# Pizza Hut ad with muppets: "Chance and Probability"?!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 27, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434 "2004-06-27T19:51:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434/21 "2004-06-29T09:44:36Z")

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> [@Wolfian](#):
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> Let me get this straight. Jessica Simpson is on the screen and you have enough blood left in your head to do math?

Maybe we’re gay. It is sort of traditional for mathematicians.\*

\*_Actual conversation from unniversity.  
Student: Prof, is it true that all the great mathematicians were gay?  
Prof: Now hold on there. You’re implying one of two things about me, and I don’t like either of them._

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434/22 "2004-06-29T14:07:38Z")

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Since I don’t know who Jessica Simpson is, I’m picturing Lisa Simpson instead.

It’s all rather confusing really.

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**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434/23 "2004-06-29T15:55:54Z")

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> [@Shade](#):
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> unniversity.

Wow, they’ve let standards slip since I was there.

pan

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**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434/24 "2004-06-29T17:45:28Z")

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I think “unniversity” is the direct opposite of college.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434/25 "2004-06-29T18:59:43Z")

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> [@Jonathan Chance](#):
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> I think that’s Jessica Simpson. She’s riffing on her public perception as an airhead (which she probably isn’t given how successful she’s been) to make the ad funny.

Didn’t O.J. already _kill_ her? What the hell is she doing in Pizza Hut commercials?

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pizza-hut-ad-with-muppets-chance-and-probability/252434/26 "2004-06-29T19:55:42Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> Didn’t O.J. already _kill_ her? What the hell is she doing in Pizza Hut commercials?

So Pizza Hut has Muppets _and_\* a Zombie hawking its pizzas? :eek:

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