Indeed it was the chili episode. Homer has been sent on a quest to find his sole mate. He ends up going to a lighthouse, and suddenly, the light goes out. He must replace it. He opens the supply closet, and finds a giant light bulb in a box marked “Sylvania 40,000-Watt EnergyMiser Lighthouse Bulb.”
I’ll thank you to quit referring to Princeton in that manner.
Krusty Flakes are real?!?! Anyhoo, I guess there are a lot of mentions of real products. But most seem to be part of a joke. The recognizable Volvo grill just seemed to jut out without being part of a joke. I hope the writers won’t have to axe a good joke about Volvo drivers in the future 'cause it would offend their sponsor. And Og knows there’s a million jokes about Volvo drivers. Maybe that’s why the company bought them out. A pre-emptive strike to prevent those jokes. I smell conspiracy. We’re through the looking glass here, people. :wally
There was the Ancient Egyptian music box song that morphed, in Homer’s mind, into the Irish Spring commercial jingle.
No, but Count Chocula is, and the face on the box sort-of looks like Mr. Burns.
Neighbor: An opossum drowned in the swimming pool. Can we borrow a garbage bag?
Kirk Van Houten: Aaaah, just throw it over the fence and let Arby’s worry about it.
Sherry (or possibly Terry): I’m so hungry, I could eat at Arby’s. [other kids recoil in horror]
Lou: You know, I went to the McDonald’s in Shelbyville on Friday night.
Wiggum: The McWhat?
Lou: Uh, the McDonald’s restaurant. I’ve never heard of it either, but they have over 2,000 locations in this state alone.
Eddie: Must’ve sprung up overnight.
Lou: You know, the funniest thing though, it’s the little differences.
Wiggum: Example.
Lou: Well, at McDonald’s you can buy a Krusty Burger with cheese, right? But they don’t call it a Krusty Burger with cheese.
Wiggum: Get out! Well, what do they call it?
Lou: A Quarter Pounder with cheese.
Wiggum: Quarter Pounder with cheese? Well, I can picture the cheese, but, uh, do they have Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages?
Lou: Mm-hm. They call ‘em, “shakes.”
Eddie: Huh, shakes. You don’t know what you’re gettin’
I think that was Old Spice.
“Mountain Dew or crab juice.” [One long series of moans and yucks later] “I’ll take a crab juice.”
They’re hotdogs.
Armour hotdogs.
What kind of man wears Armour hotdogs?
And there’s the one with the tall guy and the VW beetle.
They also put in an iMac every now and then. I know that from the Futurama commentaries, theyalso hope to get a free Mac from doing this…it hasn’t worked.
Futurama also put in a small product placement for a piano company, once.
I don’t think any of us expected that.
I’m such a nerd.
When Jay “the Critic” Sherman visited Springfield, he led the kids in a rousing rendition of “the Oscar Meyer Weiner” song.
One Simpsons episode featured a dream sequence where Homer was so fat when he died, instead of a casket, he had to be buried in a crate labeled “Steinway Pianos.”
I forget the episode where Bart complains about some product placement in a TV show he is watching and then proceeds to eat a Butterfinger.
Planned Obsolescence
You had the entire “Bart s ad” Ep.
Bart learns that he was a child actor for a commercial. The product/ad didnt pan out, and the parents hid it from him. Bart then says hes glad he wasn’t used as a poster child for any product.
Then:
Bart turns to the “camera” and takes out a clear and blatant Butterfinger Bar (On the Simpsons Episode)
Also, you have when they go to “Blocko Land” and Bart gets to say “Lego” Once and only Once.
Actually, not only was Bart surprised towards the positive, the product did do well. Lisa discovered a videotape marked “Bart Sad.” Expecting something that was sure to embarrass Bart, she put the tape in. Lo and behold, it’s an ad for a air freshener for baby faces (that’s the best way I can describe it) featuring a character named “Baby Stinkbreath” who has a unusually familiar spiky hairdo. Lisa then realizes the video tape is missing an apostrophe. It isn’t “Bart Sad,” but “Bart’s Ad.” Bart is surprised. “A commercial? I don’t remember doing one of those,” he says, eating a Butterfinger.
(That’s pretty much the joke there. The real reason Bart didn’t get the money is because Homer spent it all on incriminating photos of him dangling Maggie out the window a la Michael Jackson. “If you go through them backwards, Daddy’s the hero!”)
As for Blockoland, Bart seems to be the only one who realizes Blockos are cheap ripoffs of that other popular plastic building material. As he and the family are on their way home, he complains, “This Lego shirt itches!”
“You mean Blocko shirt.”
“Yeah, right…Blocko shirt…”