There's a saying in The Industry: You've gotta pay the rent. (See: Actor #1: "How was it working on Big Daddy 3?" Actor #2: "You've gotta pay the rent!") Whether it's a $40,000 monthly mortgage on a Mulholland Drive mansion or your half of the $1,200 studio above that dodgy noodle shop, nothing keeps a roof over your head except cold hard cash.

For a particular brand of celeb -- typically the ones who can't urinate in public without hitting a paparazzo -- side gigs are the easiest way to pad their bank accounts. Whereas you may scrounge for pocket change by offering to paint your neighbor's beach house or enduring a two-hour focus group on whole-grain snack crackers, American celebrities can simply hop private jets to foreign lands and film 30-second ads for six-figure paychecks. (But seriously -- they're just like you!)

The worst part? That we, the American TV watching population, the ones who actually catapulted them to fame, the ones whose kind of creepy fan dedication weblogs made them so attractive to international coffee purveyors and exotic liquor distributors in the first place, never get to see these commercials. Until now. So thank you, Internet. Carve another notch in your belt of justice.

Nicholas Cage

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Country: Japan

Advertiser: Sanyo's Fever Pachinko, a handheld gaming device

WTF-factor: It's almost awkward seeing Cage act batshit crazy on cue. Normally he takes an ordinary role like Perfectly Content Father of Two and Cageasizes™ it for maximum effect (e.g., Dad has Tourette's and a fetish for live ammo). Here though it's like, "Nicholas Cage going bonkers over three busty triplets? Yeah, that sounds about right."

Jennifer Aniston

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Country: Germany

Advertiser: Heineken

WTF-factor: Apparently, even in Germany Jennifer Aniston plays Rachel from Friends -- the charmingly helpless girl who isn't afraid to use her feminine wile to get the job done. And I bet, even in Germany, she was like, "Do you want me to play this straight? Maybe a little angsty? When we were filming my indie breakout hit The Good Girl I really had to-" and then the director cut her off and said, "OK, now you say, 'Ve vere on a break!'"

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Country: Italy

Advertiser: Telecom Italia phone company

WTF-factor: How long could it have taken for Leo to shoot this commercial? Half an hour? Forty-five minutes? Basically he shows up on set not needing makeup or hairstyling (asshole), lies down in the grass, runs his fingers through his thick, manly hair, and says, "Whatever." Here's your check, Leo, go buy another supermodel. God, he's cool.

Meg Ryan

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Country: Japan

Advertiser: Navi Navi Dingo GPS

WTF-factor: The weirdest part about this commercial isn't that Meg Ryan and her family get lost while chasing a UFO, or that apparently the Japanese had GPS technology decades before America did; it's that this commercial was made back in 1995, at the height of Ryan's career. You can imagine her agent pitching it to her saying, "It'll be fine! It's not like there's some sort of worldwide computer network where people can send electronic copies of this thing to each other."

Snoop Dog

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Country: Germany

Advertiser: VybeMobile cell phones

WTF-factor: I wouldn't be surprised if this commercial was actually Snoop Dog's idea. Like the original script called for a montage of Snoop on the phone with all his friends saying "Wazzup!" like the old Bud Light commercials, but Snoop was like, "Nah, nah. Here's what we'll do: See that refrigerator? I'll jump out of it wearing a tux. And the ladies will come out of the oven. I'll need a piano, too, and some face time for my cousins here. And find me someone who can style a proper pompadour, will you?"

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