Subject: [FFML] Re: Anime Commercial Challenge
From: Yoru-Hikage
Date: 5/18/1998, 6:40 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Okay, here we go.. Can you guess which commercial this is a parody of? ^_^

** FADE IN. Scene: Genma is running along behind Soun, who is following
Happosai. **
 
Voice-Over: Time... It fools you.

** MORPH TO: Genma, running along in front of a very young Ranma **

VO: You think you have all the time in the world...

**MORPH TO: Genma, sitting with Soun in the Dojo. **

VO: And one day you wake up, and you're older...

** MORPH TO: Soun and Genma, standing behind Ranma and Akane (grown-up)
who are standing at a wedding altar **

VO: ... And getting closer to retirement.

** MORPH TO: Soun and Genma, sitting in the Dojo. Soun's hair has gone
grey, and both are beginning to wrinkle and shrink noticeably. Akane, in
the background, holds a newborn baby **

VO: And if you're like most martial artists...

** MORPH TO: Soun and Genma, sitting in the Dojo, which is visibly
ramshackle and beginning to fall apart. A breeze blows through. Soun
has begun to bald, and both have shrunk and wrinkled further **

VO: You haven't SAVED enough, LONG enough, to retire in a solid dojo.

** A board crashes down, smacking them on the head. They fall onto their
backs. Suddenly, from out of the sun, a feminine hand reaches down,
palm open **

VO: That's why there's _The Bank of Nabiki_.

** Nabiki takes their hands, and pulls them onto their feet. She hands them
a thick wad of bills, and the dojo magically repairs itself. She runs off,
with
Soun and Genma waving after her. **

VO: Ask about our retirement funds TODAY, because the one thing we don't
enough of..

** Nabiki dances through the street, throwing money left and right **

VO: Is time. ... Look to the Girl. The Bank of Nabiki.

** Fade to Bank of Nabiki logo, then black **


-- Yoru-Hikage