The theme music from The Odd Couple says it all as we see a messy guy–our Oscar Madison–leave a convenience store, get into his parked car and then throw his cup of coffee out the window.
Right behind him coming out of the store is our Felix Unger, who picks up the discarded cup. We then see him pick up cup after cup in the same scenario but each time in different weather, wearing different clothes to convey that this is indeed a regular occurrence.
Next, “Oscar” is driving his car through city streets and stops at a red light. “Felix” pulls up alongside him in time to pick up more garbage that “Oscar” has chucked out of his automobile. Again this scene repeats itself as the trash varies from one time to the next, ranging from a cup to different types of food, including part of a banana still inside the peel.
The repetition continues as our slob leaves a coffee cup atop the key card check-in box at the workplace parking lot–and then when Oscar airmails even more food and drink toward but missing the trash can in front of the office building.
Finally one fine day after work, “Oscar” walks towards his car to see perched on his vehicle a sculpted tree made of all his litter. Accompanying this massive piece of pop artwork is a note, which simply reads, “You dropped this.”
“Felix” and “Oscar” then exchange “hey” greetings, with the latter suspecting that “Felix” is the anonymous artist and writer of the note.
As The Odd Couple music continues and “Felix” drives off in his Honda Civic, a voiceover says, “The incredibly clean and fuel efficient Civic hybrid from Honda. Reverse your thinking.”
“Trashed” was directed by Blue Source of bicoastal/international MJZ for Rubin Postaer and Associates (RPA), Santa Monica.
The agency ensemble included creative directors David Smith and Joe Baratelli, art director Nathan Crow, copywriter Eric Helin and producer Steve Neely.
The DP was Chris Soos. Editor was Adam Pertofsky of Rock Paper Scissors, Los Angeles.
Trump Says He Will Issue An Executive Order To Get TikTok Back Up In U.S.–For The Time Being
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok's China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent U.S.ban.
Trump announced the decision in a post on his Truth Social account as millions of TikTok users in the U.S. awoke to discover they could no longer access the TikTok app or platform. Google and Apple removed the app from their digital stores to comply with a federal law that required them to do so if TikTok parent company ByteDance didn't sell its U.S. operation by Sunday.
He said his order would "extend the period of time before the law's prohibitions take effect" and "confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.
"Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations," Trump wrote.
The law gives the sitting president authority to grant a 90-day extension if a viable sale is underway. Although investors made a few offers, ByteDance previously said it would not sell. In his post on Sunday, Trump said he "would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture," but it was not immediately clear if he was referring to the government or an American company.
"By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to stay up," Trump wrote. "Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions."
The federal law required ByteDance to cut ties with the platform's U.S. operations by Sunday due to national security concerns posed by the app's Chinese roots. The law... Read More