Looking back on it now, selling her soul to the devil in exchange for an “authentic inspired-by Taiwanese reproduction” of the original Eero Aarnio Bubble Chair might have been just a tad bit shortsighted.
In what was initially considered another huge setback for the toy industry, the Chinese manufacturer mistakenly swapped the voice chips for the Transformers Optimus Prime and Kwik-E-Mart Apu Nahasapeemapetilon play helmets. Surprisingly, sales quadrupled.
Ben’s girlfriend was sexy, smart, vivacious and caring, but suffered from extremely low self-esteem, which made it all the harder to tell her that her knitting skills left a little something to be desired.
In the small but growing world of sales conference breakdancing duels, radio advertising sales rep Irving “Corkscrew” Kowalski reigns supreme on the Michigan circuit with his oft-copied-but-never-duplicated signature move – the Gin and Tonic-Clonic Sidespin.
Not many people are aware that Arthur C. Clarke wrote a prequel to his most famous novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Even less-known is Stanley Kubrick and John Hughes’ direct-to-video adaptation of it.
In 1991: The Odyssey Begins, Dr. Chandra adopts a precocious ragamuffin named David and gives him an “artificial friend” to play with – HAL 1000. Throughout the story, David and HAL find themselves in a number of humerous suburban misadventures, such as accidently denting the neighbor’s car with a baseball, getting stuck in the air ducts of Dr. Chandra’s lab, experimenting with a half-full tin of Copenhagen, and turning off all the life support at the local hospital.
Reviews were mixed.
The preliminary focus groups indicated that there was huge market potential for the Cuisinart Spumescent Pork Liquifier, so the project was green-lit and fast-tracked for production and global sale.
The brand extension collapsed soon after its launch, for even with a name like Cuisinart, one inexorable truth remained — Spumescent pork liquids taste like ass.
After the mild successes of Freddy vs Jason and Alien vs Predator, it was just a matter of time before Hollywood cranked out Speed vs The Mummy.
Seconds later, with Sam and Jenni’s attention temporarily diverted by a screaming and wildly-waving parent, the vehicle rocketed over the edge of the massive fjord in the lot next door.
Kia eventually halted the export of their 200 horsepower ultramicrosubcompact Baltop, as Americans were confusing them with similarly-styled Fisher-Price Power Wheels.
Previously unable to resonate with their target audience, the American Urological Association tries out a new campaign approach.
Halfway through his commencement address, right after the point where he compared the graduating class to freshly-hatched sea turtles trying to make their way across the treacherous beach into an even more treacherous ocean, well… that’s when the LSD kicked in.
They later found him, nude, attempting to crawl into a garden hose.