The Stuff story
A strange substance, marketed as "The Stuff," is being sold to the general public in containers like ice cream. It is marketed as having no calories and as being sweet, creamy, and filling. The Stuff quickly becomes a nationwide craze and drastically hurts the sales of ice cream.
13 total · 3 choice · 1 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blobform | choice | An organism that resembled shaving cream, only more coagulated, was marketed by a nefarious conglomerate as an ice cream-like dessert. |
| junk foods in society | choice | One gathers that the point of the film was to satirized the overconsumption of junk foods in American society. |
| unethical business practices | choice | A corporation was marketing an addictively delicious ice cream-like dessert that had the minor problem that it was a living organism that turns people into bizarre zombie-like creatures, before consuming them from the inside out. |
| the corporate world | major | We saw a tongue in cheek depicting of what it might be like for rival corporations to compete for dominance in a market. In this case, suffering ice cream and chocolate chip firms were trying to undermine The Stuff Company. |
| brother and brother | minor | Jason's older brother tried to force him to consume some of "The Stuff". |
| father and son | minor | Jason and his "The Stuff" addicted mother. |
| government regulation in society | minor | The Stuff Company managed to get "The Stuff" FDA approved by getting the regulators addicted to the substance. |
| human childhood | minor | Jason got grounded for life after he went on a rampage in a supermarket, destroying all smashing up all "The Stuff" he could find. |
| husband and wife | minor | Jason's parents were trying to force him to consume "The Stuff". |
| master and pet | minor | The FDA regulator Mr. Vickers was feeding The Stuff to his dog Ben. |