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Family Guy American Pop Culture Question

Fuzzy14

Fuzzy14

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with the risk of this being sent to the Wasteland, was watching Family Guy and one of those pop culture things came up that I just didn't get because I'm not from US of A.

Jug full of red liquid burst through a wall shouting "oh yeah"
Jug of red liquid sitting on a couch, car drives through wall, red liquid says it's really annoying when that happens to him.

What product is this and why is it funny? (Could probably find it on You Tube if I knew what the stuff was!)

Thanks!
~Fuzzy
 
Found it on You Tube, seems like a 70s/80s nostalgia kind of drink (I suppose us in the UK would think the same about Um Bungo!) Some of the ads are hilarious (because they are so cheap and cheesy but in a nice 80s kitsch way!)

I was lost without a brand name, thanks!

*Edit Just found an ad with The Monkees and Bugs Bunny! It's so funny I'm not sure if it's a fake, a Monkees spoof or real because they actually did take money or any kind of promotion!
 
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Before he was officially the Kool-Aid Man in 1975, he was the “Pitcher Man”. The Pitcher Man was created in 1954 by Marvin Plotts, an art director for a New York-based advertising agency. General Foods had just purchased Kool-Aid from the drink’s creator Edwin Perkins the year before, and Plotts was charged with drafting a concept to illustrate the copy message: “A 5-cent package makes two quarts. " Working from his Chicago home on a cold day, Potts watched as his young son traced smiley face patterns on a frosty windowpane," recounts Sue Uerling, marketing and communications director for Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History. This inspired Marvin Plotts to create a beaming glass pitcher filled with flavorful drink: the Pitcher Man. From there on the joyful pitcher was on all the Kool-Aid’s advertisements.
In 1975 Kraft Foods created the character’s first costume with arms and legs. He also became more of an action figure in commercials — performing extreme sports and bursting through brick walls. Kool-Aid Man is famously known for shouting, “Oh, Yeah!” as he is summoned by thirsty children with the phrase, "Hey, Kool-Aid!". Commercials of the era also featured a catchy jingle, always ending with the Kool-Aid Man's phrase.
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And the term drinking the kool aid comes from a cult that died after drinking spiked kool aid.
The term is derived from the 1978 cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, persuaded his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year he ordered his followers to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Flavor Aid laced with potassium cyanide. A camera from inside the compound shows a large chest being opened, clearly showing boxes of both Flavor Aid and Kool-Aid.[4] There is also testimony from criminal investigators at the Jonestown inquest stating that there were "cool aid" [sic] packets there.[5] It is unknown whether these are a reference to the Kool-aid brand packets from the trunk, or simply a generic use of the more popular brand for the product. In what is now commonly called the "Jonestown Massacre", a large majority of the 913 people later found dead drank the brew.
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pure sugar baby.....

I remember the hot days drinking the stuff, YUM....

Had it at a kids b-party recently yikes, better than 3 cups of coffee.:eek:
 
Only thing that tops Kool Aid is Bug Juice - (which is made from Kool Aid) Yeah, my scout master (back in the day) got the bright idea to teach us that boiling water and dumping kool-aid in until it won't be dissolved anymore - then letting it cool.

It's like liquid crack and speed for little kids. I think I finished 6 merit badges in 3 minutes.
:eek:
 
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