Another insanely creepy-yet-supposedly sexy robot is the Svedka vodka mascot, who's wheatpasted all over major cities right now. It's not just her weirdly exaggerated T&A, with the hydraulically tiny waist — we're used to that from superhero comics — but it's also the weirdly smug, yet unexpressive — face. She has a sort of mousey, dessicated smirk that makes her seem sort of unpleasant. Like a mean robot drunk, who puts robo-roofies in your glass when you're not looking.

The actual creepiest robot in mass media right now? Is the Burger King breakfast robot, part of a longstanding trend of the fast-food giant trying to make its mascot as alienating and scary as possible. (Which I sort of respect, since McDonald's also has a creepy mascot but tries to pretend otherwise.) In any case, someone went to a lot of trouble to find a Logan's Run-looking actor to play the guy who gets woken up rudely by the robo-King. As with Ashton and his robo-crotch, the Burger-bot gets in a moment of misplaced sexy-creepiness, when the purple-haired woman says he's so good with his hands, and he does a weird hand flutter. Ewwww! And yet, now I sort of want that breakfast thing. It's even ookier than the shaving robot ad.

[Ashton Kutcher from Trendhunter]
[Burger King robot from SuperPunch]

The four episodes - part of the popular "Cursed Earth" storyline, and the only chapters of that story to have never been reprinted, under threat of legal action - were two separate two-parters, each focusing on somewhat familiar characters. In the first, Dredd got caught up in a war between McDonalds and Burger King that included riots, lynch-mobs and Ronald himself slaughtering unproductive staff, whereas the second included an Island of Dr. Moreau-style mad scientist surrounded by mutant versions of the Jolly Green Giant, Mr. Peanut and other corporate icons.

As soon as the lawyers got involved, 2000AD's publishers quickly promised never to reprint the offending strips again, and even went so far as to create a special half-page strip letting the world know that, hey, the real Jolly Green Giant? A stand up kinda guy. Luckily, the event of the internet meant that some of these lost strips can still be viewed by a highly impressionable public, eager for disillusionment. Now, how long before cease and desist emails start to go out...?

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