I'm loving these vlogs. Nice work Vincent.

Nice

Sorry to tell you, your video is down.

so are your pants.

They did it wrong. The whole point of it was to board the max and DURING the ride take your pants off. This is the way Improv Everywhere has been doing it for however many years it's been going on. Next year hopefully they'll do it right, and it will be way funnier.

Hmm, what are you talking about? The entire point is to board with no pants. Reference: improveverywhere.com

http://www.improveverywhere.com/2007/12/29/no-pants-2k8-details-for-nyc/#more-197

The plan was to board with your pants ON, then remove them at a designated point during the ride. Apparently it didn't happen that way this year.
It just seems like it would have been funnier if you were a Max rider and people who seemed to be strangers all started removing their pants. It would really give you the "wtf?" feeling.

Regardless of what Improv Everywhere did (which, having read the link, involved BOTH taking off pants while on the train, later getting off the train and boarding a different train, and thus ALSO getting on the train with no pants), the Portland activity seemed less humorous than Improv Everywhere's, which was designed to be funny/weird for the non-participants. From the video above, this looked more like a bunch of people mainly humoring themselves: "Hey, gusy, we're not wearing pants! Edgy!" It would have been funnier if the pantsless had played with straight faces and not obviously acknowledging it's all a "keep Portland weird" thing. But maybe I'm grumpy because I think Portland should be creative enough to come up with their own stunts, and not follow NYC's lead.

Yeah, not amusing. Who the hell thinks it's wacky to take off their pants on a train ride? Listen, it's funnier to actually talk about pants-free Max riding than actually doing it. Yeesh, the bar keeps getting lower. Instead of jumping on the IE bandwagon, it would be best to come up with a new idea.

Arguing over rules is dumb. Don't be dumb.

Oouchiemama

There WERE a few of us who kept a straight face, though the video doesn't show it. My friend and I were very non-challant and when (after turning around to come back to the llyod center stop) everyone else got off to go for beers, we stayed on to pick up my car (so I could go to work) and kept the act up the whole way. It wasn't difficult, but their wasn't much explination about how things were supposed to go down. If you didn't understand IE's message with the "scene" then you thought it was just a prank with no character. No one's fault really, but better timing and less press next year will help that!