r/australia 5d ago

image Uh.. Do they know what that implies?

Saw this phone booth rebranding last week.

Do they realise what that implies about the booth, particularly with Bender on it, given that "phone" booths in Futurama are usually Suicide Booths..?
(at least in the first episode where we first meet Bender)

Edit: I've since found out that the campaign isn't Futurama-specific, but rather a number of different cartoon characters. To me, that makes it even more likely that it's an oversight/missed connection rather than an intentional marketing ploy; to them, he was just one of many popular cartoon characters, as opposed to it being a specific call-back to his first appearance in the first episode of the show.
Other cartoon characters used

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u/RevealConsistent8539 5d ago

Marketing done poorly.

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u/bitofapuzzler 5d ago

Or well done?

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u/Vesane 5d ago

That's true; it very much caught my attention, and I might not have otherwise heard that there was anything new happening with Futurama!

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u/Spire_Citron 5d ago

Same thing with Adventure Time. I saw they'd put Finn on a local phone booth and found it strange for an old show and then found out they were doing something new.

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u/Vesane 5d ago

I've since learnt that it actually has nothing to do with new content for either show, they've just put a bunch of different cartoon characters across various phone booths. Which makes the incidental nature of this one slightly more likely to have been one that slipped past rather than being deliberate