Life Imitates Art

[cheerful_deviant]

Well, ok, I'm note really sure if The Simpsons qualifies as art but...

DALLAS - Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.

Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.

It’s all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of “The Simpsons Movie,” the big-screen debut for the long-running television cartoon, which loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks and is run by a man with a thick Indian accent.

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Sadly, there will be no Duff Beer because the movie is PG-13.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I want them to imitate the "Lucky Dragon" stores, in the Virtual Light trilogy.

 

[3113]

Will they have a statue of Ganasha the Elephant-headed Indian god? I remember well the time Homer tried to feed it a peanut....

 

[SeaCat]

I want them to imitate the "Lucky Dragon" stores, in the Virtual Light trilogy.

Hear Hear.

Cat

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hear Hear.

Cat

I want a pair of those glasses-- and a naked Japanese girl. *nods*

 

[cheerful_deviant]

and a naked Japanese girl. *nods*

Now we're talkin'!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Now we're talkin'!

yeah, who cares about Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal or Squishees?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

yeah, who cares about Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal or Squishees?

Now Duff Beer on the other hand...


aaah... an ice cold Duff and naked asian girls. It doesn't get much better than that. Maybe I'll open up a new store chain. 'Duff n' Buff'