List of products in The Simpsons

In the long running television animation "The Simpsons", numerous fictional products or brands have been featured, often recurring. These are sometimes spoofs of real life products and, as in the case of "Duff Beer", have sometimes been subsequently recreated by real world companies attempting to exploit the popularity of "The Simpsons". In 2007, as part of a "reverse product placement" marketing campaign for "The Simpsons Movie", real life versions of a number of Simpsons products were sold in 7-Eleven stores. Real cans of Buzz Cola, boxes of KrustyO's cereal, Squishees -- Slurpees in collectors cups, with optional collectors straws, and a special edition (#711) of the Radioactive Man Comic were all sold in stores alongside other "The Simpsons" merchandise.

The following is a list of products that have relevancy to the real world.

Buzz Cola

Buzz Cola is a brand of cola drunk by characters in The Simpsons, and an officially licensed product of Twentieth Century Fox. Its slogan is "twice the sugar, twice the caffeine". The slogan is a parody of the former Jolt Cola slogan "all the sugar and twice the caffeine". A prior slogan used was "There's a little boogie in every bottle (can)" as well as "The taste you'll "kill" for!"

Although a general parody of popular cola drinks, parallels can be observed between Buzz Cola and Pepsi. For example, many of the mock television commercials that appear for Buzz Cola on "The Simpsons" follow the same youth-oriented approach of real Pepsi commercials. In another example, Homer gets his arm stuck in a vending machine selling "Crystal Buzz Cola", a parody of Crystal Pepsi. In the episode Dude, Where's My Ranch?, Maggie Simpson dances in her crib with her midriff exposed while a Britney Spears tune plays in the background and produces a can of Buzz Cola at the end of her small dance, parodying the Pepsi advertising done by Spears in the late 1990s and early 2000s. There is also a "Buzz Cola with Lemon" version of the product, with the slogan "damn, that's a lemony cola".

Apart from being the cola of choice for the citizens of Springfield, Homer also made a makeshift hand grenade by mixing a can of Buzz Cola with Pop Rocks, while Lisa inadvertently started a miniature civilization when trying to see if the cola could dissolve a tooth. These examples spoof two enduring urban legends concerning cola drinks. Also, a hermit crab uses a can discarded by Homer as a new shell.

In the video game "", aliens Kang and Kodos use a "new and improved" Buzz Cola formula to brainwash the citizens of Springfield into performing stupid stunts for their reality TV show, "Foolish Earthlings". They also dump it into the town's water supply, which reanimates the dead and creates zombies.

In July 2007, 7-Eleven redesigned some stores to look like Kwik-E-Marts in select cities to promote The Simpsons Movie. Real cans of Buzz Cola were available at those locations, as well as most other 7-Elevens throughout the United States and Canada.cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287578,00.html |title=7-Eleven Becomes Kwik-E-Mart for 'Simpsons Movie' Promotion |publisher=Associated Press|date=2007-07-01 |accessdate=2007-07-03 ] The soda in these cans was produced by the Cott Corporation, which also makes RC Cola outside the United States.cite news |url=http://www.cott.com/investors/news/newsRelease/?reqid=1027902 |title=Cott Reports Q2 Results |publisher=Cott Corporation|date=2007-07-19 |accessdate=2008-03-23 ]

Duff Beer

With its loud-mouthed corporate spokesperson Duffman, "Duff Beer" is a parody of stereotypical American beer: cheap, mass-produced, poor-quality and heavily advertised. It is Homer's favorite beer and sold in all the bars of Springfield. Its slogan is 'Can't get enough of that wonderful Duff'.

The chief competitor of Duff Beer is Fudd Beer, which is intentionally spelled with a parallel swapping of the consonants. Homer became aware of Fudd Beer while patronizing a "redneck bar" in nearby Spittle County. It was later revealed to be considered very popular in Springfield's rival town of Shelbyville. Moe said he thought it had been banned "after all those hillbillies went blind".

A brewery in Adelaide, South Australia started to brew their own 'Duff' in the early 1990s, deliberately looking like the variation in the show. Fox sued, and only a few 10,000 cans were produced. Unopened cans are occasionally found on eBay for thousands of dollars.

Duff Beer was not sold at 7-Eleven because the promoters wanted to have "good, responsible fun." However, a Duff Energy Drink was released in place of the Duff Beer.cite news |url=http://www.xoxide.com/simpsons-duff-energy-drink.html |title=Duff Energy Drink |publisher=xoxide.com |date= |accessdate=2007-07-31 ]

Krusty-O's

Krusty-O's is a brand of breakfast cereal endorsed by Krusty the Clown which prominently features his likeness on the box. The real KrustyO's, sold by 7 Eleven, were produced by the Malt-O-Meal corporation.

Krusty-Brand Cereal is the catalyst for the episode "'Round Springfield", when Bart swallows a "jagged metal Krusty-O" included in the box as a and is sent to the hospital. Later in the episode when Krusty holds a press conference to show that swallowing the jagged metal Krusty-O isn't dangerous, he immediately begins to gag before he is informed he swallowed a "regular" Krusty-O, which he claims must be "poison". At the end of the episode, another box of Krusty-O's is shown with the promotion: "Flesh-Eating Bacteria In Every Box!". [cite episode |title='Round Springfield |episodelink= |series=The Simpsons |serieslink= |credits= |network=FOX |station= |airdate= 1995-04-30 |season=6 |number=22 |minutes= ]

Radioactive Man Comics

A long-running superhero comic book series featuring Radioactive Man and his sidekick, Fallout Boy. According to one episode, there are 1000 issues of the comic book. A special Radioactive Man comic book was available 7-Eleven as part of the Kwik-E-Mart promotion. A special "Radioactive Man Comic Book Edition #711" was made by Bongo Comics and sold at several stores.cite news|url=http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=3340667&page=1|title=Kwik-E-Mart Comes to Life|accessdate=2007-10-30|date=2007-07-03|publisher=ABC News]

quishee

Squishee (sometimes spelled Squishy or Squishie) is a fictional frozen drink from The Simpsons TV series, usually purchased at the fictional Kwik-E-Mart which is managed by Apu. It is an apparent reference to 7-Eleven's Slurpee. In the fifth season episode of "The Simpsons", "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood", Bart and Milhouse go on a "Squishee bender" after drinking a squishee that was made entirely from syrup. In the thirteenth season episode "The Sweetest Apu", Apu has the Squishee machine replaced with one of a similar drink called the "Smooshie," whose flavors reportedly include shopping bag and dog fur. [cite episode |title=Boy-Scoutz N the Hood |episodelink= |series=The Simpsons |serieslink= |credits= |network=FOX |station= |airdate= 1993-11-18 |season=5 |number=11 |minutes= ]

The fictional version of Squishees are reputed for being dangerous to health - Squishee flavorings have, if ingested in sufficient quantities, hallucinatory properties. According to the Simpsons comic, Squishees allegedly contain no natural ingredients (not even pure water), create dangerous cases of brain freeze, and are even described as "a thick, gloopy, tooth-rotting mixture of crushed ice and syrup". Flavors include: blue, red, lime green, Chutney, Wheatgrass, Champagne, and the Twenty-One Syrup Salute. [cite episode |title=The Sweetest Apu |episodelink= |series=The Simpsons |serieslink= |credits= |network=FOX |station= |airdate= 2002-05-05 |season=13 |number=9 |minutes= ] Many other random flavours appear in the comics, including Chinese New Year, Plum, Raita and the black-coloured "Squish of Death" (which causes spontaneous vomiting).

In 2007 as part of the Kwik-E-Mart promotion for The Simpsons Movie, Slurpees at 7-Elevens were renamed "Squishees" and sold in special collector cups.

Also, the Squishee appears on Simpsons Hit & Run, the 'Chutney' Squishee is a collector card, the Squishee machine is a gag too- in the Quik-E-Mart next to Apu.

Tomacco

Tomacco was originally a fictional plant that was a hybrid between tomatoes and tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" of the animated television series "The Simpsons". The method used to create the tomacco in the episode is fictional. The tomacco became real when it was produced in 2003. The tomacco is one of the few made-up words in "The Simpsons" that resulted in real life application.

In the Simpsons episode, the tomacco was accidentally created by Homer Simpson when he "planted a little bit of everything" and fertilized his tomato and tobacco fields with plutonium. The result is a tomato that apparently has a dried, gray tobacco center, and, although being described as tasting terrible by many characters, is also immediately and powerfully addictive. The creation is promptly labeled "Tomacco" by Homer and sold in large quantities to unsuspecting passers by. Laramie cigarettes, seeing an opportunity to sell their products to children legally, offers to buy the rights to market tomacco, but Homer refuses. Eventually, all but one of the tomacco plants are eaten by farm animals.

In 2003, inspired by "The Simpsons", Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant. Both plants are members of the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade. [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1068728694190_18?s_name=&no_ads= CTV.ca | Homer Simpson inspires man to grow 'tomacco' ] ]

The plant produced spawn that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine. The world's first tomacco, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco was given to a "Simpsons" writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the tomacco. The Tomacco plant bore tomaccoes until it died after 18 months, spending one winter indoors.

The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 "Scientific American" article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 Scientific American compilation [ "Bio-Organic Chemistry", on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0)]

The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named "tomacco" as the new word "least likely to succeed." [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/american_speech/v079/79.2glowka.html&session=58927490] ] Tomacco was www.wordspy.com "word of the Day". [ [http://www.wordspy.com/words/tomacco.asp Word Spy - tomacco ] ]

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