Los Angeles Times’ The Guide dubbed Thrill the World Los Angeles, “…massive display of organized goofery.” And look where this goofery got us!
Thriller Dance: Largest Simultaneous: 4,179 people: Ines Markeljevic. On Oct. 25, 2008, 4,179 people from 10 nations (Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America, and Wales) simultaneously performed The Thriller Dance as part of the Thrill The World event, organized by Ines Markeljevic of Canada.
Post Event
ABC 7 : 4:30 p.m. : Thousands go for “thrilling” world record
CNN Anderson Cooper 360 : The Shot: Thriller Anniversary [Video is no longer available but the comments are]
KTLA 5 : 11 p.m. : “Thiller” dancers in Hollywood join Guinness World Record attempt and again the following morning
Fox 11 Good Day LA : Thriller 25th Anniversary
LA Weekly : LA Daily Blog : “Thriler” zombies descend on Hollywood in attempt to hold world record (with photo gallery)
Los Angeles Daily News : Dancers perform Thriller Dance (gallery)
KROQ Kevin & Bean Show : Follow up interview with Mahdroo and Psycho Mike and DJ Omar’s reaction to their “crashing” the party with special call in from a fellow zombie Renee (around 7 a.m.)
Torrance Daily Breeze’s The Pipeline Blog : Zombies: Line dance first, eat brains second
Other coverage no longer available online: CNN (footage from ABC7), Los Angeles Times,
Pre-Event
Torrance Daily Breeze : Zombies Invade Manhattan Beach
The Daily Breeze headline made it to the Wall Street Journal October 13 Best of the Web, “Everything seemingly is spinning out of control.”
KROQ Kevin & Bean Show : Interview with Mahdroo around 7:30 a.m., prompting the week-long gag of “Thriller” intro being played randomly throughout their broadcast.
Los Angeles Times’ Entertainment : Thriller’ dance Guinness world record attempt includes Hollywood & Highland
Los Angeles Times’ Hero Complex Blog : Halloween, fanboy style
Daily Bruin : Group dance will provide worldwide thrill
NBC Los Angeles Blog : Zombies to Dance ‘Thriller’ in LA Flash Mob
LA.com : Calling All Zombies
Other coverage no longer available online: Los Angeles Daily News has a video of our final practice, and NBC Los Angeles blog.
Odds and Ends
George Lucas’ Star Wars Blog : Zombie Leia Dances to “Thriller”
Cinematical.com : Miley Cyrus Plays Venom as Zombies Dance in Los Angeles
io9.com : Featuring TTWLA : Michael Jackson still thrills after all these years
Mockery is a form of flattery : KROQ Kevin & Bean’ Psycho Mike and DJ Omar “crashed” Thrill the World Los Angeles
Thrill the World as a part of SoCal pop culture: Ever since KROQ Kevin & Bean Show tormented Mahdroo by inserting Thriller intro randomly durint the interview, the K&B gang has been tossing in Thriller throughout the show when they didn’t want to hear something (Dah dah!), mentioning of Michael Jackson (Dah dah!), or just for the heck of it (Dah dah!).
