have got massively annoying high pitched screamy voices that they use constantly to scream at other pale skinned screamy hi-so bitches!

Kinda puts me off hi-so...

[Garry9999]

And like sand through an hour glass, so are the days of our lives.

[BLUEEYEDTHAI]

If you switch off the TV you can save on the electricity bill.

[JetsetBkk]

Tip for producers: when recording these shows for transmission, use the smallest cheapest crappiest microphones so that any voice above a whisper is distorted beyond recognition, obviating the need for a script.

[wintermute]

Thai TV shows also don't believe in cinematography. It looks like they rented out a couple of handhelds from the local SONY shop and set them up on tripods and turned them on.

[DP25]

If you're a fat woman, a midget, or a bit slow, *boing* sounds will follow you wherever you go

[needforspeed]

Same as in real Thai life they never talk they always yell when having a argument.

The one yells loudest is the winner of the discussion/argument.

[ilovemangos]

seems strange thai tv shows are so bad....think 20 second dramatic pauses.

but thai advertisments some are very creative and funny

perhaps the tv folks could learn a bit from the advertising people

[needforspeed]

seems strange thai tv shows are so bad....think 20 second dramatic pauses.

but thai advertisments some are very creative and funny

perhaps the tv folks could learn a bit from the advertising people

Not so bad, at a time that all young children still wake up, they show on many tv channels.

Rape, killings, slapping woman and yelling people.

[Garry9999]

seems strange thai tv shows are so bad....think 20 second dramatic pauses.

but thai advertisments some are very creative and funny

perhaps the tv folks could learn a bit from the advertising people

The quality of Thai soaps, somewhat reveals the intellect of the targeted audience.

[kjhbigv]

The thing is....why do they all watch them? I just don't understand. They have absolutely no purpose and don't even reflect the 'average' Thai's life...as someone else said, it's all big houses, brand new Mini's, BMW's....real Thai life!

Talk about numbing the brain! Maybe that's the plan......??

[MiG16]

moved

[mca]

When someone you don't like leaves your presence, you will immediately adopt an evil expression on your face and start talking to yourself about your wicked plans as dramatic music plays in the background.

[Jim's_a_Thai_Fox]

Your family is absolutely minted yet never has to work.

No one is ever content with their lot.

Handguns are common place.

Thailand's roads only have BMW's and Benz's on them.

Every young woman is smoking hot and slightly unhinged.

[ColinChapman]

The closer to crimson the lipstick, the more evil the character. I used to baffle an ex-girlfriend by pointing out the bad women when she knew I couldn't understand a word of the dialogue!

More seriously, one lesson is that women usually fall in love with a man after he has raped them a couple of times.

[ColinChapman]

Violent shaking of the victim is the appropriate treatment for any and all medical conditions from gunshot wounds to cancer and strokes.

[MAJIC]

Shouldnt think any previous experience is necessary to become a scriptwriter on these soaps!

[samuibeachcomber]

thai soaps are sponsored by kleenex?No wonder thai society is so fcuked,beating up one's other half so exceptable,having mia nois par for the course.No wonder no one stays long in a relationship,oh sorry i'm talking about western values no?

[IanForbes]

Thanks for my morning laugh.

Oh so true about the Thai soaps. Unfortunately, if your lady friend wants to watch them and you want to be with her then you are sometimes stuck in the middle. But, the Thai soaps can be addicting to see what sillyness is going to happen next... sort of like the WWE wrestling.

Oh, and I wonder why I never see any of those lovely, golden skinned girls from Issan? All the soap actresses have white skin like farangs... even the so called "poor" girls from the country.

Edited April 27, 2010 by IanForbes

[blackjack281]

bad guys always use a gun to shoot but nobody ever died from it. think all the gun user in the show must go for firing practise 1st.

[crusader79]

If you switch off the TV you can save on the electricity bill.

You two should date.

[ColinChapman]

If you switch off the TV you can save on the electricity bill.

Isn't it against Thai law to switch off a TV?

[Lammbock]

I am watching only 1 Soap. NO! Its not a Thai one at Thai TV Channels......

wait for it......

Its the one on True Series. From Spain translated in English. With those Hot and Sexy Spain Girls!

Truly gives me a boner!

[iwad2010]

The background music is so OTT.

The close up of the evil face beforet he break.

The maid is actually an elite who was adopted and all the kids (women) hate her.

She falls for the OK Business man.

He falls for her.

Repeat formular as often as possible.

Edited May 6, 2010 by iwad2010

[Thongkorn]

They are all the same , boy meets girl boy does the dirty on girl boy leaves girl. Same as all the THAI SONGS.

[hextac]

Talking to yourself whilst doing facial yoga, every 10 minutes or so, seems essential for some reason...

[mca]

The furniture in your mansion must define the word " tacky "

Edited May 7, 2010 by mca