From Red Apple Cigarettes to Heisler Beer , Hollywood is full of assumed " marque " that you ’ve consider pop up in show after show , and picture after movie . mayhap you ’ve never even noticed that they ’re used across the board , as filmmaker can be reasonably sneaky about their positioning . Sometimes it ’s because they truly need a generic marque , while in other cases it ’s just become a sort of inside joke . How many of these do you recognize ?
1. RED APPLE CIGARETTES
There are plenty of directors and writers who create brand and use them across all of their movies and shows , but Red Apple Cigarettes and Big Kahuna Burger ( another Quentin Tarantino staple ) are some of the most famous .
2. MORLEY CIGARETTES
Unlike Tarantino ’s Red Apple cigs , which appear solely in his own movies , Morley Cigarettes are prop smokes used across the board . Here are a few places you ’ll find them :
3. HEISLER BEER
Heisler Beer is the barley - and - hops version of Morleys . Some notable appearances :
4. OCEANIC AIRLINES
Anyone who has ever watch an episode of Lost is surely familiar with the fictional Oceanic Airlines . But the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 are n’t the only passenger to fly the favorable sky with the trade name , which has been around since long before Jack and co. crashed on the Island . It ’s commonly specifically used to depict ominous - fatten up airlines , so the next time you spot the name at the outset of a moving picture , you ’ll know something that the soul sit next to you does n’t .
5. GANNON CAR RENTALS
talk ofLost : Gannon motorcar advert were featured in back - to - back sequence ofHeroesandLost , which led to a muckle of speculation among fans that the two shows were somehow connected . This would have been pretty unprecedented , since the shows were on two different networks . Reps for both shows refuse that the shows tied together .
6. FINDER-SPYDER
Finder - Spyder is the official selection when writer ask a generic search locomotive . Sometimes the logo search suspiciously like Google ’s , and sometimes it seem nothing like it . Here ’s where you ’ll spot it :
7. MOOBY’S
Mooby ’s , a enfranchisement that features a spit - in - face favourable cow mascot , is all over Kevin Smith ’s View Askewniverse . Fans already know this , no doubt , but for the casual looker , here ’s a reference guide :
8. ACME
Acme is plain relate withLooney Toons , but other shows and movies have peck up on the gag as well . The name originated because when the Yellow Pages were first introduced , tons of business organization commence name themselves " Acme" or " Ace" to get at the top of the listing . The Looney Toons ’s Acme and other Acme reference pry playfulness at this ( and some are referencing the Looney Toons Acme directly ) .
