I just realised something. The company name "Mathmos", according to the article, dates from 1992 or so. Lava lamp blobs were a pretty big backdrop item in Barb

I just realised something. The company name "Mathmos", according to the article, dates from 1992 or so. Lava lamp blobs were a pretty big backdrop item in Barbarella [0], released 1968. The place where the seething blobs were prominent? "Matmos." There has to be joke hidden in plain sight with the company name choice. [0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/