Lay’s’s global flavors, best ‘SNL’ pretapes, and Marvel needs to cool it with ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Um. Hey. Marvel Studios ... what are you guys doing when it comes to promoting Avengers: Doomsday? It was all ready weird enough when you tried to make people buy tickets to Avatar: Fire and Ash just to see a handful of teasers for the next Avengers movie. (A movie that apparently didn’t make enough money for the third Avatar movie.) And then it was odd when Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, the directorial duo behind Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame who had come back to rescue the MCU, wrote that those teasers “are not teasers. Or trailers. They are stories. They are clues …”

While Mondelēz chose a super patriotic route for its Summer of Soccer Chips Ahoy! and Ritz crackers, wrapping the boxes and even the candy chips in red, white and blue, Lay’s has gone global with its limited‑edition potato chip flavors that’s “designed to let fans experience the FIFA World Cup 26 through food.” Lay’s plans to “bring fans together through experiences rooted in global cuisine” features a total of 40 limited edition flavors. Most of these flavors will be exclusive to specific regions, with the United States getting Lay’s Argentinian‑Style Steak with Chimichurri, Lay’s Brazilian‑Style Garlic Sauce and Lay’s Wavy French Onion Soup.

When it comes to filling out the perfect episode of SNL, Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell got the daunting task of picking the one pretape to represent them all. This category covers way more ground than anything we’ve yet seen for The Rundown. Commercials, movie trailer parodies, songs, even Digital Shorts — anything that was recorded before an episode was fair game here.