BASED ON A TRUE STORY:  A Bubble Gum Chewing Kid Invents A New Soda Pop And With The Help Of His Skeptical Father, Competes With The Soft Drink Giants And Wins.

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SYNOPSIS:

Bubble Gum flavored soda pop was a 1987 idea and invention of a twelve year old Sacramento boy. He developed the drink by adding bubble gum snow cone syrup into a partially full bottle of ten oz. club soda and WALLA!!!!, history was made. He tried to get his skeptical father to test it who was at first too busy to try it. “It’s surly been done before” he told his son. His mother told him to open a lemon aid stand and sell it there, which he did with little success.Months later the youth cut the label of the then, Bazooka tube bubble gum and fastened the label to the bottle of club soda. The sky blue soda pop with the red white and blue lettered Bazooka label was eye catching and a snap shot (film) was taken and enlarged which looked very real and commercial.

One night after his father was home from an out of town trip, the youth put the picture on his father’s desk. The mother played along as if it was cut out of a newspaper ad. While the youth was watching television, the father came out holding the picture and spurted out, “See, your soda has been around for years, but don’t stop thinking of other good ideas.” Then, the hammer came down on dad.

How did the father react to the truth? How did the duo overcome the peril of a Coca Cola executive’s threat at The National Soft Drink Convention to block their efforts? How was the product presented to the Topps Chewing Gum Company for the licensing of their Bazooka trademark for soft drinks and later to the W.M. Wrigley Jr. Company for the eventual licensing of their HUBBA BUBBA trademark for the soft drink?

The comedy of errors and heartwarming successful adventure is told in the true life story screen play, “Bubble Gum Bobby”.