Viral Friday: Get The Fuck Out Of My Office

Written by Niels Bellaar on October 19th, 2007 |

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.

This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Get The Fuck Out Of My Office. New York city councilor James Oddo feels ashamed after an interview with Norwegian TV show Rikets Røst. Interviewer Pia Haraldsen asked him a few comical questions, leading to a furious, cursing James Oddo. The runner up spot is for the ‘A Vision Of Students Today’ video by Michael Wesch. The video starts with a Marshall McLuhan quote from 1967 and sums up some of the most important characteristics of today’s students. The ‘A Few Creative Men’ viral completes this week’s top 3. In the beautifully made ‘A Few Good Men’ spoof we see Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson making fun of todays advertising agencies.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 10? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!

1. Get The Fuck Out Of My Office

New York city council minority leader James Oddo exploded in an expletive-laced tirade when he was interviewed in his office. Norwegian TV show Rikets Røst send an interviewer to ask him a few hilarious questions. Oddo exploded and summoned the interviewer to leave his office. In the interview Norwegian comedian Pia Haraldsen asks him why Barack Obama can be a presidential candidate while he is black… After 1.5 weeks the video has about 850.000 YouTube views. James’ anger explosion made it to several American media, including NY Daily News and FOX News. (Source: NieuwNieuws, Orang Utan and AD)

2. A Vision Of Students Today

Michael Wesch is getting well known for his short films, like The Machine is Us/ing Us. He recently produced a new video accurately capturing his sentiments about student life in relation to education and other issues. The video shows us many spot on statements about today’s students and how they learn, what they have to learn, what they actually want to learn, their ambitions, their dreams and what their future looks like. Wesch made this video together with 200 of his students at Kansas State University. In less than a week the video gained about 100.000 YouTube views. (Source: Upstream)

3. A Few Creative Men

In this beautifully made ‘A Few Good Men’ mash-up we see Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson criticize they way advertising agencies work, especially the creative departments. The maker(s) of the video remain unknown, but they sure did a great job (and a perfect Nicholson imitation!).

4. British Airways Pam Ann

British Airways gives us some inside information about why they train their flight attendants. Their new campaign is supported by the above viral in which we see Pam Ann’s first day as a BA cabin crew member. Obviously it all goes horribly wrong. (Source: ViralBlog)

5. This Is New York City

NYC & Company, the official tourism organisation of New York, launched a new campaign, based around the tagline ‘This Is New York City’. The campaign, consisting of television, print, online and outdoor advertising, was created by BBH New York and aims to entice 50 million visitors annually by 2015. (Source: Creative Review)

6. Poweo

Last week Poweo, a French electricity and gas supplier, launched their new TV campaign featuring French rugby union player Sébastien Chabal. The cartoon was strongly criticized by the French blogosphere (Yannick Lejeune, Laurent Vermot Gauchy, Roycod, Sendtofriend, Guim, Jacques Froissant, Suchablog). Bloggers created 2 Facebook groups, a Google Bombing and calls for a ban on Twitter. (Source: Sandrinne Plasseraud, Clement Biger)

7. Cadbury Creme Egg

Cadbury Schweppes, producer of the Cadbury Creme Egg (a chocolate egg) shows us an unsusual car park accident, filmed by a cctv camera. In the (very) short clip we see a business man escaping death when a huge Cadbury Creme Egg crushes his car. Despite the lack of a call to action, it’s very clear Cadbury wants us to buy their egg’s, or else…

8. Diesel Freezy Sneakers

Italian fashion house Diesel launches yet another viral campaign. This one to promote the Diesel Freezy Sneakers. The video is a mashup of a ’70s Finish disco celebrity wearing new sneakers with an ’80s design. Can you figure it out? Diesel’s comment? “Don’t blame it on the sunshine. Don’t blame it on the moonlight. Don’t blame it on the good times. Don’t even blame it on the boogie. Blame it on Aarlf Smaks,”. (Source: Trendhunter)

9. Information R/evolution

Another Michael Wesch video. Almost 10 months after the release of The Machine is Us/ing Us YouTube counts about 3.5 million views. With his video “Information R/evolution” the cultural anthropologist releases yet another stunning video, showing us how the finding, saving, creating and sharing of information changed over the years. (Source: Upstream)

10. Ronaldinho: In The Office

In this viral for Navipartner an office worker shows his Ronaldinho skills with a ball made out of paper. Either a very skilled football player, or someone with too much free time. Either way, the video is great fun watching!

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