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* Parodied by [[Weird Al Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] on a TV special where he's shown [[No One Could Survive That|pushing a guy off the roof to his death]], and when others respond with horror and outrage, he holds up a pack of Mentos causing the others to smile and give him the thumbs up. Mentos have since become pop-culture shorthand for a [[Deus Ex Machina]]. |
* Parodied by [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] on a TV special where he's shown [[No One Could Survive That|pushing a guy off the roof to his death]], and when others respond with horror and outrage, he holds up a pack of Mentos causing the others to smile and give him the thumbs up. Mentos have since become pop-culture shorthand for a [[Deus Ex Machina]]. |
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** Also parodied in ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' when John Wilkes Booth misses the shot and shoots Abraham Lincoln's top hat. Abe's pretty pissed until Booth pulls out his stick of Mentos. Peter [[Comically Missing the Point|comically misses the point]] and wanders off to kill Lincoln. |
** Also parodied in ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' when John Wilkes Booth misses the shot and shoots Abraham Lincoln's top hat. Abe's pretty pissed until Booth pulls out his stick of Mentos. Peter [[Comically Missing the Point|comically misses the point]] and wanders off to kill Lincoln. |
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*** Satirized also in ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' Where Rob is discussing how he got punched in the face on the subway. Apparently, he sat on somebody'd groceries by accident, but that's not what pissed the guy off; he only hit Rob after he tried to lighten the moment by pulling out some Mentos. |
*** Satirized also in ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' Where Rob is discussing how he got punched in the face on the subway. Apparently, he sat on somebody'd groceries by accident, but that's not what pissed the guy off; he only hit Rob after he tried to lighten the moment by pulling out some Mentos. |
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* The standard MO for [[The Burger King (Advertising)|The Burger King]] is to start to turn around, turn back towards the other person with his (index) finger pointing up (the standard "wait one moment" meaning... ''[[Memetic Molester|we think]]''), turning around, and presenting the advertised sandwich on a silver platter. |
* The standard MO for [[The Burger King (Advertising)|The Burger King]] is to start to turn around, turn back towards the other person with his (index) finger pointing up (the standard "wait one moment" meaning... ''[[Memetic Molester|we think]]''), turning around, and presenting the advertised sandwich on a silver platter. |
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* Parodied yet again in [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]], specifically the [[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]] segments. |
* Parodied yet again in [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]], specifically the [[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]] segments. |
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* [[wikipedia:Hungry Jack|Hungry Jack's]] (the Australian Burger King) are currently advertising one of their burgers by having 'customers' frozen in shock, holding their hands up to their face as if holding a burger. Yeah, it's a 'stunner' deal or something. May their stores be plagued by wise-ass teenagers evermore. |
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* Parodied in ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (Film)|Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]'', where [[The Chick]] escapes from the killer in a send-up of the commercials thanks to a stick of 'Mentals'. |
* Parodied in ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (Film)|Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]'', where [[The Chick]] escapes from the killer in a send-up of the commercials thanks to a stick of 'Mentals'. |
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* The Geico commercial line wi...no, not the cavemen, the...no, not the Gecko, the one w...Aw, c'mon, ''FLO ISN'T EVEN GEICO!'' The one with the googly-eyed stack of money stalking people who don't have Geico. The reaction to the "victims" is the same as the "victims" of Mentos shenanigans...made even creepier by a cover of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" playing in the background. |
* The Geico commercial line wi...no, not the cavemen, the...no, not the Gecko, the one w...Aw, c'mon, ''FLO ISN'T EVEN GEICO!'' The one with the googly-eyed stack of money stalking people who don't have Geico. The reaction to the "victims" is the same as the "victims" of Mentos shenanigans...made even creepier by a cover of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" playing in the background. |
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