When Dick's twin daughters Debbie and Darla walk into Michelle's bedroom, they ask her if she has a TV, VCR, or a laserdisc player. In "Trouble in Twin Town", Becky's rich cousin Dick and his family come to visit the Tanner family.In WarGames, when Jim gets upset at Malvin (for saying back-door entries into a program are secrets), he calls him "Mr.
In Great Teacher Onizuka, one of the many toys in Tomoko's apartment is a Mr.Potato Head version of Gary Lineker as their spokesman. British snack food company Walkers did stop-motion animated commercials for their Potato Heads crisps featuring a Mr.Potato Head appear in commercials for Lay's Potato Chips, where they eat the titular product, fully aware they're made from potatoes. Potato Head appeared in commercials for Burger King, where he promoted the titular restaurants' fries. The average American gobbled 30 pounds of fries last year, more than triple the amount in 1965 and up 5 pounds since 1990, the U.S. McDonald’s market share fell to 41.9% from 42.3%. The fries reportedly cost an extra 11 cents a pound to produce.īurger King’s share of overall burger-chain sales rose to 19.2% last year from 18.2% the year before. “When you introduce something new and improved, you’re admitting that your old product wasn’t as good,” he said.įranchisees of Miami-based Burger King, which is a unit of Britain’s Grand Metropolitan conglomerate, will need a sharp boost in sales to make up for the higher costs of the new fries, which amount to an extra $1,000 a month for a typical outlet, Della Monica said. Mark Hamstra, associate editor at Nation’s Restaurant News, a trade publication, said Burger King’s move could backfire. “Our fry is the gold standard in terms of taste, crispness and the quality of the potato product,” said Bridget Coffing, a McDonald’s spokeswoman said.
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