Popular Culture
In the Nintendo 64 game Conker's Bad Fur Day and its Xbox remake, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Conker meets a scarecrow named Birdy, who asks for "Mepsipax" in return for a manual.
According to Sacha Baron Cohen's character, Borat, a Pepsi Max factory was responsible for the evaporation of Kazakhstan's Aral Sea.
The product appeared in the short-lived CW Network reality show "I'm Scared of New York". The star of the show, Samantha Morgan Nicholson, claimed that Pepsi Max took away her fear to go to the top of the Empire State Building. It was later found that the show was a hoax by Nicholson.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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