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HOPSFIELD No, these are entries for McDonald's Sweepstakes. No purchase necessary. Enter as often as you want. So, I am. CHRIS Really? HOPSFIELD This box make

by dmd 9y ago

HOPSFIELD No, these are entries for McDonald's Sweepstakes. No purchase necessary. Enter as often as you want. So, I am. CHRIS Really? HOPSFIELD This box makes it one million, six hundred thousand. I should win thirty two point six percent of the prizes, including the car. CHRIS Kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it? HOPSFIELD I suppose so. But they set up the rules, and lately, I have come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.

tzs 9y ago
For those who don't recognize it, that's from the movie "Real Genius". For those who don't quite remember it that way, that looks like it is the version from an early version of the script. By the time the movie was actually made it was changed to Frito-Lay from McDonald's, Hopsfield was changed to Hollyfeld, and the above dialog was altered slightly. That scene is based on a real life incident which in fact involved a McDonald's sweepstakes and Caltech students entering over a million times: [1] Since everyone knew that the school in the movie, Pacific Tech, was meant to be a thinly disguised Caltech (it only became Pacific Tech when Caltech objected), and McDonald's had not been happy with the Caltech sweepstakes prank and probably would not want it brought up, my guess is that one or both of McDonalds and Caltech asked for the change. Changing it to Frito-Lay is an interesting choice, because six years before the McDonald's sweepstakes, a group of Caltech students tried mass entry on a Frito-Lay sweepstakes, but apparently were not as successful. [1] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_caper http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...
- dmd 9y ago
  Crap. I knew something seemed off about it. Thank you! ==== Lazlo: No. These are entries into the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes. "No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want" - so I am. Chris: That's great! How many times? Lazlo: Well, this batch makes it one million six hundred and fifty thousand. I should win thirty-two point six percent of the prizes, including the car. Chris: That kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it? Lazlo: They set up the rules, and lately I've come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.

by dmd 9y ago

tzs 9y ago

For those who don't recognize it, that's from the movie "Real Genius". For those who don't quite remember it that way, that looks like it is the version from an early version of the script. By the time the movie was actually made it was changed to Frito-Lay from McDonald's, Hopsfield was changed to Hollyfeld, and the above dialog was altered slightly. That scene is based on a real life incident which in fact involved a McDonald's sweepstakes and Caltech students entering over a million times: [1] Since everyone knew that the school in the movie, Pacific Tech, was meant to be a thinly disguised Caltech (it only became Pacific Tech when Caltech objected), and McDonald's had not been happy with the Caltech sweepstakes prank and probably would not want it brought up, my guess is that one or both of McDonalds and Caltech asked for the change. Changing it to Frito-Lay is an interesting choice, because six years before the McDonald's sweepstakes, a group of Caltech students tried mass entry on a Frito-Lay sweepstakes, but apparently were not as successful. [1] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_caper http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...

dmd 9y ago
Crap. I knew something seemed off about it. Thank you! ==== Lazlo: No. These are entries into the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes. "No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want" - so I am. Chris: That's great! How many times? Lazlo: Well, this batch makes it one million six hundred and fifty thousand. I should win thirty-two point six percent of the prizes, including the car. Chris: That kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it? Lazlo: They set up the rules, and lately I've come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.