Hey Boston, Yes, We Are On The Moon, Doing This As Hard As We Can!
Yes, that's right Boston, Aqua Teen Hunger Force OWNS you!
I have always loved this show, as belly will tell you, it is my favorite Adult Swim cartoon by far. I have even bought several seasons on DVD. It's hard to describe the show to someone who hasn't watched it. Random humor, utterly meaningless plots. Crude and vulgar yet innovative and witty. Even the official website has a difficult time explaining it:
First of all, they're not teens. Secondly, there's no water involved. The whole Hunger Force thing? That's probably misleading, too. In short, if you have to ask what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is about, it is probably not a show for you. The rest of us will go on thrilling to the adventures of Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake as they, you know... hang out.
Yes, this show is not for most people, in fact, most people had probably never heard of the show. Oh but a huge thank you to the city of Boston for changing all of that! The LED sign you see below is Err, a Mooninite, from the show. A marketing company promoting the show made these signs and strung them up all over Boston. Basically they consist of a Light Brite type panel and 4 'D' batteries.
Basically ATHF has a movie coming out in a couple of months, so this is part of the promotional campaign. The ad campaign was subtle, very few people really even knew it was going on. Until the good ole' Boston authorities blew everything way out of proportion and decided that these devices could be a 'BOMB', and spent most of the day on January 31, 2007, running around with the bomb squad, police force, firefighters, and anyone else they could think of, running up a more than one million dollar bill and reducing their entire city into a state of panic.
Now, before you jump to conclusions, before you say 'SHAME, how could anyone do a bomb hoax like this???', understand something, this was NOT a bomb hoax, even though Fox News was being utterly retarded and calling it that, even days after the event occured. Basically for it to be a bomb hoax, there would have to be some intent on those responsible for wanting people to believe it was a bomb. That is just not the case.
Also, something else to realize here. These devices had been in place for weeks, yes, weeks. So, for all the mass hysteria that Boston got themselves into over this, just how good are your authorities if they left these 'bombs' in place for so long?
And the kicker, what really shows just how foolishly Boston acted during this whole ordeal: This advertising campaign was going on in TEN different cities, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Notice one particular city? Yes, that's New York, the city that was actually hit by terrorists. New York didn't seem to have any problem with the devices.
So Boston, with that in mind, quit playing the freaking martyr. You screwed up, you are the laughing stock of the United States at this point. Quit talking about making someone else pay for your mistake, quit talking about going after the two men who were hired to put these signs in place. Let it go, learn from your mistakes. Mass hysteria really serves no other purpose than to show the rest of the world just how to bring our country to it's knees, and you fell right into that trap.
