We open on a Monday morning at your typical office with workers getting back into their boring routine, their mindsets reflecting traces of lethargy, if not depression. This blah a.m. is broken up by Eric, the mailroom guy who’s making the office rounds with his mail cart. He takes a swig of AMP Energy Juice, which a voiceover describes as “the best tasting wake-up call,” giving Eric “the energy to make things happen.”
Indeed Eric is inspired as he passes some discarded computer equipment, including a monitor and other junky looking components. We later see that he has transformed this junk pile into a soft-serve ice cream dispensing robot.
The workers revert to their childhood, behaving like kids who run toward the ice cream truck as soon as they hear the Good Humor Man’s jingle music down the street. They descend upon the robot who is spewing forth ice cream. Energized, the workers are reveling in what could be characterized as a borderline ice cream orgy at the office.
A befuddled, at first seemingly upset boss witnesses the proceedings. As it turns out, though, he approves as we later see him offering congrats to Eric for taking the creative initiative to boost office morale.
Jeff Aron Lable of Suneeva, Toronto, directed the video for agency Proximity Canada. Editors were Gord Koch and Igor Boros of Ricochet Post, Toronto.
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
Mel Gibson's home is "completely gone," his publicist Alan Nierob confirmed Friday. The Oscar winner revealed the loss of his home earlier Friday while appearing on Joe Rogan's... Read More