MickeyMade You Look
The recent ad campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force which caused bomb scares throughout Boston has caused attention to be focused on guerrilla advertising campaigns for other shows:
CSI: New York had hired several out-of-work actors to lie down and pretend to me murder victims, but over 95% of passersby who were polled had mistaken them for yet another truth.org stunt.
Battlestar Galactica had considered marketing sentient, self-aware toasters to promote their show. Legal representatives for Red Dwarf intervened, claiming the toasters to be too close to their own Talky Toaster character.
Fox News set up stands throughout several major cities in which butchers used hacksaws to saw the left wings off of several chickens. Again, most people polled mistook that for an attempt to hype another Adult Swim cartoon, Robot Chicken.
House M.D. hired several people to walk the streets of Princeton faking the symptoms of obscure neurological disorders. One was hired to play Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld: The Motion Picture, three are currently choreographing hip-hop videos, and the rest are now producing their own dance-aerobics videos.
Smallville hired several bald stunt men to demonstrate the proper technique for being thrown through a glass-topped table. Unfortunately a shipping oversight resulted in real glass tables being used, instead of the usual stunt breakaway tables. Lawsuits are pending.
Lost had a plane loaded with people who had signed waivers allowing them to be crashed upon a deserted island. Unfortunately the passengers were all under the impression they were auditioning for yet anotehr Survivor show. When the truth was revealed they all rushed the cockpit en masse; thus far search teams have found no signs of the plane or passengers...
Heroes tried to find some actual super-powered people to participate in promoting their show. The attempt to infuse superpowers into the ad participants by exposing them to radiation didn't work out quite as well as hoped. Homeland Security is still tracking down all the plutonium used in the attempt.
Monk hired a number of OCD patients for their proposed ad campaign, but so far none of them are satisfied with the decor of the office suite where the campaign is being designed.
And the ads go on... and on... and on...
CSI: New York had hired several out-of-work actors to lie down and pretend to me murder victims, but over 95% of passersby who were polled had mistaken them for yet another truth.org stunt.
Battlestar Galactica had considered marketing sentient, self-aware toasters to promote their show. Legal representatives for Red Dwarf intervened, claiming the toasters to be too close to their own Talky Toaster character.
Fox News set up stands throughout several major cities in which butchers used hacksaws to saw the left wings off of several chickens. Again, most people polled mistook that for an attempt to hype another Adult Swim cartoon, Robot Chicken.
House M.D. hired several people to walk the streets of Princeton faking the symptoms of obscure neurological disorders. One was hired to play Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld: The Motion Picture, three are currently choreographing hip-hop videos, and the rest are now producing their own dance-aerobics videos.
Smallville hired several bald stunt men to demonstrate the proper technique for being thrown through a glass-topped table. Unfortunately a shipping oversight resulted in real glass tables being used, instead of the usual stunt breakaway tables. Lawsuits are pending.
Lost had a plane loaded with people who had signed waivers allowing them to be crashed upon a deserted island. Unfortunately the passengers were all under the impression they were auditioning for yet anotehr Survivor show. When the truth was revealed they all rushed the cockpit en masse; thus far search teams have found no signs of the plane or passengers...
Heroes tried to find some actual super-powered people to participate in promoting their show. The attempt to infuse superpowers into the ad participants by exposing them to radiation didn't work out quite as well as hoped. Homeland Security is still tracking down all the plutonium used in the attempt.
Monk hired a number of OCD patients for their proposed ad campaign, but so far none of them are satisfied with the decor of the office suite where the campaign is being designed.
And the ads go on... and on... and on...
Passionate Apathy