It’s been quite an April for the PBH Network: over 5 million visitors, our first (record-setting!) 500,000 visitor day, and over 3,600 fans on Facebook. With such a great month, we wanted to recap the best performing content from April from across the PBH Network:
5. What Happens When A Hippie Gives You 30 Hits Of Acid
Our unnamed protagonist — a worker at a local coffee shop — describes how he would leave out food for the homeless, only to have his generosity repaid one fateful evening by a local hippie who proceeded to put 30 hits of acid into his mouth. What would follow was an incredible journey told brilliantly by the narrator.
4. Dam Goats!
The funny thing about goats is they are the most goofy yet adroit, sure-footed creatures on the planet. And nothing displays it better than this photoseries of them climbing an almost completely vertical dam in Italy.
3. Introducing Your Worst Nightmare: Karate Kyle
You picked on him in junior high, but Kyle came back after summer vacation with a new trick up his sleeve: Karate. Now he’s going to make everyone pay for the injustice that he has faced.
2. What Will Happen If Gay Marriage Is Legalized?
We didn’t include an image because…. well… we don’t want to give the secret away! But people from across the internet have called this the only graph you need on gay marriage.
1. The First Zombie-Proof House
We all know it’s coming, it’s just a matter of time: the zombie apocalypse. Luckily, a Polish architecture firm designed the world’s first zombie-proof house. You will not be disappointed.
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Be sure to check out all the PBH Network has to offer: ProseBeforeHos, Alligator Sunglasses, Runt Of The Web, PBH2, and All That Is Interesting. Thanks again to all of our fans and supporters for a great month!
From the embarrassingly funny to the outwardly banned to the downright offensive, here is a list of the most tasteless ads from around the world.
Groupon Tibet Commercial
Groupon’s $2 million ad during this year’s Super Bowl takes the cake for its tasteless depiction of an international crisis. Featuring Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton, the ad makes light of the political unrest in Tibet as it promotes cheap deals on Tibetan curry. It was vilified far and wide, alienated millions of viewers and was, unsurprisingly, pulled from screens.
World Wildlife Fund Green Agenda
[WARNING: Distressing images]
In 2009, a leaked billboard and accompanying video from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) made its way online. The ad promoted the green agenda by re-enacting the horrific 9/11 attacks in NYC, showing more planes aimed at the towers, and finishing on the slogan, “The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it”. Apparently the ad was originally conceived by the Brazilian division and never meant to air. Needless to say, the ad sparked uproar, with even the WWF condemned it as tasteless and offensive.
Kotex ‘Beaver’ Commercial
In 2008, this Australian tampon commercial was heavily criticized for showing a young woman towing along her beaver (guess what that stands for?) during her day out. Though completely bizarre, a little painful to watch, and despite receiving over 200 complaints by viewers, authorities refused to ban it. Apparently they didn’t think a woman and her beaver were very threatening.
Above is combat footage from newsreels by Die Deutsche Wochenschau of the 6th June 1944, Normandy invasion.
Over the course of several episodes, the writers of the Simpsons hid an awesome and hilarious McBain mini-movie with its own plot, storyline, and characters. Pretty amazing, huh?
In the series, McBain is a movie action hero played by the actor Rainier Wolfcastle in the McBain movies. He is a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis (his name is a play on the character of John McClane from the Die Hard movies) for their film personae.