We can't avoid the Noid

 

     If you were born in the 80's, like me, you may remember pizza being well...interesting. What do I mean by that? 

    Some Pizzas came with prizes, give aways and even mascots. Pizza Hut did have a mascot when they opened their mascots, but it's no longer around. Little Caesars had it mascot. A little man dressed in a toga shouting Pizza! Pizza!

   Dominos wanted to know that their pizza is considered the best quality. How? Well they used this mascot that was trying to destroy pizzas, but can't destroy Dominos pizza. First off. What the hell was this thing? Was he a man dressed in a rabbit suit?  Well...whatever it was... it hated Dominos pizza.

 Created by the late Will Vinton, Dominos made the Noid it's mascot that could not destroy their pizza. I don't know why it would want to destroy their pizza. I feel it's already destroyed. Never really ordered from Dominos that much when I was young. We had pizzas from other pizzerias. 

 

   Around the mid 1980's Nintendo made a video game called YO! Noid! Why??? I never even heard of this game. Granted I was only a little girl at the time. But still...a video game? Never played it once, but I guess it was popular back then. I don't even know what's about. I guess finding and destroying pizzas until you get to the last level which is a Dominos.

  However, in 1989, The Noid's reputation was destroyed. A man in Georgia was named Kenneth Noid thought that Dominos was mocking him with the so called 'NOID' fiasco that was going on. He decided to take matters into his own hands. Going into a Dominos, holding two workers hostage, and keeping himself in that Dominos until he was taken in by police. The workers were saved, but I think quit their job. He killed himself later in 1995.

    The Noid might have ended his run in Dominos, or so we thought. He was still being idolized in TV. Making appearances on Family Guy (where Mayor Adam West kills the Noid) The Simpsons mocked The Noid on several occasions. T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers anything with The Noid on it was selling like hotcakes. Maybe because, even though he was gone with Dominos, he was still being remembered for how strange he was.

   We all thought he was gone. But it seems this year, in April, while we were all getting back to Normal from Covid. It seemed Dominos made a new ad about their delivery vehicle that could hold many pizzas. They had a 3-d version of the Noid in it. It seemed the Noid has returned to Dominos almost 31 years after the Noid retired from Dominos. WOW!

      Dominos has been known for many things, but the biggest thing was not just changing their Pizza to make it better, but The Noid and his attempt to destroy their pizzas. Even if he fails, he seems to amaze us in some way. I guess....we really can't avoid the Noid.