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Published:
2024-11-14 19:01:38
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2024-11-14 22:14:28
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You're getting even more Talking Simpsons than usual this week: We're the guests on the newest Doughboys podcast!

Nick and Mitch invited us on to review The Krusty Burger, as well as all the other Simpsons food served at Universal Studios Hollywood. What did we think about The Ribwich, Flaming Moe's, Luigi's pizza, and more? You have to listen to find out—or you can watch the YouTube version!

To commemorate the event, Nina Matsumoto drew brand new art of the crossover. Can you spot all the specifics in our meal at Itchy & Scratchy Land's Tavern on the Scream?

Comments

Aaron11001

I just finished this episode this morning. That was very cool.

Ryan O'Reilly

So I can answer your inquiry about why the Flaming Moe is an orange drink as a former Universal employee: In summer of 2010, Universal opened the Wizarding World of Harry Potter which included the signature drink Butterbeer. It was such a smash hit that they recouped the cost on Butterbeer sales alone. The next year, Universal announced that Potter would come to their Hollywood park at a later date, but internally they knew that it would take about four to five years due to the project requiring the top half of the park to be completely dismantled and revised. There was also the issue that they could not sell Butterbeer outside of the land per the contract with Warner Bros and JK Rowling. Universal immediately sought to introduce a counterpart drink for the Hollywood park that could be just as popular. Their next big attraction was Transformers The Ride in May 2012, and so they chose to base a drink around that property. Knowing Butterbeer was eventually coming, they opted to swerve in a different direction with a citrus-themed drink: Energon, named after the fuel that the Autobots and Decepticons run on in the Transformers franchise. It was described to Transformers employees as an orange creamscicle drink over ice and was sold outside the attraction, first in a temporary stand, and then to the left of the ride at the Refueling Station permanent stand. (https://x.com/JonathanGreen85/status/1350913631144210432) The drink massively failed to sell despite its popularity with team members, and operations as well as management figured it was due to the confusion of what the drink was. The drink was replicating a fuel source, and audiences didn't know what Energon was or was supposed to be. That same year, Transformers the Ride was announced for Universal Studios Florida to be built in under a year alongside Springfield across the way. Originally the intention was to bring Energon to Florida as an alternative to Butterbeer, but USF representatives nixed the idea, but liked the drink. To recoup the R&D costs for the drink itself, it was decided to rebrand it but this time as a known beverage in another universe: The Simpsons. Universal execs badly desired a non-alcoholic item to be served at Moe's alongside Duff so the bar wasn't strictly an adults go-to location. Allegedly the writers suggested they sell Flaming Moe's, and that's where the two ideas merged. They knew that the drink did not at all resemble the one from the show, so they added the dry ice effect and hoped that would be enough to satisfy guests. In 2013, Energon was discontinued from Universal Studios Hollywood but of course came back in modified form as the Flaming Moe in 2015 with the opening of the west coast Springfield. Sorry it's such a long story, but this has been a tale that I've been privy to for awhile and answers all of those maddening questions.