Woolworths win UK Simpsons Promotion

Kwik-E-Mart
Originally uploaded by StartedByAMouse.

Read in the Metro this morning that Woolworths have won a £5 million advertising deal to promote the launch of the new Simpsons DVD, not quite on the same scale as the incredbile job done in the US to promote the movie where a number of 7 Eleven stores were converted into Kwik-E-Mart stores (complete with themed goods to buy)...still should be pretty cool though, 200 stores are involved, so maybe one near me, surely either Crawley or Redhill will make the list... ;)

nature.com interviews Al Jean!

Wow, just noticed that Al Jean (executive producer for "The Simpsons") was interviewed on this weeks nature podcast (discussing the in jokes that pepper the series included for the amusement of the scientifically minded (or actually more usually the math-savvy) among the viewer community), there is a brief text summary here also, but the podcast contains much more (including sound-bites from the show)...quite amusing...coverage in the podcast starts at 11 minutes 47 seconds (if you fancy skipping the doom and gloom climate change segments that preceed it)... ;)

Simpsons Movie Avatar

Hehe, well, there never was going to be a hair style on there quite like mine, this was the closest I could get without resorting to "Sideshow Bob"'s hair, which might have been a bit over the top... ;)

If you want to make your own avatar, visit http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/ (Flash site btw)...

In other Simpsons news, some marketing *genius* has made a deal with the US convenience store 7-11 to re-brand 12 of the stores (across the US) as "Kwik-e-Mart"s to hype the movie! Just astonishingly ingenious, there are some excellent pictures of one of the stores on a flickr stream here, it's an amazing transformation...! I've just looked and those six packs of buzz cola are trading on ebay for $25! ;)

The marketing machine is obviously working on me, I'm getting really quite excited about seeing it now!

[Fink closes eyes, crosses fingers and whispers] "pleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuck"...