After Kenneth was arrested, the police chief jokingly stated that he was "para-Noid". On January 30th, 1989, a mentally ill man named Kenneth Lamar Noid believed that the Noid was a personal attack on him, and held two Domino's employees hostage in Chamnlee, Georgia for over five hours, demanding $100,000, a copy of The Widow's Son, and forcing them to make him a pizza and a salad. Green, who is a green-wearing duplicate of the Noid. In Yo! Noid (an adaptation of another, Japanese-exclusive video game by Capcom, Kamen no Ninja Hanamaru), the Noid becomes a protagonist and is set to defend New York City from the evil Mr. The Noid also made a cameo in Michael Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker, where he appears in a group of stop-motion characters chasing Michael, and in two episodes of The Simpsons.Ī more recent appearance was in an early episode of Family Guy, where the Noid destroys Mayor Adam West's pizza, but he is then subsequently killed. Yo! Noid was even featured on Pla圜hoice-10 arcade machines. The commercials were very successful, and the character became something of a cultural icon he starred in two video games, Avoid the Noid on the Commodore 64, and Yo! Noid on the Nintendo Entertainment System. However, he is never able to successfully do this to Domino's pizzas. making them cold, smashing them, rendering them otherwise inedible, etc.). The Noid vehemently hated pizza, and makes it his life's mission to ruin pizzas, often in different ways (i.e. He is a humanoid claymation creature in a red jumpsuit with an "N" insignia on the chest and rabbit-like ears.
The Noid is the villainous mascot of Domino's Pizza.