2011 Archived
| Ceiling Tiles
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is putting price labels on bottles of soda and extolling the virtues of solitude. He is empathizing with the off camera customer who has come in to purchase cigarettes. Terrance understands that smoking will make the customer less likely to have a romantic partner and tries to convince him that being alone is rewarding.
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2011 Archived
| Personal Space
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is putting price labels on bottles of soda and extolling the virtues of solitude. He is empathizing with the off camera customer who has come in to purchase cigarettes. Terrance understands that smoking will make the customer less likely to have a romantic partner and tries to convince him that being alone is rewarding.
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2012 Archived
| Pigs Feet and Pickled Eggs
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is telling a customer about some of the strange purchases that customers often make, including pigs’ feed and pickled eggs. Ironically, Terrance greatly admires smokers, who continue to purchase cigarettes regardless of the health and social consequences, including stained teeth and unattractiveness. The narrator states that research indicates that nonsmokers are more attractive than their smoking counterparts, and encourages listeners to visit the Y Do U Think Facebook page to express their opinion and become eligible for prizes.
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2012 Archived
| Poor Fluffy
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is discussing the wide range of customers he sees during his seemingly never ending shifts, including pet owners. He ridicules owners who pamper their dogs and cats and only has respect for smokers who expose their pets to secondhand smoke. Terrance thinks that pets are spoiled, and if they want to breathe clean air they should learn to open a window. The narrator explains that secondhand smoke is dangerous to pets as well as humans and encourages listeners to visit the Y Do U Think Facebook page to express their opinion and become eligible for prizes.
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2011 Archived
| Prom Night
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk, is sorting through and organizing the cereal aisle and talking to an off camera customer who has come in to purchase cigarettes. Terrance becomes very animated as he suggests that the customer plan a solo prom evening, since his smoking habit makes him unattractive to the opposite sex, and he is unlikely to have a date for this or any other school event.
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2011 Archived
| Secret of My Success
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is looking through the Slurpee machines and talking to an off camera customer who has come in to purchase cigarettes. He applauds what he calls a bold and brave decision, and congratulates the customer for ignoring information about the health and social consequences of tobacco use.
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2011 Archived
| Snobby Cat
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is looking through the hot dog and sausage steamer at an off camera customer who has come into the store to purchase cigarettes. Terrance applauds this customer’s apparent disregard for the health of his pet and then begins badmouthing his own cat who is likely to get asthma as a result of secondhand smoke.
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2012 Archived
| The Perks
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is discussing the perks of his seemingly never ending shifts, such as drinking directly from the soda fountain and eating beef jerky. He knows that his work schedule makes for a lonely existence, but it is one he acknowledges comes with his career. Oddly, he respects smokers, who knowingly turn themselves into social outcasts because of their breath, stained teeth, and other isolating aspects of the smoking habit. The narrator encourages listeners to visit the Y Do U Think Facebook page to express their opinion and become eligible for prizes.
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2011 Archived
| Zig Zag
Target Audiences Youths and Young Adults
Produced For Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth
Description Terrance, a goofy and sarcastic convenience store clerk is mopping the floor and speaking to an off-camera female customer who comes in to purchase cigarettes. Terrance begins giving the customer an unsolicited pep talk about the benefits of remaining unattractive as a result of smoking, and applauds the hobbies she has time to pursue since smoking apparently makes her unattractive, unwanted, and alone.
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