Duh Aficionado Magazine: The Seth Green Mugging Stuff Is Fake
You know that video of Seth Green freaking out about getting mugged in a parking lot? And then the surveillance footage of him getting mugged in a parking lot. Yeah. No. From Yahoo! Finance:
Someone has laid a finger on Seth Green's BUTTERFINGER®. 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, a lifelong Butterfinger fan, was announced recently as the official Butterfinger Mouthpiece, in conjunction with the brand reintroducing its tagline "Nobody's Gonna Lay A Finger On My Butterfinger." Green collaborated with Butterfinger to produce "Dude, Where's My Bar?" using comedy and the real world as a platform. 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. "Dude, Where's My Bar?" combines the innovations of a multi-platform narrative game with video vignettes featuring Green and co-starring actors Sean Cullen, Stuart Pankin and Jon Wellner.
In a word: DUH.
Posted by Gabe at 12:20 PM in Viral Marketing
Tags: Butterfinger | Candy | Hoaxes | Seth Green
"created by the comedic genius of Green"
Riiiiight......
I'm guessing Bart and Homer were already booked.....?
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I just want to know what kind of people are Butterfinger fans! Like, is that a real thing that people are and are proud of?
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YEAH I'm confused. "A LIFELONG fan of BUTTERFINGER." "CLEVER, IRREVERENT thinking of BUTTERFINGER fangs." WHAT THE fuck? Butterfinger fans DON'T SHARE some KIND of TYPOLOGY. SOMETIMES I just wanna MUNCH ON some MOTHERFUCKIN (fake) PEANUT brittle and CHOCOLATE, okay SUPEREXECUTIVES? This DOES not MEAN, I eat this shit BECAUSE I FIND it clever. "LOOK AT ME, I'm so ironic WITH ALL THE MUNCHINESS." No. Sorry FUCKTARDS BUT THAT does not ever, EVER happen.
Also, IF THEY were to HAVE SIMILAR attitudes, based OFF OF that PICTURE I think the word USED to describe "BUTTERFINGER fans" (and for fucks SURE PEOPLE who call themselves that) would BE: douche-a-tron.
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Butterfinger fangs are something a candy snake (Mr. Goodviper? Whatchamacopperhead? Junior Mamba?) would sink into your arm, injecting creamy, delicious nougat into your muscular tissue and bloodstream.
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Om nom nom most delicious comment ever.
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Fuck y'all! Butterfingers are delicious! I count myself as a clever irreverent fan. I bet a solid gold Butterfinger would be thousands of times more delicious than a regular one. I'm in!
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It was only a matter of time before Seth Green became the mouthpiece for something. Might as well be Butterfinger.
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"Dude, Where's My BarF?"
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The only people who could possibly benefit from this crap work at Cash4Gold.
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"...comedic genius of Seth Green" - Whoops, that's your press release Butterfinger.
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And this all just as I was starting to like Seth Green. You can't trust a ginger?
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Hey! I resent that. Go spout your nonsense at outrageousgeneralizationsgum.
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The painful pseudohipness of this story reminds me of this, which I sort of suspect to be some kind of viral campaign. But if it isn't? Whooooo boy. Amazing.
http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/10/no_more_i_this_and_20_that.php?oref=latest_posts
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Excuse me, where is the Stuart Pankin tag??? When Gabe reviews Mannequin 2: On the Move in The Hunt he is gonna regret that shit.
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I know, has the world already forgotten he anchored "Not Necessarily the News"? That shit was the Daily Show before the Daily Show was the Daily Show. And on HBO too!
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OH MY GOD IS HE OKAY???
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"Using the real world as a platform"? Isn't that just "life"?
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"Butterfinger Mouthpiece"
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Dude could absolutely just buy another Butterfinger. And nice "Dude, Where's My Car" reference. Very topical, very hip.
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It takes a lot of commitment to be a lifelong fan of a candy bar. Oh how he must have toiled during those dark years of, let's say the 80's.
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Hey, what's up with Seth Green?
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i thought it was a viral advertisement for being a perpetually self-amused man child.
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ARGL is right
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I think the second a company claims their advertising is viral, it instantly stops being viral and starts being annoying.
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Good to see Green getting back to his roots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcExSzZF_h0
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unintentionally, his hair color does spark a need for a butterfinger. well played, ad execs
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There's nothing funnier and more appropriate to use in an advertising campaign than a violent attack and mugging.
Next up: Join Roman Polanski in his quest to escape conviction and be released from Swiss Prison for the 1977 theft of a 13-year-old girl's Butterfinger. Nobody, not even lauded film director, better lay a finger on a minor's Butterfinger.
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