Photo bombs, candid camera mishaps, and dumb ideas which seemed great at the time.
Here's some of the big winners in these losing categories.
Being Too !@#$% Edgy with Penn & Teller
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The World's funniest magicians did a show about fast food and wanted us to help. Hey, what could go wrong?
It didn't quite create a scandal, but I was told it was too edgy. OK, but it's still fun to watch (PG-13). |
Precision Photo Bombing |
For Professional Hotdog Eaters Only |
Precision photo bombing saved this "we only have time for one take" video.
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Eating competitions are weird. Why do people do them, and who wins? Action's at t 1:10 and the Spaghetti Western showdown is at 1:40.
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The Undercover Dinner Party -- How to Lose Friends
Crazy Compilations About What to Do and What to Not Do
Things to Not Try at Home |
Things to Try at Home (starting at 2:10) |
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How Not to Make a Recruiting VideoHere's our cringe-worthy recruiting video for Summer Interns. Instead of showing us having serious fun after a serious week of work, it showed that we are legendarily horrible at golf and that we drive golf carts like 12-year old boys drive go-carts at those "no liability" amusement parks.
Although the clip tries to pay creative homage to Apocalypse Now (0:45) and Rat Patrol, we had to film a more legit and less embarrassing recruiting video to get the real job done. |
. . . and Now for Something Completely Different
Some of our research isn't about food, but it's about our "Hobby Research." The first of these was to help honor World War II veterans. The second was to help people save energy. The first suffers from bad B-roll. The second suffers from super horrible acting.
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The Worst B-roll Award Goes to . . .In 2001, WWII veterans came to hear what we learned from surveying 700 of them the prior year in our "Surveying Private Ryan" project.
One of our TV partners thought they'd add to the event's atmosphere by having German machine gun noises in the background. Nothing livens up a party quite like a D-Day flashback. |
The Worst Actor Award Goes to . . .For a Cornell campaign to reduce energy use, I was asked to talk about Mindless Heating. To make it fun, we thought I should do it in the persona of the professor in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Again, as the great David St. Hubbins reminds us: "It's just such a fine line between stupid and clever." |
I see you tremble with antici . . . pation.
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