# See the terrible, terrible light! KIPS! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161 "2000-05-22T03:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/1 "2000-05-22T03:51:59Z")
Knights In Pepsi’s Service! KISS sold out! Did anyone else see this? I was horrified. I can’t believe it. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/2 "2000-05-22T03:55:11Z")
I saw it to Homer! Yes, it was hard for me to believe! Very very sad thing to see indeed… ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/3 "2000-05-22T07:34:13Z")
KISS has admitted that they are comfortable in doing things like that… i was kinda suprised when i saw it at first, but not shocked… they have TONS of merchandise and promotional stuff, ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/4 "2000-05-22T19:23:49Z")
Merchandising and promotional materials are completely different from getting up on stage for Pepsi. FOR CHRIST’S SAKE, THEY SANG WITH THAT EVIL LITTLE CREEPY MONSTER OF A GIRL! Shit! –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/5 "2000-05-22T19:28:45Z")
Who’d have ever pegged KISS to make a commercial spectacle of themselves? What happened to the days when it was all about the music? Oh, wait, that’s right… ---
**Author:** ![ponch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@ponch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponch)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/6 "2000-05-22T19:39:04Z")
the KISS sold out farewell tour…sad, very sad…all went downhill when the cat-man died… the funniest (saddest?) was when the little brat tried to flick the tongue in the suggestive, yet trademark, sexual fashion which made Gene Simmons oh-so popular with the ladies… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-the-terrible-terrible-light-kips/20161/7 "2000-05-22T19:48:43Z")
I wasn’t that horrified at KISS selling out—I mean, aren’t they a pop band? That’s what pop bands DO. But the expected but still demoralizing sight of the evil little Pepsi girl in KISS makeup did put me off my feed. Did I ever tell you guys I had a dream a month or so ago where Bruce Willis was the bodyguard for the Pepsi girl? “Why are people trying to kill you?” he asked. “I’m the annoying little Pepsi girl,” she said. “EVERYONE wants to kill me!” I woke up laughing.