Evil Clown of Middletown

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Evil Clown of Middletown is a large outdoor sign on northbound Route 35 in Middletown Township, New Jersey advertising a Spirits Liquor Store. It was originally constructed in 1956 to advertise a Food Circus grocery store. In its early years it continuously rotated via electric motor(s), a then-common form of advertising that for the most part went out of style (or economic practicality) by the 1970's. The clown has long since been fixed in place.

The clown's first starring role was in 1996, during the opening sequence of the Philip Botti movie, Middletown. The movie won the New York Underground Film Festival Choice award.

The clown is well-known because it is unusually scary-looking. It has been featured in the local New Jersey magazine Weird NJ as well as on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in a Kevin Smith short. The Evil clown appears in the first few minutes of Smith's 2006 film Clerks II.

The evil clown has also been shown on another (generally) New Jersey-based website Lostdestinations.com.

It is also known by some as "The Scary Liquor Clown".

This culture-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../e/v/i/Evil_Clown_of_Middletown_72f8.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.