John Fleming Pushes Gas
Possibly one of the positive results of ridiculous college entrance exams and a culture of cram schools: here’s a series of Tokyo Gas commercials. Various historical characters jump out of his armoire (the other end of a time portal) and learn about natural gas products, including John Ambrose Fleming (ad #4)! I swear, though, in the US, you couldn’t run an ad that makes fun of Fleming’s Left Hand Rule. You just couldn’t.
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Tags: ads, commercial, gas, Japan, natural gas, physics, YouTube
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed (optionally with tweets from my Twitter)!
March 24th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I’m not quite sure I understand why Nobel, Newton, Fleming, Beethoven, and Galileo can speak Japanese but Shakespeare can’t. Nor why showering causes Galileo to turn into a woman.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:36 am
The Shakespeare made my life. Interestingly, it was one of the few I understood with any facility. I feel like Japanese commercials almost uniformly speak too quickly… smitten sigh
January 16th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Musi Musi
This ads are typically trying to cover various aspect of the Japan. There are various Historical characters with modern characters. Which are promoting the natural gas products. Not only US you couldn't run this type of ads in UK.
Chris Salvia
January 16th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Hi
Ya Japanese Creative Directors has create remarkable commercial about natural gas. Many historical characters are combined with new artists. These commercials are the Japanese fusion of Past History and Present Phenomenon.
Chris