Who Did JibjabDotCom Have To Blow To Get This Free Publicity?

The BBQ Pit
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A few years back, JibjabDotCom had a hit with a political Flash cartoon on the Internet.

Suddenly they have become an American icon?!

Last night was the grand premiere of their newest (re: same exact format and style as usual) political Flash animation cartoon on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, and this morning, they had another special viewing at the top half hour of the Today Show!

Mildly amusing, perhaps…warranting a full blown roll-out as if this were the trailer for The Hobbit? I don’t think so.

I don’t know who is doing what to get them this free publicity, but I want to hire that slut PR person Jibjab has to do some work for my next website.

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That one huge hit makes the news agencies think every new release is worthy of press. I agree that it’s not.

My favorite of theirs is still the rapping founding fathers. I can’t find the original interactive one anymore, though, just the video version.

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Good question.
They had one amusing video that made the rounds on the interent over 4 years ago and everything since (all 4-5 of them) have been lame.
Now they pop up on Leno and are a top story on MSN.com?
Must be somebody in the biz’s relative.

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Not a big fan of flash cartoons (or Leno or the Today Show) so I don’t even know the original, much less the new stuff. Presumably they’ve got a good marketer on payroll.

Speaking of which, funny thing is when I saw this pit title, I figured you work for them as a viral marketer. Clever way to put their domain in the public eye! Hey, if I pay you five bucks can you try to pit “skyfalls dot com” for me next time?

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I misread this as fapping founding fathers. :eek:

See rule 34

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Ha! Gotta admit I misread it as raping founding fathers.

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FWIW, it was the featured video on MySpace Video today.

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Me

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Yep, it’s amazing what a difference YouTube has made in the last 4 years. JibJab was fresh then but today it’s gone the way of dancing babies and chimps passing out from smelling their own farts.

The Video, btw.

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Lame. Lamelamelamelamelame. Just like in 2004. Oh, and :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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srsly?

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“?!*”

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Several JibJab cartoons have made The Tonight Show. I suspect it’s in large part because it fills in the few minutes and is relatively inoffensive, and it doesn’t cost the Tonight Show anything. And they know people will watch it and even preferentially tune in. I can understand their continuing to run them. I’d just like to know how they placed the first one on The Tonight Show.

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IIRC, after the inital success of This Land, the Tonight Show commissioned them to do a second one, which was Good To Be In DC. (One of their weaker ones, in my opinion, but that’s probably because it was treading the same ground as the first.)

This new one is entertaining, and it’s somewhat clever they put their personalizing aspect into it, too. (Some of their personalizable stuff is hilarious when used correctly- animation historian Jerry Beck, who’s a big fan of JibJab’s and makes a cameo in their Weird Al video, did an extremely disturbing personalized video with himself and Walt Disney as hula dancers.)

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I thought it was hilarious. Skewered everybody equally.

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I hate how inoffensive they are. [airheaded housewife] “They make fun of both sides!”

Fuck off, jibjab.

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I liked it, but I’m particularly fond of seeing Bill Clinton get smacked around.

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That was lovely. I liked my Barack Oblinga better though.

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I loved it too! Especially Snoop Dog on top of the Capitol!

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I thought it was mildly amusing, but not really insightful or edgy or meaningful. Obama says “change” a lot. Hillary smacks Bill with a frying pan. McCain is old and militant. Take away the animation and it’s Mark Russell and the Capitol Steps.