Destroy All Humans! is an open world action-adventure video game franchise that is designed as a parody of Cold War -era alien invasion films. Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 were released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox ; Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed was released for the Wii ; and Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 . A remake of the original game and its sequel were developed by Black Forest Games and were released in 2020 and 2022, respectively.
69-469: The two main protagonists of the series are voiced by J. Grant Albrecht and Richard Steven Horvitz , with the exception of the game Big Willy Unleashed , in which actors Sean Donnellan and Darryl Kurylo portray the characters. The musical score for the series is performed by composer Garry Schyman . The games take place mostly on Earth where the Furon Cryptosporidium, also known as Crypto,
138-562: A RoboCop version of Colonel Sanders. Later that year, Sean Astin played a Rudy Ruettiger version of the Colonel to commemorate the beginning of the NFL season. In 2019, a free video game was commissioned by the restaurant chain KFC and released for free called I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A parody of conventional dating sims, the primary objective of the player is to develop a romantic relationship with
207-672: A service station in Nicholasville . In 1930, the station closed as a result of the Great Depression . In 1930, the Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station in North Corbin, Kentucky , rent free, in return for paying the company a percentage of sales. Sanders began to serve chicken dishes and other meals such as country ham and steaks . Initially he served the customers in his adjacent living quarters before opening
276-479: A brief piece of footage of Hammond followed by Macdonald's Colonel declaring his predecessor an impostor. In February 2016, yet another portrayal was introduced with Jim Gaffigan as the Colonel, shown bolting awake in bed and telling his wife about his recurring nightmare of Macdonald's Colonel "pretending to be me". By July 2016, George Hamilton was playing Colonel Sanders, parlaying his famous tan into an advertisement for KFC's "extra crispy" chicken. During
345-412: A casino, perishing in the crash. Orthopox creates Crypto 139, and the two continue the operation. Later Crypto is attacked by mysterious cyborgs called Nexosporidium Warriors, who arrive from his own planet, which frightens both Crypto and his commander Pox. Soon Crypto finds himself face-to-face with a conspiracy from his own homeworld that, if not stopped, could destroy his entire race. In the midst of all
414-495: A clone with pure Furon DNA harvested from human brains, has taken his place. Crypto 138 is the first Furon in millennia to possess genitalia , as his pure DNA has not been corrupted by radiation. When the KGB destroy the mothership and Pox, Crypto must fight them and stop them from destroying what he has worked so hard to achieve. Along the way, he is supported by Natalya Ivanova, a rogue KGB agent whom he constantly hits on. He also discovers
483-582: A conspiracy that threatens the Furon empire. Destroy All Humans! takes place in 1959; Destroy All Humans! 2 takes place in 1969; Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed takes place in 1975; Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon takes place in 1979. During the year 1959, Cryptosporidium 137 first arrived on the Earth to investigate the planet and search for his predecessor clone, Cryptosporidium 136, who disappeared in 1947 after Orthopox 13 sent him to Earth on
552-477: A courtroom brawl with his own client destroyed his reputation. This period represented a low point for Sanders. As his biographer John Ed Pearce wrote, "[Sanders] had encountered repeated failure largely through bullheadedness, a lack of self-control, impatience, and a self-righteous lack of diplomacy." Following the incident, Sanders was forced to move back in with his mother in Henryville, where he went to work as
621-469: A farmhand. In 1902, Sanders's mother married William Broaddus and the family moved to Greenwood, Indiana . Sanders had a tumultuous relationship with his stepfather. In 1903, at age 12, he dropped out of seventh grade (later stating that "algebra's what drove [him] off") and went to live and work on a nearby farm. At age 13, he left home and took a job painting horse carriages in Indianapolis . When he
690-924: A few monsters in other Power Rangers series and was also the voice of Alpha 7 in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode "Forever Red". He voiced the main characters of Raz in the Psychonauts series and Orthopox in the Destroy All Humans! series. He has also voiced various NPCs in EverQuest II , the Berserker Darklings in The Darkness , Bumble in Kinectimals , and Kaos in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure . Horvitz voiced "Green Grapes" in
759-410: A fictionalized version of KFC's founder Colonel Sanders, portrayed as an attractive classmate at a cooking school. In December 2020, a fictionalized Colonel Sanders was portrayed by Mario Lopez in the 2020 short film A Recipe for Seduction . The Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball league developed an urban legend of the " Curse of the Colonel ". A statue of Colonel Sanders was thrown into
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#1732930708655828-812: A fireman on the Illinois Central Railroad , and he and his family moved to Jackson, Tennessee . By night, Sanders studied law by correspondence through the La Salle Extension University . Sanders lost his job at Illinois after brawling with a colleague. While Sanders moved to work for the Rock Island Railroad , Josephine and the children went to live with her parents. After a while, Sanders began to practice law in Little Rock , which he did for three years, earning enough in fees for his family to move with him. His legal career ended after
897-616: A job cleaning out the ash pans of locomotives from the Northern Alabama Railroad (a division of the Southern Railway) when they had finished their runs. Sanders progressed to become a fireman (steam engine stoker) from the age of 16. He worked the job for nearly three years until he was fired for "insubordination" after he got sick. Sanders found laboring work with the Norfolk and Western Railway from 1909. While working on
966-546: A laborer on the Pennsylvania Railroad . In 1916, the family moved to Jeffersonville , where Sanders got a job selling life insurance for the Prudential Life Insurance Company . Sanders was eventually fired for insubordination. He moved to Louisville and got a sales job with Mutual Benefit Life of New Jersey. In 1920, at age 30, Sanders established a ferry boat company, which operated a boat on
1035-568: A partnership of Kentucky businessmen headed by John Y. Brown Jr. , a 29-year-old lawyer and future governor of Kentucky, and Jack C. Massey , a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Sanders became a salaried brand ambassador. The initial deal did not include the Canadian operations, which Sanders retained, nor the franchising rights in the UK, Florida, Utah, and Montana, which Sanders had already sold to others. In 1965, Sanders moved to Mississauga , Ontario ,
1104-516: A remake of Destroy All Humans! via a reveal trailer shown at E3. The remake was developed by Black Forest Games and released on July 28, 2020, for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , on December 8, 2020, for Stadia , and on June 29, 2021, for Nintendo Switch . A standalone multiplayer spin-off, titled Destroy All Humans! Clone Carnage , was released for Microsoft Windows (via Steam , Epic Games Store and GOG.com ), PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 31, 2022. On November 2, 2022,
1173-684: A restaurant. It was during this period that Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor who had painted over a sign directing traffic to Sanders' station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders. and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders's competition. Sanders was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 by Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon . His local popularity grew, and, in 1939, food critic Duncan Hines visited Sanders's restaurant and included it in Adventures in Good Eating , his guide to restaurants throughout
1242-488: A similar mission. Pox sends Crypto on a mission to harvest human brain stems (which contain a small amount of pure Furon DNA due to an encounter between Furon warriors and humans in ancient times) to prevent his species from going extinct. To accomplish his mission, he must fight and defeat the Majestic agency, a shadowy government organization led by a black-clad figure named Silhouette. After accomplishing this, Crypto takes over
1311-622: A suburb of Toronto , to oversee his Canadian franchises and continued to collect franchise and appearance fees both in Canada and in the US. Sanders bought and lived in a bungalow at 1337 Melton Drive in the Lakeview area of Mississauga from 1965 until his death in 1980. In September 1970 he and his wife were baptized in the Jordan River . He also befriended Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell . Sanders remained
1380-718: A supervisor in Seattle until the latter part of 1942. He later ran cafeterias for the government at an ordnance works in Tennessee, followed by a job as assistant cafeteria manager in Oak Ridge, Tennessee . He left his mistress, Claudia Ledington-Price, as manager of the North Corbin restaurant and motel. In 1942, he sold the Asheville business. In 1947, he and Josephine divorced and Sanders married Claudia in 1949, as he had long desired. Sanders
1449-440: A tomato cannery, and the young Harland was left to look after and cook for his siblings. By the age of seven, in 1897, he was reportedly skilled with bread and vegetables, and improving with meat; the children foraged for food while their mother was away at work for days at a time. In 1899, his mother married Edward Park, but according to the 1900 census, his mother was widowed again. When he was 10, in 1900, Sanders began to work as
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#17329307086551518-699: A wagoner (see teamster ) in Cuba being awarded the Cuban Pacification Medal (Army) . He was honorably discharged in February 1907 and moved to Sheffield, Alabama , where his uncle lived. There, he met his brother Clarence, who had also moved there in order to escape their stepfather. The uncle worked for the Southern Railway , and secured Sanders a job there as a blacksmith's helper in the workshops. After two months, Sanders moved to Jasper, Alabama , where he got
1587-407: Is about to go down the path to enlightenment, shape his own destiny, and uncover who is behind this frightening conspiracy. The franchise intellectual property (IP) holder, THQ , went bankrupt on December 19, 2012, and its many IPs were subsequently sold off. In 2013, Nordic Games, now known as THQ Nordic , purchased the rights to Destroy All Humans! among other IPs for $ 4.9 million. In late 2016,
1656-950: Is an American actor and comedian, best known for his voice work in animation and video games. His voice credits include the original Alpha 5 on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers , Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo , Razputin Aquato in Psychonauts , Kaos in Skylanders , Billy and his father Harold in Grim & Evil and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy , Grey Matter in Ben 10 , Rodney in Squirrel Boy , Daggett in The Angry Beavers , Zim in Invader Zim , Orthopox in Destroy All Humans! ,
1725-669: Is from Madera, Mexico . His older brother, Louis J. Horvitz , is a television director and producer. As a child, Horvitz was inspired by Flip Wilson , Tom Jones , and Don Adams , doing impressions of them. Horvitz first appeared in a 1976 Freshen Up gum commercial, which led to other commercial appearances and several hand modeling jobs. After a brief stint in an off-Broadway production of Oliver! he went on to make appearances on television series such as Kids Incorporated and Safe at Home , and films such as Summer School , How I Got into College , and Deadly Weapon . From 1988 to 1991, he starred as Howie for two seasons in
1794-518: Is nothing in the world but a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken. After being recommissioned as a Kentucky colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby , Sanders began to dress the part, growing a goatee and wearing a black frock coat (later switching to a white suit), a string tie , and referring to himself as "Colonel". His associates went along with the title change, "jokingly at first and then in earnest", according to biographer Josh Ozersky . He never wore anything else in public during
1863-513: Is tasked by his superiors to gather Furon DNA locked inside human brain stems in order to save his race from cloning themselves to extinction. In Destroy All Humans! , Crypto's objectives also include investigating what happened to his previous clone. Destroy All Humans! 2 features Crypto hunting for revenge, after the KGB try to assassinate him and successfully destroy the mothership and his mission officer, Orthopox-13 (Pox), as well as exterminating
1932-516: The Louisville Courier-Journal on October 8, 1975, he told journalist Dan Kauffman: My God, that gravy is horrible. They buy tap water for 15 to 20 cents a thousand gallons and then they mix it with flour and starch and end up with pure wallpaper paste. And I know wallpaper paste, by God, because I've seen my mother make it. ... There's no nutrition in it and they ought not to be allowed to sell it. ... [The] crispy [fried chicken] recipe
2001-758: The Fruit of the Loom commercials and has acted on stage, including in Jeffrey Hatcher 's Mrs. Mannerly . Horvitz also voiced Moxxie and served as a voice director in the adult animated web series Helluva Boss . He also played the roles of Alpha 8 and Alpha 9 in the Netflix special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always , which celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Power Rangers franchise. In 2001, Horvitz
2070-458: The Great Depression . During that time, Sanders developed his "secret recipe" and his patented method of cooking chicken in a pressure fryer . Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC franchise opened in South Salt Lake, Utah , in 1952. When his original restaurant closed, he devoted himself full-time to franchising his fried chicken throughout
2139-617: The Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville. He canvassed for funding, becoming a minority shareholder himself, and was appointed secretary of the company. The ferry was an instant success. Around 1922 he took a job as secretary at the Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Indiana . He admitted that he was not very good at the job and resigned after less than a year. Sanders cashed in his ferry boat company shares for $ 22,000 ($ 393,000 today) and used
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2208-579: The "create-a-wrestler" feature) as part of a product placement deal with KFC. Ray Liotta then portrayed Sanders. Singer Reba McEntire was named as the newest Sanders in January 2018, and made her debut in a commercial promoting the fast food chain's new "Smoky Mountain BBQ" chicken. As of August 2018 , actor Jason Alexander and professional strongman and actor Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson both portray Colonel Sanders. In early 2019, Peter Weller portrayed
2277-595: The Barbarian (as Ned Frischman), Zatch Bell! (as Kanchomé), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (as Billy and his father Harold), Ben 10 (as Grey Matter), Squirrel Boy (as Rodney), and Shorty McShorts' Shorts (as Dudley). He also co-wrote the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode "Keeper of the Reaper" alongside his wife Kristen Lazarian. After his stint as Alpha 5 ended, Horvitz went on to voice
2346-513: The Colonel Sanders character back in new television advertisements, played by comedian Darrell Hammond . Some commentators felt the new portrayal was distasteful and disrespectful of the actual man's legacy. In August 2015, KFC launched a new campaign, this time with comedian Norm Macdonald portraying Sanders; the first ad of the campaign makes direct reference to the Hammond campaign, with
2415-619: The Furons' enemy from the Martian War, the Blisk. Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed involves Crypto protecting Pox's new fast food chain using a giant robot mech disguised as the restaurant's mascot, called "Big Willy". Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon is available on Xbox 360 (and PlayStation 3 only in Australia and Europe ), and involves Crypto seeking enlightenment to help him stop
2484-583: The PlayStation 2 versions of Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 were released on PlayStation 4 as part of a selection of PlayStation 2 games emulated on PlayStation 4 , and were rendered at 1080p with additional features that supported trophies and remote play. In 2018, the Xbox version of Destroy All Humans! was added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility catalog. In 2019, THQ Nordic announced
2553-509: The U.S. President. Orthropox 13 has died after a Soviet nuclear missile destroyed the Furon mothership . Pox has downloaded his consciousness into a personal holographic projector designed to communicate between Furons on Motherships and planet surfaces. Pox's unit, dubbed a HoloPox, allows him to communicate with, advise, and vex Crypto down on Earth. Crypto 137 has died of unknown causes but appears in Big Willy Unleashed and Crypto 138,
2622-485: The UK, Australia, Mexico and Jamaica by the mid-1960s. Sanders obtained a patent protecting his method of pressure frying chicken in 1962, and trademarked the phrase "It's Finger Lickin' Good" in 1963. The company's rapid expansion to more than 600 locations became overwhelming for the aging Sanders. In 1964, then 73 years old, he sold the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation for $ 2 million ($ 19.6 million today) to
2691-571: The US. The entry read: Corbin, KY. Sanders Court and Café 41 — Jct. with 25, 25 E. ½ Mi. N. of Corbin. Open all year except Xmas. A very good place to stop en route to Cumberland Falls and the Great Smokies. Continuous 24-hour service. Sizzling steaks, fried chicken, country ham, hot biscuits. L. 50¢ to $ 1; D., 60¢ to $ 1 In July 1939, Sanders acquired a motel in Asheville , North Carolina . His North Corbin restaurant and motel
2760-546: The United States by posing as the President . Destroy All Humans! (mobile) was a tie-in mobile phone game developed by Big Blue Bubble Inc. and published by THQ Wireless. The game could be downloaded by texting CRYPTO101 to 69847 (MYTYHQ). It was released in 2005. The game is a top-down action-adventure game where you play as Crypto, both on foot and in his saucer. Ten years have passed since Crypto defeated Majestic and replaced
2829-451: The Xbox One and PC versions of game were made free-to-play . In 2021, THQ Nordic announced a remake of Destroy All Humans! 2 via a reveal trailer shown with development being handled by Black Forest Games . It was released on August 30, 2022, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S . Richard Steven Horvitz Richard Steven Horvitz (born July 29, 1966)
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2898-767: The Zoni in Ratchet & Clank , Bumble in Kinectimals , the Space Weaver in Broken Age , Kanchomé in Zatch Bell! , and Moxxie in Helluva Boss . Horvitz was born on July 29, 1966, in Los Angeles , California . His father Louie was a planning engineer for Rocketdyne for over 35 years. His maternal grandfather was born in Cuba (of Czech and Russian descent), and his mother's family
2967-601: The addition of fried chicken was a way of differentiating his restaurant from competitors; in Utah, a product hailing from Kentucky was unique and evoked imagery of Southern hospitality . Don Anderson, a sign painter hired by Harman, coined the name Kentucky Fried Chicken . After Harman's success, several other restaurant owners franchised the concept and paid Sanders $ 0.04 per chicken (equivalent to $ 0.46 in 2023). Sanders believed that his North Corbin restaurant would remain successful indefinitely; however, he sold it at age 65 after
3036-459: The airing of the 2016 SummerSlam , a commercial aired of WWE wrestler Dolph Ziggler dressed up as Colonel Sanders beating up a man in a chicken suit (played by fellow wrestler The Miz ) in a wrestling ring. In September 2016, comedian Rob Riggle played Sanders in an ad introducing a football team named "The Kentucky Buckets". In January 2017, to advertise their "Georgia Gold Honey Mustard BBQ" Chicken offerings, actor Billy Zane took over
3105-478: The alleged misuse of his image in promoting products he had not helped develop. In 1975, Heublein Inc. unsuccessfully sued Sanders for libel after he publicly described their gravy as being "sludge" with a "wall-paper taste". Sanders and his wife reopened their Shelbyville restaurant as " Claudia Sanders, The Colonel's Lady " and served KFC-style chicken there as part of a full-service dinner menu, and talked about expanding
3174-476: The back of his car, Sanders visited restaurants, offered to cook his chicken, and if workers liked it negotiated franchise rights. Although such visits required much time, eventually potential franchisees began visiting Sanders instead. He ran the company while Claudia mixed and shipped the spices to restaurants. The franchise approach became highly successful; KFC was one of the first fast food chains to expand internationally, opening outlets in Canada and later in
3243-455: The chaos, Crypto hears a voice in his head, telling him to go to the city of Shen Long. Later, Crypto, while in Sunnywood, is shot in the neck, faints, and then wakes up in a Kung Fu monastery where he is greeted by a Furon martial arts expert known as The Master. The Master beseeches him to submit to his tutelage, and train in mind and firepower, to help him defeat these new threats. Now Crypto
3312-481: The company made was to the gravy, which Sanders had bragged was so good that "it'll make you throw away the durn chicken and just eat the gravy" but which the company simplified to reduce time and cost. As late as 1979 Sanders made surprise visits to KFC restaurants, and if the food disappointed him, he denounced it to the franchisee as "God-damned slop" or pushed it onto the floor. In 1973, Sanders sued Heublein Inc. —the then parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken—over
3381-506: The company's symbol after selling it, traveling 200,000 miles (320,000 km) a year on the company's behalf and filming many TV commercials and appearances. He retained much influence over executives and franchisees, who respected his culinary expertise and feared what The New Yorker described as "the force and variety of his swearing" when a restaurant or the company varied from what executives described as "the Colonel's chicken". One change
3450-446: The country. The company's rapid expansion across the United States and overseas became overwhelming for Sanders. In 1964, then 73 years old, he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown Jr. and Jack C. Massey for $ 2 million ($ 19.6 million today). However, he retained control of operations in Canada, and he became a salaried brand ambassador for Kentucky Fried Chicken. In his later years, he became highly critical of
3519-412: The food served at KFC restaurants, and cost-cutting measures that he said reduced its quality, referring to the food as "God-damned slop" with a "wall-paper taste". Harland David Sanders was born on September 9, 1890, in a four-room house located 3 miles (5 km) east of Henryville, Indiana . He was the oldest of three children born to Wilbur David and Margaret Ann ( née Dunlevy) Sanders. His mother
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#17329307086553588-407: The last 20 years of his life, using a heavy wool suit in the winter and a light cotton suit in the summer. He bleached his mustache and goatee to match his white hair. John Y. Brown Jr. remembered Sanders as "a brilliant man with a gourmet flair for food, a visionary and a great motivator, with the style of a showman and the discipline of a Vince Lombardi ." Sanders was a Freemason . Sanders
3657-431: The money to establish a company manufacturing acetylene lamps. The venture failed after Delco introduced an electric lamp that it sold on credit. Sanders moved to Winchester, Kentucky , to work as a salesman for the Michelin Tire Company . He lost his job in 1924 when Michelin closed its New Jersey manufacturing plant. In 1924, by chance, he met the general manager of Standard Oil of Kentucky , who asked him to run
3726-433: The new Interstate 75 reduced customer traffic. Left only with his savings and US$ 105 a month from Social Security (equivalent to $ 1,194 in 2023), Sanders decided to begin to franchise his chicken concept in earnest, and traveled the US looking for suitable restaurants. After closing the North Corbin site, Sanders and Claudia opened a new restaurant and company headquarters in Shelbyville in 1959. Often sleeping in
3795-620: The railroad, he met Josephine King of Jasper, Alabama , and they were married shortly afterwards on June 15, 1909, in Jasper. They would go on to have three children, Margaret Josephine Sanders, born March 29, 1910, in Jasper, Alabama , and died October 19, 2001, in West Palm Beach, Florida , Harland David Sanders Jr. on April 23, 1912, in Tuscumbia, Alabama , who died on September 15, 1932, in Martinsville, Indiana , from infected tonsils , and Mildred Marie Sanders Ruggles, born October 15, 1919, in Jeffersonville, Indiana , and died September 21, 2010, in Lexington, Kentucky . He then found work as
3864-510: The restaurant into a chain. He was sued by the company for it. After reaching a settlement with Heublein, he sold the Colonel's Lady restaurant, and it has continued to operate, currently as the Claudia Sanders Dinner House. It serves his "original recipe" fried chicken as part of its non-fast-food dinner menu, and it is the only non-KFC restaurant that serves an authorized version of the fried chicken recipe. Sanders remained critical of Kentucky Fried Chicken's food. In an article published by
3933-517: The restaurant with the Big Willy mascot mech. Using the money earned from the Big Willy fast food franchise that Orthopox started in Big Willy Unleashed , Pox and his destructive Furon warrior minion Crypto have opened a casino which they use to obtain a steady financial income and human DNA . Crypto has lost his motivation because of the death of Natalya (which was a clone with a four-year lifespan) and has forgotten what it means to destroy humans. One night he gets drunk and crashes his old saucer into
4002-449: The role as the "Solid Gold Colonel". In April 2017, actor Rob Lowe was announced as the newest actor in the role of Colonel Sanders. Lowe said that as a child, he actually got to meet Harland Sanders. WWE would return to using Colonel Sanders during 2017, showing ads of Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle playing him, as well as announcing that Colonel Sanders would be available as a playable character in WWE 2K18 (accessible through
4071-401: The syndicated television sitcom The Munsters Today . Starting in 1993, Horvitz changed the focus of his career to voice acting, starting with the voices of Alpha 5 and Alpha 4 in the live-action series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers . From there, he had several other voice roles in such animated series as The Angry Beavers (as Daggett), Invader Zim (as Zim), Kim Possible , Dave
4140-431: The time of Sanders's death, there were an estimated 6,000 KFC outlets in 48 countries worldwide, with $ 2 billion in sales annually. A fictionalized Colonel Sanders has repeatedly appeared as a mascot in KFC's advertising and branding. Sanders has been voiced by impressionists in radio ads, and from 1998 to 2001 an animated version of him voiced by Randy Quaid appeared in television commercials. In May 2015, KFC brought
4209-534: The true enemy that is responsible for everything happening in the game: the Blisk, an alien race from Mars who are the ancient enemy of the Furons, whom they thought they defeated in the Martian War. Big Willy Unleashed takes place after Destroy All Humans! 2 . Crypto and Pox start a fast food restaurant that serves human meat from all the people Crypto has killed harvesting more Furon DNA. Later, their rival restaurant, Colonel Kluckin' (a parody of Colonel Sanders ), discovers their secret, whereupon Crypto must protect
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#17329307086554278-444: Was "re-commissioned" as a Kentucky Colonel in 1950 by his friend, Governor Lawrence Wetherby . In 1952, Sanders franchised his secret recipe "Kentucky Fried Chicken" for the first time, to Pete Harman of South Salt Lake, Utah , the operator of one of that city's largest restaurants. In the first year of selling the product, restaurant sales more than tripled, with 75% of the increase coming from sales of fried chicken. For Harman,
4347-402: Was 14, he moved to southern Indiana to work as a farmhand. In 1906, with his mother's approval, Sanders left the area to live with his uncle in New Albany, Indiana . His uncle worked for the streetcar company, and secured Sanders a job as a conductor. Sanders falsified his date of birth and enlisted in the United States Army in October 1906 (age 16), completing his service commitment as
4416-474: Was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company. Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as steam engine stoker , insurance salesman, and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky , during
4485-409: Was attended by more than 500 people. His body was also displayed in an open casket during a memorial service that was held at KFC's headquarters in Louisville; about 1,000 to 1,200 people attended the service. Sanders was buried in his characteristic white suit and black western string tie in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville. His wife, Claudia, died on December 31, 1996, at the age of 94. By
4554-443: Was destroyed in a fire in November 1939, and Sanders had it rebuilt as a motel with a 140-seat restaurant. By July 1940 (age 50), Sanders had finalized his " Secret Recipe " for frying chicken in a pressure fryer that cooked the chicken faster than pan frying . As the United States entered World War II in December 1941, gas was rationed, and as the tourism dried up, Sanders was forced to close his Asheville motel. He went to work as
4623-444: Was diagnosed with acute leukemia in June 1980. He died at Jewish Hospital in Louisville of pneumonia six months later, on December 16, at the age of 90. Sanders had remained active until the month before his death, appearing in his white suit to crowds. His body was laid in state in the rotunda of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort after a funeral service at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel, which
4692-665: Was in the sketch comedy group The MoHos with Fred Willard , created by Fred’s wife Mary Lovell. He and Fred would sometimes perform on various talk shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . Horvitz also appeared in an episode of Saturday Night Live in the short segment "Bear City" and briefly appeared on Tosh.0 . Horvitz married playwright and screenwriter Kristen Lazarian on February 9, 1996. They currently live in Los Angeles and have three sons together. He speaks fluent Spanish . Colonel Sanders Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980)
4761-480: Was of Irish and Dutch descent. The family attended the Advent Christian Church . His father was a mild and affectionate man who worked his 80-acre (32 ha) farm until he broke his leg in a fall. He then worked as a butcher in Henryville for two years. Sanders's mother was a devout Christian and strict parent, continually warning her children of "the evils of alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and whistling on Sundays". Sanders's father died in 1895. His mother got work in
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