I’d like to give a big round of applause to the City of Boston today for FUCKING WIGGING OUT over what turned out to be several strategically placed Light-Bright(tm) devices strewn throughout the city in a madcap viral advertising spree to promote the Cartoon Network show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, the basic premise is that animated food items fight crime. The lighted signs had a picture of a character from the show called a Mooninite that was (almost indistinguishably) flipping the bird. However, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley found them to have “a very sinister appearance,” because of the fact that “It had a battery behind it, and wires.” Wires and a battery?? Oh Noes!!!!
Using logic akin to that used by the City of Boston when they decided to close several bridges and block maritime traffic into Boston Harbor because of a lighted cartoon character, the suspects announced at a press conference today that they were “taking questions only about 1970s hairstyles.”
Update 2/5/07: Turner Broadcasting is fixin’ to write a big ‘ol check now writing a $2 million dollar check to pay restitution for the panic that ensued following the Mooninite fiasco. Suddenly, Coakley doesn’t seem so crazy anymore
