Fruity Oaty Obsession: Help Me!

POSTED BY: RocketJock
UPDATED: Thursday, April 13, 2006 01:54
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ROCKETJOCK

Friday, October 7, 2005 1:30 AM

It's in my head.

I can't get rid of it.

It's driving me crazy.

I saw the BDM three times and now I've got the Fruity Oaty Bar jingle stuck in my head, and I can't shut it off!

What makes it worse is, I don't know all the lyrics; just one line, which I repeat over and over.

If I knew the whole thing, maybe I could get it out of my skull! Fellow Browncoats, please help me before my wife has to kill me!

"Hermanos! The Devil is building a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

ANGELICANGEL

Friday, October 7, 2005 1:44 AM

How did it go, I couldnt understand what they were saying.

AngelicAngel

TALLGRRL

Friday, October 7, 2005 2:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AngelicAngel:
How did it go, I couldnt understand what they were saying.

AngelicAngel

I caught these two lines:

"Fruity Oaty bars
makes a man out of a mouse.
Fruity Oaty bars
makes you bust out of your blouse."

"Take me, sir. Take me hard." -- Zoe

SAMWIBATT

Friday, October 7, 2005 5:20 AM

Alas, I can't help. I commiserate, though - that kind of thing happens to me all the time (but it hasn't happened yet with that particular song.)

Sure hope I don't catch it - that would be pretty horrific, the Fruity Oaty jingle over and over forever.

I find what usually gets songs out of my head is to listen to them on CD. Is the soundtrack out for the BDM, and if so does it have the jingle?

MONTANAGIRL

Friday, October 7, 2005 5:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
What makes it worse is, I don't know all the lyrics; just one line, which I repeat over and over.

The exact same thing is happening to me. One line, over and over. I may have to drill a hole in my head to get it out.

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"Do you accept gifts from strange men?" -Brisco
"Well, strange is no problem, but I draw the line at men I don't know." -Dixie

SAMWIBATT

Friday, October 7, 2005 5:59 AM

Maybe this will help: remember that Fruity Oaty Bars are NOT MANDATORY.

REGINAROADIE

Friday, October 7, 2005 7:41 AM

I know. When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was creepy as hell even without the subliminal message attached to it. The design of the octopus was meancing even though it was done pretty basically. And it was only the fifth time around that I realized they were singin in English and not Chinese.

I thought that commercial was scarier than the Reaver's actually.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
XANDER: (baby-talk) Who's a little fear demon?
C'mon, who's a lit-tle fear demon?
GILES: Don't taunt the fear demon.
XANDER: Why? Can he hurt me?
GILES: No, it's just… tacky.

ROCKETJOCK

Friday, October 7, 2005 1:13 PM

Oh god, I hope I don't have to wait until the DVD comes out so I can read the subtitles...

"I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight..." -- Jayne Cobb

ODDNESS2HER

Friday, October 7, 2005 7:56 PM

Have someone give you the safeword. Then you'll fall asleep and won't hear it anymore.

PHOEBE

Friday, October 7, 2005 8:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
It's in my head.

I can't get rid of it.

It's driving me crazy.

I saw the BDM three times and now I've got the Fruity Oaty Bar jingle stuck in my head, and I can't shut it off!

What makes it worse is, I don't know all the lyrics; just one line, which I repeat over and over.

If I knew the whole thing, maybe I could get it out of my skull! Fellow Browncoats, please help me before my wife has to kill me!

"Hermanos! The Devil is building a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

*dies laughing* I've been wandering around for the last two days with "fruuuity oaty bars" going around in my head too... driving ME mad

It's almost as bad as what happens when someone says "Canton"... oh SHIT. *bangs head* Get OUT! Get OUT! DAMN YOU JAYNE!

DARKJESTER

Friday, October 7, 2005 8:31 PM

Hey all, try looking in the Serenity Visual Companion book. The words are reported to be...

"Fruity Oaty Bars, Pow! Hey!
Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make a man out of a mouse,
Make you bust out your blouse,
Eat them now, Bang! Ping! Zow!
- Try Fruity, Oaty Bars."

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

PERIDIDDLE

Friday, October 7, 2005 9:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Phoebe:
*dies laughing* I've been wandering around for the last two days with "fruuuity oaty bars" going around in my head too... driving ME mad

Gaaah, I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I've been singing it all week. And it's horrible...I burst out into it mid-class. My poor Social Studies class knows that one line backwards and forwards...

"Bwaa...it's kind of a warrior...strikes fear into the hearts of..."

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, October 8, 2005 6:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by DarkJester:
Hey all, try looking in the Serenity Visual Companion book. The words are reported to be...

"Fruity Oaty Bars, Pow! Hey!
Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make a man out of a mouse,
Make you bust out your blouse,
Eat them now, Bang! Ping! Zow!
- Try Fruity, Oaty Bars."

I think it mutated a little by the time it reached the screen, but who cares? I was not alone in my suffering -- and now there is hope of a treatment! Bless you all!

"May the luck of the Seven Pillars of Gulu be with you at all times." -- Centauri

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, October 8, 2005 10:56 PM

One last report: Saw the BDM for the fourth time today, and managed to make out the lyrics as presented on screen:

Fruity Oaty Bars/make a man out of a mouse/
Fruity Oaty Bars/make you bust out of your blouse/
Eat them all the time/they will blow your mind/
Blow your little mind--

At this point the jingle dies out as River enters her fugue state.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help me. I've managed to bring the echo in my head down to managable levels.

Now if I could only drive The Ballad of Jayne out of my consciousness...

"Hermanos! The Devil is building a Robot! Andale!" -- Numero Cinco

SAMWIBATT

Sunday, October 9, 2005 3:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me. I've managed to bring the echo in my head down to managable levels.

Glad to hear it - after my 3rd BDM viewing last night, it's going to take a crowbar to get that jingle out of my head. But at least having it in there isn't as unpleasant as I'd thought it would be.

...Fruuuuiiity Oaty Bars...la la la...maybe there's something about that third viewing that does it...

HELL'S KITTEN

Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:04 PM

Mmmmm... fruity oaty bars...

无党派人士

SAMWIBATT

Sunday, October 9, 2005 5:42 PM

Hey! where'd you get that screen grab? And are there some bigger ones?

HELL'S KITTEN

Monday, October 10, 2005 5:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Hey! where'd you get that screen grab? And are there some bigger ones?

I scanned this from the sticker....

And thanks to this thread, I went to sleep last night with the Fruity Oaty Bars song in my head.

无党派人士

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, October 10, 2005 5:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Quote:
Originally posted by RocketJock:
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me. I've managed to bring the echo in my head down to managable levels.

Glad to hear it - after my 3rd BDM viewing last night, it's going to take a crowbar to get that jingle out of my head. But at least having it in there isn't as unpleasant as I'd thought it would be.

...Fruuuuiiity Oaty Bars...la la la...maybe there's something about that third viewing that does it...

Yes, yes, with the third viewing comes evangelical mode (and apparently, a Fruity Oaty Bar Jingle fugue state). Go bring the good news of Serenity to a waiting world.
Bwaa haa ha, just kidding. There was a post on the OB about what scary proselytizing zombies we all are. Now here's evidence of the brainwashing as well. We'll all probably see it enough times to quote the differences between the script and screen versions of any line.

"Sorry, dad. The independents attacked us with dinosaurs." -Simon

SAMWIBATT

Monday, October 10, 2005 6:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I scanned this from the sticker....

I feel kind of dumb about this - but I've been out of touch and need to be walked through this -

Where did you get the sticker?

liminalosity - re: proselytizing, I have actually done a fair amount. I'm very sensitive to the advocate/zealot line, though, and have worked hard to avoid becoming the latter.

Brainwashing I'll admit to. :)

...fruuuiiity oaty bars...la la la...

FIRELILY

Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
And it was only the fifth time around that I realized they were singin in English and not Chinese.

Ha! I didn't know it was English either! (I figured out the "fruity oaty bar" part only after reading on one of the boards (and then, it fit nicely into my memory of the song, but the rest was still a mystery)
I will listen intently next time I hear the song though

btw, to the person who asked about the soundtrack, the jingle is not on there.

and on the OB, someone posted a pic of the fruity oaty bar t-shirt, maybe if you find one, you will lift the burden of the [*tune being stuck in your head* (there's a word for that, not "earbug" but something similar I think)] from your brain.

_________________________________________________________
--Love is what keeps her flying when she oughta fall--

SAMWIBATT

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:48 AM

Hey, I see over here in the "Serenity DVD Details..." thread:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=13655

The DVD is supposed to include this:
"We'll Have a Fruity Oaty Good Time" - 1 minute 35sec (Rated PG)

I'm hoping this is the ad. That'd be handy for scrubbing the tune out of your head, maybe?

JCPRICE

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:00 AM

Am I the only one thinking this would make a fun ring tone ... ?

...

:)

jason

SAMWIBATT

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jcprice:
Am I the only one thinking this would make a fun ring tone ... ?

If you were, you're not anymore. I'd love it.

Heh, just what I need - having my phone play "Fruity Oaty Bars" at me.

DIETCOKE

Friday, October 14, 2005 9:15 PM

I know I had it in my head for weeks. Finally go rid of it, and now this post has me singing it all over again!

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:23 AM

The only part of the song I remember is the line "meddle with your mind" while Rivers face is on screen. I remember the animation of the ad, just not the song.

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The real-life box droppin', man-ape gone wrong thing, now without the pesky falling boxes

PHOEBE

Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:50 AM

DAMN YOU! What did you go and put it on the main page for?! *wails*

Now I'm going to go to bed with it going round... and round... and round... and round...

*rocks back and forward*

LIMINALOSITY

Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:56 PM

I think it would make a fine ring tone, and then it would go viral and affect the entire population, who would all run to the movie! Tippee! How do we get it to morph into a ring-tone [inow?/i]

Has anyone else noticed the brief appearance of the Operative in the flash of images when River is triggered by "the [Oaty Bar/i]"?

Should I quote a really bad song and try to get that stuck in your head instead of Fruity/Oaty? Gilligan's Island? The Night Chicago Died? Bad,Bad, Leroy Brown? A little Abba maybe? Mandy? What's your pleasure in pixelated karaoke?

BROWNCOATFAN1

Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:17 PM

i myself was also hipnotized by the furry fuity oat bar character

DONCOAT

Monday, October 17, 2005 12:35 AM

For some reason, the Fruity Oaty Bar jingle reminds me of one that was on TV when I was a kid:

Bum, Bum, Bumble Bee,
Bumble Bee tuna,
Yum yum Bumble Bee,
Bumble Bee tuna...

Cadence isn't quite the same, but it's just as viral.

DONCOAT

Monday, October 17, 2005 12:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ReaverInA1985Riviera:
The only part of the song I remember is the line "meddle with your mind" while Rivers face is on screen. I remember the animation of the ad, just not the song.

I tried very hard to catch the words on my last couple viewings. Here's my best take:

Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make a man out of a mouse.
Fruity Oaty Bars,
Make you bust out of your blouse.
Eat them all the time,
They will blow your mind...

Same idea, of course, and the sound is going sort of funny and distorted at that point. I think it's a little clearer when Mr. Universe replays it.

Now, can anybody explain why the words NOT MANDATORY appear on the screen behind the animated characters? Bad translation from Chinese, maybe? Sort of an "all your base" thing?

SAMWIBATT

Monday, October 17, 2005 12:50 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Now, can anybody explain why the words NOT MANDATORY appear on the screen behind the animated characters? Bad translation from Chinese, maybe? Sort of an "all your base" thing?

I figured it was some sort of hint that Alliance TV is very overtly authoritarian and they'd tell you at every step whether what they were talking about was required of all citizens or not. NOT MANDATORY suggested to me that citizens are not required by law to buy Fruity Oaty Bars, so the company that makes them clearly isn't bribing the right people.

JUSTSERENITY

Monday, October 17, 2005 1:03 AM

I've seen the movie 4 times and its not in my head. It was a funny song!

Skye

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, October 17, 2005 1:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
Now, can anybody explain why the words NOT MANDATORY appear on the screen behind the animated characters? Bad translation from Chinese, maybe? Sort of an "all your base" thing?

NOT MANDATORY suggested to me that citizens are not required by law to buy Fruity Oaty Bars, so the company that makes them clearly isn't bribing the right people.

See, and I was thinking that it was a product disclaimer -not mandatory- that you eat enough of them to induce the psychosis suggested above. I like your take. They are not a Blue Sun item. Not available at WallMart, either I hope.

SAMWIBATT

Monday, October 17, 2005 2:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by liminalosity:
See, and I was thinking that it was a product disclaimer -not mandatory- that you eat enough of them to induce the psychosis suggested above. I like your take. They are not a Blue Sun item. Not available at WallMart, either I hope.

hee hee

I did have one other interpretation - the words NOT MANDATORY appear, IIRC, for the "bust out of your blouse" bit where the woman eats a FOB and has an octopus hop out of her rapidly-expanding cleavage. Maybe the words mean something like the "Results Not Typical" micro-disclaimer you get with the ads for diet pills here in real life.

(on edit: I don't know if disclaimers like that exist in all countries here on earth-that-was. I live in the USA, which I hear is very similar to Real Life.)

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, October 17, 2005 2:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:

I did have one other interpretation - the words NOT MANDATORY appear, IIRC, for the "bust out of your blouse" bit where the woman eats a FOB and has an octopus hop out of her rapidly-expanding cleavage. Maybe the words mean something like the "Results Not Typical" micro-disclaimer you get with the ads for diet pills here in real life.

(on edit: I don't know if disclaimers like that exist in all countries here on earth-that-was. I live in the USA, which I hear is very similar to Real Life.)

Ouch, ow! Ooh! dang, gaak, snort, kha, kha, you hurt me with this laughter!

GORBASH

Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:53 AM

Gorramit. I've tried getting the image to show up four dozen times and the thing won't go. So just click the link if you see fit. FOund it from a Google Image search.

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:03 AM

"I may have to drill a hole in my head to get it out."

...
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Sorry to butt into the middle of this aging thread but... what you are "suggesting" is called "trephining," and I guarantee you it has been practiced by our cavedwelling troglodytish forebears for some... 10,000 years...

As soon as I heard the jingle for "Fruity Oaty Bars"... I knew why trephining was invented... I DEFinitely can't get it out of MY (untrephined) head

HOHOHO

I don't wanna tattoo but, maybe, I could get trephined so that "my friends won't think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat"

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:18 AM

"and on the OB, someone posted a pic of the fruity oaty bar t-shirt, maybe if you find one, you will lift the burden of the [*tune being stuck in your head* (there's a word for that, not "earbug" but something similar I think)] from your brain."

It's a German word, namely "Ohrwurm," meaning "Ear Worm," which is a word/phrase I've done Everything in My Power to insinuate into the English Language... I mean, as there's no freakkin' word in That English Language that quite manages to convey what ..."ohrwurm" manages to do...

So, if someone says, "Ohrwurm" to you, or near you, or in earshot of you... then... well... 'My work here is done" :-):-):-)

HAHAHA,

HOHOHO

Eat Fruity Oaty Bars® "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred piece of meat"

LIMINALOSITY

Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
"Ohrwurm," meaning "Ear Worm,"

Oh yes, please keep bringing back the ancient and insidious thread!
I have a special fondness for this thread, and am working on designs of a Fruity Oaty nature that will soon become reality, if I can only execute my evil plan to enliven them.

Was that Frankenstienish enough? Bwah ha haaaaaaa.

Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:45 AM

BWAH HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:48 AM

ya know...

until your note mentioned it, I had No Idea that this thread is damn near a month old... I just wasn't paying attention to the original date... damn FOB's... we... must... buy... FOB... buy...buybuy... buybye... um, bye, um, byebye

HAHHAHHAH

HOHOHO ("y'all")

FIRELILY

Saturday, October 29, 2005 2:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
damn FOB's...

hehehehe

_________________________________________________________
--Love is what keeps her flying when she oughta fall--

UNSARDONIC

Saturday, October 29, 2005 10:28 PM

Okay I've got a general question to anyone who's been as subliminally possessed by the F.O.B. jingle as I, umm... seem to have become... (I have succumbed, I'm sorry, "Violence will ensue")...

To Wit:

Has anybody seen anywhere that the jingle can be downloaded (legally - as I always wanna make sure Joss gets his fair cut for bein' a Frikkin' GEEENius)? It must be plugged into various nefariously subversive locations in my iTunes library to sneak up on unsuspecting listeners... kinda like the Spanish Inquisition, "BWAH-HAH-HAH!!!"

HOHOHO

Ladies, don't raise your babies to become "stupid, inbred stacks of meat"

LSUTIGER83

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:16 PM

Fruity Oaty Bars, make a man out of a mouse...
Fruity Oaty Bars, make you bust out of your blouse...
Eat `em all the time, let `em blow your mind...
Fruity Oaty bars,
Fruity Oaty bars.

UNSARDONIC

Thursday, December 22, 2005 5:42 AM

oh MA-AAA-ANN-NNN-NNNNnnnn...

You DID it!!

You resurrected the... umm...
Fruity...

Oaty...

ummmmmm...... (whazzisting(?)).....

- oh yeAH!! -

TREAD!!! (...kinda like dat ...t'ing onna automobile tire...)

(Thorry, I'm listening to Femi Kuti music... an' he can't pronounce "th"'s very much either)

AND... while I'm at it... the "Serenity" DVD trailer just came out tonight on Comedy Central and... CRAP!!! - I just realized that 8 (eight) theatrical viewings were Not Enuff!!! If somebody doesn't give me this DVD for XXXmas... I'm gonna give myself about 23 copies "Just ta Prove a Point"...

So... I'm wondering, Femi (or anyone over there in Mother Africa)... did "Serenity" get any traction with the people of ...any nation... of Africa??

Gawd... can you imagine someone in ...Somalia, for instance... responding to this? I've had happy exchanges with the Estonian browncoat contingent so... why couldn't this happen? I've made friends with people from Senegal & Mali - hey wait!... did you not know I'm a 54-year-old white ...dood... ...and I bet they would LOVE "Serenity"... should they get a chance to see it, 'course...

HOHOHO,

If you're not a total Firefly-luvin', Serenity-butt-kissin' brownCOAT... "your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat"...

RIVERGODDESS

Friday, December 23, 2005 4:53 AM

Haha, my dad and I have been singing the FOB song all day today and yesterday. I'm going crazy. That octopus is going to give me nightmares I swear.

fruity oaty bars....[/]
SUBLIMINALMESSAGEOCTOPUSSUBLIMNALMESSAGE
make a man out of a mouse...[/]

Oh, GOD!

And for ressurrecting this thread, and this gorram song, thanks. Thanks a lot.

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

UNSARDONIC

Friday, December 23, 2005 7:09 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHA-HAHA-HAAAAAAAA... !!!

Me too - I go to Da Job and... "Froo-ty Oat-ty Bars..." ...occur... ...just about the worst 'earworm' this side of Disney's "It's a Small World After All." Oopp!!! - are you singing that now? ...not my fault... except for the part wherein I named it... and, even if I DID do it, well - they didn't see me...

HOHOHO

Let Fruity Oaty Bars turn you into a man ..."or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat.
:-):-):-)

FKGRAVITY

Friday, December 23, 2005 9:00 PM

Hahaha, funny thread
Those 3 girls are so damn cute, kind of like power puff girls. The song is more like Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons.

KAREL

Friday, December 23, 2005 9:25 PM

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, here are some Fruity Oaty Bar recipes. I might have actually heard about these on the fff.net site originally--

http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/season1/signal_016.html

Doomed, DOOMED I tell ya!

JAEDE77

Friday, December 23, 2005 9:30 PM

I made some Fruity Oaty Bars for Christmas! They turned out pretty well!

I'll let you all know what others think!
(or if anyone busts out of their blouse...)

-JWV

“Can I suggest something that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd?”
–Wash

KAREL

Friday, December 23, 2005 9:35 PM

I'll have to make some and then find a mouse. On second thought, that would be a very, very bad idea. Nevermind.

RIVER6213

Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:27 AM

THINK! You are having a topic about the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that was shown for less than 2 seconds in the movie.....get a grip people.

SLOWHAND

Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:36 AM

Put the DVD in. Make sure "play movie" is highlighted. Press left on your remote. Enjoy.

CARTOON

Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
THINK! You are having a topic about the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that was shown for less than 2 seconds in the movie.....get a grip people.

THINK! We are having a forum discussion about a TV series that was shown for less than 14 episodes.

Okay. So, what should we be gripping?

Got the DVD on Wednesday, and watched it three times. Must've lost my grip.

BTW, I love the show (and movie), and this is my first post here. Only good thing about my not having discovered this show sooner, was that I would've been disappointed to see it end so prematurely, contemporaneous to the event. As a late-comer, I got to read about it's demise (a few years after the fact, granted), before I got hooked.

RIVERGODDESS

Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:14 AM

Welcome to the foray, Cartoon! I'm a fairly new newcomer also(saw Serenity late October...moonbrained fan ever since)
You'll love it here. One big shiny family. I'm really impressed with this fanbase, too. How often does a cancelled tv show get made into a movie that is now a best-seller, with it's tv series that came out 3 years ago selling just as well? Boggles the mind!(in a good way!)
*starts singing Fruity Oaty Bar again*

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

JAYSONAYCH

Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:58 AM

Quote:
Put the DVD in. Make sure "play movie" is highlighted. Press left on your remote. Enjoy.

Or if you're a cheater like I am, you can use a DVD player on your computer to mouse over to the triangular-shape of the dial graphic on the right hand side of the main menu...

Neat little easter egg...has anyone found any more? I couldn't find any others...

CARTOON

Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverGoddess:
Welcome to the foray, Cartoon! I'm a fairly new newcomer also(saw Serenity late October...moonbrained fan ever since)
You'll love it here. One big shiny family.

Thanks. I've been reading the posts for a few weeks before deciding to jump in, myself.

I sort of recall hearing about "Firefly" before it originally aired, but I never watched it -- probably because I heard a reference to the Companion character (and not being as "progressive" as many today), I opted not to watch.

My next brush with the Firefly universe was in seeing the trailer in August, while taking my nephew & niece to see some other film. I was so intrigued by the trailer, that I ran to see "Serenity" on the first day, Since then, I was hooked.

And thanks to the Sci-Fi channel, I'm getting to see the series.

While the show's not perfect, it's one of the best written (and acted) shows I've ever seen. The actors have done wonders with their characters, and it's a shame the series didn't last longer (or hasn't been subsequently renewed).

JEALOUSGHOST

Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:30 AM

Fruity, oaty presents taken from the movie! Plus a new gif!

JEALOUSGHOST

Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:10 AM

And hey, for the song, check this out. It's on "Can't Stop the Signal"'s site on myspace: http://www.theidlekind.com/FruityOatyBar.swf

UNSARDONIC

Monday, December 26, 2005 2:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
THINK! You are having a topic about the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial that was shown for less than 2 seconds in the movie.....get a grip people.

No.

Refuse to grip anything "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat."

UNSARDONIC

Monday, December 26, 2005 3:02 AM

Quote:
...really impressed with this fanbase, too...

Check out the documentaries on the "Serenity" DVD, wherein Joss & the cast show up at last years Comicon in San Diego; I think the one I'm thinking of is called something like, "How Do You Paint a Firefly?"
In case you haven't heard the story, the convention booked the "Serenity" folks into the biggest space they had available. Five THOUSAND people showed up just for them (man, I was proud of the Browncoats that day) - stayed for the next presentation ('cause it was the Wachowski Brother' "V for Vendetta" and Natalie Portman & Joel Silver were both part of it, so... I mean.. c'MON... who wouldn't've stayed, eh?) and then, when the " for Vendetta" crowd left... the crowd all took off for all the subsequent presentations.

Anyway, one of the documentaries records that day and it's mighty impressive: Joss getting on stage to a THUNderous standing ovation, getting flustered & spinning around like he can't believe what's happening to him

Anyway... as you said,

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...really impressed with this fanbase, too...

Keep amplifying ...'The Signal'... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

UNSARDONIC

Monday, December 26, 2005 3:08 AM

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Neat little easter egg...has anyone found any more

Should I presume i have to use the disc in my computer to find the easter eggs? ...problem being, my old mac doesn't have a dvd player.

Sure would like to know about all the easter eggs, though.

mumblemumblemumble ..."or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat.

UNSARDONIC

Monday, December 26, 2005 3:13 AM

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Fruity, oaty presents taken from the movie! Plus a new gif!

WHOA! ...just like Christmas around here. Thanks jealous...

Dance... DANCE(!) i say, ya lily-livered, pasty-faced, buncha... DOODS... "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

UNSARDONIC

Monday, December 26, 2005 3:18 AM

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And hey, for the song, check this out.

Say, wraith-of-jealousness... forgive my ig'nance but... what's a '.swf' file? It won't do a thing on my 5-year old G-3 Yosemite with OS 10.0. I mean, sounds promising, premise-wise, but... no FOB's

I'm sure you all mean well "or your friends will think you're stupid, inbred stacks of meat."

KOZURE

Friday, December 30, 2005 1:52 PM

A question for those who have found and viewed the easter egg:

Select to view spoiler:

The full ad features a Chinese man who is described by Joss as "the extraordinarily shamed gentleman who has not gotten the Fruity Oaty Bars and shamed his family".

Can anyone who speaks Chinese (presumably Mandarin chinese)translate what he says? I'm guessing it's something abot shaming his family by not buying Fruity Oaty Bars, but you never know.

Kozure the Kamikaze Highlander

"Put Book front and centre; he's our friend, we should honour him. Kaylee, find that kid who's taking a dirtnap with baby Jesus, we need a hood ornament. Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their $#@&."

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Friday, December 30, 2005 5:02 PM

I SO want a t-shirt with that pink octopus on it.

~~~~~
"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

URSULA

Friday, December 30, 2005 5:57 PM

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Okay. So, what should we be gripping?

Can I grip Jayne's muscular buttocks?

NEEDLESEYE

Friday, December 30, 2005 9:07 PM

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Originally posted by jealousghost:
And hey, for the song, check this out. It's on "Can't Stop the Signal"'s site on myspace: http://www.theidlekind.com/FruityOatyBar.swf

aaaagh! I can't. turn. it. off!

*desperately tries to click mouse to close link... fails!*

brings new meaning to "cant stop the signal"

OK, how much money could be made if Fruity Oaty Bars were actually manufactured and available in stores and advertised with this commercial? It would be a lot of cash dont you think?

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

IVY

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:32 AM

Hey - I've been a lurker for some time now...but the Fruity Oaty Bar thread was too good to pass up. I have just watched the easter egg about 10 times and made my husband listen to the song on my computer (thanks for the link) another 20 times. Can't wait to torture (er...entertain) everyone at work tomorrow!!

One question....what does the Chinese guy say before he says "fruity oaty bars"? Is it English? Can't make it out.....must know!!!

Love the site....love the show.... love the movie (although it did take me a while to get over it and watch it again...and again...and again). Wish I had been involved from the start...you all put up a hell of a fight!

Thanks everyone.

Ivy

ELEKA

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:26 AM

It's still in there...not leaving. not whole. broken. always broken.

Damn you Fruity Oaty bars...i can't think without that song being there and now all my granola bars look like Fruity Oaty bars to me. They're wuite tasty though...all fruity and oaty.

Just now turning mice to men and making my blouse bust...yet.

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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

UNSARDONIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Eleka:
now all my granola bars look like Fruity Oaty bars to me. They're wuite tasty though...all fruity and oaty.

Just now turning mice to men and making my blouse bust...yet.

I was in a "99-Cents Only" store this weekend, looking for a 99-cent hip-flask for... YOU know... my "rheumatis' medicine:.. and, what should I find... some damn brand of cereal called "Fruity Oaty Cereal." ...Bet it's from China...

All you with blice need ta bust 'em or "your friends will think you're stupid, inbred slabs of meat."

ELEKA

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:30 AM

Just realized I really can't spell...it's the Fruity Oaty Bars, they're getting ot me.

oooo! I have to go and get some Fruity Oaty Cereal, bet it's all subliminal and tasty!

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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

UNSARDONIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
I SO want a t-shirt with that pink octopus on it.

This page should take care of that:

http://www.cafepress.com/fireflycargobay/1020465

Working to help all blouse-wearers bust out of 'em "or my friends will think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

GUENEVER

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:36 AM

Start singing the Mc Donalds Big Mac song instead. Sesame seed bun, ...

It's longer at least.

UNSARDONIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kozure:
Can anyone who speaks Chinese (presumably Mandarin chinese)translate what he says? I'm guessing it's something abot shaming his family by not buying Fruity Oaty Bars, but you never know.

dunno if the phrase-in-question is in here but... if it's anywhere, I'll bet this'd be the place. And if it's not, I'll bet Ying will take a suggestion to translate it for you

...just trying to be helpful "so all y'all don't think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat"

UNSARDONIC

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
if it's anywhere, I'll bet this'd be the place. And if it's not, I'll bet Ying will take a suggestion to translate it for you

dang... inCLUDE the freakin' link next time, why dontcha:

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

"Now all y'all DO think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat"

ROCKETJOCK

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Guenever:
Start singing the Mc Donalds Big Mac song instead. Sesame seed bun, ...

It's longer at least.

How about in Latin:

"Duo tomacula bubula, condimentium peculiare, lactus, casseus, muirae, oniones, in pane sesatimata."

Spelling is phonetic, I fear; taught to me by a very bored Roman Catholic chaplin deep in the western Pacific..

"She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true." -- Zoë Washburn

ANUSIEN

Saturday, January 7, 2006 10:37 PM

[url]
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/FOB/
[/url]
The Fruity Oaty Bar Commercial in avi and mp3 formats. Enjoy!

Fruity Oaty Bars
Make a man out of a mouse
Fruity Oaty Bars
Make you bust out of your blouse
Eat 'em all the time
Let 'em blow your mind

Fruity Oaty Bars
Fruity Oaty Bars

UNSARDONIC

Sunday, January 8, 2006 12:20 AM

I Have not laughed SO HARD since... since... (I dunno) - the LAST time I ...laughed so hard.

Thanks to whomever posted this as it actually worked very well on my antique Mac & iTunes v.1 (!). Very little will work on that antique stuff, y'see, & previous postings were simply unusable.

See how many adolescent, girlie-weapons you can unleash into a murderous, killing rampage with the FOB commercial at your next party "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

SAMWIBATT

Sunday, January 8, 2006 11:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by liminalosity:
They are not a Blue Sun item. Not available at WallMart, either I hope.

Here I thought that too - but then at the start of the ad the first thing that happens is a blue sun rises over the hills. I'm guessing that means they *are* a Blue Sun product?

Blue Sun: There's No Escape. Makes me think of the whole "We're Beatrice" thing some years ago.

Many thanks to Anusien for uploading the rip.

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, January 9, 2006 3:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
at the start of the ad the first thing that happens is a blue sun rises over the hills.
Blue Sun: There's No Escape. Makes me think of the whole "We're Beatrice" thing some years ago.

Obsessing about a single instant in the obsession. Why hasn't this bloody commercial been in one of those conspiracy theory threads, I ask you....maybe we've all been programmed with an obsessive fan subliminal Joss had Zoic sneak in there.
No, this must be what going insane feels like.

Gaak, it's stuck in my head again. I watched it on slow mo' a few times before answering, and Sam I don't see a blue sun. There's a sort of wine colored expanding circle near the beginning, when the background photo shifts from the cartoon fruit trees to something that looks (to me) like palm trees in a hurricane, then the background switches to power station stacks, then to something that looks like a version of the optometrist's photo of your retina
http://www.stlukeseye.com/anatomy/Retina.asp
then River goes off into nightmare space where the reavers are...but I never saw a BlueSun.
BlueSun is like Beatrice Foods, isn't it. I remember reading about them. They had a 'go to sleep and trust us' vibe to their commercials then. Mwah haa ha. It was spooky how much they owned, and that concept of the mega-nested-corp hasn't exactly gone away. Ok, Ok, no more conspiracy theories, I promise.

Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!

SAMWIBATT

Monday, January 9, 2006 4:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by liminalosity:
Sam I don't see a blue sun. (...)

It doesn't show up in the movie, but if you watch the easter-egg "making of" and the whole commercial it's there. Here's a grab:

LIMINALOSITY

Monday, January 9, 2006 6:27 AM

Hot spit. That's a blue sun alright.

DIDDYWOLF

Monday, January 16, 2006 3:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jcprice:
Am I the only one thinking this would make a fun ring tone ... ?

...

:)

jason

I did it! It's on my phone now. And I got woken up to it in the middle of the night too, made me have a really trippy dream for the 3 seconds before I woke up!

--DiddyWolf

GRIZWALD

Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Unsardonic:
Quote:
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
I SO want a t-shirt with that pink octopus on it.

This page should take care of that:

http://www.cafepress.com/fireflycargobay/1020465

Working to help all blouse-wearers bust out of 'em "or my friends will think I'm a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

Yeah... I was wondering about that, and what kind of copyrights/trademarks apply there. CafePress is not all that particular about who posts what there. Anybody know if this person is legit in doing this?

And yes, this is my first post here.

RHYIANAN

Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by firelily:
Quote:
Originally posted by reginaroadie:
And it was only the fifth time around that I realized they were singin in English and not Chinese.

Ha! I didn't know it was English either! (I figured out the "fruity oaty bar" part only after reading on one of the boards

They were singing in English?????? Wow, how'd I miss that...

Wash: Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction.
Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.

ASHBURNBROWNCOAT

Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:03 PM

I posted the whole commercial on Google Video.

She was in Congress?
-Jayne

RODWY

Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:18 PM

Fruity Oaty Bars
Make A man Out Of A Mouse
Fruity Oaty Bars
Make You Burst Out Of Your Blouse
Eat Them All The Time
Let Them Blow Your Mind, Pow
(man speaking in Chinese)
Fruity Oaty Bars
Fruity Oaty Bars
(giggling)

No not again I just got it out of my head, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

---
Mal: Define Interesting
Wash: Oh god, Oh god, We're all gonna die?

MISTERNISHKA

Friday, January 27, 2006 12:17 AM

I must confess, I too am subject to singing that tune all day long.

Does anyone have an html code for me to post it on my firefly pimped out myspace?

--------------------------------------------------
"Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne!"

OCCAMSSPORK

Friday, January 27, 2006 2:56 PM

*sigh* And I had just gotten this song out of my head too...

I give up. It's getting set as a ringtone now, so at least it won't be only in my head.

ANUSIEN

Monday, January 30, 2006 7:43 PM

try http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/FOB/Commercial.mp3>

SPAINT2K

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:20 PM

The Chinese guy in the ad says the following:
"Wo hen jiaonian??? - wo meiyou chi Fruity Oaty Bar!"

Which means "I am/feel so ???, I haven't eaten Fruity Oaty Bars"

I don't know what the third word is or is supposed to be (I thought at first it might be "diu lian" = "lose face/feel shamed"), and neither does my Chinese wife. If anyone else can figure it out I'd be interested in knowing.

Steve
PS. My wife can't get the song out of her head now either. The problem wasn't helped by me looping the DVD and playing the jingle ten times in a row.

SAMEERTIA

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:58 PM

At a party this weekend, this girl walks by - she's wearing an underbust corset with a blouse. The blouse was unbuttoned - not just cleavage but most of her breasts bursting out.

I can't help it. The first words out of my mouth were, "She needs to lay off the Fruity Oaty Bars."

The guy I was talking to spurted his soda. I think I impressed him.

ASARIAN

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 12:25 AM

Can't help you there, dude. Im fact, I had half a mind to congratulate you on this your rite of passage to the 'verse. :)

Hearing you say this, tough, I'm beginning to wonder whether the subliminal message they stuck in for River was the only one.

"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam.

FLORALBUNNY

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 4:21 AM

Yeppers! It's "shamed" -- there's an Easter Egg on the Serenity DVD about how the FOB commercial was made, and the Japanese is described and the gentleman himself shown taking direction during filming.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --

ASARIAN

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 12:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamWibatt:
Hey! where'd you get that screen grab? And are there some bigger ones?

Now, lets see if this board takes HTML:

P.S. Board apparently does *not* take HTML.

BTW, I thought everyone would have the Serenity DVD ISO permanently mounted for occassions like, well, this. :)

"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam.

CKURUMADA

Monday, March 27, 2006 9:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by spaint2k:
The Chinese guy in the ad says the following:
"Wo hen jiaonian??? - wo meiyou chi Fruity Oaty Bar!"

Which means "I am/feel so ???, I haven't eaten Fruity Oaty Bars"

I don't know what the third word is or is supposed to be (I thought at first it might be "diu lian" = "lose face/feel shamed"), and neither does my Chinese wife. If anyone else can figure it out I'd be interested in knowing.

Steve
PS. My wife can't get the song out of her head now either. The problem wasn't helped by me looping the DVD and playing the jingle ten times in a row.

My Chinese informant also says "jiao nian" doesn't make any sense. I believe it is should be "diu lian" (to lose face), as well.

BUT what gets me is the Japanese katakana on the Fruity Oaty Bar itself. It says "MA RA SE TA" which my Japanese informant says is also jibberish. At the top it says, "KO HA WA MA RA SE TA SU KA TE SA". More jibberish. I think they dropped to ball on this. They could've just as easily written "FU RU CHI O CHI"

Craig in Arcata

BIGAPE

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:36 PM

Hi folks, I am not a Serenity fan, I am just warning about a serious infraction, a break in the traditional (and critical) separation between scifi fan geekdom and the rest of civilization.

Google landed me on this site because a radio station (89.7 FM) in San Jose today, I think its a college station, was playing some stupid jingle over and over and over for at least the last hour... and for some reason on my ride into work I could not turn it off.

All I could make out was "Makes a Man out of a Mouse" and "Makes your bust out of your blouse" and then something in Japanese.

I'm putting you all on warning! Stop this silliness!

GRIZWALD

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:48 PM

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