[The Real MCU] What daily deal product deserves its own epic storyline in the Meh Cinematic Universe?
1Last weekend’s obscure pop culture trivia challenge included this spoof website, which was developed entirely as a riff on a knock-off iPod featured in a couple of episodes of The Office from 20 years ago.
Tell us which Meh product could have the same staying power and explain why it’s the travel mug that’s also a Bluetooth speaker.
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Behold Pam’s original Durosport MP3 Player.
@jouest The RF choke in the cord is a nice touch.
Don’t see those much anymore.
@ItalianScallion I feel like that would have been comically outdated in 2005 (which would fit with the gag), but also my recollection of tech from 1990 to 2020 is very fuzzy.
I already have the TYLT 24oz Power Water Bottle with Built-In Phone Charger, but I must have a travel mug with a bluetooth speaker!
@ItalianScallion travel mugs as sonic screwdrivers
The “JiggaWatt” (they intentionally said it wrong?) Flux Capacitor that you need for your car or speakerdock. Still only USB-A and no HDMI, since someone would ask.
@pmarin JiggaWatt would be an excellent name for a band.
@pmarin i’d watch this
@pmarin I’m not so sure it’s wrong - the root word for the “giga-” prefix is “gigantic”, so pronouncing it “jigga” seems to make sense.
@macromeh @pmarin I’m told that in the 80s, the soft “j” sound for “giga” wasn’t entirely off-base. Some dictionaries at the time even listed it as an acceptable pronunciation. (yes i went down this rabbit hole once.)
@jouest @macromeh @pmarin Fwiw, Wiktionary and Wikipedia both agree that soft-G is allowed… (I haven’t bothered to look much beyond them.)
Not everyone will agree that Wiki* sites will count as a definitive sources of information, but whatever.
(I tend to think that the hard-G is the only “reasonable” modern pronunciation, but “jumping ghigawatts” doesn’t have the same ring to it. And I have no complaints with anyone using a soft-G giga.)
While we’re at it,
.gifis pronounced “zhaif”.It’s still here…
https://x.com/nerotarlev
But what meh products are we talking about here? Current ones (microscopic alien suction cups), previous sold out (irk and irk adjacent), future products we’d like to see (I’d buy that PS4 for $1)
Since most of my orders have been food, Meh could sell shawarma kits.
@pakopako ooh good find, good take
I used candy corn to help sell my house. There were children across America that got entire bags of candy for halloween. Candy corn became waxy, melted balls of modeling clay. Somebody out there ended up with an un-asked for pallet of sugary “goodness”. I think that’s the stuff of legends.
@DLPanther I think I’ve been selling houses wrong
@DLPanther @jouest … or I’ve been buying them wrong.
I envision a story of a lonely, abandonware floor-sweeping robot finally encountering love and fulfillment after being donated to a thrift store and sold off to someone like the tinkerer in Batteries Not Included, who gets it up and running properly at which point it meets his shy but diligent floor-mopping robot. Before long, there are tiny automated crevice cleaner 'bots riding on their backs to jump down and get into the corners they still can’t reach. In the sequel, one of the crevice 'bots is kidnapped by a stooge for EvilCo, which wants to take it apart and reverse-engineer the little 'bot to make and sell brain-dead clones of it, and the whole gang of floor-cleaning and other household task 'bots sets off to find and rescue the crevvy before it’s too late.
Fuck. I’d probably watch that. And it’ll never happen.
@werehatrack I feel like these should be part of the storyline as well.
@werehatrack Id watch this