Yeah. My housemate and I were on mushrooms in Madison and I was wearing my old m&ms t shirt so then there was a big truck that said m&ms on it. I tried to avoid it but they got us to come over. It was one of those "reenact your favorite m&ms commercial" things. So housemate thought it'd be fun, probably to torture me. Anyway it took 5 takes because he did all the work and at the end I kept accidentally saying "fuck." They just wanted me because of my shirt.
Anyway that was that. They took down our info and I went to the zoo or something. A few months later there was a big riot and the store I worked at got a few Molotov cocktails thru the window and next morning they expected me to clean it up. I did but wrote in the staff log "FUCK YOU FIRE ME NOW" so they did. I'm out of a job fretting because I liked that job, when I get a call from Mars saying they want to use the commercial nationally. And give me a bunch of $$$. It was aired at the Super Bowl, Grammies, can't remember what else because I don't have tv. But my parents, my in laws, all of my friends and strangers would recognize me. I was at a guided by voices show and Robert pollard called me out. I got a new job and the place I got fired from went out of business anyway. It paid off most of my student loans and is used in schools now as an early example of viral marketing so I still get checks once in a while.
I guess not too bad for 3 seconds of work.. I'll put a link up if you really wanna see me wearing a backwards baseball cap :(
High school talent show and I told the MC I wanted "that maniac song" for my set. Because I am musically retarded, I had no idea that the song was actually "SHE's a maniac". I find this out at the last second, and drop out from sheer embarrassment without ever going on :(