Mutilate your thirst (Wizbang)

They wouldn't promote the movie, but the fictional beverage in it, now that's worth marketing! From Danny Leigh of The Guardian:

1) Early last year, Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, made Idiocracy - an erratic but often wildly funny account of the final triumph of the congenitally stupid, set in an all-too plausible future America. 2) Judge directed the film for Fox, despite previously having been badly scalded when the studio allowed his fine corporate satire Office Space to sink without trace, unpromoted and abandoned. 3) Late last year, Fox allowed Idiocracy to sink without trace, unpromoted and abandoned.

And now, let's hurtle back to the present, pausing only to note that in Judge's movie, the end of civilisation was hastened by energy drink Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator - a toxic-green swill whose popularity eventually made water redundant, leading to the collapse of American agriculture. Because, while Idiocracy now languishes in unwatched semi-cultdom, Brawndo has become a reality - thanks to none other than Fox, which has joined forces with drinks retailer Redux Beverages to launch

and

In summarising, I gladly defer to Spout Blog's Karina Longworth: "So, to recap: Fox wouldn't support a film about Brawndo, the energy drink that destroys plants, debases the human race, and makes those who drink it 'win at yelling', but they are now putting wholehearted support behind the actual drink."

Read it all at the above link. Given the plot, maybe they'll have better luck pushing the drink if nobody sees the movie?

Thanks to Jim Dunn of Do What Now?, currently walking down memory lane with The Advertising of Christmas Past, for the tip.

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Comments (4)

puts on the Rowdy Roddy ... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by jpm100 | December 10, 2007 10:47 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

jpm100:

puts on the Rowdy Roddy Piper sunglasses and sees

*CONSUME*

Posted on December 10, 2007 10:47

We are all doomed.... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by mantis | December 10, 2007 2:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

mantis:

We are all doomed.

Posted on December 10, 2007 14:06

Y'know, it's astuonding tha... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by ravenshrike | December 10, 2007 6:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

ravenshrike:

Y'know, it's astuonding that people can't seem to understand that the Fox TV/Movie department is almost completely unconnected to the Merchandising department. Yet the same people probably read Dilbert. The amount of disconnect is amazing.

Posted on December 10, 2007 18:30

Y'know. Its astonishing ho... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by jpm100 | December 10, 2007 10:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Y'know. Its astonishing how people can't see an underlying business philosophy can manifest itself in seemingly unrelated departments.

Posted on December 10, 2007 22:52

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