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Mountain Dew Pitch Black II!

Well, it's about time. I'd known about Mountain Dew Pitch Black II, the sequel to last year's spooky soda, for over a month now. Couldn't find it anywhere until last night. I was starting to get eBay-level desperate, and yes, people are selling it on there. Though saddening as it may be to hear that Pitch Black II lost its father's Halloween spirit, it's dark and macabre enough for us to play pretend. It's also more sourful than a lollimotive.

Posted by Matt on 09/23/2005. E-mail me!

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I love Mountain Dew Pitch Black. I am sooooo glad it is back! =D

Chestnuts roasted by eyeless @ 09/23/2005 4:05 PM

I love updates during the workday. And funky soda. I wish they’d keep some of the "special editions" around. How many different new kinds of Mountain Dew have there been lately? I know it’s alot. New sodas make me miss O.K. Soda. That’s one I really liked.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 09/23/2005 4:09 PM

Wow! One of the first posts!

I’m allergic to caffeine, so I cannot drink Mountain Dew (I broke out in horrible welts when I was 13 after drinking it). My brother claimed it was "all in my head," but I think physical evidence is enough (hives are physical evidence). This stuff always looked gross anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 09/23/2005 4:10 PM

The first sip of PB2 is a flavah explosion. Disco…for your mouth.

This plateaus right around sip #6.

By sip #8 you’re talking to the bottle.

"Ok that’s it, Mr. Bottle. Stop being sour now, please. My salivary glands need to sit a few plays out."

Chestnuts roasted by Sore @ 09/23/2005 4:15 PM

Hey Matt, I just wanted to let you know that the HTML for this addition is showing up wonky on my screen. I can read the text but I have to highlight it first. I have no idea if this is occuring on anyone else’s terminal, but I figured I should drop a line.

Incidentally, thanks for adding the songs from the Garfield Halloween special. To date I have been unable to locate my own copy of it, so it’s nice to have some piece of it. Plus I called my friend Max and screamed the pirate shanty at him for a birthday present. I am all about the giving.

Chestnuts roasted by LemonWitch @ 09/23/2005 4:17 PM

I really enjoy Pitch Black II. I think I like it better than the original, but since I only had the original once (maybe twice), it’s hard to recall. One of the coolest things is that the foam on top is blue (as you can kind of see in the spiffy video.) I tend to drink it out of the can or in some sort of opaque cup, but that shot of it in the glass (with it’s purpley hues more evident than ever) made it look all the more tempting. I think I have one can left in the fridge…I think I may have to drink it now (in a glass with ice.)

By the way, great choice of music for the video. Without it, it would have just been soda (pop…whatever) being poured into a glass, but with it, it was ENTERTAINMENT.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 09/23/2005 4:21 PM

Oh man – that music with the video was the funniest thing I’ve seen all week! I don’t know why that video was so hilarious, but it was.
Anyway, when I first tried Pitch Black II, I didn’t really like it too much, but upon subsequent drinkings it’s starting to grow on me.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 09/23/2005 4:23 PM

Lori–In NJ, we call it soda. I worked in Center City (Philadelphia) at an internship this summer, and everyone said "soda." However, my best friend’s parents are from Pittsburgh, and they say "pop." Used to drive us nuts!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 09/23/2005 4:23 PM

Matt – the revised Jukebox is awesome! For more fall-y goodness, check out the band October Project. Their music just sounds like fall afternoons…

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 09/23/2005 4:35 PM

That was the best soda/pop/soda-pop video I’ve ever seen. If only there was an award category for that! I loved the musical climax timed with the ice emerging. And the background orange color tied it all in to Halloween.

Oh… and I like PBII.

Chestnuts roasted by Carri @ 09/23/2005 4:39 PM

can we all come together and call it a frosty beverage? it’s time for this soda/pop nonsense to end and for us all to live together in peace and harmony.

PS-i’m from Pittsburgh and it’s pop.

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 09/23/2005 4:43 PM

I like this year’s go-around. I would have been happy with a comeback of last years’ formula, but this truly is the giant ape juice for the rest of the millenium. So, what’s up for next year? Pitch Black 3-D? With Pop Rocks?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/23/2005 5:29 PM

I haven’t had Pitch Black OR Pitch Black II, but I think I’m going to go have to buy the 2nd one. And fyi, in Oklahoma, people call it coke even if it’s not Coke. To wit:
Person 1: Do you want a coke?
Person 2: Sure.
Person 1: What kind?
Person 4: Dr. Pepper

Chestnuts roasted by Rosella @ 09/23/2005 5:34 PM

Video was nice however it doesn’t look good for me with only 60 days left. I have no chance of trying the black stuff, but you guys enjoy.

Chestnuts roasted by Kdawg @ 09/23/2005 5:41 PM

I really love PB II. I wasn’t impressed with the original since it tasted like just regular old grape soda (Same reason I’m not impressed with Livewire). But the added sourness makes it really delicious.

I do have to disagree with you on Holiday Spice, Matt. I LOVED that. I hope it returns (or at least a sequel) but I heard it probably won’t. That’s sad

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/23/2005 5:57 PM

Not the soda vs. pop debate again. See 8/27′s blog entitled "Back from Toronto" to fill those needs.
Haven’t tried PITCH BLACK II yet but maybe it will break the rule of sequels not being better than the original. I already think your PITCH BLACK II was better than the FANTASTIC FOUR.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 09/23/2005 6:00 PM

Where I’m at in OK its just Pop. Also I never saw Fantastic 1-3.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/23/2005 6:11 PM

That was the best movie i’ve seen about soda pouring since… the last movie I saw about soda pouring…

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 09/23/2005 6:13 PM

One more props on the video. I had to jump to turn down the volume as to not wake up my wife in the next room.

I’m not a caffeine drinker myself, but I did just splurge and pick up some Milka brand chocolate drink powder (like Nesquick). Nice heavy chocolate flavor, but not sweet enough. Should work ok in baking. I guess in some things, the cheap, overly sugared crap you can find a the local markt wins.
Oh, and I’m making my own vanilla extract with vodka and vanilla beans. I was excited because it was the first time I’ve ever purchased alcohol. Woopdeedoo! Should be ready…in 6 months.

Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 09/23/2005 6:15 PM

Looks as though it might be pretty good, now only if I can find a freakin store that sells the stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Texican @ 09/23/2005 6:37 PM

i need to get a hold of this drink maybe sometime soon also i can you add the theme to the candyman to your halloweeen jukebox

Chestnuts roasted by tru adam3000 @ 09/23/2005 6:43 PM

I would go look for some of this, but people fleeing the hurricane have totally wiped out every store in the area. All I could find today was Jewish bread (that’s what it says) and reduced fat oreos.

Chestnuts roasted by The Wukong Effect @ 09/23/2005 7:13 PM

Man, Pitch Black II is all over the place in my local Walmart. I had to pull a bunch of bottles of it out to get to the Pepsi in the back of the cooler. I didn’t have any desire at all to try it, since last year’s version tasted so much like grape Dimetap to me, but if you all swear it’s different, maybe I’ll give it a second chance.

By the way, on a (un?)related note, they still make Raspberry Kool-Aid. In fact, it’s one of the new invisible flavors, and I’ve been buying it pretty regularly for the past two months.

I guess this is the place to go for hard-to-find drinks.

Chestnuts roasted by TipoDeemin @ 09/23/2005 7:27 PM

Oh, it’s definitely different — that’s not a "feeling," it’s fact.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/23/2005 7:33 PM

I swear bottled water tastes different. Stuff like Nestle or Danon (which I consider among the cheaper brands of water) and stuff like Evian (fancy, expensive, "foreign" water) tastes crappy. give me good old Dasani or Aquafina any day! I go to the movies and get the 1 Liter size Dasani before getting a soda that has an undertow.

That’s just my opinion, and I could be wrong. Of course, this saying is hardly an original thought.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 09/23/2005 8:24 PM

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