A clear sign Big-Y is a Connecticut and Massachusetts-only supermarket; if Kroger or Food Lion had a Kids Fruit Club that would be cited as proof of child grooming and republican governors across the nation would race to issue condemnations of it and proactively try to pass laws against it
naturally just [yesterday] I saw this
which IS in Connecticut, but the ludicrous conservative backlash to the name led to a bigger back-backlash that gave the store so much business that it ran out of stuff to sell. In Florida or Texas it might have had angry protestors outside demanding that the employees release fictional juvenile hostages and then a week later everyone inside and out would have covid.
still I am concerned that Big Y is getting so comfortable with these mutants
and worse, the mutants are getting comfortable themselves.
why don’t we just throw a beach party for them!
this is beside the point but I am fascinated that this game’s title screen is a redraw of its weird box-art; generally Japanese video games with weird United States box art don’t have their title screens updated to match it, except to alter logos. Also despite the weird cropping to allow the text to appear the picture overall looks less weird. although the tree is duplicated, the texture on the sand is questionable and the banana looks amidst a prophylactic demonstration, the artist treated the sun as a light source rather than another piece of fruit, and the figures themselves look less like there is stuff wrong with them, which to me is of foremost importance.
especially THIS creep, that looks less like it is surfing than “he went that-a-way!”ing while squatting behind a stair with bacon on it. Someone even thought it was good enough to put on the side of the box as well! It was not. There (here) it appears to be concerned about trademarking but unable to leave its post plugging a dike leak.
It might help to contrast this with the original Japanese box-art that is strikingly dissimilar to both its own title screen and this, but I decline to on account of it including a depiction of the grapes-themed boss foe that I find aesthetically unpleasant for reasons that are beyond the scope of this web page. Additionally that Japan Super Famicom box-art is dissimilar to the Japan game boy version’s box art, which would need to be contrasted with the fact of US editions of both using the same box-art despite differing in-game character designs, thereby explaining why the monkey only has a conspicuous tail in one of them, and all of these factors combine to really not be much help at all. Is there any expert in the field who COULD help?
oh WHAT?! I had no idea. Years ago this appeared on the zany video game quotes website, and I never knew or asked where it came from. I ASSUMED the graphic was for something remotely archie-related; the Archie Comics company published works on a few topics that weren’t strictly archie themed, such as ninja turtles and sonic t hedgehog. I didn’t guess it was in a video game magazine advertisement for a property other than those two, certainly not the monkey vs evil fruit game. Factually the sonic comics did not appear until after this but I had to look that up. I should not have had to look that up! This should never have happened! Had Archie been pondering video game comics before Sonic or does it merely mean Archie recommends throwing basketballs at food that has limbs and faces? Do I and Archie actually have common ground? What horror! Looking up the phrase “recommended by archie” now seems to indicate this endorsement was not offered to other products. Consulting the site’s founder likewise indicated the same source and that he had even scanned it himself.
and that is what me asking about it looked like. I did not really ask at 1:51am, however. Why is the time zone incorrect? And why did I think I needed to prove that I asked about this?
all in all a very stressful day! I had other pictures of stupid limbed fruit to show but now I am just upset.
Now I am more upset!
I don’t have to take this. I’m going home.
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The Grumb sez:
Something always bothered me about the hatching on the side of Archie’s hair. I think it may have reminded me of the grill marks on a steak. This in turn makes me think of the sideburn variant known a “mutton chops”, a thoroughly unpleasant-sounding duo of words.
I only ever perused an Archie comic once in the wild, mind, when my sister managed to obtain one for some reason. The only thing I really remember was this one bit where Archie and one of his minions inexplicably assumed the role of cavemen stock characters, one of whom owned a hamburger stand, and the other of whom sought to purchase a hamburger. All of their dialogue consisted of mono-syllables like “Ugh*”, asterisk original, with a corresponding translation in the footnote (the dialogue of the final panel, I distinctly recall, being “*Bye!” — “**Yum!”). My sister apparently missed this bit, as she was quite puzzled by what the strange grunts and asterisks were meant to signify, asking “Are they swearing?” which made for a striking alternative interpretation. Admittedly, in some places, this may have been a more accurate representation of the act of buying a hamburger.
Frimpinheap sez:
I am fixated on the implied scarcity of “managed to obtain.” I like now to think of Archie comics not as mass-produced symbols of enduring 1940s-style mediocrity but as rare magical artifacts created by a long extinct civilization, even though the only power they grant you is to not understand why someone would make such a thing or purchase except as a weird one time only novelty.
Archie’s hair iconography has only ever registered to me as a tic tac toe board, though this topic of conversation seems familiar. I hate to think I have spent a few moments talking about Archie’s hair multiple times in my life. Fortunately I do not need to because I will have done so regardless of whether I remember doing it.
I have purchased few hamburgers, but have had numerous negative experiences during fried chicken acquisition. If Archie characters started eating fried chicken that would make them more interesting to me, though I cannot for the moment determine why. I seem to have a deep subconscious resistance to the theoretical possibility of Archie being interesting.