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benjoseph:

nickkocher:

Veiled statement casually accusing a TV Network of plagiarism while at the same time expressing flattery.

Here’s an ad for HBO that blatantly rips off the joke of BriTANick’s brilliant Academy Award Winning Movie sketch.

I’m sure the theft wasn’t malicious, but people who create ads do this ALL THE FUCKING TIME. (Excuse my language.) At some level, they just because something is on the Internet that 1.) nobody’s seen it and 2.) they can use the idea as their own without any repercussions. I’m happy that the comments on this video say differently.

This is just annoying. I too don’t think it’s malicious, but this happens so often with commercials that I have to think it is done knowingly and with very little care about who made the original piece of content. Come on, advertisers!


Via Ben Joseph

  1. wubymnbf reblogged this from thisdanobrien and added:
    Reblogging this, because the BriTANicK version was so funny and original I felt ashamed for not being able to come up...
  2. doggiekisser reblogged this from misskatie
  3. crossycantfly reblogged this from joshruben
  4. misskatie reblogged this from thisdanobrien and added:
    this pisses me the fuck off.
  5. popcoma reblogged this from joshruben and added:
    Ah fuck you HBO.
  6. joshruben reblogged this from bhbanks and added:
    Wow. Way to go HBO! You fucked up! That’s really unfortunate. The worthwhile folks know BriTANick beat them to the punch...
  7. zwanguy reblogged this from thisdanobrien
  8. kasperthesardonicghost reblogged this from thisdanobrien
  9. kathythewriter reblogged this from thisdanobrien
  10. anywien reblogged this from glitterhag and added:
    Hahaha yes it does. I was reblogging it because it’s a blatant rip off of a BriTANick sketch tho. haha
  11. glitterhag reblogged this from anywien and added:
    …errrg! it’s true, music in film/tv is mainly used to tell the audience “how to feel” #stuffyoulearninuniversity
  12. neutralangel reblogged this from thisdanobrien
  13. illyriazshell reblogged this from thisdanobrien and added:
    JFC This is most definitely ripped off. That pisses me off because that BriTANick “Movie Title” video is without a doubt...
  14. vgmgc reblogged this from thisdanobrien and added:
    Watch the original, too (linked above). At least the original is 1000 times better.
  15. wearingraincoats reblogged this from thisdanobrien
  16. thisdanobrien reblogged this from benjoseph and added:
    I’ve personally been wrongly accused of plagiarism before, and it’s one of the worst things to be called, in this...
  17. jonbershad reblogged this from kirklarsen and added:
    At first I thought the same way because, recently, I’ve been the first person to point out when an idea is simple enough...
  18. bhbanks reblogged this from theotherdavidyoung and added:
    This also urks me. You know what wouldn’t though? If HBO HIRED BriTANick to make these commercials. 1) You’d save money;...
  19. theotherdavidyoung reblogged this from benjoseph and added:
    This is just annoying. I too don’t think it’s malicious, but this happens so often with commercials that I have to think...
  20. kirklarsen reblogged this from jonbershad and added:
    I totally disagree. Britanick did this very well, but in 2009, I wrote almost the exact sketch same sketch as they ended...
  21. thursdaythe12th reblogged this from benjoseph
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