Timeline for What is Kool-Aid Man?
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| Nov 26, 2021 at 5:45 | vote | accept | Silly but True | ||
| Oct 14, 2021 at 2:31 | comment | added | OKprogrammer | @SethMMorton That’s the best thing I’ve heard today. | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 1:22 | comment | added | Lexible | @Kevin Plot: Act 1. People are thirsty! They say they are thirsty! What are they gonna do?! Act 2: Cue Kool-Aid man to bust through a wall, like Kool-Aid™ presumably breaks down one's thirst. Act 3: Denoument, relfecting on the wisdom and/or fun of Kool-Aid Man. See also, Hawaiian Punch commercials. | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 0:14 | answer | added | indigochild | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1448438495089987586 | ||
| Oct 13, 2021 at 20:17 | comment | added | Silly but True | Haha. Fair point. I had epiphany the other day that J. Michael Straczynski & Kathy Tyers both wrote scripts for Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors. Sometimes a crap canvas is all Michaelangelo had to paint on. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 20:02 | comment | added | Valorum | @SillybutTrue - in fairness, they're both garbage. Comparing the 1980s Transformer comics with the Kool-Aid Bunch is like comparing differing slugs and trying to decide which you'd rather eat. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | Silly but True | Why do you think Marvel’s Kool-Aid Man comics may be worth less artistically than Marvel’s Transformers comics? | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 19:04 | comment | added | Kevin | @SillybutTrue: The difference between the Kool-Aid Man (whose primary purpose is to sell Kool-Aid) and, say, the Transformers (whose primary purpose is to sell toys), is that the latter actually has a plot. To the best of my understanding, the Kool-Aid commercials largely don't have a plot. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 17:37 | comment | added | Valorum | @ToddWilcox - His persistent enemies were the Thirsties, aliens who came from the sun. Also he traveled in space and through time (in the comics) | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 15:31 | comment | added | Silly but True | Product tie-ins, particularly for toys have spawned a number of fantasy and sci-fi franchises. No reason to ghettoize food product mascot fantasy and science fiction, the way literary snobs might ghettoize fantasy and sci-fi within literature. There are a number of competent artists who have given some of their best work to design food advertising elements, including art and prose. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 15:13 | comment | added | SethMMorton | @ToddWilcox Is this on topic? The Kool-Aid man would say “Oh yeah!” | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 15:13 | answer | added | Eaglepup12 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 12:36 | comment | added | Silly but True | In peanut fantasy genre. Mr. Peanut has a relatively rich fictional history that was rebooted at least once with his Baby Nut rebranding. He was grown from an odd peanut tree, and Wilkes-Barre, PA lays claim as his birthplace, some dispute that it’s Suffolk, VA where his real-world origin occurred. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 2:46 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Is this on topic? If so are we opening the door to questions about the Pringle’s man? What about Mr. Peanut? How did Tony the Tiger learn to talk? Is he actually Kzinti? How long do Keebler Elves live? Not advocating one way or the other, just kinda wondering if we already decided we want to talk about product mascots. | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 13:53 | comment | added | Valorum | The Atari game manual doesn't have any back-story | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 13:51 | comment | added | Silly but True | I had the Atari 2600 game, but do not recall any origin. Also that Rainbow Punch looks like **** punch. | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 13:48 | comment | added | Valorum | There's no help in the Marvel comicbooks. He has lots of adventures (and we meet the Kool-Aid "Punch Bunch" (other anthropomorphic Kool-aid flavours) but there's no back-story explaining his genesis. | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 13:40 | comment | added | Valorum | characters.fandom.com/wiki/Kool-Aid_Man | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 13:33 | history | asked | Silly but True | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
