General Electric: Scarecrow

Ad with a scarecrow promoting "Smart Grid" technology.

By the way, GE owns NBC, the network the Super Bowl is on this year.

Looks like a public relations ad to me.

It's pretty clear that whoever made this ad knows very little about electrical engineering.  I love the station post insulators just sitting on top of that truss, doing nothing useful at all.  I'll give the animators that one, nobody expects them to know anything about electrical engineering.  What I won't give them is the disappearing wire.  Overall, the idea of a scarecrow in a substation (if that's what they're trying to make it look like) is an awful idea.  The scarecrow is conductive and flammable, so if you ask me, "if he only had a brain," he'd stay the heck away from all this high voltage.

Originally posted by regulus It would have been a lot better (and funnier) if at the point when the Scarecrow reached out and grasped both elements ZZZZZZZZZZZZAP!!!! (And the Scarecrow's TOAST!)

"If I only had a BRAAAAAAAAAAAIIIAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP*



THIS ONE indeed SUCKS as a superbowl ad.

good catch on the disappearing wire and the badly designed electricity towers pslawinski, I never noticed that before.

I liked this one.    Good animation and better than the recycled ad.    Yes, the GE ad with the little boy "capturing the wind" in the jar is an old ad, just with different(and worse) music.