When I hear Americans say shit like Keebler Elf and Gerber Baby I'm like "What the fuck?"

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    It's actually vuvuzela gommunism if the sugar blasted corn syrup flakes don't have a furry on them.

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        Realer heads know this is just a reskin of an earlier game released in Japan.

        Even realer heads know that the Noid ads were ended because of a hostage situation started by a schizophrenic man whose last name was Noid.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        4 days ago

        I actually own a copy of it

        Got it in a mystery 5-pack of NES games

        Pretty sure it was

        • Yo! Noid
        • The Guardian Legend
        • Dragon Power
        • Spy Vs. Spy
        • Raid on Bungeling Bay
        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          4 days ago

          Raid on Bungeling Bay was an early game by Will Wright that inspired him to create SimCity. The name sounds weird until you remember that the Bungeling Empire were the bad guys in Lode Runner. Not to be confused with the US, the Bungling Empire kelly

  • LocalOaf [they/them]
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    4 days ago

    The virgin Burger King vs the chad Hungry Jack

    Is Hungry Jack like a character in the ads? I'm just picturing a big ol' uncle type Aussie guy named Jack and every ad is just him sitting alone on a couch watching TV going "bloody hell I'm hungry," smash cut to him eating a burger, smash cut to him back on the couch watching TV saying "now I'm not hungry!" and he smiles and there's a cheesy tooth grin effect

    🇦🇺🍔grillman

    "Hungry Jacks: eat a fuckin' burger or something dickhead"

    Proud sponsorer of the AFL

    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 days ago

      Showing my age here a bit but back in the day a lot of the throwaway merch you'd get at birthday parties there was distinctly royalty-themed. Looking back it made zero sense without the context but as a kid I didn't even question why we got given cardboard crowns. I guess a lot of the marketing was just imported from the states without thought to the name change.

      • LocalOaf [they/them]
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        4 days ago

        Did Hungry Jack's have the Pokemon movie gold cards in the Pokeballs too? That shit was incredibly tight in grade school

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    The only ones I really remember were all the McDonald's characters. That was really peak capitalism, wasn't it? Buying garbage fast food and toys of the characters used to advertise it.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    4 days ago

    I guess they're similar to Australian "large vegetable/produce" monuments, but from a different time.