Touchblue

Dear Touchblue Familia,

Circle up, Guys and Gals… really lean in on this one. We need a team huddle. Stat.

It has been brought to my attention that Carl’s Jr. is currently running a commercial for their chili cheeseburger that is strikingly similar to our sketch, “Knight School.” Before I say anything more, take a look at the videos… and judge for yourself:

Here is the Carl’s Jr Ad, which premiered during the Academy Awards last Sunday, entitled “Did I Get It?”:

Now here is “Knight School” (a sketch that we shot & posted to the web in April 2005):

Have I been plagiarized? What do you think? Personally, I’m not comfortable saying that I have been outright stolen from. I understand that this kind of parallel thinking can exist when dealing with messy treats. It would be unfair for me to suppose that no one else on this planet could arrive upon the same comedic conclusions as mine. That’s just silly.

But.

I will say… that when I first saw the ad, I felt like pile-driving something.

Two days later, my top buckle instincts have subsided… and it’s now time to begin the healing slash revenge process. Any ideas? Hollerback.

**UPDATE
The situation is up on Digg.com… check out the article, and let’s Digg this thing up:

http://digg.com/television/Newest_Carl_s_Jr_Commercial_was_ripped_off_Videos

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‘The State’ was a shortlived sketch comedy show that aired on MTV from 1993 to 1995. The comedy itself was off-beat, edgy… like a Monty Python for the twenty-somethings that made up Generation X. Unfortunately at the time, I was thirteen and riding the puberty train to manhood.
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