{"id":297,"date":"2007-07-09T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/kwik-change\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T06:00:11","slug":"kwik-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/kwik-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwik Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a li’l late getting these photos up–I took them on July 4th–but I’m fortunate enough to live near one of the dozen 7-Elevens that have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts as part of a shameless but amusing publicity stunt for The Simpsons Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I liked the standup figures of Springfield denizens and the Simpsons-related products for sale–especially the donuts with bright pink frosting and cartoony-looking sprinkles–but the verisimilitude of the Simps experience at the Mountain View location (around the corner, incidentally, from the Googleplex<\/a>) was hobbled somewhat by the fact that there was such a long line of shoppers that there was a fifteen-minute wait just to get inside the place. (At least that was less time than I spent waiting to buy an iPhone<\/a> the week before.) Many of the shoppers were buying Krusty-Os by the caseload; I kinda assumed they were headed for eBay, but I don’t see<\/a> too many of them there. Surely the shoppers couldn’t be planning to eat<\/em> them…<\/p>\n

Two other notes on the whole experience:<\/p>\n

1) I checked out the newsstand shown below for PC World<\/em>, and didn’t see any copies. We may not get into Kwik-E-Marts, but at least it’s been definitively proven that PCW does in fact exist in the Simpsons universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2) One of my photos below is of a product that had nothing to do with the Simps promotion. There’s a fine line between 7-Eleven and Kwik-E-Mart even when the former hasn’t intentionally turned itself into the latter…<\/p>\n

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I’m a li’l late getting these photos up–I took them on July 4th–but I’m fortunate enough to live near one of the dozen 7-Elevens that have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts as part of a shameless but amusing publicity stunt for The Simpsons Movie. I liked the standup figures of Springfield denizens and the Simpsons-related products … Continue reading “Kwik Change”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[78,77,79,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-eleven","category-krusty","category-kwik-e-mart","category-simpsons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}