Video of the Day: Frozen Grand Central

Improv Everywhere was back recently causing a commotion (or more appropriately: a standstill) at Grand Central. For this prank the troupe had 207 "agents" in place that all froze on cue for five minutes. (We'd love to see this go down in Times Square.) The below footage shows the latest stunt:

The onlookers prove to be equally entertaining, and didn't know what to think (protest? acting class?). One employee trying to move his cart through the terminal has to radio in for help: "I can't move my cart, there's hundreds of people frozen everywhere. This is wild. I need some help." Improv Everywhere: making the commute more interesting.

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I'm glad they had the courtesy to stage it at 2:30. If it was at rush hour, people probably would have been a lot less cordial.

totally. this is great, but if i was trying to get home from work around 6 and this shit was happen, i'd start doing the heisman left and right.

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we should do this more often!

I love these stunts..way better than the British Thriller dancers.

Wow. That was really cool. Not so much the idea of the stunt itself but all the positions people froze in and the reactions they elicited.

I think Improv Everywhere has redeemed itself from the tired No Pants ride.

Okay, that is just awesome. I'm interested what the cue was to start / stop? Did they all have earpieces? Were they counting one-mississippi, two-mississippi for five minutes?

gawker is insisting this happened yesterday except I saw the youtube video 2 days ago. It was listed as a "banned commercial".

Improv everywhere is amazing, they also think of the most interesting stunts. I like that the whole mission is just more about entertaining people than trying to make a statement, they just want people to smile. Brilliant, we could use more of this kind of stuff in the world.

well at least it gets these geeks out of the their parents basement and away from the computer for a couple of hours.

well at least it gets these geeks out of the their parents basement and away from the computer for a couple of hours.

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