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0:19 Linda Holmes? Everywhere you look, movies and TV shows are teaming up with all kinds of companies to make product tie-ins. We're not talking about just action figures or board games. They're doing a little bit of everything, and we do mean everything. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're playing a game about some very strange brand collaborations on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Joining me today are my fellow Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts, Glen Weldon. Hello, Glenn.
0:45 Speaker 02 Hey, Lynda.
0:46 Linda Holmes? Stephen Thompson. Hello, Stephen.
0:48 Speaker 02 Hey, buddy.
0:49 Linda Holmes? And final contestant, Aisha Harris. Hello, Ayesha. Hello, Lynda. All right, so it's been a while since I subjected you all to a little quiz. This one is about some of the brands that have worked with movies and TV shows to create all kinds of things that you can buy that may or may not capitalize on the warm feelings you have about whatever you just watched. They are all multiple choice questions.
1:14 Speaker 02 Okay.
1:14 Linda Holmes? You will each get three questions, and then we will see at the end if someone has won or if there's a tie. And if there's a tie, we're going to break it.
1:23 Speaker 02 All right.
1:24 Linda Holmes? Okay.
1:24 Speaker 02 Just a heads up, I intend to win this. Yeah. This is amazing. We haven't done this in such a long time, and I just feel so free. I've done no prep. I've done no homework. It's all you and the producers who did all the...
1:38 Linda Holmes? Yeah, I got a shout out. Producers Mike Katsev and Liz Metzger, especially, very helpful in creating this quiz. We're going to get right down to it. All right. Stephen, are you ready for the first question?
1:48 Speaker 02 Holmesy, I have never been more and less prepared in my life.
1:52 Linda Holmes? All right, awesome. Perfect. Stephen, which of these is a real product tied to the release of The Hunger Games catching fire in 2013? Is it A, District 12 peasant bread and apple walnut loaf from Pepperidge Farms sold only at Costco? Katniss Cream Donuts, which were just cinnamon apple. The Capital Collection Cover Girl Makeup, based on the cartoonish appearance of the super rich.
2:18 Stephen Thompson? Oh, man.
2:19 Linda Holmes? Or is it a Hunger Games shampoo called Don't Tangle With Me?
2:24 Stephen Thompson? Wow. I mean, I do remember some kind of strange tie-ins with these movies. And Catching Fire is the second book and the follow-up to a big hit movie. So it feels like the kind of thing where they go pretty far afield with these things. I mean, I remember like Star Wars branded oranges.
2:45 Speaker 02 So. Stephen, I'm not trying to help you, but just available only at Costco. That's a Linda Holmes brain detail. It's so good.
2:54 Linda Holmes? Now, that's not fair.
2:55 Speaker 02 It's tempting, but you choose you.
2:57 Stephen Thompson? Yeah, Holmesy's good at dropping details that make it sound so specific it must be real.
3:02 Speaker 02 My point.
3:02 Stephen Thompson? I'm far too advanced a thinker to fall for such a ruse. I am gonna go with the makeup collection, which is definitely self-satirizing in a way, but at the same time, like, look like Jennifer Lawrence.
3:19 Linda Holmes? Well, no, wasn't it look like the rich people in the movies?
3:21 Stephen Thompson? Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
3:23 Linda Holmes? Sorry, not to help you, but.
3:25 Stephen Thompson? Good point. You are helping me. You are helping me. The Capital Collection. Gosh, that does sound like a Lynda thing too, though, doesn't it? I'm gonna go with my first hunch and go with the makeup, but yeah, I'm probably wrong.
3:37 Linda Holmes? All right. The correct answer is The Capital Collection.
3:41 Stephen Thompson? Yes.
3:41 Linda Holmes? That was gonna be my guess, too. Cover girl makeup based on the cartoonish appearance of the super rich. Very good, Stephen. Well done.
3:51 Speaker 02 Available only at Costco.
3:54 Linda Holmes? I mean, I could be wrong, but I don't know if Costco does that kind of thing, do they?
3:59 Stephen Thompson? Right. Costco doesn't necessarily do a ton of like Costco-specific brands.
4:04 Speaker 02 It sounded good.
4:05 Linda Holmes? All right. All right. So I screwed it up. I should've.
4:07 Stephen Thompson? Kirkland brand and.
4:09 Linda Holmes? I should've said available only at, I don't know, Giant or something.
4:12 Aisha Harris? Walgreens, Target.
4:14 Linda Holmes? Fine, fine. Ayesha, you are up on the second question. Which of these lines of marketing copy was briefly used to promote The Handmaid's Tale Wine in 2018?
4:28 Aisha Harris? What?
4:28 Linda Holmes? Was it A, it's useless to resist the wine's smooth and appealingly earthy profile, so you may as well give in?
4:38 Speaker 02 Okay.
4:38 Linda Holmes? Was it B, they're out here crushing spirits, we're out here crushing the best grapes just for your palate? Was it C, she's had a lot of hard days and a lot of long nights, think of Offred as the original wine mom?
4:54 Stephen Thompson? Wow.
4:55 Aisha Harris? All of these could be possible.
4:57 Linda Holmes? Or was it D, pleasure is forbidden in Gilead, but you'll have plenty when you invite this lively Cabernet Sauvignon into your home? Believe it or not, one of those four is a real-
5:10 Aisha Harris? No, I believe all of them are possible. I mean, none of these quite reach the heights of she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce from you, me, and Tuscany. But it's up there. The brilliance of all of these is that any of them sound like they could be under the caption of an influencer who's trying to sell or like put on a T-shirt to wear while you're out having wine with other wine moms.
5:37 Speaker 02 And they all include wine buzzwords. I mean, she's done her homework.
5:41 Aisha Harris? Yeah.
5:42 Stephen Thompson? She really has.
5:43 Aisha Harris? Yeah, I think the crushing spirits one is drawing me in. Honestly, I have no idea. These are really good. Whichever ones you wrote are good job, Linda.
5:55 Aisha Harris? I'm gonna go with B, crushing spirits, because that just feels like marketing.
6:00 Linda Holmes? Gotcha. The correct answer is it's useless to resist the wine's smooth and appealingly earthy profile, so you may as well give in.
6:10 Stephen Thompson? Wow.
6:12 Linda Holmes? They did not use that marketing copy for very long because-
6:15 Speaker 02 Because you don't want to sell wine with despair.
6:18 Stephen Thompson? I would guess there was blowback.
6:20 Linda Holmes? As you may imagine, there was internet backlash. The wines were pulled after one day.
6:25 Aisha Harris? Yes, yes. Okay, fine. Foiled by the resistance.
6:29 Linda Holmes? Well, listen, I mean, it shouldn't be real marketing copy. It's just that it was.
6:35 Speaker 02 It really shouldn't.
6:36 Linda Holmes? All right, Glenn?
6:36 Speaker 02 Yep.
6:37 Linda Holmes? Your first question. Tied to Star Trek V, The Final Frontier, Kraft Foods sold a special item that could hang from your belt. What was it? A, a peanut shooter. B, a marshmallow dispenser. C, a mac and cheese tube. D, a ketchup syringe.
6:57 Speaker 02 Wow. Okay. So Star Trek V is the one where they go to the center of the galaxy looking for God. I want to say hang in an onion from their belt because it was the style at the time.
7:08 Stephen Thompson? It was the style.
7:08 Speaker 02 But I don't think it's it. So, so what's the most futuristic? Tube is a very futuristic Star Trekkie word. Jeffrey's tubes, for example. So mac and cheese tube means you'd have to have the pasta, the macaroni, which is a tube inside a tube. That's a star, that's a science fiction concept. It ends up being in Star Trek. So while there's, you know, trappings of phaser battles and things like that, it's not militaristic. In fact, it's a we all should love each other kind of vibe. So I'm going to eliminate A. I'm going to eliminate the ketchup dispenser. I'm going to go with a marshmallow thing.
7:44 Linda Holmes? The marshmallow dispenser?
7:45 Speaker 02 The marshmallow dispenser.
7:46 Linda Holmes? Correct answer is marshmallow dispenser.
7:49 Stephen Thompson? What?
7:49 Linda Holmes? Because in my memory of reading about this, in the movie, Spock has a marshmallow dispenser that he uses to
8:00 Speaker 02 Dispense marshmallows?
8:01 Linda Holmes? I think take a marshmallow to roast. They're roasting marshmallows.
8:05 Speaker 02 They do.
8:06 Linda Holmes? I was really afraid you were going to remember.
8:08 Speaker 02 I should have. I really should have.
8:09 Linda Holmes? Got it right anyway.
8:10 Speaker 02 Got it right anyway.
8:11 Linda Holmes? So that is one round down. We've got two rounds to go.
8:14 Speaker 02 All right.
8:14 Linda Holmes? We're going to take a second and we'll be right back for six more questions.
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9:45 Linda Holmes? All right. We are back. Stephen, it is back to you. The movie Despicable Me 3 led to a partnership with what unexpected brand? A, Miracle Grow, which created a special fertilizer called Miracle Grew. B, The Huffington Post, which ran a series of short articles called Minions Opinions.
10:09 Speaker 02 OK, not this one, Stephen.
10:11 Aisha Harris? OK, yeah.
10:13 Speaker 02 Whatever it is, not this one.
10:14 Stephen Thompson? Oh, no, Glenn, this has to be the real one. Linda would never laugh at her own comedy.
10:18 Aisha Harris? I feel like this is cheating, but it's fine. It's fine.
10:22 Speaker 02 Once we hear it, we're going to laugh, too, but we need to hear it.
10:26 Aisha Harris? Why don't you swap them and do that choice last?
10:28 Linda Holmes? Yeah, I'll do that one last. The History Channel, which ran a series of specials called Despicable about famous dictators. Zumba, which created exclusive choreography for one of the songs in the film. Or The Huffington Post, which ran a series of short articles called Minions Opinions.
10:46 Aisha Harris? Okay.
10:47 Speaker 02 All banana based, really.
10:49 Stephen Thompson? Minions opinions in the Huffington Post. Miracle grew, which certainly could be Linda's brain. These are all plausible.
11:01 Speaker 02 Would the History Channel play so fast and loose and glib about brutal dictatorships that they would invoke a children's movie?
11:08 Stephen Thompson? Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Zumba dance.
11:10 Linda Holmes? Go the Zumba dance? I have to tell you, I don't think you would have gone with Minions opinions, even if I had not laughed at my own joke.
11:19 Speaker 02 Okay.
11:20 Linda Holmes? The answer is Zumba.
11:21 Speaker 02 All right.
11:22 Stephen Thompson? Yes.
11:22 Linda Holmes? Which created exclusive choreography for one of the songs in the film. I do apologize for arguably giving away the game on one answer.
11:31 Stephen Thompson? Well, you you only tipped your hand on one of the four.
11:33 Linda Holmes? I had written such an absolutely ridiculous and terrible thing that it made me laugh. I will admit. All right, we're pulling it together.
11:44 Speaker 02 Yep.
11:44 Linda Holmes? Ayesha, next question for you.
11:46 Aisha Harris? Feel free to laugh at whichever one you'd like, Linda.
11:49 Linda Holmes? I will, I will.
11:50 Aisha Harris? Just so I have a leg up here.
11:52 Linda Holmes? Absolutely. The 2025 sequel, Wicked for Good, had a very robust collection of collaborations with brands, including something with the marketing phrase, "wonderfullest woods and beautifical blossom." What was "wonderfullest woods and beautifical blossom"? A, a fragrance used in laundry scent boosters made by Gain. B, a print used on sheets sold at Target. C, a green shade and a pink shade used together in special bags of M&Ms? Or D, a pair of squirrels featured on Wicked socks? For the purposes of fairness, you can assume I laughed at the Wicked socks.
12:36 Aisha Harris? I just don't understand the squirrels part because I don't recall squirrels being a prominent part of Wicked.
12:41 Linda Holmes? They may not have been. Perhaps you should assume that they weren't.
12:44 Aisha Harris? Yeah, no, I'm gonna assume that they weren't. Hmm, "wonderfullest and beautifullest."
12:49 Linda Holmes? "Wonderfullest woods and beautifical blossom."
12:52 Aisha Harris? I mean, there was an era when M&Ms were quote unquote sexy and it was very weird.
13:00 Aisha Harris? I forget the green M and M was sexualized in a very strange way.
13:03 Stephen Thompson? This was actually briefly a culture war issue.
13:05 Aisha Harris? Yeah, yeah.
13:06 Stephen Thompson? Like, someone was mad that M and M's weren't sexy anymore.
13:09 Aisha Harris? Yes, I remember that.
13:11 Speaker 02 I'm not trying to help you, Aisha, but the whole thing about Wicked was pink and green, and Wonderfullest Woods is green, and Beautifulst Blossoms is pink.
13:20 Aisha Harris? I know, I know, yeah.
13:23 Stephen Thompson? Glenn, what are you doing, man? This is a competition.
13:26 Speaker 02 I'm just, I just.
13:27 Aisha Harris? I was already leaning that way anyway, because like I said, M and M's were sexy. And I guess maybe this is the way they pulled back and got less woke. And they were like, we're just gonna say Beautifulst and Wonderfulst as opposed to like hubba hubba. Yeah, I'm gonna go with the M and M's. Like, that just makes, whatever, I'm already down one. If I'm down two, it is what it is. Let's go with the M and M's.
13:49 Linda Holmes? The correct answer is a fragrance used in laundry scent boosters made by Gain.
13:56 Aisha Harris? Well.
13:56 Speaker 02 Wow.
13:57 Linda Holmes? Well, what can I tell you? Your laundry can smell like Wonderfullest Woods and Beautifical Blossom.
14:04 Stephen Thompson? I have a migraine just thinking about it.
14:05 Speaker 02 I know, right?
14:06 Linda Holmes? There were actually, I think, a number of fragranced products that used these two phrases. So if that appeals to you, perhaps you can still find them on eBay or something like that. All right, Glenn, we're going over to you. Van Leeuwen ice cream made what actual movie tie-in ice cream flavor? Was it A, Glass Onion Ice Cream, which tasted like onions? Nosferatu Ice Cream, which tasted like garlic? Licorice Pizza Ice Cream, which tasted like licorice and pizza? Or Chicken Run Ice Cream, which tasted like chicken?
14:43 Speaker 02 Okay.
14:44 Linda Holmes? For the purposes of round balance, you can assume I laughed at the licorice pizza ice cream.
14:48 Speaker 02 Licorice pizza ice cream. I'm eliminating Glass Onion, not because of the fact that there couldn't be onion-flavored ice cream, I know for a fact there is, but the word glass, you don't want the word glass anywhere near ice cream, so I'm eliminating that.
15:00 Aisha Harris? Smart.
15:00 Speaker 02 I know that if you go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, you will get some garlic ice cream, but I don't know if Nosferatu is the kind of film that would do lighthearted tie-ins. Eggers seems a little too self-serious for that, the director. I'm gonna go, and again, I don't think.
15:20 Stephen Thompson? I don't think Licorice Pizza is the kind of film. It's it has kind of indie cred and I don't think it would wanna be tied into um anything as cheesy as ice cream flavor. But you know, studios are studios and studios are gonna studio. So I'm gonna go with Licorice Pizza.
15:36 Linda Holmes? The correct answer is glass onion ice cream.
15:38 Aisha Harris? Oh my god.
15:38 Linda Holmes? Which tasted like onions. Great Matt Singer, who does a lot of tasting of high end foods, especially at places like Denny's and IHOP, tasted this and said he could only taste the onions.
15:50 Stephen Thompson? Only taste the broken glass.
15:51 Linda Holmes? The flavor palette was bourbon onion jam.
15:55 Aisha Harris? Oh my god, that sounds disgusting.
15:57 Linda Holmes? Along with some glazed pineapple infused honeycomb.
16:01 Stephen Thompson? Yeah.
16:02 Linda Holmes? But according to Matt, it just tasted like onions.
16:04 Aisha Harris? Yeah, cuz onions overpowers every other flavor that you've mentioned there.
16:09 Linda Holmes? You would think, you would think. Alrighty, so we're going back to full pallets of answers because I'm not going to laugh. So.
16:17 Stephen Thompson? And Stephen, you're getting no help. No help from me, no help from anyone. You're on your own.
16:21 Aisha Harris? Our lips are sealed.
16:22 Stephen Thompson? Yeah.
16:23 Linda Holmes? All right, Stephen, Godzilla versus Kong had its share of marketing muscle. Which of the following was part of it? A, Stomping Sneakers, a New Balance offering that could spice up your run with the spirit of Godzilla. B, Godzilla and Kong Electric Salt and Pepper Grinders from Williams Sonoma. C, a whey protein powder from Megaplex that promised to harness the two titans' strength, energy, and raw power. Or D, Zilla Vanilla, a frozen yogurt with banana chips.
16:55 Stephen Thompson? Oh my gosh. Um, okay, so all of these feel fairly plausible. You're able to plausible them all. I mean, stupid but plausible. I feel like the kind of nutritional powder.
17:11 Stephen Thompson? That feels like the most plausible to me because like harness the power of guts. I mean, there definitely are like, you know, the like Hulk smashing fists that make sounds, but would you do that with sneakers? I am going to go with whatever the like nutritional powder harness the power of two titans. That one feels the rightest to me.
17:30 Linda Holmes? The correct answer is away protein powder from Megaplex that promised to harness the two titans, strength, energy and raw power.
17:38 Speaker 02 Three for three.
17:39 Stephen Thompson? Oh, my gosh. Glenn and Ayesha are going to
17:41 Speaker 02 Lose.
17:42 Stephen Thompson? Have to answer their quiz questions just like under a cloud of defeat.
17:47 Speaker 02 No, no. What else is new?
17:49 Aisha Harris? Well.
17:50 Linda Holmes? How gracious of you.
17:51 Aisha Harris? Thanks for rubbing it in.
17:55 Linda Holmes? All right. Ayesha, when Heinz decided to make Easy Squirt ketchup in unexpected colors, what character did they call upon to help promote one of the shades? A Barney the dinosaur on bottles of purple ketchup. B Smurfette on bottles of blue ketchup. C Pikachu on bottles of yellow ketchup. D Shrek on bottles of green ketchup.
18:18 Aisha Harris? Okay. I feel like this was something that occurred during my childhood and I vaguely remember these ads. I would never eat ketchup because that's gross, but like Barney seems not right. Shrek sounds far more plausible. What Pikachu, you said? I don't think it's Pikachu because then it looks like, then it would look like mustard and it'd be confusing. Dumber things have happened. So I don't know.
18:45 Linda Holmes? I think the entire theme of this quiz is dumber things have happened.
18:50 Aisha Harris? I feel like it's down to Barney or Shrek. Uh, okay. Why am I, it doesn't even matter at this point.
19:01 Aisha Harris? It really doesn't.
19:02 Stephen Thompson? Embrace the futility.
19:03 Aisha Harris? Yeah, I'm going to go with Shrek, knowing it'll probably be Pikachu and whatever.
19:07 Linda Holmes? The correct answer is Shrek.
19:09 Aisha Harris? Oh, yay.
19:12 Stephen Thompson? Super appetizing.
19:14 Aisha Harris? Yeah, yeah.
19:15 Linda Holmes? All right. Glenn? Which is the most expensive of the following kitchen items available in the Disney store?
19:24 Linda Holmes? Is it A, the Grogu serving board? Is it B, the mono rail corn cob holders? Is it C, the Yoda grill scraper with bottle opener? Or is it D, the Mickey Mouse slow cooker?
19:42 Speaker 02 Okay.
19:43 Aisha Harris? Shocked you didn't give this question to me.
19:45 Speaker 02 Yeah, this is a Disney kid question. I mean, a slow cooker is an appliance. Corn cob holders are utensils. So if the Mickey Mouse slow cooker exists, it is the most expensive thing. Does it exist?
20:02 Linda Holmes? They all exist.
20:03 Speaker 02 They all exist.
20:04 Stephen Thompson? They all exist.
20:04 Speaker 02 Oh, they all exist. Well, then I'm gonna go with slow cooker because it's, it's a thing you plug in.
20:08 Linda Holmes? That's true, but the answer is the Grogu serving board.
20:12 Stephen Thompson? Yeah, serving boards are pricey.
20:14 Linda Holmes? As of the time that I wrote these questions was forty-three, thirty-four on sale. Believe it or not, the slow cooker is only twenty-four ninety-nine. They've got some of those cheapy kitchen appliances down to a pretty low price now.
20:27 Aisha Harris? I don't even remember them selling kitchen appliances at the Disney store. It's, well, it's better than it is.
20:32 Linda Holmes? Yeah, you can get, a lot of them are Star Wars. There's a lot of like waffle irons and stuff like that. So I believe the answer is Stephen has won the quiz.
20:42 Speaker 02 Handily.
20:42 Stephen Thompson? I have won the quiz. What was the tiebreaker, though?
20:46 Linda Holmes? Oh, the tiebreaker was what is the price of the, the Devil Wears Prada two handbag popcorn bucket? Without going over, Price is Right rules.
20:58 Speaker 02 I don't buy these things. Have you guys ever bought one of these popcorn holder things? I don't know, I don't know what a going rate is.
21:03 Stephen Thompson? No.
21:04 Aisha Harris? I would say, okay, my guess for that would be, so this isn't just the, the holder itself? Or like assuming you're buying the popcorn too?
21:12 Linda Holmes? I assume it comes with popcorn in it.
21:14 Aisha Harris? Okay, so the last time I bought popcorn, which is like at the time of this taping, a couple of weeks ago, it was like, even for a small, it was like ten ninety-nine, which is ridiculous. So I'm gonna guess that. This is a medium to large size. It's probably going to be around $15.99 just for the popcorn. Add another like $15.99. So I'd say like 30, let's say 33, including, you know, including taxes and stuff.
21:43 Linda Holmes? 33. All right, Glenn, what's your guess?
21:46 Speaker 02 $1.
21:47 Stephen Thompson? I haven't gone yet, bud.
21:48 Speaker 02 I know, I know, but I'm just gonna say.
21:50 Linda Holmes? Steven?
21:51 Stephen Thompson? I'm gonna say $1.50.
21:54 Linda Holmes? Well, you all messed yourself up because Ayesha wins because of $39.95.
21:58 Speaker 02 Wow.
21:58 Aisha Harris? Yeah.
22:00 Stephen Thompson? $40.
22:01 Linda Holmes? This is on the website. You can buy it.
22:03 Speaker 02 Wow.
22:04 Linda Holmes? And, uh, and yeah, it's basically it's 40 bucks. So you both played yourselves.
22:08 Aisha Harris? Still cheaper than a Coach handbag, so.
22:11 Speaker 02 Only just. Extruded plastic.
22:14 Stephen Thompson? Well, I'm just glad to have gotten something wrong, just so the audience knows that I'm human.
22:18 Linda Holmes? Oh, my God.
22:20 Aisha Harris? Let me throw the wine that I had to resist.
22:24 Speaker 02 Exactly.
22:24 Aisha Harris? At you.
22:25 Speaker 02 Crush his spirit.
22:27 Aisha Harris? Crush his spirit like the grapes.
22:29 Linda Holmes? So, yes, Steven got three. Ayesha and Glenn got one each.
22:34 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:34 Linda Holmes? He got it this time. I'm sure we'll gather here and do this again sometime.
22:38 Speaker 02 Let's do it again.
22:39 Linda Holmes? Yeah.
22:39 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:40 Linda Holmes? That brings us to the end of our show. Aisha Harris, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, thank you so much for being here.
22:46 Stephen Thompson? Thank you, buddy.
22:47 Speaker 02 Yeah.
22:47 Aisha Harris? Thank you. Millions of opinions.
22:51 Linda Holmes? I'm so sorry. This episode is produced heroically by Liz Metzger and Mike Katzif, and it was edited by our showrunner Jessica Reedy. Hello Come In provides our theme music. Thank you for listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. I'm Linda Holmes, and we'll see you all next time.
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