{"id":577912,"date":"2010-05-25T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=105943"},"modified":"2010-05-25T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:38:49","slug":"cocoa-pebbles-commercial-leaves-hulk-hogan-suing-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577912","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa Pebbles Commercial Leaves Hulk Hogan Suing Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cocoa Pebbles<\/em> has gotten itself into a pickle after allegedly using Hulk Hogan&#8217;s likeness without permission in its &#8220;Cocoa Smashdown&#8221; commercial, which premiered earlier this year. The wrestling legend has <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2010\/may\/21\/211702\/yabba-dabba-doo-hulk-hogan-sues-cocoa-pebbles-make\/news-breaking\/\">filed suit against<\/a> Post Foods, the makers of the cereal, because he believes the company patterned their animated character Hulk Boulder &#8212; a muscle-bound fighter that takes on Fred and Barney in the ring, only to be defeated by Bamm-Bamm &#8212; after him. Here&#8217;s where things get wonky: Early in his career, Hulk Hogan used the name Boulder, changing it only after WWE founder Vince McMahon convinced him to adopt an Irish moniker.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E7S7KFKmYP4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E7S7KFKmYP4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>According to a federal lawsuit filed last week, Hulk <em>&#8220;is shown humiliated and cracked into pieces with broken teeth, with the closing banner, &#8216;Little Pieces\u2026BIG TASTE!&#8217;&#8221;<\/em> Additionally, the &#8217;80s icon &#8212; whose real name is Terry Bollea &#8212; markets his own line of Hulkster burgers for Wal-Mart, which he claims have been financially affected by the <em>&#8220;unauthorized advertisements.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cGctpZK16RCzoC3TMOVr0WgQxfQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cGctpZK16RCzoC3TMOVr0WgQxfQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cGctpZK16RCzoC3TMOVr0WgQxfQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cGctpZK16RCzoC3TMOVr0WgQxfQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocoa Pebbles has gotten itself into a pickle after allegedly using Hulk Hogan&#8217;s likeness without permission in its &#8220;Cocoa Smashdown&#8221; commercial, which premiered earlier this year. The wrestling legend has filed suit against Post Foods, the makers of the cereal, because he believes the company patterned their animated character Hulk Boulder &#8212; a muscle-bound fighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}