Frozen Taco Bell Prank

Posted by Alex in Advertising, Video Clips on June 26, 2008 at 8:47 pm


Do you remember the insanely great Frozen Grand Central prank?

Well, Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere, the guy that did it, replicated this stunt at a suburban Taco Bell Grand Opening. The facial expressions of the unsuspecting lunchtime crowd when 40 performers just froze mid-slurp and mid-bit are pure gold!

Check out the video clip:


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28 comments to "Frozen Taco Bell Prank"

  1. jeffhamada
    June 26th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    love everything these guys do!

  2. dj
    June 26th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    Dumb

  3. Patty P
    June 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    That was amazingly awesome!! I'd love to be caught in the middle of one.

  4. bean
    June 26th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    I keep waiting for the headlines when they pull a stupid stunt like that in front of some on duty cops or FBI agents. It could easily be confused for some sort of terrorist attack.

  5. Mr. Binky
    June 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    Wow, bean, you are one serious party pooper. Why do so many people hate fun?

    Improv Everywhere is awesome.

  6. sigh
    June 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    I don't know how they don't keep from laughing. That was good.
    My favorite improv everywhere skit is still where tons of people wearing blue polos and kakis (looking exactly like the employees) walk into a Best Buy store and mill around.

  7. onecrazymomma
    June 26th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    i love this group! that looked like such fun!

  8. sam
    June 26th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Very good - but seriously, improv anywhere has sold out or what?

  9. SenorMysterioso
    June 27th, 2008 at 12:13 am

    Oh snap its Charlie Murphy!

  10. Geekazoid
    June 27th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    alright, amusing but not laugh out loud quality

  11. Lasse
    June 27th, 2008 at 1:43 am

    Terrorists!!

  12. Lasse
    June 27th, 2008 at 1:43 am

    Is nobody thinking about the CHILDREN??!!

  13. UnreaL
    June 27th, 2008 at 2:10 am

    The day this sort of thing gets confused for a terrorist attack will be the day I lose all remaining hope in the future of modern civilization.

  14. Clapoti
    June 27th, 2008 at 2:25 am

    Honestly they should start to find something else to do... people will start to not be surprised and not find it funny soon.

  15. Urchin
    June 27th, 2008 at 9:26 am

    Great job on the site but could you please avoid using videos that play automatically in the RSS Feed? I was using Google Reader and music started blasting out of my speakers when this article loaded in reader, about ten articles below what I was currently reading.

  16. Shawn
    June 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    I'm glad they got paid for this one. Kudos to TB for recognizing IE's art. Shame the food isn't better!

  17. Tara
    June 27th, 2008 at 9:38 am

    That was pretty fun, and whoever didn't think so I think you need to loosen up.

  18. Will
    June 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    I agree with Urchin. No more autoplaying videos please. I have scroll down to this article to pause the video every time I open up Neatorama's feed.

  19. Dandy
    June 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    If you don't want autoplay on videos, use Firefox with Flashblock addon - no problem!

  20. Johnny Cat
    June 27th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Senior Mysterio- now THAT was funny.

  21. Thomas
    June 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Terrorists? You're f--ing kidding, right? That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day, bean.

  22. Toma
    June 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Agreed with Will and Urchin. Autoplay videos are really annoying.

  23. JC
    June 27th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    Not a LOL, but it was a pretty good prank.

  24. erikerikerikerik
    June 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    How did the guy at the end switch out his sunglasses for a slurpee if he wasn't moving?

  25. jimmyhoffascorpse
    June 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    that was great! now if that woman in the back would only stop blinking!

  26. just a guy
    June 28th, 2008 at 2:19 am

    i noticed the glasses / slurpee swap too. the only thing I can think of (besides him moving and it being edited out) would be if the real customers took his glasses, put them in his pocked (you can see them in on shot there), and stuck a drink in his hand. Becasue his hand/arm are in the same position.

    If that were me pretending to be frozen and people rearranged things on me, I'd have no choice then to let them do it or break character. And the kid talking about him did have a drink on him (not that that's so amazing in a taco bell).

  27. ...tom...
    June 28th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    ...
    Ditto the auto-play comments.

    Kill it..!!

    Why is it the reader's responsibility to do it..??

    Very disappointing . . .yeah, I got no life. H3ll, I am blogreading afterall...

    .

  28. bryan
    June 29th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Dude, that was great, the first time I have every seen anything like that.

    Bryan
    http://www.easywindowshelp.com


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