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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 34m

You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing haha

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Oh that absolutely played a huge role for sure...

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It BECAME popular thanks to VHS rentals and Disney Channel airings, but it lost a TON of money at the box office, one of Disney's biggest bombs of the decade!

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TELL THEM!!!

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So true, no one remembers the great performances unless you win...See also, Josh Allen in "13 Seconds"

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Yup!!

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True, besides "one yard short"...see, we all have horrific, heartbreaking sports memories!

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That is so true, and so perfectly described

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UGHH every single YouTube video I have been watching lately starts with that commercial, I cannot slam that "skip ad" button hard enough

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Collinsworth is beyond insufferable, my goodness...and yeah, it was a really upside down week in the NFL haha

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1h

These were made by Boston America Corp., a company that made novelty media-based food products. I believe they were only around for a year or so, 1998-1999 maybe. In addition, in 2011, Frito-Lay put Cheetos in a South Park-themed package and called them Cheesy Poofs, sold only at Wal-Mart

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1h

I covered it on Twitter YEARS ago, but I don't think it has made the jump over here yet, an oversight on my part! I'll cover it soon, thanks for the reminder

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Let's discuss! The original "Hocus Pocus" was:

1. Iconic, a true Halloween and 90's classic
2. Overrated garbage, revered through revisionist history
3. Eh, harmless fun

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 1h

There was also a special collector's edition version, that came inside a special box made to look and open like the Book of Spells from the Hocus Pocus movies

A box shaped like an old mysterious leatherbound book sits on a pink velvet backdrop

An open book-style box, revealing Hocus Pocus 2 cereal inside. On the lefthand side is a design like an old witches' book of spells, with ravens, twisted tress, and pumpkins

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Hocus Pocus 2 Berry Brew (2022-2022): Purple, yellow, and orange star-shaped, berry-flavored cereal with green sprinkles. Released to promote the sequel to the cult classic Disney Halloween film

2 cereal boxes each with an illustration of the witches from Hocus Pocus 2 sitting on a long broomstick, flying in front of a full moon and over a black bowl full of orange, yellow, and purple cereal

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Adam Schefter and I have very few things in common, I'm okay with this being one of them haha...and he's not living rent free, his spirit contributes to the HOA

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This isn't even my top 30 most upsetting Bills memories, it elicits absolutely nothing in me haha

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Yes, actually. A small consolation, but a consolation nonetheless. Also, I was reflecting on it the other day, but I sadly realized that in my entire life, the Bills and Orioles have won their respective divisions in the same season ONE TIME. That made me so incredibly sad

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Look, none of that would have happened if Doug Flutie had started the game, the Bills would have been up by 40 so it wouldn't have mattered

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Glad they made so many changes in the offseason before the 1990 season started

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No, more like in cartoons and 90's sitcoms, where the head trauma actually causes someone to see things more clearly! 😂

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That may be the single worst NFL team hashtag I have ever seen

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Sorry, I was so full of salty rage that I mistakenly wrote "caramel and peanuts" when it was actually "caramel and PECANS", which is a much more delicious combo than was called for

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There are illegal forward passes everywhere, for those with the eyes to see

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