Not a whole hell of a lot. Except that FRUMONDAH SODA, THE TASTE FROM AFRICA sure is a delicious beverage. Why, even Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua loves it. Check out these photos and captions from the Asociateted Press:
“Not only is FRUMONDAH a taste from Africa. It is THE TASTE FROM AFRICA!!” declared Yar’Adua at the African Union Summit.
“Just look at this easy-to-carry bottle. You can hold it sideways and it doesn’t spill,” the Nigerian president pointed out.
“I just like to kiss the bottle cap sometimes. For good luck,” Yar’Ardua added before he condemned the violence in the Congo.
Pretty neat, huh? Guess Bob Odenkirk and Leon & Andy’s little viral video experiment worked. For the uninitiated, they made a phony short called Bird Poops In Mouth. It went into a viral spiral all over the Interwebs. Then, exactly one week ago, we revealed that it was indeed a staged incident–a teaser, if you will–meant to draw viewers into a much longer advertisement for FRUMONDAH SODA.
Now, aside from President Yar’Ardua’s glowing comments, we don’t yet have any hard data to support just how beneficial this has all been for FRUMONDAH SODA in terms of sales. But we do know what we’ve learned about the video that begat this whole pile of…um…poop.
Just on YouTube alone, Bird Poops In Mouth has racked up well over a million views as well as a list of YouTube honors including the much-coveted Top Rated “Pets & Animals” video for last month.
Elsewhere online, Bird Poops In Mouth has been featured on the Huffington Post, LiveLeak, Viral Video Chart, AOL Video Blog, MetaFilter, Blogspot, Digg, AOL Video, MySpace Video, Reddit, Milk And Cookies, EbaumsWorld, Break, Yahoo Video, The Onion, Gawker, College Humor, Comedy Central Insider, Hot Air, Word Press, Revver, Fark, IFilm, Technorati, TV Guide, Best Week Ever, Wired, Esquire and Laughing Squid.
It also made it on several TV shows including CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, E!’s The Soup, and Sirius Radio’s The Howard Stern Show. G4’s Attack Of The Show not only featured Bird Poops In Mouth, they also went through the trouble to enact this moving tribute. Thanks, guys.
Of course, Bird Poops In Mouth couldn’t have garnered its 15 seconds of Internet glory without a few requisite response videos. Here are our favorites:
2 Birds 1 Reporter Reaction–Either this guy really does have the weakest stomach ever or somebody is playing audio tricks.
Reporter’s Scoop get Bird Poop in the Mouth! Very Funny!–It seems one fake reporter’s misfortune is another ringtone company’s…um…advertisement?
Re: Bird Poops In Mouth–Meet the Internet Fonzee. He’s oddly compelled to post a response video, but too cool to actually do anything in it (except where sunglasses and smoke a cigarette).
Finally…
Reaction To Bird Poops In Mouth Starring Paul Hu–The blog’s very own man-on-the-street star, Paul Hu. We came, he saw, he out-pooped us.
Enough said.
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