Poo Pooing the Hunger Force
I suppose I should comment on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. After all, everyone else has! I feel somewhat obligated because I wrote in praise of guerilla marketing not long ago.
Aqua Teen is a cartoon featuring the foods teens supposedly consume the most. There’s a milk shake, a bag of fries and something that’s supposed to be meat but has always looked like poo to me. This, of course, makes my son laugh hysterically because, well, teens aren’t supposed to be eating poo.
Anyway, what strikes me about the uproar over a couple of light boards flung around Boston is that the same stunt was tried in several other cities without so much as a whimper. No one branded it a potential terrorism threat. Everyone else sort of ignored it.When the uproar settles down, all that’s left is a very lame attempt at getting attention. How creative is a lit-up cartoon flashing the finger?
The real threat, it seems, is lame marketers with zero creativity wasting their clients’ dollars