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Clone High Co-Creators Have "Twisted" Way to One-Up Pop-Tarts: Oreos

Clone High's Christopher Miller & Phil Lord brainstormed a "twisted" way Oreos could one-up Pop-Tarts when it comes to bowl game mascots.

If you hadn't already heard, Thursday night's Pop-Tarts Bowl featured 25th-ranked Kansas City Wildcats taking on 18th-ranked North Carolina State Wolfpack (Wildcats won, 28-19) – and the first-ever edible mascot. Seriously. We went from Strawberry holding a sign reading, "Dreams really do come true," before deep-diving into an obscenely large "toaster" to his toasted remains being torn apart and eaten by the winning team. For us, that whole scene brought back memories of Rick and Morty Season 7 episode "That's Amorte – but for Clone High co-creators Christopher Miller & Phil Lord, the moment that's begging to be analyzed as both an attack on capitalism, consumerism & organized religion served as an opportunity for the duo to brainstorm how Nabisco might one-up Pop-Tarts – and how Oreos come painfully into play. Here's a look at what Miller & Lord came up with – and make sure to stick around for a history lesson in another time when Oreos flirted with football – in the worst public relations way possible.

Miller: "Right now at the Nabisco marketing department: 'We get a human-sized anthropomorphized Oreo to drown itself in a giant glass of milk, and after it stops flailing, we fish its lifeless body out, and the football players will feast on its soggy corpse. It'll go viral.'

Lord: "'Oooh ooh, what if we set up a cute milk dunk tank for the Oreo mascot, and then a giant hand hoists him out of the milk and another hand twists his body in half, and the winning team scrapes its viscera off its corpse with their teeth????'"

Miller: "Or… at halftime, each team twist-tug-of-wars one cookie side as the Living Oreo screams in pain until it separates, and the side with the most frosting innards is the winner of the Oreo Bowl?"

Lord: "This is the One."

Here's a look at the tweet/x exchange between Miller & Lord – AND THEN PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR A TWIST! Seriously, it's one of those weird facts that we stumbled on that proves just how much the lines between reality & marketing blur sometimes.

Here's the funny part. The 2012 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California, saw the Navy Midshipmen take on the Arizona State Sun Devils – and with Kraft Foods sponsoring, it only made sense to have the game's coin toss be done with a chocolate and vanilla Oreo – right? Well, let's just say that a number of folks (understandably) took issue with the idea of a bowl game being sponsored to bring awareness to the issues of hunger would then be seen apparently wasting food to use as a coin flip when a whole lot of other non-food things could've been used.

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