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"Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« on: January 31, 2007, 04:35:03 PM »
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2007, 09:16:17 AM »
The reaction to this in the "official" news media is friggin' hilarious!

There's already a shirt for it!
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/31/aqua_teen_hunger_for.html
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2007, 09:30:53 AM »
"The cartoon also includes two trouble-making, 1980s-graphic-like characters called "mooninites," named Ignignokt and Err -- who were pictured on the suspicious devices. They are known for making the obscene hand gesture depicted on the devices."

Idiots. Calling the gesture "obscene" is rather subjective, methinks. Can't even say "flipping the bird" or "giving the finger"? At least that would be factual, not just an opinion. ::)


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::) Sad that GRL needs to clarify they had nothing to do with the "recent terror attacks".
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2007, 09:34:51 AM »
Quote from: Darren Dirt on February 01, 2007, 09:30:53 AM
"The cartoon also includes two trouble-making, 1980s-graphic-like characters called "mooninites," named Ignignokt and Err -- who were pictured on the suspicious devices. They are known for making the obscene hand gesture depicted on the devices."

Idiots. Calling the gesture "obscene" is rather subjective, methinks. Can't even say "flipping the bird" or "giving the finger"? At least that would be factual, not just an opinion. ::)


It's for the sake of the Audtrailians who when they see the "bird" it means "stop your car please, I'm a hitch-hiker"
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2007, 09:38:31 AM »
Yikes!

The Turner Broadcasting spokeswoman ACTUALLY said "...We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."

But what did the CBS4Boston.com headline summarize that as? "Turner Broadcasting Regrets Marketing Ploy Behind Bomb Scares".

Notice any spin on that? CBS makes it sound like Turner was regretting using a bomb scare in order to market their product", i.e. it sounds like Turner *intended* people to believe there was a real threat of bombs. :o


Idiots, I guess this is the post-9/11 version of "If It Bleeds It Leads" -- "If it might cause fear, that is all you'll hear." >:(
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2007, 09:40:20 AM »
"it had batteries and wires"

Classic!
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2007, 10:30:36 AM »
Fear the Mooninites! (video of the artists doing their "graffiti")

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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2007, 10:59:48 AM »
Quote from: Wonkette
"They were all Time Warner billboards, in other words, in what has been the most embarrassing response by a city to a nerdy cult tv show since Minneapolis called in the National Guard to fight the robot menace posed by Mystery Science Theater 3000."

Quote from: Engadget
"Strangely, Turner stated that these viral ads have been in place in 10 major cities for between two and three weeks, which leaves one to wonder why no one noticed the strange, pixelated cartoon characters flipping the bird until just this afternoon, and just in Boston."
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2007, 11:33:25 AM »
LOLz
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2007, 10:24:45 PM »
the ambiguous, silly, for-some-reason-takes-place-in-Egypt teaser for the ATHF movie has now been replaced by...

an Actual Normal Kinda Moviefilm Trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6EPjnQEZWs

Official Site:
http://www.KingColon.com (redirects to http://www.adultswim.com/shows/athf/movie/index.html )

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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2007, 10:12:08 AM »
Wikipedia continues to expand at a frightening rate -- especially in the area of pop culture trivia etc.


So it should come as no surprise that these 2 new articles are quite lengthy already...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_Scare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force_Colon_Movie_Film_for_Theaters


Also, "Frylock" is doing Honda SUV commercials now...
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2007, 11:07:56 AM »
ROFL check out these Photoshopped images:

http://www.infowars.com/cartoons_9.htm#mooninites

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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2007, 05:47:52 PM »
So, wanna know who was *really* behind all this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXIDdLCfuoI
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2007, 05:58:20 PM »
LOL
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Re: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" ads trigger bomb scare?
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2007, 08:57:06 PM »
ROFLMAO!
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