List of fictional brands
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A fictional brand is a non-existing brand used in artistic or entertainment productions — paintings, books, comics, movies, TV serials, etc.. The fictional brand may be designed to imitate a real corporate brand, satirize a real corporate brand, or differentiate itself from real corporate brands.
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Why create fictional brands
Works of fiction often mention or show specific brands to give more realism to the plot or scenery. Specific brands provide descriptive details that the author can use to craft a plot: a character may own a factory that manufactures a popular product, or may make a scene by demanding a particular brand; a detective may get clues from the brand of cigarettes smoked by a suspect; a film may include a commercial poster on the background, or show a package of cereal in close-up.
However, unauthorized use of real trademarks for such purposes could trigger legal action by their owners — especially if the brands are referenced in a way that could be seen to have negative marketing impact. In general, the use of a real brand requires prior written consent by the brand's owner, who will typically demand some control on the brand's use. These hassles are probably the main reason for the use of fictitious brands.
Real brands are often used, of course. Sometimes a specific brand is needed because of its prior associations; e.g. the Coca-Cola machine scene in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove would not work with any other real or fictitious brand (except possibly Pepsi). Sometimes the author will use a common brand only to make the scene more natural or create a specific ambience. More commonly, such uses are instances of product placement — the insertion of "casual" (but actually paid and intentional) positive references to brands in movies, television programming, games, and books. However, this practice is so widespread in the entertainment industry that it gives authors another reason to avoid the use of real brands: any such reference would be suspected by the public of being paid advertising, and could diminish the artistic or intellectual merit of the work.
Another advantage to a fictional brand is that all its specifications can be invented. In this sense, an author can invent a model or brand of car, for which he can make up details. That way, he doesn't have to go look up specifications on a car, which would take time and effort- he could just make them up.
Yet another reason to use a fictional brand is that sometimes a product is itself a major "character" in the plot, and using a real brand would limit creativity as the author would be constrained by the actual attributes of that brand. A subset of this is comedic brands, the most famous being "Acme" for the maker of complicated gadgets that never quite work.
Finally, the use of a real brand may be excluded also when the plot is meant to develop in a time or place (e.g. in a distant future, or in a fictional universe) where the real brand would not have existed anyway.
Fictional brands
The following is an incomplete list of fictional brands, organized by product category. To add to it, please click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_fictional_brands&action=edit§ion=2).
Beverages
Alcoholic beverages
- A Cold One - Homestar Runner
- Alamo Beer - King of the Hill
- A.M. Ale - Saturday Night Live
- Bear Whiz Beer - Firesign Theatre
- Bearhugger's Whisky - Discworld (varieties include Old Selected Dragon's Blood and The MacAbre)
- Bendërbrau Cold-Fusion Steam Beer (microbrew) - Futurama
- Black Hole Beer - Home Movies
- BOA - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Brewmaster - Saturday Night Live, parody of Meisterbrau commercial
- Buddweiser Light - Saturday Night Live, parody of Budweiser Light commercial
- Butterbeer - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Buzz Beer - caffeinated beer from The Drew Carey Show
- Cap-Beer-Cino - caffeinated beer competitor to Buzz Beer from The Drew Carey Show
- Cloudmir Vodka - Arrested Development
- C.M.O.T. Dibbler's Genuine Authentic Soggy Mountain Dew - Discworld, the bottle says 'one hundred and fifty percent proof'! This is almost certantly a lie.
- Colonel Kwik-E-Mart's Kentucky Bourbon - The Simpsons
- Drunken Cowboy Whiskey - The Simpsons
- Duff Beer - The Simpsons (includes: Duff Lite, Duff Dry, Duff Dark, Duff Cold, Lady Duff, Raspberry Duff, Tartar Control Duff, and Henry K. Duff's Private Reserve)
- Elsinore Beer - Strange Brew
- Fudd Beer - The Simpsons
- Gamma Gulp Beer - from Fallout. It glows in the dark!
- Haka Beer - from a university marketing exercise. Was ficticious until market research showed that is was so popular that someone actually started brewing it.
- Klein's Beer - Futurama
- Koul-Brau beer - DC Comics
- Leopard Lager - Red Dwarf
- Löbrau Beer - Futurama
- Masterbrew - Saturday Night Live parody of Meisterbrau commercial
- Mister Beer- Saturday Night Live parody of Meisterbrau commercial
- Old Phillipino Creamy (coming in shorts & quarts) - Firesign Theatre
- Olde Fortran Malt Liquor - Futurama
- Old Vinyards - The Lord of the Rings
- Pabst Blue Robot - Futurama
- Pawtucket Patriot Ale - Family Guy
- Plummett & Rose Wines & Spirits - the company Montague Egg works for in the stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Red Tick Beer - The Simpsons
- Rettib - a backwards version of bitter-Red Dwarf
- Rocker City Beer - The Far Arena
- Roentgen Rum - from Fallout. It glows in the dark!
- Sam Adams' Head Boston Lager - Futurama
- Samuel Jackson Boston Lager - Chappelle's Show
- Schmitz Gay Beer - Saturday Night Live
- Shires Ale - The Archers
- S'more Schnapps - South Park
- Spud Beer - Saturday Night Live
- Spunk beer - Tank Girl
- St. Pauli Exclusion Principle Girl Beer - Futurama
- Tenku Beer - Kill Bill
- That Ol' Janx Spirit - Primary ingredient of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Turbot's Really Odd Real Ale - Discworld
- Willer Beer - The Kentucky Fried Movie
- Winkle's Old Peculiar Real Ale - Discworld
- Wudbeiser - Gravitation (a parody of Budweiser)
- Vagrant's Choice Fortified Scotch - The Simpsons
- Victory Gin - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Yebichu - Neon Genesis Evangelion (a combination on real beer Yebisu and Ebichu, both of which the creators were fans of)
See also: List of fictional mixed drinks
Carbonated Beverages
- 6+ - The Man Who Sold the Moon
- bebop cola - Sealab 2021, Comes in a variety of flavors: Root Bird, Gilberto Grape, Artie Shawberry, Kiwi Holliday, Peachmo, John Cola-trane, Don Wild Cherry, Vince Guavaldi, Dave Bruberry, Cab Colaway, Dexterade, Nina Lemone, Mango Reinhardt, Getzberry, Fizzy Gillespie, Marian McPineapple, Or'ngette Coleman, Mingus Dew, Plain, and Diet Plain.
- Bouncy Bubble Beverage (aka B3). Also B1, B2 and B4. - Paranoia RPG
- Brotherhood's Sparkling Pomayde - Murder Must Advertise and Montague Egg stories (both by Dorothy L. Sayers)
- Bubbleshake - (actually an addictive appetite suppressant) Doctor Who
- Buzz Cola - (also Crystal Buzz Cola) The Simpsons
- Cactus Cola - The Flintstones
- Cadre Cola - The Running Man movie
- Carbie Cola - (The most carbonated soft drink ever), Fillmore
- Cowboy Cola - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios comics)
- Dopokoke - cocaine-spiked drink in For His Son, a 1912 D. W. Griffith short
- Ebola Cola ("The hemorrhage that refreshes") - Transmetropolitan comics
- Fizzade - Doctor Who
- Fukk Cola - Syrup
- Grepis-Cola - 75th most popular soft drink in the world - Daniel Pinkwater's Borgel
- Hip Pop - The Simpsons
- Jammin' Orange Blast - Futurama
- Jooky - Sprite TV commercial
- Kreml cola - One, Two, Three
- Moka Cola - The Man Who Sold the Moon
- Mrs. Arbiter's Ginger Beer - Discworld
- Nozz-a-La - Dark Tower, an alternate version of Coca Cola.
- Nuka cola - Fallout
- Nuke cola - Deus Ex
- Patrola Cola - window cleaner with soy beans from Robert Downey Sr.'s "Putney Swope"
- Pepsi Perfect - Back to the Future Part II
- Poop Cola - Invader Zim
- Purple Flurp - Jimmy Neutron
- Rocka Cola - The Flintstones
- sHades - ("sHades - The soda from Hell") - The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
- Slug-o-Cola - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Slurm - Futurama
- Soder Cola - DC Comics, esp. Superman titles
- Soylent Cola ("The Taste Varies from Person to Person") - Futurama
- Sprunk - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Zesti Cola - DC Comics, esp. Batman titles; Soder's great rival.
Other beverages
- Aquarta Milk - Mad magazine
- Bucket's Bovine-, Ovine- and Caprine-Based Drinks - Discworld
- Cardio Punch Sports Drink - Lizzie McGuire
- Chocolate Chip Juice - Sealab 2021
- Crab Juice - The Simpsons
- Curly Mountain Straight - Klatchian coffee, Discworld
- Dr. Breen's Private Reserve - Bottled water, Halflife 2
- Drink - a drink (all foods and beverages in the film are similarly branded.) - Repo Man
- Ersatz Brothers Coffee ("look for the can in the plain brown can") - The Firesign Theatre
- Extreme Walrus Juice - Futurama
- Garden Blast - organic vegetable juice - The Simpsons
- Malk ("Now with more Vitamin R!") - The Simpsons
- Mococoa - All-natural chocolate drink, made from beans grown on the upper slopes of Mt. Nicaragua (The Truman Show)
- Morgan Springs - bottled water brand - Seinfeld 6th season episode "The Gymnast"
- Moland Springs - bottled water brand created by the merger of Morgan Springs and Poland Creek - Seinfeld 6th season episode "The Gymnast"
- Lord Green tea (a play on Earl Grey tea) - Discworld
- Poland Creek - bottled water brand - Seinfeld 6th season episode "The Gymnast"
- Red Desert Special - Klatchian coffee, Discworld
- Salty Lemonade - Invader Zim
- Shiz! - Futurama
- Squishy - Slurpee-type drink, The Simpsons
- Swill - Mineral water, Saturday Night Live
- Twentyman Teas - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Food and grocery products
- Aloafa Bread - Mad magazine
- Apounda Butter - Mad magazine
- Apple Gunkies - fictional sponsor of advertisements on MIT student radio station
- Arnie's Whole Beef Halves - Firesign Theatre
- Admirable Bird's Deep Fried Chicken Fingers - Firesign Theatre
- Bachelor Bar - Futurama
- Bachelor Chow - Futurama
- Bean Bay Beans - "They're the beaniest!" Futurama (TV series)
- Beef Log - The Brak Show
- Beer-battered Ticks - Firesign Theatre
- Belly-Up Mackerel - Grand Theft Auto III
- Big Kahuna - Fast food franchise in several Quentin Tarantino movies.
- Billy Jack Dog Food - Firesign Theatre
- Blackbury Pickles - Johnny and the Bomb
- Bucket's Dairy Products - Discworld
- Bunbury's Wholemeal Flour - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Captain Eightpanther's Travellers Digestives - Discworld
- CHAM (a takeoff on SPAM) - Hey Arnold!
- Chef Lonely Hearts Soup For One - The Simpsons
- CHOW™ - Good Omens
- Cheesy Poofs - South Park
- Clammer's Beefymite Spread - Discworld
- Enchiladitos - snack chips, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Fluffy Puff Marshmallows - Whoever eats a million, wins! Homestar Runner
- French-Fried Fleas - The Firesign Theatre
- Glagnar's Human Rinds - "It's a buncha muncha cruncha human!" Futurama
- Glenbogle Preserves - Monarch of the Glen
- Gobble Wieners - turkey hot dogs, Futurama
- Groat Cakes (Heavy on the 30-weight Mom!) - Firesign Theatre
- Groat Clusters - Firesign Theatre
- Guts in a Cup! (Yum!) - Firesign Theatre
- Ironcrust's Dwarf Bread - "T'bread wi' t'edge", Discworld [*Not strictly intended as food]
- Kaiser Chicken, ubiquitously advertised free-range chicken meat - The Truman Show
- Kibbles 'n' Snouts - (pet food) Futurama
- Louie's Wipe Out Pumice Hamburgers - Firesign Theatre
- Macswiney's - fast food franchise in A Stainless Steel Rat is Born, featuring porcuswine burgers (see below)
- Ma Raney's Old Fashioned Wholesome Moleskin Cookies - Firesign Theatre
- MEALS™ - Good Omens
- Merkle and Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce - Discworld
- Motron's Salt - Futurama
- Mouse-on-a-Stick (Wow!) - Firesign Theatre
- Mrs Edith Leakall's Premium Reserve Mustard - Discworld
- Mrs. Smith's Deep Dish Sheep Dip Cherry Stone Pies - Firesign Theatre
- Munce (an all-purpose processed vegetable product) - Judge Dredd
- Nick's Swell Pizza, with no Anchovies! - Firesign Theatre
- Old Folks at Home Cottage Cheese - "If other brands don't contain rat droppings, why don't they come out and say so?" - Prairie Home Companion
- Perp - The Muller-Fokker Effect
- Pizza in a Cup - The Jerk
- Porcuswine - genetically-engineered cross between a pig and a porcupine found in A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
- Powdered Toast - Ren and Stimpy
- Powdermilk Biscuits - Prairie Home Companion
- Rat-in-a-Box - Firesign Theatre
- Krusty Rib-Wich - made from a (now-extinct) species of insects, The Simpsons
- Scooby Snacks - Scooby Doo
- Sleepy Joes (red beans and reds) at House of Bad Brains - Firesign Theatre
- SMEAT, a takeoff on SPAM - Waterworld
- Son-of-a-Gun Stew - "Cowboy" Andy von de Oniyate's canned stew, Cowboy Bebop
- Soylent Chow - Futurama
- Soylent Green - from the film of the same name and the novel that inspired it
- Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow - see Soylent Green
- Steakfish fillet - Menu item when Moe's Place on the Simpsons briefly became Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag, a family style restaurant; revealed to be marketing term for 'bottom feeding suction eel'
- Swell Cheese - Firesign Theatre
- Teriyaki Donut - Japanese fast food/doughnut franchise in several Quentin Tarantino films
- That's Not Yogurt! - Saturday Night Live
- Third & Third & Third - parody of Half and half, Futurama
- Uncle Siggy's Peruvian Cocoa Powder - Firesign Theatre
- Wienie Tots - Married... With Children
Breakfast Cereals
- Admiral Crunch - Futurama
- Ano-Weet - Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Archduke Chocula - Futurama
- Brekkie Flakes - UK TV commercial for Lombard Direct (loans company)
- Bunbury's Breakfast Bran - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Canine Crunchies - 101 Dalmatians
- Captain Sucrose - FoxTrot
- Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs - Calvin and Hobbes
- Chunky Puffs - Ed, Edd, and Eddy
- Colon Blow (also Super Colon Blow) - Saturday Night Live
- Cowboy Crunchies - Toy Story 2
- Dino Puffs - Mama's Family
- Drama Flakes - The Tick
- Ethereal cereals - Robert Downey Sr.'s "Putny Swope"
- Froot Poots - All That
- Generic Puffs - Family Guy
- Grandma's Oatmeal Cookie Crunch - King of the Hill
- Jackie O's - The Simpsons
- Kap'n Alphabet - Muppets From Space
- Kavity Krunch - CatDog
- Kelpo - SpongeBob SquarePants
- Krispies - Red Dwarf
- Krusty O's cereal - The Simpsons
- Little Chocolate Donuts - Saturday Night Live
- Loosener's Castor Oil Flakes - Firesign Theatre
- Lucky Captain Rabbit King Nuggets - Powerpuff Girls
- Lucky Chodes - Ren and Stimpy
- Meaties ("Free Kid Inside!") - The Far Side
- Meatloaf Crunch - The Amanda Show
- N'yuk-N'yuks - "The Breakfast of Stooges" from The Three Stooges In Orbit
- Peabody's Piper Parritch - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Quarry - "Better tasting 'cause it's mined" Saturday Night Live
- Raw Bits - Prairie Home Companion
- Reptar Cereal - Rugrats
- Shredded Meat - All That
- Spaceballs the Breakfast Cereal - Spaceballs
- Stabby-Ohs - (Itchy & Scratchy brand cereal) The Simpsons
- Sugar Frosted Lumps - Ren and Stimpy
- Sugar Frosted Milk - Ren and Stimpy
- Sugar Sod Pops - Ren and Stimpy
- Veggie-O's -Daddy Day Care
- Wheelies Cereal - "Stays crunchy in the face of adversity," Family Guy
Confections and candy products
- Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans - jellybeans from the Harry Potter series
- Butter Scotchy Finger Pie - The New Woody Woodpecker Show
- Chocolate Salty Balls - South Park
- Chocos - DC Comics, favourite cookie of the Martian Manhunter (replacing Oreos, which featured as such in Keith Giffen's Justice League of America)
- Crunchy Frogs - Monty Python's Flying Circus (chocolate candy with a real frog inside)
- Everlasting Gobstopper - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (The name was licensed for a real jawbreaker made by Nestlé which changes color and flavor as it is consumed)
- Higgs and Meakins - chocolate manufacturers in Discworld
- Hyperbubble - gum advertised in Chewing Magazine - Calvin and Hobbes
- Jack-O's - Will & Grace (parody of Oreos, named for the character Jack McFarland)
- Jolly Time Jelly Beans - Actually exists, but if you open a can of 'jelly beans' a joke snake explodes out of the can in your face.
- Jupiter Crunch - candy bar from Fred D'Ignazio's Chip Mitchell series
- Krusty-Glop DoNuts, popular flavours including Kranberry Krullers, Pumpkin Puffs, Sinful Cinnamons, and the single-glazed maple old-fashioned - Larry Gonick's Attack of the Smart Pies (2005)
- Mrs. Muldoon's Expectorant Lozenges - cough sweets in Discworld
- Pep bubble gum, causes levitation - Duck Tales
- Mock Choc, a chocolate substitute - Judge Dredd
- Mockolate, a chocolate substitute - Friends
- Snacky Cakes - South Park
- Styro-Pak Cookies - Futurama
- Sunshine Desserts - a whole dessert range. In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the title character works for the company that makes them.
- Stuff, a creamy whipped dessert with unusual powers - The Stuff
- Sta-Puft Marshmallows - Ghostbusters
- Swell's Goody - Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Tomboy Toffee - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Whizzo Chocolates - Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Wienrich and Boettcher- very upmarket chocolate manufacturers in Discworld
- Wonka's Nutty Crunch Surprise - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Wonka's Whipplefudgemallow Delight - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Nutritional supplements
- Buck-u-Uppo - P.G. Wodehouse's Mr Mulliner stories
- Jollop's Concentrated Lactobeef Tablets for Travellers - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Maltogene - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Nutrax nerve tonic - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Vitameatavegemin, a nutritional supplement that incidentally contains a high proportion of alcohol - I Love Lucy
Medicine and drugs
See the Fictional medicine and drugs section of Fictional chemical substance
Clothing lines/brands
- Banana Club - Kim Possible
- Base 5 - Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
- Blackbury Boots - "If it's a boot, it's a Blackbury!" Johnny and the Dead
- Bleu Jeans - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Boggi's - Discworld
- Cloven Hind Jeans - Saturday Night Live
- Derelicte - Zoolander
- Didgeridoos - Magic: The Gathering (Unglued series)
- Farley's Fashion Footwear - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Gess - from a Bruce Baum sketch on Comic Strip Live!
- Giorgio Armonster - Futurama
- Jewess Jeans - Saturday Night Live
- Lightspeed Briefs - Futurama
- Mad Mod - Clothing brand owned by former Teen Titans villain The Mad Mod in DC Comics
- Manslip Collection - A men's underwear brand in comics by Ralf König
- Missile Gap - trendy clothing store in Larry Gonick's Attack of the Smart Pies
- Mr. Boy - formal wear for young men on The Simpsons
- Papaya Republic - Dykes To Watch Out For
- Potato Republic - Spinal Tap
- Threadgold's Thoroughgrip Garterettes - Beachcomber
- Valentine lingerie - Dallas
- Veronica's Closet - Veronica's Closet
Tobacco products
Cigarettes
- Carcinoma Angels cigarettes - Transmetropolitan
- Cloud Nine marijuana cigarettes - Doctor Who novels
- Coughing Nails cigarettes - Deus Ex
- Drome Cigarettes - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (a play on "Dromedary", the kind of camel pictured on Camel cigarette packages)
- El Dorado Cigarettes - Family Guy
- Fantastic Cigarettes ("long in the leaf and short in the can") - The Firesign Theatre
- Gasperettes - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Hashmore cigarettes - The Muller-Fokker Effect
- Hendi Winzerman's Small Cigars - Hellsing anime and manga (a play on the Henri Wintermans (http://www.henriwintermans.com/) brand)
- Highmaster marijuana cigarettes - When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- Holy Smokes cigarettes - Deus Ex
- Holy Spirit Cigarettes - Kentucky Fried Movie
- Kentucky Slims Chicken-Flavored Cigarettes - Futurama
- Land-O-Smiles marijuana cigarettes - The Man in the High Castle
- Laramie cigarettes (and Laramie Jr.) - The Simpsons
- Llama Cigarettes - The Shadow
- Manitoba Cigarettes - King of the Hill
- Mazedonia Zigarettes - Syldavian brand in Hergé's Tintin album L'Affaire Tournesol (1956) [1] (http://www.zompist.com/syldavian.html).
- MoonMist Cigarettes - Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
- Morley cigarettes - The X-Files, Millennium, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, others
- Nails cigarettes - "Dogma"
- Napalm cigarettes - Pollen by Jeff Noon
- Necromancer cigarettes - Discworld
- Puffin Cigarettes - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Red Apple cigarettes - Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill
- Sleepy's Mattress Flashers - Late Night with David Letterman
- "Sun-Kissed" Cured Cannabis Cigarettes - an American product seen in France, in which UV light converts the inactive isomers converts into Δ9-THC, Carl Sagan's Contact
- Victory cigarettes - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Whifflets - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Cigarettes bearing only the sign of the dollar - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Cigars
- Cigars of the Pharaoh - Hergé's Tintin album Les cigares du pharaon (1934)
- Dutch Butts - Futurama
- Le Grand Cigar - Futurama
- Pantweed's Slim Pantellas - Discworld
- Royal Kooparillo - Futurama
- Zuban Cigars - Futurama
Other tobacco products
- Blackheart chewing tobacco - Discworld
- Jolly Sailor pipe tobacco - Discworld
- Longbottom Leaf - The Lord of the Rings
- Old Toby's pipeweeds - The Lord of the Rings
Household products
- Binford Tools - Home Improvement, Toy Story
- Blam-O - What's Happening!!
- Carl Farbman furniture - Seinfeld
- Darling's Household Appliances - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Ecce Omo - a parody of Omo detergent in Pedro Almodovar's Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown
- Galaxy Glue - The Incredible Shrinking Woman
- Fibro-Val detergent - Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Godti Makers - Mafia-made, nanotechnology-based material synthesizers (Transmetropolitan)
- Keflon cookware - Seinfeld
- Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor - Back to the Future trilogy
- Mr. Sparkle - (Japanese dishwashing detergent) - The Simpsons
- Sanfect disinfectant - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Sopo - Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Hair, hygiene, and beauty products
- Bronzoluxe Creme - Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
- Command Purpose Condoms - Strangers in Paradise
- Crelm Toothpaste - Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Dapper Dan Pomade - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Dead Cat Soap - Firesign Theatre
- Dibbler's Homeopathic Shampoo - Discworld
- FOP Pomade - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- The French Stuff - Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
- Lover Soap - Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Lung Brush - Saturday Night Live
- Mere and Stingbat's Herbal Wash (with herbs!) - Discworld
- Ocean Breeze Soap ("
For people who don't want to stinkIt will make you clean") - The Muppets Take Manhattan - Ori-dent electric toothbrushes - Seinfeld
- Robo Fresh - Futurama
- Rinse 'n' Run Scalp Tonic (with extra herbs!) - Discworld (parodies Wash & Go shampoo/conditioner)
- Sonky's Preventatives - Discworld condoms (a genericised brand, as in "a packet of sonkies")
- Spurt Toothpaste - Looker
- Super Lip (Ladies's Depilatory) Putney Swope
- Soul Glow - Coming to America
- Toothpaste - The Toothpaste Millionaire
Petroleum Products
- π-in-1 Oil - parody of 3-in-1 Oil, Futurama
- Lexoil - DC Comics
- Mom's Old-Fashioned Robot Oil (made with 10% more love than the next leading brand) - Futurama
- Noburpolene - "The only gasoline with added bicarbonate of sodium" - Three Stooges episode Sing a Song of Six Pants
- Petro Mundo - Captain Ron
- Roxxon - Marvel Comics
Stores, retailers, and fast-food outlets
Vehicles
See List of fictional vehicles
See also: List of famous fictional automobiles
Other products
- Various ACME products - Wile E. Coyote and other Looney Tunes animated cartoons
- Arachno Spores - "The fatal spore with the funny name!" - Futurama
- Akina iconographs - imp-powered "cameras" in Discworld
- Baby Smokes-A-Lot - doll, Family Guy
- Bag-O-Glass - Saturday Night Live
- Bamboo Boogie Boots - Futurama
- Bioalchemic Products - imp-powered personal organisers in Discworld
- Dirty Hoe Topsoil -- The Simpsons
- Dr. Flimflam's Miracle Cream - Futurama
- Happy Fun Ball - "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball." - Saturday Night Live
- Lexcorp, Lexoil, Lexair, Lex-Mart etc. - Various brands owned by Lex Luthor in DC Comics
- Li'l Bastard - line of mischief-making kits for young children, often used by Bart Simpson in The Simpsons
- Log, from BLAM-O - a toy sensation from Ren & Stimpy
- Loose Blood - mysterious product advertised on Firesign Theater
- Magnavolt car security system - Robocop 2 film
- Molten Boron - Futurama
- Nishi - brand of electronics, The Big Hit
- Ono-Sendai - brand of cyberdecks and other computer gear in Neuromancer
- Old Glory Insurance - covers robot attacks ("For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.") Saturday Night Live
- Oops, I Crapped My Pants! - adult diapers. Saturday Night Live
- Ortho-pure Procreation Pills - The Running Man film
- Poop (cola, chocolates, etc.) - Invader Zim
- Poopin Diggins - The Bob Show
- Screw You, Pal tires - "If you can find a better set of tires, screw you, pal!" Saturday Night Live
- Shankman's Rubbing Compound - "When something needs rubbing, think Shankman!" Futurama
- Sketch-N-Etch - doodling machine in a couch gag in The Simpsons
- Slashco knives - The Simpsons
- Strong Force Krazy Glue - Futurama
- Super Adhesive Industrial Glue - Family Guy
- Thompson's Teeth - "The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth!" Futurama
- Try-Hard 1-11 pacemaker battery - "Picks up where your heart left off." Saturday Night Live
- Ubik - From the Philip K. Dick novel of that name. "Safe when used as directed".
- Va-poo-rise - vaporizes dog poop, Envy
- Willard - personal organizer, knockoff of the Wizard brand - Seinfeld 9th season episode "The Wizard"
See also
- Archive of fictional things
- List of fictional companies
- List of fictional electronic games
- List of fictional media companies and events
- Brand
- Trademark
- Product placement
- Brand management
- Saturday Night Live commercial -- frequently featuring fictional brands, many listed with this entry
External links
- Searching for a Big Kahuna Burger (http://www.s-t.com/daily/07-96/07-12-96/c04ae104.htm)
- Topher's List of Fictional Cereals (http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-fictional.html)