10.13.09 SETH GREEN MUGGING VIDEO WAS FAKE, STUPID
When Seth Green’s “on-set freakout video” hit the web the other day, I like many others, dismissed it as fake and promptly ignored it. Then they released “security cam footage” a couple days later supposedly showing the mugging he was pissed about, and the mugging looked a little too clear, and the freakout still seemed a little too cliché, but I wondered if maybe I was just jaded from too many lame viral videos. Turns out, not.
[From YahooFinance via videogum] Nestlé USA today announced the launch of “Dude, Where’s My Bar?” an innovative online narrative game for consumers to help solve the mystery surrounding the October 2 theft of Green’s vintage Butterfinger bar. The “lite” alternate reality game starring Seth Green will call upon the clever, irreverent thinking of Butterfinger fans, as they compete to find and solve clues that could lead to the return of Green’s missing bar and a one-of-a-kind grand prize: a solid-gold Butterfinger bar worth $10,000.
Green collaborated with Butterfinger to produce “Dude, Where’s My Bar?” using comedy and the real world as a platform [comedy and the real world? how innovative!]. Dubbed an “alternate reality game lite” (ARGL) [!!!], DudeWheresMyBar.com propels fans into an entertaining storyline created by the comedic genius of Green and the one-and-only iconic candy bar brand.
Oh man, there’s no surer sign of marketing genius than faking a violent crime to sell candy bars! Hey, did you see Jennifer Love Hewitt getting brutally raped on the set of Ghost Hunter the other day? PSYCHE! Turns out they just wanted her Hot Pocket! So disband your lynch mobs and send them on over to Albertson’s for our new gangrape gruyere, you hungry vigilante you. Seriously though, I wish these people would all die in a car fire. Join me after the jump for an awful PR quote circle jerk party.
“Butterfinger has long been associated with clever, irreverent humor,” said Butterfinger marketing manager Daniel Jhung. “Leave it to this brand to serve up the first-ever consumer packaged goods ARG with a light, Butterfinger twist.” Jhung added, “This game is a salute to the truly clever community of ARG enthusiasts everywhere. They’ve made a huge impact on pop culture and given a new face to gaming.”
ARG enthusiasts unite! Haha, leave it to those kidders at Butterfinger to write a press release from an alternate reality that doesn’t bear even a token resemblance to actual reality! Next time it might not even be in a human language! Schnopp flab gloop BUTTERFINGER! fargle dingle snatch flurb!
Game designer John Montgomery of Threshold Interactive said, “The game was intended to appeal to both dedicated ARG fans, looking for a light-hearted laugh, as well as casual game players. While we may call the game a ‘lite’ version of an alternate reality, there is nothing ‘light’ about the technological innovations and the degree to which the layers of games can be customized and controlled by the player.”
Today on a very special episode of Butterfinger’s alternate reality multi-platform scavenger hunt entertainment phenomenon: “We may make candy ‘bars’, but there’s nothing to ‘bar’ you from blowing the brains out of the back of your skull.”
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SETH GREEN MUGGING VIDEO WAS FAKE, STUPID
Nobody better lay a finger on this shit.
I’d rather eat a solid gold Butterfinger bar than an actual one.
Bart Simpson is fucking embarrassed.
VINCE! DO NOT TEASE ME WITH STORIES OF BRUTAL RAPE AND THEN TURN THAT SHIT AROUND AS A PSYCHE OUT!! I WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN MADDAFACKA!!
*pulls out old SAT results*
Here it is… Comedic Genius:Seth Green as:
A) Puppy:Cat
B) Calf:Duck
C) Kitten:Alligator
D) Gun:My temple
Based on the movie this game is punning, I am going to guess the golden Butterfinger bar is hidden within Demi Moore’s Rumer-monger. Or Stifler’s mom ate it.
The viral quality of this marketing campaign would be 10X more effective had Seth Green actually received a beat down.
“Hey, did you see Jennifer Love Hewitt getting brutally raped on the set of Ghost Hunter the other day? PSYCHE! Turns out they just wanted her Hot Pocket!”
Who would want to rape Jabba La Hewitt and what fool thinks she only carries a single Hot Pocket on her? Fools!
Chino, I left ya a present on the last thread. =]
Hello fags!
Ah, Polio. I love thee so….
I butt her finger by dropping my pucker on her hand while she sleeps and then tickle her nose with a hair.
ARG entino don´t likey this
Mmmmm, crispity, crunchity, peanut buttery……errr I mean, fuck this lame bullshit! Seth Green, more like Sellout Green. Amirite?
*looks for change to buy a butterfinger
I’m actually embarrassed for that asshole Seth Green, and if you don’t think that’s saying something go look at his IMDb profile.
Dude, I gotta text Choders and tell him his girlfriend is back!
Speaking of which, I had to leave this part of the press release out because the post was already getting ridiculously long, but check out the ridiculous profile they give him:
About Seth Green
Named “Best TV Actor” by Entertainment Weekly and E! Entertainment Television polls, Green is one of the busiest actors in Hollywood. He is executive producing, writing, directing and lending multiple voices each week to the Emmy®-winning stop-motion animated series, “Robot Chicken. He and Matthew Senreich created the show, the highest rated program on Carton Network’s Adult Swim, and he also executive produces and voices the villain in “Titan Maximum” which debuted in September to great success of the same network. Green will be seen next co-starring with Robin Williams and John Travolta in Disney’s upcoming film, “Old Dogs,” opening November 25, and starring in Disney’s “Mars Needs Moms” in 2011. Green voices Chris Griffin on “Family Guy,” the veteran Fox hit that is winning the ratings war this season. Green was the lead in Paramount’s sleeper-hit comedy, “Without A Paddle” and the indie film, “Party Monster.” He earned rave reviews for these and for his starring turns in “Knockaround Guys,” “Can’t Hardly Wait,” “The Italian Job,” “America’s Sweethearts,” “Rat Race,” and all three “Austin Powers” films. In addition to his numerous television roles, he has made several appearances on “Entourage,” mocking his nice-guy reputation. Aside from Green’s other accolades, he has reached the pinnacle of showbiz success in the most tangible medium – multiple action figures made in his likeness by the industry’s top toymakers.
More like Seth Mean! gnomesayin?
I think he’s on roids, man!
Did you see that ten pound table fly through the air!!!!
Wow, toys are tangible. Like, you can touch them.
Insightful stuff there, IMDB douches.
Almond Joy believed this was a real video and now feels like a nut.
I dismissive wanking motioned it to that IMdb profile so hard, I actually got off.
I tried to profess my love for him, Crapbasket, and he wasn’t having it. Something about me not having a penis. It was all very sad.
So is Seth’s Mars Needs Moms project really about the candy bar as well?
Won’t Martin Scorcese be disappointed to hear he will never reach “the pinnacle of showbiz success in the most tangible medium.” All because Mattel can’t afford the donkey hair for his eyebrows.
CURSE YOU CHINESE MANUFACTURING LIMITATIONS!@!!one!!@!
You know our sex tape where I am having multiple orgasms? Yeah, that video is fake, too.
Peet good news! They found a replacement material for donkey hair to make Marty’s brows . . . Lead Paint!! *
* also suitable as a replacement for plastic, bolts, nuts, springs, cogs, fabric, and Nickelodeon Goop.
Oh and Chino, the only thing fake about that tape were you and the orgasms. . . the part with me jerkin it? ALL REAL BABY!!
Also, Mc’up.
“SETH GREEN MUGGING VIDEO WAS FAKE, STUPID”
I’m fairly certain the video was real, actual stupid. Fake stupid would be an upgrade.
I’d steal Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Hot Pocket, with my dick. And by Hot Pocket I mean vagina. And by Jennifer Love Hewitt, I mean Megan Fox. And by Hot Pocket, I actually meant an actual Hot Pocket. And by my dick, i mean my hand, because why would I eat a Hot Pocket that had been on my dick? ANSWER ME!
Butterfinger? I hardly kn-
*laser sight appears on forehead*
……I’ll behave.
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