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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:acme.jpg\|link=Looney Tunes\|right]] {{quote\|'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|A]]''' '''[[Fun with Acronyms\|C]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|ompany [that] ]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|M]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|akes]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms\|E]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|verything]]. Alternately, '''[[Fun with Acronyms\|A]]''' '''[[Fun with Acronyms\|C]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|ompany ]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|M]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|aking]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms\|E]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms\|verything]].}} Your one-stop shop for a [http://web.archive.org/web/20080212084642/http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html variety of products] which may or may not function exactly as advertised. Renowned for [[Instant Home Delivery\|express shipping]] that has FedEx drooling in jealousy. For this wiki's purposes, an ~~[[Acme Products\|~~'''Acme Corporation]]''' is ''any'' generic corporation that seems to supply ''[[Crazy Prepared\|everything]]'' a character, or entire cast, uses. These supplies are, of course, [['''Acme Products]]'''. Not to be confused with [[wikipedia:ACME\|any of the myriad non-fictional objects and entities bearing the moniker]]. The eponymous example appears most famously in [[The Golden Age of Animation\|classic]] Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Wile E. Coyote, whose more elaborate plans involved Acme catapults, earthquake pills, bat suits, spring shoes, and so on; the Coyote's undying faith in Acme Corp., despite the endemic flaws and defects, is one of the mysteries of this series. [[Bugs Bunny/Characters\|Bugs Bunny]] and other characters made use of their services as well, with [[Karmic Trickster\|better results]]. Line 35: * In [[Larry Niven]]'s Known Space series, all starship hulls and a multitude of other useful high-tech products are sold by an alien-owned company called General Products. ** Not ''all'' hulls, just the {{spoiler\|near-invulnerable, radiation-proof ones that come in 4 useful sizes...}} which does kind of give them an advantage in the market, I guess. * The Pixler corporation in ''[[Abarat]]'' doesn't have a monopoly, but it likes to say in its marketing copy that it will provide for you from cradle to ~~grave--which~~grave—which it very well may, given that it runs both hospitals and funeral centers. In between, it provides everything from food to education. (And yes, these people are [[Mega Corp\|evil]].) * Jasper Fforde's ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series has the Goliath Corporation. Its motto is "For all you'll ever need." ** And in the latest sequel [[One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing]] Thursday has a sort-of part-time job in a carpet fitting company which is ''called'' Acme.

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