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

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:42:25 +0000

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/

By: mahotoe

mahotoe — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:00:52 +0000

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

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:47:27 +0000

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.

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:41:21 +0000

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.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:44:38 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:00:59 +0000

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?

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:29 +0000

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

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:53:07 +0000

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.

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:37:19 +0000

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.

By: manic panda

manic panda — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:50:45 +0000

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”.

By: Goon

Goon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:18:02 +0000

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:07:13 +0000

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.