A sleepy eyed guy trudges over to the refrigerator one morning, opens the door and pulls out a bottle of juice, takes a swig from it and puts it back in the fridge.
When he closes the refrigerator door, it’s revealed that Crunch the mascot–a man in a wolf costume–is standing in the kitchen. Without a moment’s hesitation upon being seen, Crunch activates an ear-piercing airhorn.
The man stands motionless, maintaining a deadpan facial expression despite the absurd sight of Crunch in his home and the airhorn’s equally absurd blaring sound.
Supered over this offbeat scene is the message, “It’s never too early.”
An end tag explains that now’s the time to get early bird season tickets for the 2007-’08 season of the Minnesota Timberwolves to see the best in NBA basketball.
“Airhorn” is one of five spots in a campaign directed by Walter Pitt of Salvation LLC, Minneapolis, for agency Martin Williams, Minneapolis.
Amy Brester produced for Salvation. The DP was Mike Welckle.
The Martin Williams team consisted of chief creative officer Tomo Moudry, creative directors Randy Tatum and Steve Casey, copywriter Chris Gault, art director Craig Ferrence, producer Sean Healey and assistant producer Jennifer Cadwell.
Editor was Todd Johnson of Martin Williams Chop Shop, Minneapolis.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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