Consider this a new take on cold pizza in the morning. We open on a bedroom door creaking open followed by a shot of an alarm clock on which appears the time readout of 6:15 a.m.
At first it appears as if we’re about to witness a robbery or some other criminal act about to be perpetrated by the as yet unseen intruder who peels the sheet off a person laying in bed. It turns out the party who’s been awakened is a slice of pizza (actually a man in a pizza slice costume) and the intruder is a giant bottle of hot sauce. Also rudely awakened is a female slice of pizza–and both slices are screaming in abject fear.
“Nap time is over. Just don’t lay there like a bunch of leftovers,” yells the male hot sauce bottle who forces the two pizza slices out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. “You call yourselves deep dish. You’re a disgrace.”
Once in the kitchen, the slices muster up a feeble protest only to be overpowered by the hot sauce character who’s wielding a pizza slicer, eliciting further screams from the two slices.
Supered over this scene of stalker and the stalked is a message which reads, “Nothing wakes up food like Texas Pete.”
An end tag contains a product shot of a real bottle of Texas Pete Hot Sauce, accompanied by a website address (texaspete.com).
“Wake Up” was directed by David Jellison of TWC, Santa Monica, for agency Van Winkle & Associates, Atlanta.
The agency team included art director Dave Damman, copywriter Bobby Pearce and producer Janet Mason.
Mark Thomas, Jeff Snyder and Steve Ross exec produced for TWC with Johanna Woolcott serving as producer. The DP was Kris Kachikis.
Editor was Charley Schwartz of Schnitt, 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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