History Main / AcmeProducts

* ''[[Series/{{TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob}} Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]'' features Cinco, which produces a wide variety of questionable products, from Cinco Candy Tails (candy-coated horse hair) to the Cinco Sleep-Watching Chair (now you can watch your friends sleep in comfort!) to the Cinco Eye Tanning System (which works great, though you do have to have your teeth removed before the procedure. Nobody likes brown teeth.)

* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' had the company Spishak, which made everything from cleaning products to medicine. The products ranged from useless to having unfortunate side effects.

* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'': Yort Industries has its name plastered on everything in the Shelter, from [[BigElectricSwitch Big Electric Switches]] to the cereal the staff eats, called "Mr. Yort's Tastyflakes".

* An awful lot of products in the VideoGame/NancyDrew games, from antique ham radios to modern office equipment, were made by Krolmeister. In ''Secret of the Old Clock'', you even get to go there, delivering telegrams to the Krolmeister nail factory.

[[caption-width-right:200:'''[[AC:[[FunWithAcronyms A Company [that] Makes Everything.]]]]'''[[labelnote:*]]In actuality, "Acme" derives from the [[GratuitousGreek Greek]] "ἀκμή", meaning [[{{Irony}} "peak, prime, best"]].[[/labelnote]]]]

* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'' briefly featured an Acme Turpentine warehouse before it got wrecked.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'', Shostners&Shostners is a company composed almost entirely of identical bureaucrats that seems to own and produce almost everything in the show. According to Perdigoto, the company is the largest communication and food conglomerate in the world, owning almost everything people touch, see, wear, eat and throw away (including their dreams).

* In ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'', Shostners&Shostners is a company made almost entirely of identical burocrats that seems to own and produce almost everything in the show's universe, from everyday items to buses.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'', Shorstners&Shorstners is a company made almost entirely of identical burocrats that seems to own and produce almost everything in the show's universe, from everyday items to buses.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', most products and businesses have a sign or logo for AOL Time Warner (Now [=WarnerMedia=], the actual parent company of Turner Broadcasting at the time. Additionally, almost every store and service has the ending -lux (Javalux coffee, etc.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', most products and businesses have a sign or logo for AOL Time Warner, the actual parent company of Turner Broadcasting. Additionally, almost every store and service has the ending -lux (Javalux coffee, etc.)

* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'' had an Acme Turpentine warehouse. Had as in before it got wrecked.

** And in the latest sequel ''One of Our Thursdays is Missing'' Thursday has a sort-of part-time job in a carpet fitting company which is ''called'' Acme.

* The Ultor Corporation in several Volition-made games (i.e. VideoGame/SaintsRow, VideoGame/RedFaction) are a clothing label, a mining company, and invest in extensive city redevelopment.
** And [[LawEnforcementInc Law Enforcement Incorporated]].

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', or more accurately, its expanded universe of the Valve blog, features "Mann Co.", with the slogan "We Sell Products And Get In Fights". Mann Co. is actually a subsidiary of the even larger TF Industries, which also owns [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience RED and BLU]] and all of ''their'' subsidiaries.

** "Lard of the Dance" has a play on the generic brand name with a grease-collecting company truck that reads "''Acne'' Grease Co." on the back.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Referenced in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E1LardOfTheDance Lard of the Dance]]" with the BlackMarket thugs who siphon the grease Homer's attempting to sell out of his car and steal his shovel, claiming they run rackets for both. Their truck is labeled "[[PunnyName Acne]] Grease and Shovel".

* The Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, which was your one stop shop for everything you could every possibly want (and much you didn't)... at least until around UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when demographic changes moved people away from rural areas to suburban zones. Sears even sold ''cars and houses'' via catalog. [[note]] One of the products found in an early 20th century Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog is an actual [[http://www.acme.com/what_is_acme/ Acme anvil. [[/note]]]]

* Creator/{{Sony}}. Currently dealing in consumer and industrial electronics (including laptops, phones, camcorders, cameras and radios), home entertainment, media production (including TV, Film and Music), electronic components, industrial chemicals, video games (both games and consoles), batteries, toys, robots, banks, and life insurance.

* Back in the 60s and 70s, Creator/{{Paramount}} Pictures was owned by a conglomerate called Gulf & Western (or "Gulf+Western", going by their logo); in addition to Paramount, they owned clothing manufacturers, car parts factories, financial services firms, cigar makers, sugar plantations, the list goes on. They even owned Creator/{{Sega}} for a time, and New York's famous Madison Square Garden arena (and their associated sports teams). Eventually, former Paramount head Martin Davis became head of the company and realized they ought to focus on their most profitable subsidiary-- Paramount and its' collection of smaller companies (including Famous Music, Simon & Schuster books, and MSG); as a result, all the industrial and consumer companies were sold off and the company was renamed ''Paramount Communications'' in 1989; they eventually acquired a bunch of medium and small market TV stations and a chain of theme parks (both previously owned by Taft Broadcasting), and in 1994 merged with Creator/{{Viacom}}.

* There used to be an "Acme Novelties," which sold stuffed toys for the redemption counters at arcades and at carnivals.

[[caption-width-right:200:'''[[AC:[[FunWithAcronyms A Company [that] Makes Everything.]]]]''' [[labelnote:*]]In actuality, "Acme" derives from the [[GratuitousGreek Greek]] "ἀκμή", meaning [[{{Irony}} "peak, prime, best"]].[[/labelnote]]]]

* Parodied in the mini-series ''Series/{{Fresno}}'', where the Acme Toxic Waste Company is owned by..... Mr Acme.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock''

-->'''OJ''': Wow. Walmart has everything.\\
'''Marshmallow''': Yes. Yes it does.

* Boeing is mainly known for manufacturing both types of the passenger and fighter aircraft (especially the 7x7-series passenger aircraft), but the conglomerate also covers air security and R&D technologies, among others.

* Like the two listed above: General Electric has a massive line of products ranging from lightbulbs to household appliances to railroad locomotives, jet aircraft engines and miniguns.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' video game has a few ACME products, mainly a cardboard box which you use to sneak past people as the Penguins.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'': Yort Industries has its name plastered on everything in the Shelter, from Big Electric Switches to the cereal the staff eats, called "Mr. Yort's Tastyflakes".
* ''VideoGame/TheRoomMobileGame'' has the Talisman company that appeared to have built all the boxes and other intricate contraptions you're manipulating in-game, if the presence of their maker's mark on all of them is any guide. The third installment reveals that [[spoiler: the [[BigBad sinister Craftsman]] ]] began and owned this company, and one of the locations you get to explore is a workshop where it all started.

-->-- '''Sign outside Mann Co.''', ''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2's]] [[http://www.teamfortress.com/bloodbrothers/#f=31 Blood Brothers Comic]]'''

* ''VideoGame/Hitman1'' has Kronstadt products littered throughout the levels, and the company is known for making friendly home products like vacuum cleaners, as well as lifesaving medical tech, but also cutting-edge AI and war tech. Eventually, of course, [[spoiler: the founder and CEO becomes a target for Agent 47.]]