# Fictional name brand products **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808 "2002-03-24T04:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/61 "2002-03-27T08:03:40Z")
And who could stand a kitchen without a “BASS-O-MATIC” from Saturday Night Live? ---
**Author:** ![Neptune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@Neptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptune)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/62 "2002-03-27T08:04:50Z")
How about a thread for fictional brand names that were adopted later by real companies. Let us begin with “U.S. Robotics” ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/63 "2002-03-27T15:24:25Z")
The plethora of good names from the Sims, I wont list them all. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/64 "2002-03-27T16:03:14Z")
Ubik. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/65 "2002-03-27T18:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Neptune \* > \*\*How about a thread for fictional brand names that were adopted later by real companies. Let us begin with > > “U.S. Robotics” \*\* U.S. Robotics And Mechanical Men. Alas, 3Com bought them out. Darn it. Hm. Blackrock Oil. (Transformers, comic) Genom (Bubblegum Crisis/Crash/2040) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/66 "2002-03-27T19:06:53Z")
I remember **Hungry Nomad** tv dinners from Hot Shots 2. Wish I could remember the other products. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/67 "2002-03-27T19:17:14Z")
**Conglomo: We Own You** (from Rocko’s Modern Life) ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/68 "2002-03-27T20:15:22Z")
From The Simpsons: **Lil’ Lisa Slurry** And the ubiquitous and somewhat distressing **Playpen** , our alternative televisual reality’s Playboy. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/69 "2002-03-28T00:30:25Z")
I once bought a printer cartridge from the Staples website. There is (or was, when I used it) a blank for “company”, so I put “Sys-U-Comp, Inc.” This had been a fictional company name used as an in-joke with my friends - names that told you nothing about the company at all. Along with Compusys, Dynadyne, DataSoft, etc… I _still_ get catalogs sent to “Sys-U-Comp” from them. I haven’t bought anything for years, you’d think they’d leve me alone! ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/70 "2002-03-28T03:50:20Z")
[sub]…not a brand name, but…[/sub] the **Googleplex** theatre chain in the Simpsons ---
**Author:** ![kuroashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@kuroashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuroashi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/71 "2002-03-28T04:09:58Z")
There is a Family Mart convenience store chain in Japan, but in the Doraemon cartoon, you can often see signs with **Mamily Fart** printed on them. Non-fiction: There is a concrete factory near my house with a big giant sign bearing the name of the company; “OOPS!” Probably better than naming your company “Oh Shit!” but not by much. ---
**Author:** ![Neptune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@Neptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptune)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/72 "2002-03-28T04:17:32Z")
The Aleph-Null-plex from Futurama beats that. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/73 "2002-03-28T04:54:40Z")
A-1, makers of fine Disentigration Pistols. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/74 "2002-03-28T06:47:09Z")
Of course, there’s always Vandelay Industries, purveyor of fine latex products . . . but since it is already a fictional company in the context of the fictional Seinfeld universe, I’m not sure if it would count. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/75 "2002-03-28T16:24:06Z")
There’s the **Marathon** car rental company shown in _Planes, Trains and Automobiles._ The name seems fitting, considering the fact that Neal Page (Steve Martin) had to run one to get back to the airport after he found out his car wasn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/76 "2002-03-28T23:00:23Z")
What? No mention of Binford Tools? ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/77 "2002-03-29T20:05:59Z")
Zik-Zak, one of Network XXIII’s main sponsors and driving force in the develpoment of “blibverts”… Daystrom Industries, who build the multitronic computers at the hearts of Federation starships… Cyberdyne Systems, who developed Skynet, and later a successful line of “Terminator” infiltration units…(there is an office building in Dallas with a “Cyberdyne” sign on it…I’m worried…) OmniConsumer Products, who brought you the ED-209 and RoboCop… LexCorp, Wayne Industries, Ferris Aircraft, and S.T.A.R. Labs, all with offices in Gotham City, Metropolis, and elsewhere in the DC Comics universe… By the way, I always thought Yoyodyne Propulsions Systems’ motto was “A Growing Excited Company!” - I had forgotten about “Where the Future Starts Tomorrow!” ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/78 "2002-03-29T20:52:17Z")
Damn, I wanted to be the first one to say Cyberdyne. 🙂 We already had Nails cigarettes, but nobody mentioned Chewlie’s Gum??? For shame! ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/79 "2002-03-30T01:15:46Z")
WeSaySo Corporation from _Dinosaurs_ From _The Simpsons_: ILG - “Selling your body’s chemicals after you die.” And Li’l Sweetheart Cupcakes – a subsidiary of ILG. And of course, [_Happy Fun Ball_](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/scripts/90mhappyfunball.phtml) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808/80 "2002-03-30T01:53:58Z")
Log. (I haven’t seen it mentioned yet. Did I miss it? Sheesh, I feel old.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-name-brand-products/99808.md?page=5)