# Kool-Aid Man is refreshed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532 "2013-04-12T18:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/21 "2013-04-13T05:24:04Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > [Just had to link to this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktmYHre8F6E) > > [And this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NsCRi-eHGA) > > [And this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJ5Dpjxo0k) How about when Peter crashes through Mr. Kool-Aid’s wall - “Wow. You know, from the other side that’s kind of annoying.” ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/22 "2013-04-13T05:47:09Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to start an urban legend that the change was precipitated because an impressionable young boy tried to crash through a brick wall just like his soft drink idol, and his parents sued Kraft for _all of the money_ and won. Was that the same kid that ate the Pop Rocks and washed it down with Coke? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/23 "2013-04-13T06:02:56Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to start an urban legend that the change was precipitated because an impressionable young boy tried to crash through a brick wall just like his soft drink idol, and his parents sued Kraft for _all of the money_ and won. My friend’s next door neighbor’s ex-husband’s new wife’s hairdresser is going out with a guy who lived next door to that boy’s cousin’s girl friend. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/24 "2013-04-13T12:01:27Z")
If this is the type of backstory they’re giving him, I’d rather he just crash thru walls. It’s plain creepy seeing Kool-Aid undressed & in the shower. From the article in post #4: > [@](#): > > In one of the new commercials, the scene opens with the character’s round silhouette behind a shower curtain. When he steps out, he’s a clear pitcher of water and he explains in a voiceover that his life isn’t all “cherry and sweetness.” > > “I put my pants on one leg at a time,” the voiceover notes, as he stands in front of a pantry full of Kool-Aid mixes deciding what to wear. “Except my pants are 22 different flavors. I’ve got grape pants, I’ve got watermelon pants.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/25 "2013-04-13T14:39:14Z")
[Here’s what I think of Kool Aid man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIj2Ut6Pvo) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/26 "2013-04-13T14:46:50Z")
The good folks at _Robot Chicken_ had an interesting take on Kool-Aid Man [here](http://youtu.be/ktmYHre8F6E) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/27 "2013-04-13T14:51:37Z")
That CGI image of Kool-Aid Man is horrible. He looks as though he’s barely being held together by some unstable process and his going to break down into a pile of goo at any moment. The look on his face reflects this tortured knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/28 "2013-04-13T16:53:29Z")
I haven’t seen a Kool Aid commercial in years. I wasn’t even sure they still made Kool Aid as I haven’t seen it in stores either. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/29 "2013-04-13T17:03:13Z")
There’s a Family Guy bit where Peter rolls down a hill and crashes into Kool-Aid Man’s living room. Kool-Aid Man doesn’t think it’s so funny when it happens to him. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/30 "2013-04-13T17:40:15Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There’s a Family Guy bit where Peter rolls down a hill and crashes into Kool-Aid Man’s living room. Kool-Aid Man doesn’t think it’s so funny when it happens to him. [Here it is.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZmt3nAgyeI) ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/31 "2013-04-13T17:44:06Z")
> [@](#): > > “I put my pants on one leg at a time,” the voiceover notes, as he stands in front of a pantry full of Kool-Aid mixes deciding what to wear. “Except my pants are 22 different flavors. I’ve got grape pants, I’ve got watermelon pants.” My pants also have 22 different flavors if I wear 'em long enough. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/32 "2013-04-13T22:48:32Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There’s a Family Guy bit where Peter rolls down a hill and crashes into Kool-Aid Man’s living room. Kool-Aid Man doesn’t think it’s so funny when it happens to him. I think I’ve heard of that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/33 "2013-04-13T23:20:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I read it on the internet from two different sources. And as Abraham Lincoln once said, anything you read on the internet must be true. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/34 "2013-04-14T02:42:59Z")
Kool-Aid and Hawaiian Punch dude are gonna get married. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/35 "2013-04-14T15:00:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I read it on the internet from two different sources. Everyone knows you can’t lie on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/36 "2013-04-14T16:02:45Z")
I want to know how a glass pitcher can crash through a brick wall and remain intact. Is the Kool-Aid Man made of some kind of experimental transparent material? Carbon nanotubes? Was he a government experiment that escaped? Can he not develop close relationships with people because he’s always on the run from black helicopters? These are questions I want explored in the new commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/37 "2013-04-14T19:02:06Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Everyone knows you can’t lie on the Internet. That’s true. I read it on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/38 "2013-04-14T23:09:32Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > That’s true. I read it on the Internet. Bonn jurrrrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532/39 "2013-04-14T23:21:01Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Bonn jurrrrrrr. So, what’s it like to be a French model? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kool-aid-man-is-refreshed/655532.md?page=1)