CN in deep doo-doo after panic in Boston.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Marshmallow

I didn't really take this as much as a movie promotion, but simply a promotion of the show itself. Aqua teen is pretty big now even before the movie was being produced, so promotion of it on any kind of level seemed almost inevitable.

I personally think this is too funny to take seriously. I mean yes it was a dumb thing to do, sneaking around putting bright weird devices on random locations to promote a cartoon show. But then again, Adult Swim is right up weird alley.

People make costumes, models, statues, and all kinds of weird crap to promote ATHF. This was obviously a much more advanced and public means of promotion, but I think it was just more like fandom power then advertising bout the movie.

But that's just me.

Wikipedia (article here, I like the name -- got a ring to it) says they were "used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters" (which, by the way, is possibly the greatest movie title ever), but apparently part of Turner's statement about it just says they were advertising the show, so who knows.

To top it all off, they'd been in 10 cities for two weeks before the people in Boston raised a stink about it.