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May 25, 2005

The Jeeves9000 B-Sides

"Does anyone remember laughter?" - Robert Plant

Making Jeevesbot9000

I was really pleased with how well our April Fool's Day blog posting & fake Ask.com product announcement went over this year. The Jeeves9000 project was a hit, and you'd be surprised how many people actually thought we really developed an overly aggressive search robot... Instead, Michael Ferguson graciously stepped inside an old Jeeves costume which we quickly altered with a can of spray paint, a radio shack antenna & clownish absurdity (My personal favorite clip being the one where the Jeevesbot playing sports outside with a family and then just painfully sacks Lanzone ... QuickTime | Media Player).   

Two late afternoons of unscripted shooting, a few long nights of editing and Jeeves9000 was born. As with every labor of love, there were many fun moments that we had to cut out, but due to the overwhelming interest - I humbly present;
The Jeeves9000 B-Sides. 

Jeevesbot9000 B-sides
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Scott Grieder, Product Manager

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Comments

Excellent! I missed that stupid robot and wondered if we'd ever see him again.

Posted by: Billy | May 25, 2005 2:13:59 PM

Die interessante Neuheit, Danke für die Publikation

Posted by: Otto | May 26, 2005 12:35:15 PM

Nice pictures :)

Posted by: Fabio | Jun 22, 2005 5:44:16 AM

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