Enron Commercial - Ode To Why

[ranieri7x]

Yeah.. Aside the criminal company, nice piece of art

[clipobserver]

Why did you ripped off people?

[trick29420]

'the most innovative company in the world.' oops.

[MsMarciax]

Why did we pull the skin over your eye's to believe in us...

Because our pockets are full to the brim with your lovely money that's why...

Greedy F**ks... :-x

[14DMNer]

"Ask Why Asshole"

[gaurd3]

Cant argue with good marketing

[BlackhawksRBallin]

When I was in school they always asked me questions that I could put with a short easy answer... then they had to put the fucking "why?" at the end of it. So I hate the word why.

[Johnrl21]

Love the thinking....if only it wasn't tied to such corruption

[vaibanez17]

Once Enron came up with the idea that they could make every single thing that existed on Earth a trade-able commodity, their workers were screwed. At that point, Enron began just making things up to make their books work out to investors who were sinking money into a company that had almost nothing to offer for return. Really bad business model and fake products and overhyped bad items are still the norm in many financial institutions. Look at Goldman Sachs, selling people bad stocks....

[gracebasherguy92]

Is John Hurt doing the narration???

[totoroben]

0:24 why the hell would anyone build such a bad building..... it looks like a cancer growing off the older one. Thanks Frank Ghery.

[TwilightMemoirs]

Why did you fuck up a load of people's lives by paying your TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND EMPLOYEES their 'wages' in Enron stocks, WHY?!

[ashburn247]

that "why why why" at the end is so creepy. they used that really well in the documentary

[JamieinMN]

@ashburn247 I actually like the "why why why" sound byte. I'd like to make it perfect and make it like 2 or 3 minutes of just solid why why why. Cuz I have alot of questions on why things are done a certain way, in regards to this country, my state, my job, all sorts of things in life.... WHY?

[Playboysmurf1]

ASK WHY - EMISSIONS TRADING?

[hendizy]

The irony of Enron's ask why commercial campaign is that nobody at Enron did.

[MacavityF]

@hendizy yes, as nearly stated verbatim in the last line of "Smartest Guys in the Room"

[MaximumCarnage20]

@hendizy Actually, they did. Apparently they must have asked: why follow FASB and ethical accounting standards, and why show debt on your books that you can instead hide?! Why? Why? Why?

[MaximumCarnage20]

@MaximumCarnage20 "When you're not afraid to ask why, you can change whatever it is you want." Excellent! We'll do that with accounting!

[skip8619]

Enron had some great ideas, and if it wasen't for the corruption and horrible business sense of their execs, they still might be around today.

[DNchap1417]

ask why arsehole!

[aroundtheworlda]

Corruption, propaganda and lies of the elite exposed. That's Enron for ya.

[viper1564]

If they only admitted their failure in bandwith and weather, they probobly would still be in buissness and have a stock tripple the amount cheated. *sigh* It had great potential in the world.

[Kozzy06]

Enron made some brilliant commericals....just a shame that the values they were made on were a complete lie and sham...

[Shipoopi007]

@Kozzy06

when was this ad released?

[Bozewani]

Most inovative company yep, Fortune. We even came up with our own accounting practices.

It was very non-comformist but we asked why do you we need to report profits correctly?

[applexy]

@Bozewani AHAHAHAHAHAH GOOD 1

[Shipoopi007]

@Bozewani

and then lehman happend :)

[dnoreen]

Definitely a motivational commercial. They were trying to do whatever it took to motivate people to look somewhere else, and not in their cooked books. ha ha ha.

[alvinartwork]

Setting aside the whole Enron part of the commercial, it sure tells a pretty good motivational statement.

Too bad people didn't ask why about Enron and how it was making profits until it was too late.

[CristinaFernandez]

Man, the worst part is a glorified pyramid scheme like Enron has the absolute chutzpah to compare themselves in advertising to Abe Lincoln.

The other worst part is Enron - just about the biggest status quo types around - trying to frame themselves as visionaries that go their own way. I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

[OOIEatte]

Fantastic commercial.

[lorigee2]

Why indeed!!

[shaba4life]

LOL

[radudeATL]

"Why" is an abrupt word.

But not as abrupt as Enron's bankruptcy.

[MistrEgg]

If you ignore the whole enron aspect of this commerical, the message it gives is brilliant. I love it.

[edgexxi]

In the end, it was shareholders and employees left asking "why why why?" Burn in hell Ken Lay. BTW, what the hell did Enron do?

[SenorEuphoria]

Why? Why? Why did you fuck up?

[HeatSurge]

For tons of money and not pride in not admitting that the company was not profitable. That's Why... why ... why... and it will happen again and again, in some shape and form.

[Shipoopi007]

@SenorEuphoria

man stfu

post an intelligent comment at least once in your life

moron

[SenorEuphoria]

@Shipoopi007 Okay, sure.

Did you get laid off by Enron for making this commercial?

[CronyxRavage]

This is probably one of my favorite commercials of all time. Not just commercials though, the whole dialog is just a great quote.

[p7811fx]

Great commercial, but you have gave into there PR stunt. This was creating a distraction for what was really going on.

[leibun]

I can guarantee that the PR people didn't know "what was going on" Only the big wigs knew. If anyone other than the schemy traders and the top execs knew, the whole world would have known a lot sooner. The people who made this commercial were just advertising people. It wasn't a "PR stunt" just advertisers doing what advertisers do.

[natestorm]

You know it's so unfortunate becuase this is really a beautiful piece of art, used to such trajic ends. Ah well that's what a good video editor is for. Splice the art from the krap.

[1000huzzahs]

I agree.

[Ilissill]

@natestorm

Welcome to corporate propaganda marketing. Create the illusion of being benevolent and a progressive company while in business-practice you do the opposite (steal/cheat/repress).

[haobio]

Nice video. But I think Eron has too fixated with the ideas rather than the reality.

[RiSiaas]

They copied from Apple's "Think Different" campaign

[solojam]

everyone copies from apple

[aweakgruel]

I piss on Ken Lay's grave.

Burn in hell, asshole!

[bluntandafourty]

Ask why you created fake markets on items with no demand to inflate stock prices...

[mendezWTF]

The music and the words are inspirational. Too bad the company stiffed everyone in the ass... why?

[2ndreality]

Why? Why? Why?

[archer1949]

Is that John Hurt in the voiceover?