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Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is an alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. More than forty-five years have passed since the first sightings of Bigfoot were reported in California. The character of Bigfoot has been used frequently in popular culture including movies, advertising, and literature. Bigfoot has also been the subject of several tourism campaigns. ==Advertising== "Bigfoot" and "Sasquatch" are pop culture terms that have been used in advertising across many different products and services, such as pizzas, beef jerky, skateboards, skis, an Internet search engine, a computer hard drive series, gas stations, Kokanee beer, Bigfoot Shadows award winning wine〔("Allegheny Cellars 2007'' )〕 and a monster truck. * Jack Link's brand of beef jerky produces a series of commercials entitled "Messin' with Sasquatch". In the commercials, hikers play tricks on Sasquatch. The end of the commercials typically show Sasquatch reacting angrily to the pranks, chasing, and sometimes picking up the hikers and throwing them into the air or objects.〔http://www.messinwithsasquatch.com Source for the commercials titled "Messin with Sasquatch"〕 * Game camera manufacturer the Bushnell Corporation, along with ''Field & Stream'', launched a promotional contest over a photo taken in September 2007, by deer hunter Rick Jacobs of Pennsylvania on his game camera of what some believe could be a young Sasquatch.〔(Young Sasquatch? ''Earthfiles Podcast 10-31-07'' )〕 More skeptical viewers deemed it a bear.〔(Is It Bigfoot? Hunter's Photos Ignite Debate'' Fox News 10-28-07'' )〕 The companies offered a one million dollar reward for a verifiable photo of Bigfoot taken on a game camera.〔($1,000,000 dollar Sasquatch photo challenge'' Field & Stream 05-29-08'' )〕 *The food chain Red Robin ran a television commercial in which a hiker speaks the words "Red Robin" and hears a reply of "Yummm" from Bigfoot.〔(''Red Robin'' )〕 *The restaurant chain Boston Pizza used "Louie" the sasquatch in a series of television commercials around 2007. Ultimately they decided to drop the character as a promotional gimmick.〔http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=5135b667-723a-4e7f-803c-deac9bcb347f〕 *Kokanee beer used "Mel" the sasquatch in a series of commercials pitting him against the "Kokanee Ranger" played by John Novak. In 2004, a Mel The Sasquatch statue (complete with him holding a case of Kokanee Beer) was built in Creston, British Columbia. The Columbia Brewery Company (who owns Kokanee beer) paid for half the construction costs.〔http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20041011/sasquatch_statue_041011?hub=Calgary〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bigfoot in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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