Oh, Master Shake?

[1369]

The feds would like a word with you... (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249110,00.html)

[DarkReign]

What idiots...

[Spurminator]

The Boston police or the pranksters?

[DarkReign]

ATHF promoters. They knew what the packages would be perceived as, yet still did it anyway.

Cartoon Network is going to get bent over.

[Spurminator]

I doubt there's any direct affiliation with CN or ATHF. That would be suicide.

[Marklar MM]

I doubt there's any direct affiliation with CN or ATHF. That would be suicide.

Cartoon Network released a statement detailing what the boxes were. :spin

[DarkReign]

excerpt..


A suspicious package alert that shut down downtown Boston Wednesday afternoon was actually part of an elaborate marketing campaign by the Cartoon Network to spark interest in its "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" show.

After state and local officials said they were launching an investigation into a series of "suspicious packages" found around the city, the Cartoon Network released a statement saying the packages were magnetic lights that pose no danger.

"They are part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 cities in support of Adult Swim's animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force," the statement said.

"They have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards. We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."

[Spurminator]

This is why I get my news from here. :lol

I was going off of what I knew an hour ago.

[Spurminator]

Did the agency in charge of this campaign forget to get permission from the cities? HUGE no-no.

[Extra Stout]

Does this mean the head of Comedy Central goes to Gitmo?

[Master Shake]

i say we do what we want, and what i say goes....so fetch me my throne so i may feast upon these hot dogs......

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

BREAKING NEWS: Police tonight arrested an Arlington man for planting the devices that led to bomb scares across the Boston area. Peter Berdvosky, an artist who told the Globe he installed the objects for a New York-based guerrilla marketing firm, was arrested at his home by law enforcement officers who were at his home for at least an hour tonight. Police have scheduled a press conference for 9 p.m. --Developing

[MannyIsGod]

Are you fucking kidding me? They arrested him? After they had been there for 2-3 weeks? WTF?

[MannyIsGod]

Man, I don't have the info yet so I should refrain from making comments, but this seems really fucking stupid so far.

[MannyIsGod]

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/story.cartoon.adultswim.jpg

They looked like that????

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/story.cartoon.adultswim.jpg

They looked like that????
:lol

[MannyIsGod]

I'm sorry, but my first though when I see a damn Mooninite isn't "bomb"

If I didn't know what ATHF is, I can't imagine thinking BOMB when seeing that either way. People in Boston are dumb.

[ChumpDumper]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20070201/capt.27fe8918ddcd62d9fbb024aac9174ab3.jpeg

Can you believe they blew one of these up?

"Hoax" is a complete misnomer, but I guess they can't use the word "fuckup" as a caption.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

I'm sorry, but my first though when I see a damn Mooninite isn't "bomb"

If I didn't know what ATHF is, I can't imagine thinking BOMB when seeing that either way. People in Boston are dumb.

They pretty much had to arrest somebody, to keep from making themselves look like total retards

[MannyIsGod]

I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllly want to see what they decide to charge these guys with. I have a feeling its going to be really fucking weak.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

They pretty much had to arrest somebody, to keep from making themselves look like total retards

Oh, there's really no way to have prevented that from happening anymore.

[thispego]

'Bus of the Undead' is THE funniest ATHF episode. Period.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Next week on 24..... Jack Bauer finally meets his match
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h54/brianryancody/oglethorpe.jpg

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Next week on 24..... Jack Bauer finally meets his match
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h54/brianryancody/oglethorpe.jpg

Frylock is going to be the mole inside CTU.

[ChumpDumper]

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/story.cartoon.adultswim.jpg

They looked like that????
Nerds! I hope he can see this because I'm hoaxing as hard as I can.

[MannyIsGod]

'Bus of the Undead' is THE funniest ATHF episode. Period.You really think so? I dunno man, I think there are funnier episodes.

[MannyIsGod]

Carl is going to be Jack's OTHER brother.

[thispego]

You really think so? I dunno man, I think there are funnier episodes.
oh yeah, it was the first season and set the precedent for all others after it for me.
shake was classic in that episode, as was meatwad :lmao

[MannyIsGod]

God damn, which one is the one where Meatwad thinks Fart is the f bomb? :lol

That one cracks me up so much.

[Spurfect]

this guy got a mooninite and is selling it on eBay!
mooninite on EBAY (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=003&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&viewitem=&item=130075321405&rd=1&rd=1)

[Burn531]

For anyone that hasn't seen it here's the Aqua Teen movie trailer (http://www.adultswim.com/shows/athf/movie/index.html)

My favorite episode is probably between "Dusty Gozongas" or "Circus".

[CuckingFunt]

"Baloonenstein" was the first episode I ever saw and will always have a special place in my heart.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Dumber Dolls and Hand Banana are my favorites

[MannyIsGod]

Dumber Dolls was great.

[CuckingFunt]

Dumber Dolls was great.Commence to jigglin'!

[MannyIsGod]

Peter Berdovsky, 27, a freelance video artist from Arlington, Massachusetts, and Sean Stevens, 28, were facing charges of placing a hoax device in a way that results in panic, as well as one count of disorderly conduct, said Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley. The hoax charge is a felony, she said. Both men were arrested Wednesday evening.

Wow, just wow. This is utter and complete bullshit. Boston is going way over the line here.

[MannyIsGod]

IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING LITE BRIGHT!

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/cp/world/20070131/w013174a.jpg

[CuckingFunt]

IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING LITE BRIGHT!

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/cp/world/20070131/w013174a.jpgYeah, a lite brite...

An obscene lite brite of DOOM!!

[MannyIsGod]

I will tell you one thing. If we live in a country where doing something like this gets you charged with a fucking felony, the terrorists have really fucking won because there is no way thats freedom.

[MannyIsGod]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM-Gu8PCYyg

[CuckingFunt]

Err is my hero.

[MannyIsGod]

Terror Training Video!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doD_VpT_yAY

[batman2883]

best episode of athf is the bbq one oh man

[Xolotl]

The current bid on Ebay for the LED "bomb" is up to 5000

[Spurminator]

I will tell you one thing. If we live in a country where doing something like this gets you charged with a fucking felony, the terrorists have really fucking won because there is no way thats freedom.


See, we live in a country obsessed with "justice." It would be impossible for the Boston Police and Cartoon Network to simply say, "Sorry, we screwed up." The American people watched this unfold on National TV and by golly we want heads to roll. It's better closure that way.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I think this is one of the stupidest cartoons. I just don't get it. Maybe I need to start smoking pot again

[DarkReign]

I think this is one of the stupidest cartoons. I just don't get it. Maybe I need to start smoking pot again

Presto!

[Spurminator]

Marketing gambit exposes a wide generation gap

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/01/marketing_gambit_exposes_a_wide_generation_gap/
A graphic from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website showed the Err character from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" that was depicted on some of the devices found yesterday.

By Michael Levenson and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | February 1, 2007

Todd Vanderlin, a 22-year-old design student, had just left Lucky's lounge in South Boston two weeks ago when he spotted what looked like an alien glowing on the side of a bridge. He pulled out his digital camera, photographed the illuminated plastic figure, and posted the images on his blog.

"I knew it was art, and I knew it was part of the Adult Swim ads, because I saw a billboard for the same thing," said Vanderlin, referring to a series of cartoons on cable television. "I see it in New York all the time."

But yesterday, a subway worker less attuned to the latest in underground marketing techniques called the police after spotting one of the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" cartoon characters on an overpass in Charlestown. The terrorism scare that followed touched off a massive response from police. When it was discovered that the electronic boards were only ads for a cartoon, serious condemnation flowed from Washington and Boston.

The episode exposed a wide generational gulf between government officials who reacted as if the ads might be bombs and 20-somethings raised on hip ads for Snapple, Apple, and Google who instantly recognized the images for what they were: a viral marketing campaign.

Among many in the young generation, reaction to the scare was smirking. "Repeat after me, authorities. L-E-D. Not I-E-D. Get it?" one 29-year-old blogger from Malden wrote on his website, contrasting light emitting diodes with improvised explosive devices.

Elected officials said there is no room for battery-powered contraptions on bridges and overpasses in a post Sept. 11 world.

"Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," said US Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Malden. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."

The ads were the latest incarnation of viral marketing, an advertising technique that is exploding in popularity as a way to reach younger consumers inured to the effects of traditional commercials. Like viruses, the ads are intended to spread on their own, creating word-of-mouth buzz by cropping up in unexpected places outdoors and on the Internet.

The company behind the ads for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" was New York-based Interference Inc., whose chief executive officer, Sam Travis Ewen, was recently named one of Brandweek Magazine's Guerrilla Marketers of the Year. Ewen, who is in his 30s, has also put people on subways to brag about financial advisers and sent models into bars to sit with packs of cigarettes, waiting for someone to ask for a smoke.

Jamie Tedford -- senior vice president of media and marketing innovations at Arnold Worldwide, a Boston-based ad agency -- said there have been recent marketing campaigns that backfired. He cited Wal-Mart's decision to post a blog about a fictitious couple driving cross-country to different Wal-Mart stores. The company did not disclose that it had created the blog, angering some buyers.

But Tedford said he could not recall a recent marketing campaign involving objects that were mistaken for bombs or any campaign that had that caused a citywide panic.

"You'd almost have to go back to 'War of the Worlds,' " he said, referring to the famous 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles. "We would all agree that this has crossed a line."

Turner Broadcasting System Inc., which broadcasts "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" on its Cartoon Network, could have saved itself the controversy by warning local authorities this was a marketing campaign, Tedford said.

Boston was one of 10 cities around the nation where the guerilla ads appeared, but nowhere else did they cause security concerns and set a city on edge.

"The hardcore watchers of that show would know it's a character, but the majority of people in these cities do not know that," Tedford said. "Turner has failed on the disclosure issue."

Turner executives said they did not forewarn local authorities, because they never imagined the campaign would cause alarm. "It was not our intent to do anything but get attention for a television series, period," Phil Kent, chairman and chief executive of Turner, said in an interview last evening.

That was apparent to many young consumers. After Vanderlin posted the images on his blog, Ewen shot him an e-mail: "I am glad you got one of the adult swim signs; there are others out there as well so keep looking up," Ewen wrote. He added he hoped people would take them as souvenirs.

Vanderlin, a student at Parson School of Design in New York City, said he was stunned to see police bomb squads swoop in and remove the characters.

"It's so not threatening -- it's a Lite-Brite," he said, referring to a popular children's game. "I don't understand how they could be terrified. I would understand if it was a bunch of circuits blinking but it wasn't. . . . It was clearly a design."

Mac Daniel and Suzanne Smalley of the Globe staff contributed to this report.

© Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao

I mean come on! This is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ridiculous. I can't believe there is an expectation this should have been reported to the authorities. I promise you had this been reported the authorities would have been annoyed with Turner for wasiting their time.

[Spurminator]

I'm making this T-shirt ASAP.

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9105/athfboosw8.jpg

Is that font okay?

[Spurfect]

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8479/3759677739dfcbfa8afqe9.jpg

[MannyIsGod]

Man, I really hope these get mass produced and sold! I want one!

[Spurminator]

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8479/3759677739dfcbfa8afqe9.jpg

Damn, that one is great. I didn't think to use the bulbs for the lettering.

[Spurfect]

Damn, that one is great.

I want a T-Shirt like that :lol

[MannyIsGod]

Well Well Well.

It seems the Judge hearing the case so far DOES understand what the word Hoax means.

Thursday, February 1, 2007
Men accused of hoax plead not guilty

By John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

The two men accused of plunging metropolitan Boston into a panic with illuminated advertisements for a cartoon pleaded not guilty today in a courtroom packed with supporters and a crush of reporters.

The two men smiled broadly throughout much of the brief proceeding as Assistant Attorney General John Grossman described the battery-powered characters as "bomb-like devices." The men, Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, face charges of placing a hoax device in a way that causes panic and disorderly conduct.

The artists shuffled into Boston Municipal Court in handcuffs. Stevens was particularly animated, grinning at the gallery of about 40 supporters and raising his cuffed hand to give a low wave.

Judge Paul K. Leary seemed skeptical of the state's case, telling Grossman that the law requires that people must intend to create a panic to be charged with placing hoax devices. This case, the judge said, seemed to involve two men who relatives say were paid to place unorthodox advertisements throughout the city.

Grossman said that was a discussion for another hearing. The two men were ordered held on $2,500 cash bail, which they are expected to post later today.


http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/02/men_accused_of_1.html

[MannyIsGod]

Props to Boston authorities wasting more money on these arrests when they complained about all the money wasted yesterday.

[Spurfect]

:lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/b12banned/ATHFJB.gif

[Spurminator]

Thank God someone is sane right now.

The only way the state would have a case is if Berdovsky and Stevens called the police to report the packages.

[Spurminator]

Revised.

But I still like the other one better.

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3972/athfbootb1.jpg

[MannyIsGod]

:lol
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v690/b12banned/ATHFJB.gif:lmao

[mardigan]

Handbanana, and the episode with the Hypno germs are my favorite. This is ridicuoloso, anyone that has ever been to Austin will know that there are Mooninites everywhere. Fucking idiot beantown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-OIQttshU
Tonight....you!!!

[1369]

The two guys busted speak out after being released from jail.

About haircuts. (http://wbztv.com/video/[email protected])

[David Bowie]

I go to college in Boston, and we just spent a whole class period discussing this "hoax."

[Spurminator]

The two guys busted speak out after being released from jail.

About haircuts. (http://wbztv.com/video/[email protected])


LOL

You know what, if I've been in jail overnight for this kind of bullshit and the Media who conitnues to overhype the fiasco was asking me to "take it seriously" I don't think I'd be able to keep my cool as well as these guys.

[Burn531]

Has anyone seen this episode?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-c8_Xl8zU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awWrrFlcXrY

It must be a new one cause I've never seen it on Adult Swim.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Now I know you have to be a stoner to appreciate this show
http://hercules.rr.com/rr/media/jpeg/AP/2007/02/01/1796566/original.jpg
these are the dudes

[nickbroken]

Hell ya I'm a dirty white boy!

[ChumpDumper]

Hilarious. AOL-Time Warner doesn't even have to run a TV ad campaign for the movie anymore. Even if they pay a million dollars to the Boston officials to shut their fryholes, they still come out ahead.

[Spurminator]

I want a T-Shirt like that :lol

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/athf/-/c_361/fpt_fHBa__DB_________bSH_P___e/go_1


Get 'em before the lawyers find out...

[LuvBones]

^:lmao that's awesome!

[leemajors]

my wife is a manager at the south lamar alamo drafthouse, the ATF came out there and scoured the place looking for their sign and couldn't find it. someone must have stolen it, i imagine those things can fetch a pretty penny on ebay.

[leemajors]

several up over $600 already:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&submitsearch=Search&satitle=aqua+teen+sign&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=78757&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=

[Viva Las Espuelas]

several up over $600 already:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&submitsearch=Search&satitle=aqua+teen+sign&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=78757&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=Dude. Some people have way too much time and way too much money on their hands. People are actually selling replicas.

[leemajors]

Dude. Some people have way too much time and way too much money on their hands. People are actually selling replicas.

my wife figured one of the bums took it, they hang out at the employee break area and the bums sleep there. it was supposed to be put in that area. isn't ebay great?

[Condemned 2 HelLA]

Has anyone seen this episode?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-c8_Xl8zU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awWrrFlcXrY

It must be a new one cause I've never seen it on Adult Swim.

From Wikipedia:

Meatwad gets a job at a car wash run by brains named Carl and Carl Jr., but the car wash is a front for plans of a more sinister sort.

This episode was originally scheduled to air on January 7, 2007, but was aired early and without announcement during the 3:30 a.m. timeslot on December 22, 2006.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

http://webpages.charter.net/marteney/bs.jpg

[Spurminator]

The comedy potential for this is endless...

http://litebritemooninite.ytmnsfw.com/
http://bostonintrouble.ytmnd.com/
http://wesmokewhileweflipthebird.ytmnd.com/

[BeerIsGood!]

Although this is some of the funniest shit around - now every terrorist (muslim or otherwise) knows that Boston is the easiest target on the face of the earth due to the complete stupidity of the people there. All you have to do is rig some light bulbs to particle board to create a distraction while you shovel a dirty bomb through the front doors of city hall...