Fact Fiend - The Alien From Alien Loves Pepsi

[@lunastar833]

I actually had some of the alien toys as a kid, and they all came with a mini face hugger which I then proceeded to put on all my G.I. Joes.

[@thefatratman7736]

I had the Flying Queen Alien it was ace

[@AzraelThanatos]

One of the nice things was that the space marine figures were fully compatible with the Jurassic Park figures (before JP3's line which was a drastic change).

[@macentallungan6178]

Same I asked for a new one every Christmas. There’s a picture of me in a diaper at like 2ish big cheesing cause I got a xenomorph toy

[@Th3Treasoner]

The comment about the "I've only seen it written down" is what always keeps me in check when someone pronounces something differently. I just remind myself, "They probably learned it by reading" and that's a good thing. I also thought you were going to point out that all of the franchises you mentioned (and Predator!) also had toy lines, most of which were freaking awesome.

[@hanvandijk7810]

The word "people" was a big eye opener for me.... as a dutch kid.... that was like wauw

[@noctisocculta4820]

​@@hanvandijk7810 as a native English speaker learning Dutch, I love how written Dutch is so similar to spoken Dutch. Loads of exceptions of course, but the exceptions are predominantly either accents or to ease the flow of speech. I bet English has been a nightmare! Here's a trick: English and Dutch have a similar spoken sound. Speak a similar Dutch word in an English accent, and chances are you'll make the connection. Sometimes you have to flip the vowel characters though, as you found out with English eo being pronounced like Dutch oe! Sorry if that's condescending, I'm just excited to be learning a language.

[@KyrieDoesThings]

I knew Pepsi wasn't designed for human consumption.

[@Lord-Regent-of-the-Imperium]

That's funny

[@isaacvargas3408]

No human like pepsi

[@EmergedFall]

Only if you boil it

[@jim4194]

​@@EmergedFall nah you need to try fried pepsi

[@chrissaccary524]

​@@jim4194 Pepsi kebabs

[@yeshua7238]

My favorite Alien trivia is that they are canonically responsible for killing most Wildstorm characters. When Warren Ellis took over, he used a crossover event to kill off almost every character he didn’t personally create.

[@Zamtrios245]

One of my favorite thing is when companies see a movie or show about how corporations are bad and greedy, is when they miss the point

[@loqkLoqkson]

my favourite thing about the demolition man taco bell promotion is that it got localized for other companies in other countries. I rented it once, and "taco bell" was badly dubbed over with "pizza hut", and a pizza hut logo photoshopped over the taco bell signs. the point made in the movie about how bad the society was, was doubled down on by the companies just not getting it

[@bryanellis459]

There's a great webcomic series "Alien Loves Predator" (no longer made but has over 300 episodes. It's about an Alien (Abe) and a Predator (Preston) who live together in an apartment in New York.

[@ampisbad]

I had an argument with some friends once where they tried to tell me that the Xenomorph didnt look phallic

[@Disestablishme]

My UK friends were very surprised that i watch Fact Fiend. Not sure why; the content speaks for itself

[@BoydSmurf]

Funniest thing is. If Pepsi copyrights this video for that ad they then also must be admitting that ad they've tried so hard to scrub. Exists

[@donutchan8114]

If I had a nickel for every time a pepsi were dreamed up as the ultimate peace offering, id have two nickels

[@Remon_no_Ki]

That bit between Karl and Brad when Karl asked "What does the Facehugger do?" was so awkward

[@stephenstarr9045]

27:57 I live in texas and was a waiter for years and thats absolutely a thing here. A normal interaction with customers would go like: Customer: I'll have a coke Me: alright, what kind? Customer: Dr pepper

[@blckspice5167]

Fellow texan, can confirm

[@ProgamerzJord]

Excited for this one always good when Karl’s talking about his favourite movies and the hidden secrets around them

[@azrielnicholson2459]

Oh god... I just realized halfway through this video that I have an old alien queen toy, the one where you squeeze the back of the head and the little mouth comes out, I must've beaten that thing down with captain america at least 100 times as a kid 😂

[@voidaspects9173]

Im a massive Giger fan, and i still instinctively pronounce it the way you originally did. Even fully knowing how to do it, my brain always automatically says it like that

[@Balrog4242]

He's just a little guy! Kudos for the adeptus ridiculous nod :D 40,000 pts for pronouncing Giger correctly.

[@s.k4713]

He is just a little guy.

[@s.k4713]

I love the fact fiend skeleton peaking in the corner.

[@thomasdahlberg5920]

🎶 sometimes it feels like... somebody's waaatchiing meee! 🎶

[@jhyenixon1530]

Of course, it’s the secret sex skeleton

[@s.k4713]

@@jhyenixon1530when lonely nights get bonely.

[@Koomoa]

Imagine those kids getting to play with those toys before the movie ever came out, and then letting them see the movie when it finally came out. As you know, the parents thought since there were kids toys, it was going to be a kids movie.

[@Gtoonm]

I'm not entirely sure this counts 15:06 , but in one of the Alien vs Predator movies, a father and son duo are killed after the Alien/Predator hybrid put baby aliens inside them and one of the shots is of the boy dying as the alien bursts from his chest.

[@alexchartier3936]

Wasn't there a scene in that same movie where the yautja xenomorph puts embryos in pregnant women?

[@mrcritical6751]

Yeah the directors and producers of AvP Requiem basically took the complaints from the first movie (it not being R rated) and course corrected up to 11 to the point where it was just unpleasant

[@FuzzyGhost]

They actually cut before the kid died. But yes, that kid did bite it.

[@deadman9335]

To be fair, to the indo raptor. They were marketing a stealthy murder monster that can eat around 22 adults in a couple hour period without gaining weight because it has a super high metabolism so it heals from gun shots nearly instantly, is nearly if not as smart as the average human, is capable of reaching 70 mph, can track people better than blood hounds, and can climb up buildings. Also as someone who lives in Oklahoma, we or at least anyone I know don't say coke, we say what we actually want which very rarely is coke.

[@stevennabours1320]

Also just putting this out there... Ripley is the absolute most BADASS leading lady hero to ever grace the big screen.

[@DivineFalcon]

11:56 I really couldn't stop laughing at that action feature! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

The bit with the commercial naming all the Marines with the clips of them dying is just perfect, and then hicks appeared and I got sad, they did my man hicks dirty

[@collineddo7485]

I got the winged alien queen toy when I was ten, and wanted to see the movies so badly. My dad finally bought me the trilogy (yea, I'm old, there were only three movies back then). Ever after, I've loved the Alien franchise...and Pepsi.

[@Alienvyne]

When i was a kid there was literally a soft play place/indoor play area called ramboland in my town. Id never seen the movie but it was all jungle themed and there was a bouncy castle at the top with a big cut out of rambo with his gun. I was so small some other kids bounced me so hard i flew up and smacked into it 😭 its been rebranded now but fond memories childhood memories there. Weird choice for a kids indoor play area theme though 😂

[@hipsterindietrash6105]

Another thing: the phrase "send the marines" may seem innocuous. However, during the turn of the century, especially around the earlt 20th century, "send the marines!" Became a phrase associated with the banana wars and the us sending the navy and marines to put down worker strikes in latin america and the Caribbean. You can read more about this in the book "gangster for capitalism"

[@TevadoTime]

Thank you for reminding me that this commercial exists. Please bring up more dumb 90's commercials , I love it ! 🤣

[@mrhappykillz8450]

The weird thing about the taco bell one is that the taco bell company is not independent. It's owned by yum corporation which itself was owned by Pepsi co in the nineties. Along with other fast food chains like kfc and pizza hut.

[@dinosuarman13]

I'm surprised you didn't mention that a face hugger attached itself to a child in Alien vs. predator: requim

[@Rakiarmas]

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[@IdentityCrisis1581]

I always thought the part where cartoon Rambo is hanging off of the skids on the bottom of the helicopter was pretty funny. Like hey Rambo, you do know we have empty seats inside the helicopter. You don't have to just dangle from the bottom like that. It's going to be a 2 hour flight. Are you sure you don't want to ride up here with us? No? You're good. Ok. Just saying, you don't have to just hang from the skids. We will let you ride up here with us.

[@timschantz3233]

Facehugger plushie became a cat toy- perfect.

[@BlakeTheDrake]

I remember *collecting* Alien action-figure toys as a kid. Granted, I had some very chill parents, so I got to watch the first movie even though I wasn't old enough. The 'sex-stuff' went right over my cute little head, but it *did* scare the shit out of me! As an aside, I gotta say i admire this channel's attittude - swearing, sex and violence, and if the vid gets demonetized, whatever, just trust in the Patrons. Certainly beats all the creators who are just moaning about now 'being allowed' to do this or that, and try to talk circles around 'banned' topics. Nah, KZbin isn't censoring you, antsy advertisers just refuse to give you money if you're insufficiently 'family-friendly'. If you don't care about making bank off your vids, you're free to follow your creativity!

[@AlmightyCRJ]

I'm noticing the the can of Pepsi stopping the Alien mirrors the Red Dwarf parody where Robo-Lister stops the Curry Monster by destroying a full Lager in its mouth (it's a Jaws reference).

[@UkuleleVillain]

I'd say the main inspiration for the penis head and all Giger's art general was the ancient Egyptian iconography. Especially Was-sceptre which is a symbol of divine power. You can see elongated heads throughout Egyptian culture. but yes it's also a penis which fits with the themes of the movie. It's a shame he isn't embraced by the art world just because he did commercial work.

[@fromthelostdays]

I watched the Robocop cartoon as a kid! Because I was a fan of the movie. There was no such thing as movies for adults (outside of, y'know, like actual porn) in my family growing up, we just rented whatever my parents wanted to watch and me and my brothers would watch too. Alien is actually the first movie I can remember watching as a tiny kid!

[@Deadsnake989]

This was my experience growing up in the 90's too. When I was 5 my 2 most watched movies were Bambi and Terminator 2. T2 was actually the first movie I ever watched. I wasn't quite 2 yet, and my parents went to a drive in theatre to see it. I was pretty much allowed to watch any rated R movie as a kid, unless it had gratuitous nudity or overt sexual content. If it were entirely up to my dad I wouldn't even have that restriction either.

[@python3773]

Gotta love the rest of the franchise avoiding killing kids… but the AVP 2 has a young kid and his dad impregnated in the opening scene 😂

[@shadowanderson2004]

My dads from California and my moms from Georgia. He says pop she says coke. I’ve learned to understand what they mean. For example Orange Coke means Fanta and Cherry Pop means Cherry Pepsi.

[@mcstrategist]

Sister went to college in Iowa and had similar issue. kept getting annoyed there when she would order a Dr. Pepper at restaurants and be given whatever the common house drink was.

[@kinkydao9646]

The best weird commercial I can remember was the Heinz beans when the astronaut dies due to farting.

[@DanTheMailman330]

If you were born between 1975 and 1980 you worship at the altar of: Rambo Alien Terminator Robocop Predator And if you were feeling sporty, Rocky.

[@dugonman8360]

For me as a kid, the alien movies and robocop were just as much a part of my childhood as power rangers and Rugrats. My family were kinda liberal when it came to films and, as long as there wasn't nudity, I was fine to watch it. So yeah, those alien toys were targeted directly to me

[@noctisocculta4820]

I had an Aliens toy as a kid! It was a man in an alien costume, where the head, legs, chestplate, and arms came off. All of the pieces have been lost so all I have left is the weird guy. I remember going to the shop and seeing all the Aliens toys, then picking out that guy for whatever reason.

[@braxtonhollingsworth6201]

Carl talking about just buying whatever is on sale is exactly my look at the soda war. I'm from the south and hear people call all sodas "coke". But I always say soda or soft drink

[@Penultimeat]

The assertion that they never portrayed Xenomorph violence against children is untrue. In the opening scene of Alien Vs Predator 2, a father and young son are both attacked by facehuggers on a hunting trip. Also in the Dark Horse comics, a Xenomorph outbreak fucking ends humanity on earth. Survivors have to evacuate the solar system. I think it’s called Earth War.

[@dyoxxzr66z59]

The region of the us that’s supposedly refers to all sodas to be coke is supposed to be the south. With that said, I currently live in Alabama, I used to live in Mississippi and I’ve been to several other states in the south and I have never heard any one do this, with the exception of generic cola being called coke as it is essentially off brand coke. We call sodas, “sodas” or “drinks” or by their brand name. That video clip he played is gas lighting lol.

[@mcklucker17]

I've lived in Alabama my whole life. I've heard a few people refer to any random soda as Coke. It's not as much of a thing as it used to be, but there are still a handful of people who call everything Coke.

[@noctisocculta4820]

In New Zealand, we call them soft drinks or fizzy drinks. "Soda" only refers to soda e.g., baking soda. Presumably Americans say soda because if you add soda to water it effervesces.

[@stevennabours1320]

"Aliens" was the first movie I saw in theaters... I was 3 years old. I loved it. LMAO

[@lotuswraith]

Not sure if it counts, but an alien does get a kid in Aliens vs Predator 2; a couple of face huggers escape the crashed Yajuta ship and attack a young boy and his father who were out hunting.

[@timdavidson8191]

ive heard " what kinda of coke you want? umm Dr.pepper"

[@FactFiend]

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[@zenonawful5074]

Wouldn't it be awesome if in the alien resurrection game as a hidden Easter egg, you could find a single Pepsi that for 1 encounter with the alien. Instead of deleting you, it takes the Pepsi from you, and leaves you alone for a bit.

[@MumboJ]

OMG the "Belly's Gonna Get Yer!" ad! My family still quote that advert, I have no idea why but it was creepy and ridiculous🤣

[@thebricklord1577]

Cheers for the Harrogate shoutout Lucas, sorry you don’t like our water

[@vicentematias763]

Alien doesn't show the Xenomorph kill kids. In Alien vs Predator: Requiem, however, nobody told the writers, and at least one kid gets chestbursted. Yup, with all the implications.

[@Liqtor]

H R Geiger was a fking genius. His work is amazing. I wish I could've met him.

[@comiccancoozie4535]

The new movie "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" has the most ridiculous product placement for Skittles.

[@_CoffeyArts_]

I've always called it pop or soda calling every brand coke is just being difficult

[@Marx1684]

9:42 😮I loved the films before I knew. Now I may go ring shopping.

[@guillermopena8412]

Probably the most fun shameless ad in a movie I've seen recently is the Fiji water bottle in Bullet Train. I think that was done so well. You constantly see the Fiji water bottle used throughout the movie, and you think ok, fine it's a product placement, but no, the product placement actually works with the main theme of the movie and then they show that the Fiji water bottle is actually a character in the story whose destiny led it to participate in every important event in the movie and you actually see its journey up until it finally helps on the main villain's defeat. But at the end of the day the movie basically tells the audience that Fiji water bottles can be used to drug your enemies and throw them at people's faces XD.

[@Gerwulf569]

That original Pepsi commercial made me cringe so hard I think I cracked half my teeth.

[@Negeta]

The Josie and the Pussycats movie appears to have went hard with the product placement, which is more amusing when none of it was actually paid for and it was instead a satire on companies trying to use movies to sell products to consumers. The movie is also just good. A cult classic.

[@shanegamingspacegxd4580]

it reminds me of like a snickers commercial you are not you when your hungry

[@johnathanmann1120]

The Walmart scene was not a deleted scene. I saw it in the theater opening night… As far as marketing Alien to kids, I was 12 years old when Alien came out and I got my dad to take me. He was shocked by the number of kids in the theater, some seemingly 8 year olds….

[@Dornul]

Here's a video idea for you. The whole team discusses Robocop, but Karl isn't allowed to talk.

[@RobertoTomas324]

I remember those toys. I still have some terminator ones.

[@shawnamiller191]

I bet H.R. Giger laughed his ass off

[@rumsmuggler30]

I had quite a few alien(s) toys when I was young. I also watched aliens all the time as a kid.

[@Nostripe361]

I'm American and I still don't understand why we still have a major hang up about sex. I mean the Puritans who started the whole sex is bad thing, are centuries removed from modern Americans.

[@martinbaker1609]

I know after the first movie they had an alien puzzle in a glow in the dark egg and also a board game. I still have them somewhere.

[@dante_0962]

I love how the guy at the end he doesn’t care. That’s such a based role model move he cares more about his health and possibly for the audience who admire him.

[@mcx-hu5ox]

Man I was hoping they'd talk about the banned commercials lol

[@Kitsune-Chaos]

Dasani. The only water I know that blatantly has "salt" in the ingredients.

[@davidpowers746]

You have the hair of someone who usually wears hats.

[@Chuck-PK]

28:21 This is MADNESS!

[@ghysling]

FYI the "Assembly cut" version of Alien 3 was great though.

[@spaztron5000]

Yep, in the South a lot of folks call all soft drinks Coke. There has been a shift tho with people I know. Heck, I used to call them Cokes but somewhere along the way without realizing it I started saying soda.

[@mb824]

Karl as the alien should just be Karl in a Robocop shirt with a big black rubber donger taped to the back of his head (blurred on the KZbin)

[@mouhou9795]

One piece of advertisement I thought was funny was the james bond thing with Heineken. Like he'd never drink heineken you know.

[@brianstevens6990]

I had all those toys. Loved them Aliens complete set all characters and vehicles, Robo Cop, Terminator, rambo, but my favorite were my complete collection of EXO Squad now that was a kids cartoon.

[@theotherccount4481]

7:00 enough to make HomeLander blush

[@ChillMcPenguin]

Like to point out how the Queen is practically wearing heels.

[@ZiplockBob]

The region you are talking about with the Coke, is the South East in general. Its literally because Coca-cola was the soft drink pushed on us the hardest due to the brand being headquartered in ATL.

[@IdentityCrisis1581]

Yeah they did the same thing with Toxic Avenger. Troma has never made a kid friendly movie in their entire existence. But somehow we got a cartoon and toys of toxic avenger.

[@ripleyfry2107]

I have some of those figures. Including the one of me. They each come with a comic

[@hanvandijk7810]

I feel like that commercial was aired/KZbin-ed in the Netherlands for real but with a genetic actress

[@julyol119]

Fun fact: In the German dub of Demolition Man the last surviving restaurant was not Taco Bell, but Pizza Hut. Probably because we dont have Taco Bell in Germany, but we do have Pizza Hut.

[@mr_fich_project]

This is gonna make movie night a little awkward.

[@wither5673]

god i remember that fucking pepsi commercial, ads and commercials have always annoyed me to the point of near insanity but that one actually made me like MAD mad lol.

[@chris_dowsett]

The ad KZbin showed when I click on this video was for Pepsi. I’m not joking.

[@AlyceMalyce]

In the 80's & 90's most kids would have watched some R-rated movies. I was still in my single digit age, when I saw 'Bram Stokers Dracula ' and in like 7-10, then 11-13 having watched 'Alien' several times.

[@nicolasinguanti9986]

19:38 It would have made sense if they wanted to use velociraptors to replace soldiers like they did in Fallout, where the military created deathclaws for war.

[@Gaderath2781]

Alien vs Predator there is a little kid of the forest who "kisses" a facehugger (hehhehehe) and while it does not show it, you see the kid struggle, fall over (semi-offscreen) as the Chest Burster rips its way free :)

[@daiganzen7794]

I got an Aliens “Flying Queen Alien” as birthday present when I was 7 I had no clue what Aliens was. Still thought it was cool as shit though

[@jeremynapier5995]

First ten seconds and i got good laugh, that's talent

[@jeremynapier5995]

Or good editing lol

[@takeru3159]

As for the line "Alien has always been about sexual violence against men." I don't think that was the case for the first movie at least. It has been said that in the original script all of the characters where depicted as gender neutral so they could cast anyone into any of the rolls. So Kane was not specifically going to be played by a man, and Ripley was not specifically going to be played by a woman.

[@alessandrobaggi6129]

"Roles", not "rolls" 😉

[@notthatlogan5960]

My favorite example of this is when he did a german interview explaining one of his art pieces as a representation of his experience "stuck between" two trans women

[@notthatlogan5960]

While on LSD as well

[@muselessmusician]

Someone else probably said something to this effect already, but I feel like there should be a cinemasisns esque counter in the upper left corner to keep track of how many times the word penis is said.

[@nickthompson9697]

Tipper Gore has entered the chat.

[@robertshank3729]

Those used to be my favorite toys... 😂😂😂

[@steele2015]

11:54 Are we just gonna ignore the fact that a child just said "Shit, lets try the kitchen" in a commercial about the massive space rape monster?

[@Aura-Of-Syrinx]

lol that fuckin pepsi protest commercial...