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* ArtificialLimbs: The dog resting near the table during lunch has a sleek prosthetic foreleg.
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* CaringGardener: The female farmer is shown harvesting peaches for donations, helping feed her community and being a caring mother while also maintaining a beautiful garden of flowers around her home in addition to running her small farm.
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* HighTechHexagons: All the roofs on the farms have large sections of shiny hexagons, which appear to be solar panels able to double as skylights.

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* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: In the depicted futuristic farm, everything is monitored through sleek teal screens.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The people are a variety of skin tones. Alice and her mother are dark-skinned but don't appear to be any particular ethnicity.
* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: In the depicted futuristic farm, everything is monitored through sleek teal screens.


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* FlyingCar: Alice goes to school in a flying school bus.
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* SolarPunk: The ad portrays a world where high technologies are hand-in-hand with sustainable living and clean energy, with a happy community of farmers on the outskirts of an idyllic city use robots, weather machines, automatic monitoring of crop quality, etcetera to maintain the land.

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* SolarPunk: The ad portrays a world where high technologies are hand-in-hand with sustainable living and clean energy, with a happy community of farmers on the outskirts of an idyllic city use robots, weather machines, automatic monitoring of crop quality, etcetera to maintain the land. Ironically, the only non-sustainable items are ''Chobani's own products''. They're all in disposable plastic containers, rather than glass, metal, or ceramic.

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"Dear Alice" is an animated advertisement by London-based animation studio The Line for yogurt brand Chobani. Released in 2021, it also features music by Music/JoeHisaishi.

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"Dear Alice" is an animated advertisement by London-based UsefulNotes/{{London}}-based animation studio The Line for yogurt brand Chobani. Released in 2021, it also features music by Music/JoeHisaishi.



* WeatherControlMachine: The woman uses a machine to create rain clouds for her crops.

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* WeatherControlMachine: The woman uses a machine to create rain clouds for her crops.crops.
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->''"Our job is to plant seeds so our grandkids can get to enjoy the fruit. So eat well, Alice, and continue planting thos seeds."''

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->''"Our job is to plant seeds so our grandkids can get to enjoy the fruit. So eat well, Alice, and continue planting thos those seeds."''
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->''"Our job is to plant seeds so our grandkids can get to enjoy the fruit. So eat well, Alice, and continue planting thos seeds."''

"Dear Alice" is an animated advertisement by London-based animation studio The Line for yogurt brand Chobani. Released in 2021, it also features music by Music/JoeHisaishi.

The ad depicts a SolarPunk future where a female farmer and her peers utilize clean technology to maintain their lush farms. The titular Alice is the woman's school-aged daughter, who is fully appreciating her ancestor's efforts to maintain the environment.

It can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4&ab_channel=THELINE here]].
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: At the lunch, the woman fondly pats the head of a young boy sitting at the table.
* EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture: In the depicted futuristic farm, everything is monitored through sleek teal screens.
* FoodPorn: The harvested food eaten at lunchtime and stored in the fridge is very lushly and appetizingly drawn to emphasize the high quality of agriculture in the SolarPunk setting.
* SolarPunk: The ad portrays a world where high technologies are hand-in-hand with sustainable living and clean energy, with a happy community of farmers on the outskirts of an idyllic city use robots, weather machines, automatic monitoring of crop quality, etcetera to maintain the land.
* VoiceoverLetter: The grandmother's letter to her granddaughter Alice, which is seen attached to the fridge at the end of the short, is read as a voiceover.
* WeatherControlMachine: The woman uses a machine to create rain clouds for her crops.

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