NEWS: Cartoon Network's Jim Samples Resigns: Aqua Teen Drama to Blame

CELEB: Cartoon Network's Jim Samples Resigns: Aqua Teen Drama to Blame

Just when you thought the worst things about the city were baked beans, fanatical Red Sox fans, and nasally accents—Boston just had to go and run the whole Aqua Teen/"bomb-like device" scandal into the ground, stomp it lifeless and leave some of our greatest Adult Swim master-minds shit out of luck when it comes to work.

Jim Samples, head of Adult Swim headquarters Cartoon Network, has resigned after the network was forced to pay $2 million in fines to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office for the guerilla, Mooninite marketing prank that sent the entire city of Boston into a lockdown panic attack. The light-box scandal and subsequent arrest of its two perpetrators was the most unfortunate day in Boston-related history since Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won Oscars for Good Will Hunting.

No word yet on who Samples' replacement will be.

i've read more about this in other places. Cartoon Network even WALKED over to them and said "hey it was us. It's cool." and they were like, "nnoooooooo actually it wasn't you." what the shit?? If those dumb motherfuckers would have just believed them they wouldn't have gone through all that. Please tell me not everyone in Boston is retarded. Please tell me some one there finds this ridiculous as well.

Is it possible, no matter how much you say it, to really put into words how fucking stupid Boston is? This isn't icing on the cake, its beyond that, its like, candles.
(no offense Bostonian members)

Freedom of expression?

I'm sorry, but I love the city of Boston, but this has gone WAY too far. City officials overreacted to nth degree. They keep calling it a prank. Prank my ass! It was a marketing campaign! They call it a prank to justify their overreaction! It wasn't Turner's fault. It wasn't Adult Swim's fault. It was no one's fault but Boston's. Turner shouldn't have taken out a full page ad in all Boston publications issuing an apology. This thing happened in nine other cities. Some bigger than Boston. Did they close off streets? Call in bomb squads and detonate Light Brites? Like I said, I love the city and will always support the Boston sports teams (sans the Celts, lol) but fuck the city officials. Fuck Menino the retarded, mumbling excuse for a mayor! I know this sounds like an angst ridden teenager rant, but, dammit, I'm pissed!

I actually wrote Cartoon Network an e-mail asking them not accept Mr. Staples` resignation when I heard this story a couple of hours ago. He was with the company for over a decade and is probably responsible for its HUGE success and he has to take a bullet for something this is absurd?

I guess we are no longer allowed to make mistakes (like it was even his fault though.)

I guess he should have just gone into rehab instead like all of these f*ckhead celebrities who make worse mistakes and don't even clean their lives up. (Not fair to those of us who truly had to work on our substance issues.)

I don't know why this issue bothers me so much but I think it has something to do with our absolute loss of common sense as a nation.

I read this and I think: Bostonians actually pay taxes for these retards!?!?!?!

as Carlos Mencia would say:


De DeDe!!

I'm a Bostonian (transplant) and yes...beantown is THAT stupid!

What we have lossed is logic and reason to pride and perogative. We are entering a society where common sense, honest truths and simple answers have no purpose in our world of "terrororrism"...too much "fuzzy math"

God please help us! Oh wait...Allah please help us! I mean, budha...help us! Shit! Someone help us!

Sorry Boston, but you guys suck for this. I expect this shit out of Texas or Florida, but not you guys.

Wwoooooowwww....just....wwwooowwww

Those wacky Boston folk could be on to something. I'm going to start calling the cops about all the billboards in my neighborhood. Marketing campaign, my ass. They could blow up at any moment and must be removed. Especially the ones with the rotating blades to keep the birds away. The city could use a little de-billboarding and prettying up.

NINE other cities were smart enough to know... the people in Boston are the ones responsible for the waste of time and money. And to call it a "prank" or a "hoax" - the citizens who made the unnecessary racket about the promo pieces turned it into a HOAX. I really wish Turner and everyone else said "screw you guys, we didn't do anything wrong..."

Jeez, I was waitin for how for how much fun they could have with this in the series. They will make up for the 2 Mil in ratings easy. There is no such thing as bad publicity. Unless you're useless paranoid politicians.

Yes Boston sucks, but anything that damages that retarded ATHF show gets a thumbs up from me.

Actually a buddy of mine who is an executive over at CN told me that they had gotten city permits and the "devices" had been up for about 2 weeks prior.

This is, like, fifteen kinds of bullshit.

Okay, I guess I need to lay this out for everyone saying "OMGEEZ BOSTON IS FULL OF IDIOTS":

Yeah, the city of boston could have handled this better. BUT a cop who doesn't watch cartoon network and finds a bunch of unidentified things with wires and batteries under bridges and near a subway stop isn't out of line for being suspicious.

Yeah, someone should have realized that they were silly looking cartoons, but had they been bombs they could have fucked boston's infrastructure, to say nothing of potential lives lost. The political climate in the US has become one where terrorism is a huge issue. If they were bombs, the entire nation would have been down the city of boston's throat about why they let it happen, people would lose their jobs, etc. People were covering their asses.

Also, I don't understand how the president of cartoon network getting fired makes boston's residents stupid?

Maybe so, but what about the 9 other cities that had them up and took them down or just left them be w/o incident? The whole brouhaha (plus Boston trying to charge the two men who put them up like they were terrorists) just shows that the city is going to ludicrous lengths to try and save face for the fact that people around the country are laughing their asses off @them.

He resigned, there's a difference. This shouldn't have gotten out of hand to the point that Turner was forced in the court of retard public opinion to pay $2 million and that Mr. Samples felt he needed to leave his job.

-TM

Ok, I am officially boycotting Boston and assachusetts now. You get no tourism dollars going to taxes from me ever again.

Oh, btw, your state is small enough to drive across on one tank of gas. Suckers.

This is literally: "Were stupid, but we are the government. So now were pointing guns at you and demanding you pay for it."

Turner volunteered to pay the money.

Well then the text is misleading, since you cant volunteer to be forced.

It shouldn't have gotten as out of hand as it did, but I think everyone blaming boston as much as they are is a bit off base.

What do you expect from a state that repeatedly elects people like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy?