Snakes on a Plane and short film parody competitions. On July 6, 2006, the official "Snakes on a Plane" website started a promotional sweepstakes called "The #1 Fan King Cobra Sweepstakes". The contest made innovative use of the publicity-generating potential of the Internet, requiring contestants to post links on forums, blogs, and websites and collecting votes from the users of those sites. Many of the early fan-made trailers and later other viral videos and commercials circulated via YouTube, and captured media attention there with such titles as: "Cats on a Plane" (which was featured in Joel Siegel's review of "Snakes on a Plane" on
Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts Not So Bad as We Seem, Or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts, was a play written by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1851, and performed the same year as a charity event to benefit the Literary Guild, a society for struggling authors. The performance was especially notable for its cast, which included novelists Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, "Punch" editor Mark Lemon, artists Augustus Egg and John Tenniel, and writers Peter Cunningham and Douglas Jerrold. Dickens and Collins met