The Noid
- This article is about the advertising character. For the minimal surfaces, see noid (mathematics).
The Noid (voiced by Pons Maar) was a claymation character in Domino's Pizza advertising in the 1980s. He was a villainous red-suited character who attempted to ruin Domino's pizzas, but was constantly thwarted. The Noid was created by the Will Vinton Studios, the studio that created the California Raisins.
Appearances
Television
The Noid has made a cameo appearance in several Simpsons episodes. For example, in She of Little Faith the Noid delivers a guest sermon on "deliciousness" while in Homer vs. Dignity the Noid appears as a Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon.
Similarly, in the Family Guy episode Deep Throats, Mayor Adam West warns Meg to watch out for the Noid, because he fears he will destroy his pizza. At the end of the scene, the Noid attempts to destroy West's pizza. West brutally murders him and remarks, "Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided me."
Games
As part the advertising campaign, a computer game was released in 1989 called Avoid the Noid. The object of the game is to deliver a pizza within a half-hour time limit, in an apartment building swarming with noids (some of which are armed with heat-seeking or pizza-seeking missiles, or water balloons). The common version has CGA graphics, although an EGA version exists.
In 1990, Capcom released the video game Yo! Noid for the NES.