Post by metalmachines on Aug 27, 2023 11:23:08 GMT
Hi first time posting here but this has haunted for me for years and I wanna know at the least if anybody even remembers this.
Back when I was a kid I remember going to a Jack In The Box restaurant with family and we ended up waiting a good while for our food. There were tvs in the restaurant mounted up high near the tables. On them was playing short animated and live action segments that last maybe a minute or less each with small animated transitions between them. It felt like watching the TV shows in The Sims. In the transitions and in the corner of the screen it was identified as "Jack TV" and it started looping or at least reusing segments pretty quickly. It was cool as a kid but I can understand why they seemed to disappear quickly cause I imagine it'd just annoy most adults.
Trying to look into this over the years has only really returned results for Jackbox TV or simply just Jack In The Box commercials. Has anybody seen these?
Interesting. Reminds me a bit of how an old streaming service called Crackle used to play the same jack in the box ad on loop constantly to the point of becoming a joke among my family. I wonder if there are any obscure locations still using Jack TV in some form or if any long time/retired employees could remember it in detail or even provide some of the actual material. Even still it may prove difficult to catalogue a complete list of every segment aired. It may also be worth considering if any clips from it were reused elsewhere.
Sounds like a bizarre attempt to replicate Chuck E. Cheese's stage TVs...without the stage. Wonder if your location was a test location to gauge the response for "Jack TV" as an attempt to revitalize the brand with a sort of family-friendly Chuck E.-like image?