Weird Web Wednesdays: Office Freakout is a Viral Ad for Angelina Jolie?

Posted by on June 11th, 2008   Filed under: Weird Web Wednesdays

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By far the most talked about video on the internet this past week has been the office freakout that shows a man throwing monitors, turning over desks and just generally trashing a busy office. Of course, it’s not that surprising to learn that the video was actually fake, but the strange thing is that the man who is claiming responsibility is none other than Russian director Timur Bekmambetov. He says that the video is a viral ad for his upcoming movie Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, although I fail to see what the connection is. Also this week on Weird Web Wednesday, check out a pretty killer Star Trek rap, a mean-spirited prank played by a father on his son, and a reporter who has an unfortunate encounter with a bug. The moral of the story is… don’t walk with your mouth open.

Office Freakout
Office Freakout, Different Angle (with sound)
Star Trek: TNG Rap
William Shatner’s Common People Animated
Bumble B-Boy
Alfonso Ribeiro Breakin & Poppin
Congradultions Jessica Alba
Hit and Run
Wall Crushes Legs
Dad Tapes Kid to Chair
Naked Gun Intro, GTA-Style
Ladder Slide Mishap
Soup Can to Nuts
Line Rider Mickey D’s commercial
Reporter Gets Bug in Mouth
Bug in Mouth Remix
Justin Timberlake is an ass
Peter Brady Pwned by German Wheel on Celebrity Circus
Real Dogs Confused by Toy Dog



  • Swarez

    I’m guessing that the connection is that the main character works in this type of environment and is on the verge of snapping like that.

  • Ryan

    In the comic book Wesley Gibson trashes his workplace. And in the russian redband trailer (way better than the American redband) it shows Wesley smacking a dude with a keyboard.

    I just don’t see how this is a successful viral ad. Half the interweb thinks this is real. They should have put the titles and release date at the end.

  • Goon

    JT was not an ass. that interviewer was being a dork and introduced everything on an unfunny confrontational level.

  • manic panda

    How is that a “viral ad” if it has absolutely no tie in to the movie? Oh marketing, and your useless hard-on for the word “viral”.

  • THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY NIGHT! For nerds like me that TNG rap was out of this fucking world. BRILLIANT! Love the shots from the episode “The Game” in the background. The lyrics are kick ass as hell.

    Going to watch it again. Right now.

  • The ultra slowed down version of the soup can to the nuts is pretty funny. Word to anyone out there. You do this to me, you better run goddammit. You’ll have about 3 minutes until your life is over.

  • Don’t even need to watch this one. The title is funny enough:
    Peter Brady Pwned by German Wheel on Celebrity Circus

  • Matt

    Nope, no, all wrong. The office freakout clip is a viral ad for me and my new company which I started last week. We sell hammocks, car batteries, Colombian rum. Don’t you people gat it? Jolie’s always trying to steal my thunder. Why can’t everybody see that?

  • Greg

    Soup can to the nuts is pretty good. Any shot to someone’s else’s nuts is pretty good, actually.

    Don’t know what it is, but I love watching people get hurt. Last week…that lady tumbling out of her cubicle made me laugh so hard I had tears.

  • That leg crushing thing is a whole lot of not cool. People getting mildly hurt is pretty funny (particularly in slow motion); but amputation or someone getting really fucked up or even death isn’t very funny.

  • You forget that a big part of and influence on this website is Jay Cheel, and I’m pretty sure he’d disagree with you.

    I simply skip over the most grueling of the videos. I’m still completely freaked out over the treeman video from months and months ago. I definitely wish I had never watched that.

  • mahotoe

    The funniest part of the hit and run video was the Honda Element ad that popped up the first time I watched it.

  • Sean, you’ve inspired me to start a similar feature over on my personal blog:

    Frakked-up Fridays (I wanted to call it fucked up Fridays, but my mom reads the blog occassionally; so you know…)

    birdseyereview.blogspot dot com/