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  • FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9 2007 3:30 PM

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.

[Samples] wrote in an internal memo to colleagues, "I deeply regret the negative publicity and expense caused to our company as a result of this campaign."


No word yet on who Samples' replacement will be.

 

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Sheepnumber97245

Sheepnumber97245

San Francisco, CA
November 2004

FEB 09, 2007 03:34 PM

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.

Sexdwarf

Sexdwarf

Hermosa Beach, CA
February 2003

FEB 09, 2007 04:04 PM

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)

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Melbourne, FL
February 2003

FEB 09, 2007 04:09 PM

Freedom of expression?

brakums

brakums

Pittsfield, NH
June 2003

FEB 09, 2007 04:16 PM

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!

frankblack

frankblack

Orange, CA
November 2002

FEB 09, 2007 04:17 PM

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.

TheFreddy

TheFreddy

Chicago, IL
February 2004

FEB 09, 2007 04:20 PM

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

as Carlos Mencia would say:


De DeDe!!

StopSnitchin

StopSnitchin

Hudson, NH
February 2004

FEB 09, 2007 04:32 PM

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" frown

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

Palo

Palo

SUICIDEGIRL

Massachusetts, USA

FEB 09, 2007 04:37 PM

Boston blowing a lot of things out of proportion = lame.

BUT

A marketing team not getting permits/permission to put what are essentially commercial materials up around Boston and expecting not to cause some sort of issue = also lame.

_kungfoo_

_kungfoo_

Los Angeles, CA
April 2005

FEB 09, 2007 04:39 PM

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

KISS

KISS

Miami, FL
November 2006

FEB 09, 2007 04:46 PM

Wwoooooowwww....just....wwwooowwww puke

Elenor

Elenor

AWESOME

Los Angeles, CA

FEB 09, 2007 04:53 PM

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.

girlafraid

girlafraid

I'm lost
October 2005

FEB 09, 2007 05:00 PM

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..."

SouGei

SouGei

Blackwood, NJ
January 2007

FEB 09, 2007 05:01 PM

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.

DreamScarr

DreamScarr

Whitinsville, MA
May 2006

FEB 09, 2007 05:01 PM

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

bride

bride

Los Angeles, CA
July 2004

FEB 09, 2007 05:14 PM

Palo said:
Boston blowing a lot of things out of proportion = lame.

BUT

A marketing team not getting permits/permission to put what are essentially commercial materials up around Boston and expecting not to cause some sort of issue = also lame.



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.

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