We’ve played poker a couple of times with him since, and no one’s brought it up. Unlike the rest of the group, he would NOT have a sense of humor about being the butt of a joke.
And, yes, I was excited when I tried Islay Storm. Mostly because I didn’t want to spend more than that on a prank, but also because it was almost like sipping Talisker (but only try it if you like your Scotch poured through smoldering peat). I recently refilled my bottle of Finnerty’s™ with it.
I ordered a glass of Talisker once because of its use in the BBC radio show Cabin Pressure. Odd that the Beeb would mention a real brand so prominently, but I guess it had the right connotations of fancy and expensive for what they wanted in the show.
I don’t generally care much for scotch, but it wasn’t bad.
Bojack Horseman had a ton of cleaver animal puns for business names.
Probably most prominent, the fancy restaurant the characters frequent (and Bojack owns for a while): Elifino.
The news network MSNBSea, where all the reporters are sea creatures.
The characters are often seen flying on Sow West Airlines and AmeriCrane Airlines. And JetMoo appeared in at least one episode.
There are a bunch more that appear in the background in various scenes, like Beast Buy, a store called Pony Up, and if you Google it you can find a bunch more.
In the Baby Herman/Roger Rabbit cartoon Somethin’s Cookin’ that opens Who Framed Roger Rabbit the brand of the oven is Hotternell, which is pretty obviously a pun on “Hotter than Hell”, but is less obviously a shout-out to the 1945 Tex Avery MGMcartoon The Shooting of Dan McGoo, which takes place (as a sign tells us at the beginning) in Coldernell, Alaska