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In Real Life, brand and store chain names are generally the product of expensive research to find something that is both memorable and has positive connotations to prospective buyers. In fiction, these are often used to color the reader's perception of the world or the company marketing it, or make a joke. So they may have names that are sinister, blatantly cold and corporate, or funny in a way no company would want their product names to be. Can also involve Fun with Acronyms if it spells out something funny or ridiculous, or The Problem with Pen Island if it's easy to mispronounce in a funny or lewd way. Or In My Language, That Sounds Like..., when a brand name that's fine in one language creates problems cross-culturally. It's not uncommon for this to be a Bland-Name Product intended to dig at the original. Compare Our Product Sucks and Our Slogan Is Terrible for when it's just a single product or a slogan that's presented as bad, respectively. Doing this by accident in Real Life is known as a brand blunder. Note that this can apply to things that are not strictly brands, but which may use their name to "sell" themselves, such as the names of dishes at a restaurant, a charitable organization, or a political cause. May involve a Double Entendre, Inherently Funny Words, or a Word Salad Title. See also Intentionally Awkward Title, which isn't so much absurd as inappropriate for polite company. NOTE: The Real Life section should only have examples where this was intentionally invoked as a gimmick. As the article on Wikipedia shows, there are far too many inadvertent examples to list, and whether a brand name is bad is often in the eye of the beholder. |
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Caddicarus features a gag in the episode where Caddy covers a series of game reviews from the 1990s that have been renamed to "Gaming in the Clinton Years" where he says the acronym, "GITCY", sounds like a "Russian fizzy drink". | |
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RoboCop (1987): There's a commercial advertising a huge car with terrible mileage called the "6000 SUX", mocking the Pontiac 6000. | |
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Spoofed in 77p egg: Eggwife, a "crass and disgusting" (per the developer's words) FPS parody, with obscene, disgusting fictional parodies for real-life brands. Notably, there's a Toblerone parody called Chocolatoboner, and a Tesco expy called Pissco. | |
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Peep Show: Jeremy and Super Hans are opening a pub, and want to stand out over the generic pubs in the area, but Jeremy is not enthusiastic about Super Hans' suggestion of "Free The Paedophiles" as a name for the pub. | |
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Time Squad: One episode has the team visit the Earl of Sandwich as he invents his namesake dish, only he wants to call it Stinky Pile of Poo; it was his mother's maiden name. | |
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Discussed in one Pinky and the Brain segment, "I think so, Brain, but if they called them 'Sad Meals', kids wouldn't buy them." | |
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Games in the original Saints Row series from Saints Row 2 onwards call the location where you get your vehicles customized "Rim Jobs". | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: The main conflict in "Say It Isn't Sew" revolves around Bloo wanting to ride a roller coaster at the fair known as the "Vomit Comet". | |
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Dirty Bertie: In one story, the foods at a restaurant are named unappetizing things like "chicken on a bed of goop". | |
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Animaniacs: Sam & Ella's Coffee Shop (Salmonella), furthered by the last part of their jingle "Then the only thing that's left to do is head to the potty and spew spew spew! Sam & Ella's!" Smelloggs breakfast cereals. (Including tie-in product Branimaniacs) Discussed in one Pinky and the Brain segment, "I think so, Brain, but if they called them 'Sad Meals', kids wouldn't buy them." |
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Sesame Street: One "Ernie and Bert" skit has Bert reading a book called Boring Stories. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The Maroon Cartoon "Something's Cookin'" prominently features a Hotternell *a pun on "hotter than Hell" oven and an Acme Suck-O-Lux vacuum cleaner as slapstick props. | |
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In the Otherverse, brand names skew towards grossness or sexual innuendo. The soda brand "Gushing Granny Apple" and the restaurant "Yeast Infection" fall into both categories. | |
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John Dies at the End, has Dave visiting a restaurant that went through several owners, each rebranding it somehow — the latest name? "Eat's". | |
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The Middleman featured an energy drink whose name was The Unpronouncable, known as "'!!!!'", which characters pronounced by doing jazz hands, stomping, and making an enthusiastic face. | |
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The world of Parahumans has the chain restaurants "Fugly Bob's" and "Roadkill", both sounding uninviting or unsanitary. | |
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Arthur: In "D.W.'s Imaginary Friend", a carnival ride is called the "Hurl-a-Whirl" (parody of the common Tilt-a-Whirl, with the implication that you'll throw up afterwards). | |
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Ships Ahoy!: When Yucks Shmumbers and Oprah manage to invent the juice box, Yucks expresses her plans to put them on the market under the name "Yucks Boxes". Oprah makes a mental note to inform her that she should use her last name instead. | |
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Day of the Tentacle: At one point you have to use a "U-SUCK" brand vacuum. | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Hermione makes an organisation called the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare, but that abbreviates to SPEW. Ron is more than happy to refer to it by its initials, much to Hermione's chagrin. When the trio talks about the goblins at one point, Ron mockingly asks Hermione whether she would start an organization called "Society for the Protection of Ugly Goblins" (or S.P.U.G. for short). Hermione is not amused. |
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The Loud House: One burger joint is called the Burpin' Burger and the jingle mentions "When it comes back up [i.e. makes you burp], it's twice as nice." | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Almost 100% of the brand names are jokes. You have the Maibatsu Monstrosity SUV, TransFender auto body shop, and Give 'Em Boners pet food, among hundreds of others. | |
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Futurama: There's parody of Twitter in the episode "Attack of the Killer App," called "Twitcher", with its equivalent to "Tweets" being known as "Twits." Subverted in "The Problem with Popplers", when Bender wants to name the new foodstuff "tasticles" (because they're tasty) but everyone else vetoes it because it sounds too much like something else...namely a brand of Rocky Mountain oysters on a stick (test-cicles). |
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Sunset Overdrive: There's a burger chain called Sexburger. | |
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Oddworld: The evil corporations manufacture products such as Butt-Flo laxative, Headburn shampoo, and Gum Rot artificial sweetener. | |
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In Dilbert, the company is planning to unveil a new product, but are having a devil of a time finding a name for the product that isn't already trademarked, and thus are forced to trademark the name "Gruntmaster". | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball, a roller coaster seen primarily in Season 1 is named the Stomach Destroyer. Later seasons phased it out, possibly due to the unappealing name. | |
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An iconic Saturday Night Live skit involved a pair of NPR hosts commenting on some confectioneries brought on by a baker. The baker's name was Pete Schweddy, and the food? Schweddy Balls. | |
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Moshi Monsters: A few of the foodstuffs were called gross things like Scummi Bears, Lolliplops, Barfmellows, Essence of Gloop, etc. | |
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Danny Phantom has a chain restaurant called "Nasty Burger"; its marketing slogan is apparently "Only one letter away from tasty!". | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The episode "Roller Cowards" has SpongeBob and Patrick attempt to gain enough guts to ride a new roller coaster at Glove World. Said coaster is called the Fiery Fist O' Pain, and its advertising does not shy away from how much it lives up to its name: | |
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Shadowrun: There are many brands that make you wonder what the marketing department was smoking. Examples include a sleep med called ComaDoze, the mobile medical service DocWagon, and the Stuffer Shack convenience store chain. | |
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Brain Leak: Played straight as the sponsor is legitimately called [[nuts.com Nuts.com]], but Played for Laughs considering Ethan has a severe nut allergy. | |
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The 25th-anniversary special of Superlópez introduces a restaurant known as the "Salmo-Nella Ristorante". It is not clarified whether this was deliberate on the owners' part, but it is not entirely out of the question, as the restaurant was set up as a front by several members of Super's Rogues Gallery; yet, judging by a remark by Lady Araña, the business seems to be going surprisingly well. | |
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In "The Gift" from Timothy Goes to School, Nora foregoes her favorite cereal in favor of a brand called Weeds and Seeds in order to get the Free Prize at the Bottom to give to Yoko as a birthday gift, then is disappointed when it isn't what she expected. | |
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Gravity Falls: When Grunkle Stan recounts his backstory he describes some of the corner-cutting business ventures he tried before devolving into full-blown conman. One of them was a knockoff Shamwow, called the "Sham Total", with the tagline "it's a total sham". Surprisingly people did actually buy it, but they chased him out of town once they realized the cheap dye he used created more messes than it cleaned. After that, he started selling easy-to-remove band-aids that he dubbed "The Ripoff", which definitely won't give you rashes. | |
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