Hey everyone and welcome to the Flop House mini.

As you all know, if you're listening, probably.

The Flophouse is a podcast where we talk about bad movies normally.

But in this case, we're going to do something a little different in that it's an off week.

And off weeks are when we do our flop house minis.

And for this mini, I wanted to combine something that Elliot loves with something that he hates

and watch them fight it out in his brain.

Fried chicken and Kokomo?

Close.

Marvel Comics and Fruit.

Because in the 70s and 80s hosted Uh, close. Marvel Comics and Fruit. Uh.

Because in the 70s and 80s, hostess did a series of comic book ads for their fruit pies.

And of course, these ran not just in Marvel Comics, but also in DC, Archie, Goldkeye, and Harvey Comics.

And some of the ads were for non-fruit treats like Twinkies.

But I'm going to be focusing on Marvel and fruit pies.

And the premise of these ads were usually that superheroes were foiling crime with the strategic deployment of fruit pies.

Yeah, the fruit pies would distract the villain often and they'd go, I don't want to steal these millions when I could have these delicious fruit pies.

Exactly.

That makes sense.

Take that Thanos.

Mm-hmm.

And so we're going to look to...

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