It’s actually Googolplex, which is even funnier.
I keep seeing this TV beer called Heisler – from New Girl, My Name is Earl and Raising Hope, to name a few.
Yep, I’m showing it again – “Almost Pizza;” catch who the manufacturer is at the end.
“If we can’t kid each other…”
(in chorus) “…who can we kid?”
A pretty unusual and highly popular local country FM station (was KPIG, reincarnated as KFAT or maybe the other way around) used to throw in bogus ad spots among the real ones, using the same announcers and style. One I remember was Hot Dickens’ Cider.
It took me all the way to the end to get it and then I couldn’t believe they could put that on the radio and get away with it.
There’s an episode on Inside the Actor’s Studio with the main Simpson’s voice actors but damned if I can find a link. It seems they’ve become aggressive taking down copies. How dare they defend their hard earned and rightful creators’ rights for their precious ‘livelihoods’?!
Anyway, one of my favorite parts of the ep is Hank Azaria listing off some of the Duff varieties (from my memory): “Duff Dark, Duff Dry, Raspberry Duff, Tartar Control Duff…” Really funny stuff, always amusing to see iconic voice actors do their thing.
And I’ve seen a few people show up to Halloween parties in Duffman costumes, instant hit.
Lastly, a friend of mine gave me an intact can of Buzz Cola, apparently an officially licensed product tie-in to the Simpsons Movie.
It’s made by the prop company in Just_Asking_Questions’ link.
We shouldn’t assume all those shows are in the same universe, should we? 
I love the name Red Tick Beer (motto: “Suck one dry”) However, sometimes it needs more dogs.
Actually, My Name is Earl and Raising Hope are from the same showrunner and are in the same universe. Not, as far as I know, New Girl.
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories are filled with fake products. I don’t know if Stout didn’t want to give anyone free publicity or what. But Wolfe drank Remmer beer, had Archie drive him in a Heron sedan. Archie uses a Marley revolver. They frequently mention Rabson locks, and so forth.
Others continued the practice. When Robert Goldsborough started writing new Nero Wolfe stories, he invented Cherokee cherry-flavored soda as a client. Lawrence Block used Rabson locks in some of his stories, and Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle used the same kind of fictional insecticide in The Mote in God’s Eye that was used in a Nero Wolfe story.
Yup. I bought my buddy a six-pack when I was in Italy.
Speaking of that… I’m fascinated by Heisler beer. It’s a Hollywood prop beer brand that TV shows and lesser movies (ones without breweries paying for product placement) use to stand in for the real brands.
Nobody’s mentioned Monty Python’s “Australian Table Wines” review -heresy!!
Chateau Louis San Wagga-wagga. “This one has a bouquet like an aborigine’s armpit. It really opens up the sluices at both ends…”
One of my favorite fake wines – which eventually became a real product because of al the interest in it – is Hiney Wines
There’s even a fan club –
http://hineywinery.com/
Which offers this history
Several wineries produced “Hiney Wine”, and if you look on the internet you can find them
Schweddy Balls.
I remember seeing tee-shirts for Hiney Wines. They inspired us to make tee-shirts for Stiffy’s Dead Patch Cemetery and Sushi Bar and for Frog Pond Occult Investigations and Rooftop Café.
I think I may still have my Stiffy’s tee-shirt somewhere.
There was a comic called Marshall Law in the 80s about a leather clad antihero who hunts down and shoots supers. The setting was in a dystopian near-future and one of the products shown in stores was “Cheap Chuck Chow” with a super expensive price on it. Futurama did something similar with Bachelor Chow.
Another fake winery: Frass Canyon from the movie Sideways–“frass” being the excrement of insect larvae.
The 'Dope here is sorta obsessed with Bachelor Chow.
From 2001:
The first two above were revived as late as 2010.
From 2003:
From 2011:
From 2013:
From 2019:
I didn’t read the list but I noticed last night watching The Good Place a tap in a bar/restaurant with Heisler on it. It was on real Eartch and Janet was grumbling about how she was powerless to create anything while pulling six mugs of beer.
Holy crap. There was a local restaurant that sold “Hiney Wine” when I was a kid. (It was a normal canned soda with a paper label wrapped and glued around it). I had no idea what it was based on. Here is an article about it. (You have to subscribe to see the scanned image, but you can see the mangled OCR text.)
I got intrigued by how important the bottle of scotch is near the end of many Blue Bloods episodes.
Frank (Tom Selleck) shares a wee dram with his father as they discuss an issue, or has a glass with his daughter as they argue about an issue. I kept trying to read the label to see what they were drinking… Frank finally had a poker game with the bottle in view (right off the bat here, and again later).
It was… Finnerty’s!
Huh? Turns out they invented it for the show, and I wasn’t the only one obsessed with it. But… did any of those other fans Photoshop a classy label, scour kitchen supply shops and distilleries for a bottle to match the show, and then do a month’s research on which Scotch to fill it with?
…
Anyone up for a story? I took the bottle to a neighborhood poker game (this was two years ago, now we play online). I told the story, everyone tried some, one guy did a Tom Selleck imitation… then Joshua showed up (late and full of himself, as always).
Joshua was excited, “Finnerty’s! Not often someone can afford a Scotch I haven’t had.” He swirled it in his glass and took a sip. Everyone looked at me like “The jig’s up, digs.” but Joshua’s eyes were closed. He muttered, “Mmm, massive mouthfeel, peppery finish. I’m tasting notes of… overripe pear, fig… and a charred oak campfire.” He opened his eyes and smiled: “This is from the Inner Hebrides, not sure exactly which island this distillery is on. I just got back from there, and did a lot of tasting tours… THIS is better than anything I had.”
My friends (who knew I’d filled my bottle with Islay Storm, $25 from Trader Joe’s) have great poker faces. They didn’t crack up until midnight, after Joshua had left.
I love outing a pompous BSer as much as the next guy.
But in his defense, that review makes it sound like Islay Storm might actually be worth buying & drinking. If you’d filled your Finnerty’s with the cheapest possible blend and still got Joshua to bite that’d have been an even greater prank.
When / how are you going to let Joshua in on your little joke?