Someone on TopTenz.net recently posted a(nother) Top 10 Fictional Fictional Brands from Movies and TV list, which included Morleys, Big Kahuna Burger, and so on. At the end of the list was ACME, and here’s what the strident blogger had to say about this company:
There is no more culturally famous fake company than Acme, the fictional corporation from the classic Looney Toons cartoon series that makes anything and everything under the sun—and all of it defective. The Acme brand is probably most famously associated with the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons, which depict a coyote that is perpetually trying to capture a speedy roadrunner by using a collection of ridiculous contraptions provided by the Acme Corporation. These include everything from a giant rubber band (labeled as suitable “for tripping road runners”), to rocket powered roller skates. The products invariably fail to work, and the coyote always ends up on the receiving end of his own trap.
Most normal people would chuckle silently and move on to the next time-wasting blog, however, this is an absolute impossibility for nerds – especially when they see that someone is clearly wrong on the internet. Check out Walter’s comment:
I’m sure that, like me, you read this comment in the voice of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, and imagined that while Walter was feverishly typing away his rebuttal, he was pausing intermittently to push up the oversized glasses sliding down his greasy nerd nose. But after my laughter subsided, I began to actually consider his argument. And you know what? He’s 100% right. Mr. Coyote is not merely the hapless consumer of the defective products manufactured by an ineffectual and monopolistic corporation, but a dim canine seemingly incapable of learning from his multiple user errors.
To add frivolity to libel, the ridiculous court case, Coyote v. ACME Products Corp, is merely a long list of unsubstantiated claims against the company which seek to disguise the incompetence of one user as gross negligence by the designers. This is the lowest form of litigation, and if I were the retained legal counsel of ACME, I’d sue that obsessive little Canis latrans into the ground.
And then I’d drop an anvil on his head.
