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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 04:29:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicholas Eckert <nicholec@nstate.nscc.cc.oh.us>
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Subject: Re: [FFML] [spam][challenge] Anime Product Endorsement
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Ever read those fics where the author makes up a silly commercial
using anime characters? Well that's what this challenge is about.
Write a silly spamfic starring any anime characters you wish, that
endorses a product. It can be a real product, or a fake product.
The rules:
-Use as many characters as you want, but no more than three can have
dialogue.
I'll do better - mine's all voiceover! Bwahahahaha!
-Use any series you want. Cross any series you want.
Oh, I'll cross series, all right...
-No restaurant commercials.
-No gratuitous use of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.
-No gratuitous use of Godzilla.
Thankfully, I'll avoid all three.
-Script format is preferable to prose.
-The spamfic should be no longer than it would take to make a 30 to
45 second commercial out of it.
Well, it should be...of course, the description of it gets longer
because
the parody has to deal with different clips that happened every, oh,
three
seconds...
And now, the first challenge entry...
<snip>
Now for mine...hmm...(insane mind brainstorms)*ding* Aha...
*research and aggravation* Browser software...crashing...
Warning to all - where I couldn't match well, jokes sufficed.
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[Fade in to soft piano music supported by strings, and a picture of
Washu
standing in thought, smoking a tobacco pipe. Black and white for all
pictures except where
specified.]
Here's to the crazy ones.
[Change to scene of Priss addressing an outdoor stage.]
The misfits, the rebels.
[Change to scene of Hitomi from "The Vision of Escaflowne", and think of
bad Martin Luther King, Jr. puns.]
The troublemakers. The round pegs...
[Cut to scene of Speed Racer showering the crowd after a victory.]
in the square holes. The ones who see things...
[Go to shot of Chiriko playing a guitar, think 60's, and then go flame
me.]
...differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have-
[Cut to scene of Ronta from "Wings of Honnemaise" holding model of
spacecraft]
-no respect for-
[Switch to scene of Ronta directing construction in the hangar]
the status quo.
[Cut again, now to scene showing Masaki Yoshi (for want of a better
Thomas Edison fusion, a light pun will do)]
You can quote them,
[Cut to Hatanaka Kosaku from "One Pound Gospel" throwing a few punches
to
the press]
Disagree with them. Glorify or...
[Cut again, testing the theory that the thirty-second commercial exceeds
the American attention span by a good twenty-five seconds; this time, to
a
picture of Quincy.]
villify them.
[Cut to Serenity addressing a press conference]
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
[Cut now to head shot of Genma in human form]
Because they change things.
[Cut to shot of Linna, Priss, Nene, and Sylia standing in a hangar]
They push the human race...
[Cut to solo shot of Sylia, in front of her hardsuit]
...forward.
[Change to clip of King Endymion]
And, while some may see them
[Cut to shot of Mara from "Oh! Megami-sama!" dancing]
...as the crazy ones,
[Cut to shot of Defense Minister Callahan with Genom excecutives.]
We see genius.
[Cut to shot of Lupin III walking in front of his car]
Because the people who are crazy enough...
[Cut to shot depicted on the Ani-Mayhem card, Pentacle, taken from
Phantom Quest Corp.]
to think they can change the world...
[Fade into shot of Chibi-Usa]
Are the ones that do.
[Fade to black, display the words "Think Different.", then a
rainbow-colored apple with a leaf on the top and a bite out of the right
side appears on the screen.]
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That, ladies and gentlemen, was an exercise in time-wasting from 10:00
P.M. to 5:00 A.M. But a worthy one.
Nicholas Eckert
vidstudent