When I was in elementary school, I was a big comic book fan,
and my favorite was perhaps The Fantastic Four. I even had a subscription to it for a while. And in this comic book, every so often there are stories with a great character galled Galactus, who likes to sputter around the
universe consuming planets and stuff. Well, he sends the Silver Surfer around
looking for planets for him to chow down on, and as it happens, Earth strikes
his fancy. And, naturally, the Fantastic Four must find some way to dissuade
Galactus from pigging out on our home planet and destroying mankind.
Now, they never did explain why it had to be Earth (or at
least, I don’t remember them doing it, although it was a long time ago), and I
wondered why Galactus couldn’t just eat another one of the planets in our solar
system and leave us be. And that brings us to this silly idea for a Gas-X
commercial featuring Galactus.
So the idea here for this Gas-X ad is that Galactus arrives
to consume the Earth, and the Fantastic Four must try to stop him from doing
so. So Reed Richards asks the Silver Surfer why Galactus doesn’t eat another
planet in our solar system, like, for example, wouldn’t Saturn or Jupiter not
be better for satiating his appetites? But the Silver Surfer says that gas
giants give Galactus bad gas pains, so he has to consume Earth. So Reed
Richards says that Gas-X will stop gas from being a problem, and he offers it
to the Silver Surfer, who then gives it to Galactus. And Galactus is so
appreciative, he decides to spare our whole solar system and eat planets
elsewhere, because like most Earth people, Galactus just loves eating food that
disagrees with his stomach, and he simply adores eating gas giants, but before
he discovered Gas-X, he couldn’t stomach them. And so Earth and humanity are
saved once again by the Fantastic Four, and all thanks to Gas-X, without which,
everything we know would have been obliterated.
