Delicious Fruit Pies: Difference between revisions

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[[File:v2daredevil04_6206.jpg|link=Daredevil|frame|No criminal can resist them.]]

{{quote|'''Dexter:''' Thanks, Major Glory!

'''[[Eagle Land|Major Glory]]:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INRcHNSTsHc Don't thank me, thank Justice Fruit Pies!]|''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''}}

'''[[Eagle Land|Major Glory]]:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}INRcHNSTsHc Don't thank me, thank Justice Fruit Pies!]|''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''}}

Back in the 1970s and 1980s the Hostess™ snack company had a long-running comic book ad campaign, with story pages produced by the comic book companies themselves. They appeared in comic books published by [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]], [[The DCU|DC]], [[Gold Key Comics|Gold Key]], [[Archie Comics|Archie]], and [[Harvey Comics|Harvey]]. The Marvel and DC ads, featuring prominent superhero characters, would normally have plots along the lines of:

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# Hero pops up.

# Hero gives villain delicious Hostess Fruit Pies/Ding-Dongs/Oreos in exchange for being turned in, or to distract the villain long enough to be captured.

# Villain complies, not being able to resist the real fruit filling.

# Villain complies, not being able to resist the real fruit/creamy filling.

# (optional) [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]

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Related to [[Product as Superhero]]. Antiparticle of [[Cereal Vice Reward]]. Compare/see also [[Delicious Distraction]]. Not related to the Delicious Fruit of ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''.

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* [[Seanbaby]] has [http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm a whole bunch of these ads] archived.

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' had [[Ad Bumpers|a segment]] with [[Captain America (comics)]] [[Captain Ersatz|look-a-like]] Major Glory and his "Justice Fruit Pies".

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* ''[[Killroy And Tina]]'' shows us [http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/killroyandtina.php?name=killroyandtina&view=single&ID=4594 the way it should work.]

* Appears oddly enough in the second season of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' -- a character who carries around a bag of hamburgers from which he has to eat after using his powers tells another Contractor that he will share his burgers if she cooperates with him. Given that this is a [[Darker and Edgier]] superhero series, this doesn't really work.

* Parodied by Marvel Comics in the issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' released as part of the infamous mid-80's "Assistant Editor's Month", entitled "Aunt May and Franklin Richards vs. Galactus". In this particular story Galactus took Aunt May as his new herald (under the name "Golden Oldie") after which she halted his latest attempt to devour the ~~earth~~ by serving him "Grosstest Twinkles".

* Parodied by Marvel Comics in the issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' released as part of the infamous mid-80's "Assistant Editor's Month", entitled "Aunt May and Franklin Richards vs. Galactus". In this particular story Galactus took [[Spider-Man|Aunt May]] as his new herald (under the name "Golden Oldie") after which she halted his latest attempt to devour the Earth by serving him "Grosstest Twinkles".

* Marvel also parodied this in their early-90's comedy title "WHAT THE..?!", where a hero offers "Stinkies" cupcakes to The Blob, whose whole gimmick is that he's fat. The Blob is initially overjoyed, but after reading the full list of ingredients of the wrapper and seeing that the treat is full of saturated fats, he proceeds to beat the stuffing out of the hero. "I'm trying to lose weight, you're not helping!"

* Marvel again in ''The Age of the Sentry'', with advertisements for Marvel Fruit Pies with Fruit-like Filling.