Talk:Little Mikey/Archives/2012

urban legend

does anyone mind if i remove the urban legend? I surfed here from pop rocks, and tho it's amusing, I just saw it on three consecutive pages, and it's irrelevant here. Potatoswatter 08:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

The urban legend aspect is a significant part of the Little Mikey story, so no. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

well, the ad was notable on its own, and the urban legend relates to the actor not the long-running ad per se. So I'm removing it from the lead at least. Potatoswatter 19:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Reverted. Every instance of the Urban Legend has been in reference to "Little Mikey" and the commercial (do a Google search) and NOT Gilchrist, as Gilchrist is otherwise completely unknown. The article clearly differentiates between the commercial and the urban legend, and the urban legend info is necessary to the completeness of the topic. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 20:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

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there is vandalism on here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.205.6.159 (talk) 01:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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Pop Culture

removed this from the main article - unreferenced, irrelevant. tagged for nearly an entire year (since Nov 2009) -TinGrin 04:48, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

• The pop rocks and soda urban legend was tested and "Busted" by the Mythbusters.
• Little Mikey and the related urban legend is mentioned in the movie Urban Legend.
• The commercial is briefly quoted in the film The Matrix.
• In The Simpsons episode Homer Bad Man, as Homer is fleeing a candy convention he creates a bomb out of pop rocks and soda, causing a ridiculously large explosion.
• On Stargate Atlantis Lt. Col. John Sheppard makes the reference, "Let Mikey try."
• In an episode of Animaniacs, a segment involves a little boy walking out of his house to tell the audience a story before saying "Ok, bye," and going back in. In one of the segments, he tells the urban legend, but describes the victim as being his friend Randy Beaman's little brother.
• In an episode of Robot Chicken, a kid named Mickey tries out the infamous poprocks and soda legend. In the end, the gas causes his head to be pulled off instead of his intestines exploding.
• Green Day released a song called "Poprocks and Coke" on their album "International Superhits".