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New Article: The Ecto Cooler Bible!

New Article: Remember when I said that the last time I mentioned Ecto Cooler would actually be the last time? I lied. I think you'll forgive me for it though, as this article tells all there is to know about the drink that's captured our imagination for all these many years. You'll see everything from the original commercial to a final word on what's the true current Hi-C flavor that serves as a new Ecto Cooler, all wrapped in a big tangerine-colored article littered with pics of Slimer and his slimy drink. Oh, there's a part where I claim to have ran to the grocery store to clean out their stock of Hi-C's "Shoutin' Orange Tangergreen."

I wasn't kidding.

Posted by Matt on 08/18/2003. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 83 comments

holy
fucking
shit…

diabetes in a plastic bin…

Chestnuts roasted by donny dont @ 08/18/2003 1:23 AM

Yipee!

Chestnuts roasted by Anakin S. @ 08/18/2003 1:32 AM

Whoo! glad to see that Ecto Cooler’s Back again! that stuff was addicting to me when i was a little kid, its just a shame I lost my old ecto-1 toy car.. I used to have Gi-Joe Work with the ghostbusters on capturing staypuft and slimer, heck i even had a ghostbusters trapper and also the backpack/cross the streams gun, Forgot what it was called. anyone wanna help me out there on what the ecto backpack’ gun was called..

Chestnuts roasted by Johnny @ 08/18/2003 1:52 AM

Ecto Cooler……..

…Oh my….

Chestnuts roasted by BaronKrusha @ 08/18/2003 2:03 AM

Looks like you were finally able to solve the mystery once and for all,and you’re also able to quench your addiction to the green stuff after waiting for…well at least 10 years,right?

It’s nice to see a happy ending once in awhile.

Chestnuts roasted by Fhydra @ 08/18/2003 2:21 AM

Hmm… I don’t recall ever being able to get Ecto-Cooler at all in Canada, but the articles are still mighty interesting.

Okay… well, using Google, I finally solved the mystery of http://www.colawp.com/CCC/History/CaffeineFreePepsi/HPepsiCFt.html">whatever happened to Pepsi Free, which I’ve been wondering about since I rewatched Back to the Future on DVD. ("You want a Pepsi, son, you’re going to have to pay for it.") Oh, it just transmogrified into Caffeine-Free Pepsi. Well, I suppose that should have been rather obvious, but it was a mystery to me.

Another drink mystery… well, I know it still exists, but which areas in the United States still sell Coke II, the re-branded New Coke? I read an article about a month ago about cola sub-brands and was surprised to see that Coke II still has something like a 1% share of the market. Is it just available in Chicago-land, or can you get it elsewhere? I think I’m one of the handful of Canadians that has been missing Coke II since they stopped selling it here around 1995… I made the switch to New Coke and couldn’t even stomache Classic Coke for a while after my tastes grew accustomed to it, and I switched to Pepsi when they stopped selling it.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 08/18/2003 2:35 AM

It’s called a Proton Pack, Johnny… a proton pack.

Chestnuts roasted by Fat Kevin @ 08/18/2003 2:38 AM

Well I went to a Bodega (Ghetto for corner store) and was getting some snacks with my boy, and I asked if they had Hi-C. Low and behold in the back was one last individual Shouting Tangergreen Hi-C in the refrigerator. Well me in my fat ass glory was blinded by the site of the now infamous formerly named Ecto Cooler and forgot that the day before there had been a blackout and that in these types of stores, they don’t get rid of the rotten food and restock. They sell it off hoping no one would notice.
It tasted like shit and I was nauseous for the rest of the night. (Yes I was so entranced I finished it even though it tasted horrible.)
Now I’m scared to seek it out again. Feh, I prolly will anyway. Damn Blackout.

Chestnuts roasted by Big Will @ 08/18/2003 2:58 AM

You know what is scary about this, Matt can possibly state that he has completed some research of immense importance compared to most of us right now…

Chestnuts roasted by Geek @ 08/18/2003 3:19 AM

Most likely the finest piece of investigative journalism I have ever seen. Watergate, Schmatergate.

Chestnuts roasted by Eric Relevant @ 08/18/2003 3:20 AM

Well, here is our last investigative hope.

Granted, the Minute Maid people have been MORE than kind to us, but WE STILL ARE NOT 100% CONVINCED. Are we? Not till they admit it. ADMIT IT!

So I wrote them this email:

~~

I know your company has received MANY inquiries over the last few weeks regarding Ecto-Coolers. This is mainly due to a charismatic, humorous website ( http://www.x-entertainment.com ) by a gentlmen named Matt, who has always loved said product, and who has a surprisingly immense fanbase.

Many of his fans have written e-mails to various representatives of Minute Maid in the hopes of getting a clear answer about what happened to Ecto-Cooler.

The one question that no one has been able to answer, despite informative (and differing, which tells us it isn’t QUITE a form letter) responses is:

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

All of the replies receives by Matt’s fans have stated that Ecto-Cooler and Orange Tangergreen have similar flavor profiles. However, they do not tell us what the DIFFERENCE is.

Are Tangergreen and Ecto-Cooler the same? Literally tens of thousands of fans of both Hi-C and Ecto-Cooler are writhing because of the fact that our certainty cannot be confirmed.

Please reply, and tell us the truth, without doublespeak– IS THERE A DIFFERENCE??

~~
So one of three things will happen with this inquiry:

1) They will respond with the same ALMOST-form letter
2)The entire company will simply implode under such direct examination
3)They will tell us EVERYTHING.

Let’s all cross our fingers over one of the second two!! *crosses fingers*

Chestnuts roasted by freakachu @ 08/18/2003 3:47 AM

hey i found this old comment do you remember it.

Now, Hi-C might be a staple of kid’s lives, but they’ve really taken some risks with the flavors they shill. While Ecto-Cooler was certifiably disgusting, they could get away with it since they had Slimer on the packaging. Everybody loved Slimer – we had enough respect for the ghost to drink his drink even if it tasted like a mixture of antifreeze and bat vomit. Fruity Bubble Gum Hi-C has no such esteemed mascots to speak of. Instead, they have this guy:

Chestnuts roasted by reso @ 08/18/2003 6:09 AM

Happy Slimermas to you all!!!

Chestnuts roasted by 005 @ 08/18/2003 6:54 AM

yeah… Glad you got a box of the still died variety Matt… My source has run dry and I have only the "Won’t Stain" variety now…

Chestnuts roasted by sallizar @ 08/18/2003 9:25 AM

Just want to say Happy Slimermas!! And may you have many more Slimer encounters!

Chestnuts roasted by KoNaX @ 08/18/2003 10:00 AM

the dead rising from the grave! human sacrifice! cats and dogs living together! mass hysteria!

::skips around the room flailing armfuls of Shoutin’ Orange Tangergreen boxes, squeezing luscious juice all over self and in all directions::… ::stops before someone thinks i’m girl chosen for filming the first X-E pornography flick::

looks like i happened to pick the correct flavor my first trip to the store, so i don’t have any blah regular Orange to get rid of. none of the Hi-C at my store said anything about stains… but then this is Maine so new products take a few weeks at least.

i’m gonna STOCK UP, BABY~!

Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 08/18/2003 10:09 AM

that kicks ass that the real ecto-cooler has been found. It’s too bad I never even heard of ecto cooler before Matt wrote about it. I always ate hot lunch, and my parents NEVER went down the cookie/juice isle at the grocery store. Perhaps now is the time for me to seek out this flavor…ya know come to think of it the only hi-c I’ve ever had has been from fountain pop machines, and that’s almost always lemonade, or pink lemonade…maybe I’m even more sheltered than I thought?

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 08/18/2003 10:33 AM

Matt,
I’ve been in this Ecto craze with you from the beginning. When the first revelation hit about the Lavaburst, I nearly fainted with joy. This new discovery, and subsequent evidence, again makes me smile and long for more innocent times. When a green glob of snot could bring a smile to the faces of so many.

But WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO WITH ALL THIS F’ING LAVABURST!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Chestnuts roasted by Draven @ 08/18/2003 10:44 AM

It seems that Shoutin’ Orange Tangergreen IS in a much more limited supply than most other flavors of Hi-C. I had to go to the most ghetto grocery store in my entire area to find it (as well as Hulk pudding with the color changing powers). Everywhere else, including my local McDonalds, sells Orange Lavaburst. I almost wonder if there’s a conspiracy going on to wipe out the final traces of Ecto-Cooler. Because obviously, who the hell would want Orange Lavaburst when you could have the heir to the Slimer throne? I smell foul play.

Chestnuts roasted by BaronVonHotPants @ 08/18/2003 10:44 AM

There’s another way to verify if ecto cooler and shouting orange tangerine (or whatever you call it) are one in the same. The fact that it rings up as ecto cooler is promising, but could be due to how the products were set up in the databases of the stores. (After discontinuing ecto, the stores may have just used that empty database entry for the new flavor, neglecting to wipe out all of the fileds in the entry, leaving "ecto-cool" as the way it would show up on receipts".

Anyway, getting back to the other way to verify… What are the skew numbers on the box? Are those numbers next to the bar code the same on ecto and tangerine orange? I’m inclined to believe that same numbers = same product. The minute difference can just be chalked up to losing the licensing for slimer, and tweaking the formula for a changing demographic.

But then again, what the hell do I know?

Hey Matt, whatever happened to the rest of those photog entries? Are they buried in the log, and i missed them, or are they not "sponge-worthy"?

Chestnuts roasted by Greg of The Tree People @ 08/18/2003 10:47 AM

huzzah matthew, huzzah.

i still can’t find anymore in houston, and these few precious boxes i have that expired june24th just don’t taste too good anymore…

Chestnuts roasted by packratshow @ 08/18/2003 11:24 AM

My strongest connection to ghostbusters was that juice…and my long lost beloved jeanine figure that got sold at a garage sale…poor single egon. slimer sheds a tear for him. But at least Egons got bitchin’ ride still.

In other news…not really ghostbuster news so you’ll have to add ghost sounds and proton pack zaps here and there. I was watching local news when they mentioned that a carnival worker tried to grease the tracks of a ride when his hair got stuck in the ride and he was swept 30 feet in the air. Then he fell on a fence and died instantly as 100′s of people watched. Then the news caster said "In even MORE bizzar news" and continued on about an incident where a doctor got his head got inbetween elevator doors and the elevator car went up…which…welp…decapitated him. The news just seemed unreal last night. Thats all. Merry Slimermas!

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 08/18/2003 11:25 AM

MATT!!! you must finnish the advent calander, today was the first day I looked at it, assuming that it was a candy advent calander…but to my suprise it’s a mare advent clander. YOU MUST DO IT FOR THE KIDS! or you could just tellllll us what the last 3 toys were…does mare IV get a christmas wand of her own? Will the benevolant donkey eat the lamb’s, or will the rabit salad and orange grapes that look like rabbit poop take over? Enquiring minds want to know!

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 08/18/2003 11:26 AM

(To "Chesnuts roasting on an open fire")

Lavaburst sitting on an empty shelf
Shoutin’ Orange filling our dreams
Minute Maid has given us a sign
As our eyes turn to Mr. Tangergreen

Ecto-Cooler has mysteriously dissapeared
And we’re gonna hunt it down
20-somethings, banning together
are searching every single town…

They know that SLIIIIMER’S on his way
He’s got his own fruit juice, they say
And Matt shall lead the crowd
As we all praise the Ghostbusters outloud

And so, through countless examinations
And a purchase or two
We can finally say this today…

HAPPY SLIMERMAS TO YOU!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/18/2003 11:37 AM

holy gumdrops, just when i had forgotten about the advent calendar… we better encourage Matt to start this year’s early (like NOW) so that he’ll have a better chance to finish it.

Chestnuts roasted by zann @ 08/18/2003 11:40 AM

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