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The Dinnermobile
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One of the most important steps towards starting or growing any kind of business is the simplest, yet one of the most difficult to actually pull off: getting your name and product out there, and making sure people remember who you are. That one truism explains so much about the commercials you see on television: yeah, that commercial may have been stupid and annoying as hell, but if you remember it... well, mission accomplished. Of course, there are other ways to get people's attention that don't involve annoying commercials or manufactured viral ad campaigns; you could just create something that people don't see every day, and use that as an attention-getter. Something like...say, a van shaped like a 6-ton version of your new snack cake. It'll certainly get bystanders' attention and maybe some exposure on social media, and with a good marketing acumen and a bit of luck, you could parlay that into a successful ad campaign. Using vehicles as billboards to advertise products is nothing new — just look at any commercial bus or public transportation — but The Dinnermobile takes the idea to its logical extreme: the food item is not on the vehicle, the food is the vehicle. It refers to vehicles that are actually shaped like a piece of food — a hamburger, a hot dog, a carton of milk, and so on. While The Dinnermobile is most commonly used as a real-world advertising trope, the general concept (with or without the advertising bent) is also popular in visual media aimed at young children: cartoons, picture books, and so on. Even when they're not trying to sell food, food-shaped cars are memorable, whimsical, cute, and even funny. Some fictional media even take the idea a step further, making the food-based vehicles out of actual food that may or may not be wholly or partially eaten by the end of the episode. While most foods could theoretically be designed into a vehicle, things like hot dogs, hamburgers, and fruits are among the most common design choices for Dinnermobiles. This is partly a matter of precedent — after all, the iconic Oscar Mayer Weinermobile popularized the concept — but it's also a matter of practicality. These foods tend to have shapes that are relatively easy to design a vehicle around: they're fairly symmetrical, compact, proportionate, and three-dimensional. Or, more to the point, they're not flat, ridiculously wide or tall, full of appendages sticking out of the sides, or anything else that would make them impractical or even unsafe to drive as a vehicle. That's why a sausage-shaped car can be built, but even the idea of a car shaped like a thin-crust pizza would give any automotive engineer a migraine. Subtrope of Shaped Like What It Sells. As an advertising device, compare and contrast Anthropomorphic Food, where companies advertise food by, uh, giving it sapience? In more fantastical fictions, Dinnermobiles may be driven by Anthropomorphic Food, or a regular character for whom the car resembles a Trademark Favorite Food. If a video game has a Level Ate, then it's highly likely that at least one of these will make an appearance. If the car is especially delicious-looking but not actually edible, a character might go Extreme Omnivore and devour it anyway. Likewise, driving one of these cars may result in being chased by any number of assorted stray animals. For cases where the food-shaped item is a stationary building, see Shaped Like What It Sells. |
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One The Far Side comic depicts a regular occurence in Dog Heaven: Once every hour, a truck made entirely out of ham drives slowly across the clouds, and all the dogs get to chase and eat it. | |
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In Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Whiskers invents his own car made out of fruit and bets he can actually make it work. Subverted in that Brandy filled it with rodents to actually make it move. And Double Subverted when its revealed that each rodent decided to just let the rest do the work, meaning the car actually moved by itself. | |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, the Sugar Rush game has cute-looking characters driving race cars designed to look like sweet treats, such as candy and cakes. There's even a "bake-a-car" mini-game that lets the player make these kinds of cars. | |
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Two special cars in Death Road to Canada have a fish and a pig on top of them. Before the EYEBALL update, there was a car that looked exactly like the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile that got Dummied Out. | |
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The first House of Mouse episode ends with a fake commercial for a limousine rental service run by Cinderella's Fairy Godmother, who has turned multiple vegetables into vehicles. | |
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Saints Row and Saints Row 2 have the O-Ring, which is a fast-food delivery van modeled after a fast food basket meal. The first game has two cosmetic variants — one is modeled after a burger, the other fried chicken — though both feature a serving of fries housing the exhaust pipe, and a drink cup serving as the car's cabin. The second game only has the burger-based model. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: "Road Rash" has Rocko and Heffer stop at a roadside diner after Rocko accidentally trashes their motorcycle trying to stop a tape of bagpipe music that gets stuck in the tape player. Heffer wins a Mega Meal Challenge there and the prize is a hot dog-shaped truck. Another episode, "Schnit Heads", has Rocko and Filburt make a sausage-deity-shaped Trojan Horse vehicle to rescue Heifer from a cult, but his weight makes the "jaw" fall off and exposes them. Subverted in "Yarnbenders"; when Rocko and Heffer wind up in the story of Cinderella, Filburt as the Fairy Godmother turns Rocko into a prince and Heffer into a princess. When Rocko asks for a coach to ride in, Filburt spots a rat tied to a potato and turns it into a bigger rat tied to a bigger potato. |
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Garfield mistakes a hot dog truck for a giant hot dog. He feels rather silly when it proves inedible, but then decides to have "dessert" by doing the same thing to an ice cream truck. | |
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In an extremely bizarre inversion of the trope, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird has Cookie Monster riding along in a car that in no way resembles a cookie or any other food item... and yet he spends the entire film snacking on the car, much to the rest of his party's bewilderment. By the end of their journey, Cookie has eaten so much of the car that Gordon has to push it back to Sesame Street. | |
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DuckTales (1987): One episode had Scrooge dreaming he was in a Cinderella story, where he was going to Princess Goldie's ball in a car the Fairy Webby made from Junior Woodchuck cookies. | |
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In an American Dad! episode, Roger starts working in a hot dog company. His company car, naturally, is a huge hot dog, though one depicted balanced on its tip rather than resting on the ground. | |
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The Bee-Bees: Taking inspiration from Cinderella, Berry fashions a pumpkin into a working carriage for birds in "The Enchanted Pumpkin". | |
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Cinderella featured the Fairy Godmother turning a pumpkin into a horse-drawn coach... but despite the transformation, it still looks exactly like a ginormous blinged-out white pumpkin sitting on a chassis. | |
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Pui Pui Molcar: Food truck Molcars often carry a giant version of their advertised food on their backs, with the bonus of it also being edible. | |
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Much like the animated feature it's based on, the burger-shaped Patty Wagon also appears in The SpongeBob Movie Game. The game implies that the Patty Wagon is fully edible, judging by its appearance when it has only one Hit Point left. | |
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Beany and Cecil: The title antagonist of "Beany Meets the Monstrous Monster" envisions the Leakin' Lena and Cecil as an ice cream sundae. | |
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In Good Burger, the titular restaurant has the "Burgermobile", a 1975 AMC Pacer with a front end that looks like a giant burger and is occasionally driven by Ed. | |
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Kim Possible: Snack food king Pop-Pop Porter operates at least eight blimps shaped like his products, including a giant corn dog and his favorite, Shrimp Force One. | |
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In a parody of/homage to Cinderella's pumpkin carriage, the end of Shrek sees Shrek and Fiona ride away in a carriage that was very obviously an onion prior to transformation. | |
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In 1988, a set of four vegetable race cars based on Fraggle Rock was released in the restaurant's Happy Meals. These consisted of Gobo in a carrot, Red in a radish, Mokey in an eggplant, and Wembley and Boober in a pickle together. | |
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A Christmas Episode of Bob's Burgers has the Belcher family being menaced on the road by an angry trucker whose rig is shaped like a candy cane. | |
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In the Preschool Popstars song "Juice Box", the music video shows bikes with fruit-shaped wheels. | |
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In 1991, a line of flip cars based on Tiny Toon Adventures were released in their Happy Meals. Two of these toys included Buster Bunny driving a car shaped like a carrot and Hamton J. Pig driving a car shaped like a submarine sandwich (with tomato-shaped wheels). | |
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In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, SpongeBob and Patrick travel most of the way to Shell City in the Patty Wagon - a large drivable hamburger, originally intended for promotion of the Krusty Krab. | |
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In Mork & Mindy, the Orkans travel the galaxy in spaceships resembling eggs. Justified in-universe as the Orkans worship eggs as part of their religion, because they are descended from birds. | |
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In a Drawn Together episode, Toot dreams of the Wienermobile (a rather shameless Expy of the actual Weinermobile), a mythical hot dog-shaped truck that gives out sausages for free. When she finally encounters it she swallows the whole truck in one gulp, ending with her dying in a huge explosion. | |
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