ピタコラスィッチ (Pitagora suichi!)

[Crowley]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9133671200734505806

Just.... genius! Apparently from the breaks between a kids TV program in Japan.

I robbed it from this (http://quaisi.net/) blog.

[OaklandZoo]

At first I was like "hey this reminds me of that super long Honda Ad I saw a few years back". Then I realized this was much, much better.

[SlickWilly440]

Hearing that Pitagor Suichi announciation over and over agin throughout the 14 minute video was getting on my nerves. Nice find by the way.

[Kwiz]

Sweet! I had no idea so many of those were made. They're called Rube Goldberg machines, by the way.

[patrick797]

I remember watching this in NHK whenever i don't have school. Nice show this is.(hums the Pitagora Suicchi tune)

[seiji]

The "Pitagora Switch" Rube Goldberg-style eyecatches are the best thing on NHK. :clap:
Followed closely by "Daddy Switch", in which a small child turns an empty tissue box into a remote control with five buttons labelled with hiragana. The kid pushes each button on the Daddy Switch and Daddy mimes an action that begins with that letter. Some of them make up really complex phrases to act out.
only おとうさんスイッチ I could find (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13B_NKF4PbU)
(His actions are "rugby player," "gnawing on apples," "ruby ring," "x-ray," and "rock 'n roll".)

[Crowley]

I think I just died with the cuteness of that child.

[I Like Shinny!]

only おとうさんスイッチ I could find (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13B_NKF4PbU)
(His actions are "rugby player," "gnawing on apples," "ruby ring," "x-ray," and "rock 'n roll".)
Awe, that wuz so kute.

[羽之助]

The dad in that video really does rock. And we must all adopt his daughter.

[japanat]

BTW: the pitagora is from Pythagora, as in geometry

[MNJetter]

Ooh, I never knew that, but it makes sense. They wouldn't bother sounding out the foreign "th" sound in "Pythagoras" anyway.

I think that they make "Daddy Switch" completely for the sake of the parents who watch kids TV with their kids, and need something to go "awww" at in between all of the other stuff.

"Well done, Daddy!"
*bows respectfully* "Thank you very much."

That's always quality. :D

[Danistar]

Haven't seen that video in a while, thanks for posting it.

[paideuo]

Oh, I saw those videos so long ago. (i.e. I am better than you. Afterall, what else can that mean? The fact that I saw something long before you and you have only just seen it can only mean that I am better than you, no?)

Very cool video, though, even if you aren't as good as I am, as a result of having found it so late...

[patrick797]

Fun show indeed. Liked that Algorithm dance thingie. Just makes me laugh whenever i see it on TV.