We open on old side-by-side photos of young twin boys who are wearing identical attire. Fast forward to today and while they’re considerably older, not much has changed. The twins are dressed in matching outfits, and have the same matching hair style. They’re seated at the dinner table with mom and dad.
The dinner entree is pizza, and the twins are enjoying their meal, taking bites in synchronized fashion from their respective slices.
An outburst from dad starts with an emphatic “knock it off.” He says that the synchronized shtick “was okay when you were kids, but now it’s just creepy.”
Loud squabbling erupts, with the twins mocking their father in synchronized style.
Mom then intervenes, noting that the “pizza’s good, huh?”
This transitions nicely to the slogan that Pizza Inn is “one thing any family can agree on.”
The :30 for Pizza Inn franchises was directed by Ryan Ebner of bicoastal/international HSI Productions for TDA Advertising & Design, Boulder, Colo.
The TDA team included creative directors Jonathan Schoenberg and Thomas Dooley, art director Matt Leavitt, copywriter Jeremy Seibold and producer Bob Shriber.
Michael McQuhae exec produced for HSI with Doron Kauper serving as line producer. Pierre Rouger was the DP. Eric Beauchamp was assistant director.
Editor was Jon Grover of Cut+Run, New York.
Music was composed by Mark Chu of Yessian Music, New York.
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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
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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.
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