Bazooka Joe Bazooka Joe Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character featured on small comics included inside individually wrapped pieces of Bazooka bubble gum. He wears a black eyepatch, lending him a distinctive appearance. He is one of the more recognizable American advertising characters of the 20th century, due to worldwide distribution, and one of the few identifiable ones associated with a candy. With sales of Bazooka bubble gum down, Bazooka Candy Brands announced in November 2012 that they will no longer include the comic strip in their packaging. The new wrapper will include brain teasers, instructions, and codes that can be
Bubblegum Alley in an episode of "United States of Tara". In chapter seventeen of the novel "Mr. Monk On the Road" by Lee Goldberg, Bubblegum Alley is mentioned, described, and forms the setting for Monk's discovery of a dead body. Bubblegum Alley is also mentioned throughout Megan McDonald's book "Judy Moody: Around the World in 8 and a Half Days". "Weird Al" Yankovic mentioned Bubblegum Alley in his 1978 song "Take Me Down," an ode to San Luis Obispo. Those Darn Accordions recorded the song "Wall of Gum" on their 1999 album "Clownhead" about an unfortunate accident occurring in Bubblegum Alley. Agreement