Cute, but in this new era of Jobs/Gates touchy-feelie
detente, there's no way it would ever see the cathode
light of day.
Soup,
Give the man a cigar! You hit the nail on the head. Seeing the snail
and flaming bunny-suit ads more than made up for the time spent
developing these, though. Just for laughs, here's one more:
"Plug & Playhouse"
Ian A. Bruce
Revised: 10/20/97
:60 Second version
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FADE IN:
INT. LIVING ROOM - BRIGHT 1
An increasingly impatient DREW CAREY on CORDLESS PHONE -
holding a DESKLAMP.
ANNOUNCER
Apple Computer believes that a home
computer should be as easy to use as any
other household appliance.
TECH SUPPORT REP
(filtered): "Technical Support."
CAREY
Oh, hi. I tried to plug in this lamp -
and it's not working... Yeah, it says it's
supposed to be fully compatible with my
house. Uh-huh... No. And just how DO you
re-boot a house?
CUT TO:
INT. KITCHEN 2
QUICK CUTS, SMOKING TOASTER has shot TOAST thru CEILING -
COFFEE MAKER producing evil-looking GREEN GOO -
CAREY
Well, that can't be good... Huh?
Re-configure my fusebox? ... Right.
CUT TO:
INT. LAUNDRY ROOM 3
CAREY CLOSING FUSEBOX PANEL
The instant the PANEL DOOR closes there's a "DING!"
from the WASHING MACHINE
QUICK CUT, CAREY LOOKING IN WASHING MACHINE
CAREY
Oh swell! My laundry's just disappeared!
CUT TO:
INT. HALLWAY 4
CAREY heads back to LIVING ROOM
ANNOUNCER
Apple Computer enjoys the highest customer
satisfaction record in the industry -
CAREY
(SOTTO VOICE) ... My lucky shorts, too...
(LOUDER) Yeah, I'm still here.
ANNOUNCER
- And every Apple Macintosh computer is
designed to work right out of the box -
just plug it in and go.
CAREY
Uh... nope... I never would of thought
of that...
CUT TO:
INT. VARIOUS ROOMS IN HOUSE 5
HIGH SPEED CUTS as CAREY runs around house switching off
OTHER LIGHTS and APPLIANCES.
CUT TO:
INT. LIVING ROOM - DARK 6
EXHAUSTED CAREY sits down on COUCH while holding DESKLAMP
CAREY
Ok. I've switched off every other thing in
the house.
Unbidden, the DESKLAMP suddenly FLICKERS to life
CAREY
Hey! Waddayaknow, it...
PHONE goes dead with a "CLICK" -
CAREY
Hello? Hel-looo!?
DESKLAMP PFIZZLES out and -
LIVING ROOM GOES DARK
CAREY
Hel-looooo?
CUT TO:
INT. ROOM - MACINTOSH BEAUTY SHOT 7
QUICK CUTS, MOUSE CORD plugging into MACINTOSH -
MONITOR CABLE plugging into MACINTOSH -
POWER CORD plugging into WALL -
FINGER tapping POWER KEY -
APPLE LOGO on COMPUTER SCREEN -
SFX: MACINTOSH START-UP "CHIME"
FADE THRU TO: APPLE LOGO GRAPHIC
SUPER: "Macintosh"
SUPER: "Think Different"
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Linda,
How's this Friday for a New York get together? AAPL should be
comfortably up in the 30's by then.
Ian Bruce
New York, NY |
