Funny Or Die: Chevron 'We Agree' Ad Spoofed For 'Chevron Thinks We're Stupid' Campaign (VIDEO)

Oil giant Chevron's new 'We Agree' ad campaign recently made unintended headlines when notorious pranksters The Yes Men teamed up with Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch to release a simultaneous fake press release and website that mimicked Chevron's new campaign while derailing the company by calling it out for its alleged failures and mistakes.

The group has now launched the Chevron Thinks We're Stupid website, calling on all creative individuals to submit their own spoof Chevron ad, and join in the lambasting of the company for their greenwash.

Funny Or Die has stepped up to the plate with a hilarious rendition that nearly frame-for-frame lampoons one of Chevron's own commercials. The video not only mocks Chevron's useless dropping of key words like "renewable energy," but also its character's bearded-in-denim imagery to appeal to environmentalists.

"Chevron is spending tens of millions of dollars on this ad campaign because it's easier than just making changes," the impersonated Chevron employee says, admitting that really they just "think you people are f--king idiots."

Check out the video below, and visit ChevronThinksWereStupid.org to view other spoof ads and submit your own.

WATCH:

Chevron Thinks We're Stupid from The Yes Men

Comments

[gingersaff]

08:17 AM on 11/01/2010

I'm also pretty cheesed at Exxon-Mobile's ad where the scientific-ey, sorta academic-looking guy stares earnestly into the camera and says that the oil giant, who if you'll remember posted the highest profits of any corporation in the entire flipping world, had "invested millions" in renewable energy. I took that to mean that they spent some amount, probably close to 100% of their "millions", on natural gas pipelines (a side business of oil drilling). Or perhaps they spent it buying up the patents for actual renewable energy technologies, in much the same way that the auto industry buys out their high-fuel efficiency competitors' ideas only to suppress them. Imagine that. "Millions" in the Exxon-Mobile world is like you or I finding a quarter in the sofa cushions. It's chump change. And with every election they come closer and closer to owning us all outright.

[avg american]

02:26 AM on 11/01/2010

Great ad...

[bcmom]

09:48 AM on 10/30/2010

Yep, they do not think we are idiots they know most of the U.S. is idiots.

[skantea]

12:46 AM on 10/30/2010

What have we done to make them think otherwise.
Honestly, I'm so tired of how people refuse to think, learn or care about the way oil companies are purposely retarding the evolution of energy that I'm thinking of just buying as much oil and oil services related stock as possible.
Hey, if they're making money off me, I might as well make money off them.
And I'll still donate more money to fighting them than most others will.
Win/win.

[Monk2001]

11:44 AM on 10/29/2010

I saw some of these commercials, the real Chevron ones. They were insulting.

We're for renewable energy. Buy further lobbying to drill and deregulate and pushing to mine Natural Gas from National and State Forests and Parks.

[rich3324]

08:55 PM on 10/28/2010

Does this mean clean coal is also a lie?

[Over50WhiteWoman]

12:13 AM on 10/29/2010

You are kidding right? Clean coal is a money pit machine--no one would ever invest in something that costs more than the product will bring in. It is a huge lie.

[rich3324]

09:56 AM on 10/29/2010

Sarcasm alert.

[Monk2001]

11:45 AM on 10/29/2010

You have to realize that the majority of the time people are being massively sarcastic on progressive sites.

Unless you get to the Yahoo's or Fox or anything like that. Where people are actually uneducated and st00pid. Then they mean it.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:15 PM on 10/28/2010

Sadly, chevron KNOW that we're stupid.

[jwredd]

12:11 PM on 10/29/2010

You're right and it's a numbers game. They think just enough will buy into it and think they're moving the country forward by voting for the party of deregulation. That's why the fair weather dems that stay home throwing a hissy are just as dumb as the first group of voters.

[tttony]

03:17 PM on 10/28/2010

Brilliant.

[LadyAurora]

03:12 PM on 10/28/2010

From the Firesign Theater album: How Can You Be Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere At All?

“Oh, Heavenly Grid, help us bear up thy Standard, our Chevron flashing bright across the Gulf of Compromise, standing Humble on the Rich Field of Mobile American Thinking? Here in this Shell we call Life...”

One of their best. I never heard about these guys until I met my husband. While I can't quote them as well as he (and many of his friends) can, but boy these guys are hilarious.

[kareemachan]

12:45 PM on 10/29/2010

Gotta fan you for knowing about Firesign Theater. I met Peter Bergman in Alaska years ago. He did a show in Barrow, and had us on the floor, laughing so hard! And my husband introduced ME to their records; I'll never forget listening to "Nick Danger, Third Eye"!

[mlaiuppa]

02:44 PM on 10/28/2010

The internet isn't enough.

What is needed is the money to run these spots on Prime Time on Major Networks. (Faux is NOT a major network.) I'd like to see these run during the nightly news windows 5 pm - 7 pm.

[carlgt1]

02:30 PM on 10/28/2010

Rand Paul says "how dare you put the boot on the head of Chevron -- it should be on a peaceful protestor instead!"

[Kevin Atlanta]

02:04 PM on 10/28/2010

Love the fact that these folks just let it all hang out there. The Corporate Fascists deserve to be called out each and every time.

If I hear Iris Cross one more time I may spit nails...

[Mashed Potatoes]

12:35 PM on 10/28/2010

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/8595/Gore-leaves-car-idling-for-one-hour-during-speech-Opts-for-Swedish-government-jet-over-public-transportation

This is NOT Funny.

[sonofsamphm1c]

01:41 PM on 10/28/2010

That you think it has any bearing on anything IS funny.

All Gore is not a scientist. Your problem is the scientists whom you cannot refute.

Which why you idiotically try to make this about Al Gore.

[stagebandman]

01:59 PM on 10/28/2010

I would add "For Brains" after your moniker.

You think Al Gore was driving that car? HE did not leave it idling, the driver did.

Maybe it was a diesel limo, just like buses and trucks, and it's actually cheaper to let it run.

Sorry, but that's an unwinnable argument for you.

[Cryostatic]

02:28 PM on 10/29/2010

Startup's actually about the equivalent of 30 second of idle in terms of gas consumption. Not that I'm defending the Goremonger over there.

http://www.epa.gov/ne/eco/diesel/pdfs/Diesel_Factsheet_Truck_Idling.pdf

[jeniferdaniels]

12:06 PM on 10/28/2010

i love it!

[filabac]

11:41 AM on 10/28/2010

I just saw one of their commercials last night and at first I actually thought it was somekind of spoof.