This is a clip from US Reality television show Scare Tactics. It is a hidden camera reality show that puts unsuspecting victims into terrifying situations, usually involving special effects and makeup. The victims are set up by friends and family.

This clip is particularly funny where the guy is babysitting the little girl when she suddenly starts to talk to her “dead” sister. The guy spectacularly freaks out!

Do you remember the Pixar movie introduction? The one where “Luxo Jr” the anglepoise lamp hops in and jumps up and down on the letter “I” of the Pixar logo?

Here is a great parody video of what happened next!

American car manufacturer Dodge pulled a fast one just recently after complaints about it’s new “tent event” ad from animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

The problem? The advertisment contained a chimpanzee dressed as a stuntman to set off a small bunch of fireworks.

It seems harmless enough but not according to Julia Gallucci:

Most top ad agencies in the country won’t even consider producing an ad featuring a great ape these days given the well-documented abuse that young chimpanzees and orangutans suffer in the entertainment industry.

This abuse starts when they are prematurely removed from their mothers and continues when they are trained to perform through savage beatings, denied even the most basic necessities, transported and housed in barren steel cages, and then discarded at seedy roadside zoos around the age of 8, even though they can live into their 60s.

You won’t find a great-ape trainer without a history of Animal Welfare Act violations and a reputation for dumping animals when they’re no longer profitable. After watching a video narrated by Anjelica Huston about the use of great apes in entertainment, savvy ad agencies such as BBDO, Young & Rubicam, Grey Group, Draftfcb, and Saatchi & Saatchi made the compassionate decision not to exploit great apes in future ads. Dodge isn’t going to dodge a bullet on this one. It needs to pull the ad — and we’ve contacted the company asking it to do just that. 

Here is the original video they lodged the complaint about:

On July 20, Colleen O’Brien, PETA’s director of communications, announced that they had just learned some “exciting news”:

Today, PETA’s Primatologist, Julia Gallucci, was told by the CEO of Dodge that, after receiving complaints from PETA and other animal protection groups, the company has made the decision to remove the chimpanzee from their commercial.

They are currently working on altering the ad so the chimpanzee will no longer appear. The company also had plans to release a series of print ads with the chimpanzee, which they are now canceling.

So, did Dodge remove the monkey from the ads? You bet they did – in a very clever and funny way. Here’s the end result: