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Frootees spotted in Stargate Continuum and A Dog’s Breakfast

I introduced A Dog’s Breakfast to a group of friends yesterday, and everyone seemed to like the dark comedy. It was my fourth time watching that movie and it only got better. After I got home, i started to watch Stargate: Continuum late yesterday evening and hmmmm, it’s interesting that i watched these two movies back to back.

In Stargate: Continuum, I noticed that Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) reach for a box of Frootees cereal in the store. If you are an astute fan of the Stargate franchise and a fan of David Hewlett’s work, you may have also noticed that the Frootees box first appeared in the opening scene of a Hewlett’s A Dog’s Breakfast. Hewlett also played as Dr. Rodney McKay in the Stargate: Atlantis series and had debuted in a few episodes of Stargate: SG-1 opposite Tapping as the world renowned stargate expert. Carter and McKay have a love hate relationship.

Pretty cool tip of the hat to both the shows, and the respective characters .

If they want to do a strange plot twist, I guess the ‘alternate timeline’ that Stargate Continuum takes place in could be the same timeline as A Dog’s Breakfast. That would have been awesome if they just met in passing without McKay, err.. Patrick, knowing who Carter was. Ha!

Additionally, if you look close enough, the Frootees box in A Dog’s Breakfast appears to be original. The one in Stargate: Continuum looks like it was stuck on to a Kellogg’s Rice Krispies box (notice the side panel) . The cereal was made for ADB, and is not a real marketed cereal.