{"id":480,"date":"2008-04-18T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/18\/godzilla-vs-the-five-dollar-footlong-monster\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T07:16:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T21:16:04","slug":"godzilla-vs-the-five-dollar-footlong-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/18\/godzilla-vs-the-five-dollar-footlong-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla vs the Five Dollar Footlong Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toho Studios, Godzilla copyright owner, is apparently suing Subway because of this ad.<\/p>\n<p><center><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&amp;file=http:\/\/blip.tv\/rss\/flash\/791087&amp;showplayerpath=http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" id=\"showplayer\" height=\"380\" width=\"450\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&amp;file=http:\/\/blip.tv\/rss\/flash\/791087&amp;showplayerpath=http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mefeedia.com\/entry\/7474455\/\">Subway Five Dollar Footlong Monster<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly this makes a <em>reference<\/em> to Godzilla (giant reptile, Japanese city under attack), but this looks even less like Godzilla than GINO from the 1998 US <em>Godzilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601101&amp;sid=aBMSBgfy.ZD8\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, on the other hand, here&#8217;s an ad that didn&#8217;t cause Toho to sue:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object width=\"420\" height=\"336\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/xoy3y&#038;v3=1&#038;related=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/xoy3y&#038;v3=1&#038;related=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"336\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xoy3y_pepto-bismol-monster-movie-spoof_ads\">Pepto Bismol Monster Movie spoof<\/a><\/b><br \/><i>Uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/shrinkingman\">shrinkingman<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toho Studios, Godzilla copyright owner, is apparently suing Subway because of this ad. Subway Five Dollar Footlong Monster Undoubtedly this makes a reference to Godzilla (giant reptile, Japanese city under attack), but this looks even less like Godzilla than GINO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/18\/godzilla-vs-the-five-dollar-footlong-monster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,12,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}