Sprunk is a brand of lemon-lime soft drink featured in the 3D Universe of the Grand Theft Auto series. The company is also featured in the Manhunt series.
Description[]
Logo variant in GTA San Andreas.
Sprunk is a carbonated lemon-lime beverage claimed in a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas radio commercial to contain "10 times the caffeine and sugar", mixed with mercury, ether, and benzene, and packaged in fragmentation grenade-shaped cans.
Sprunk establishments are found in both Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV. In GTA San Andreas, players can find a branch office of Sprunk in East Beach, Los Santos, as well as the Home o' Sprunk packaging plant in Montgomery, Red County.
Sprunk vending machines are dotted throughout Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, from which the player can buy a can of Sprunk for $1, drink its contents to replenish their health, and throw the empty can away. Sprunk vending machines also appear in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, though they are inaccessible.
Advertisements have also been featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Manhunt and Manhunt 2. Sprunk is one of the sponsors featured on some Hotring Racer cars in GTA Vice City.
In Manhunt, Sprunk vending machines can be shot open using a weapon, which will produce a Sprunk can to be used as a lure item. In Manhunt 2, Sprunk cans return as lure items, while the vending machine can be used to perform an unique environmental execution.
Influence[]
Sprunk is an obvious parody of Sprite. Sprunk co-exists with eCola, a parody of Coca-Cola.
The vending machine used in GTA Vice City is based on the late 1980s–early 1990s Coca-Cola vending machines.
The name is a play on of "Spunk", a slang term for semen. This is reinforced by the Sprunk motto "The Essence of Life". A synonym for "Essence" is "Substance" so the slogan is most probably referring to the fact that semen is the main substance required for reproduction in mammals.
Products[]
| Image | Name | Type | Primary Real World Equivalent(s) | First Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sprunk | Lime soft drink | Sprite | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
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Sprunk Lite | Lime soft drink | Sprite Zero Sugar | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
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Sprunk Light | Lime soft drink | Manhunt | |
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Sprunk Diet | Lime soft drink | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | |
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Sprunk Beer | Alcoholic beverage | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas |
Locations[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
Sprunk have a drinks booth at the North Point Mall:
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Sprunk have a branch office named "Sprunk Incorporated" in East Beach, Los Santos, as well as a factory named "Home o' Sprunk" in Montgomery, Red County.
Gallery[]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City & Vice City Stories[]
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories[]
Manhunt series[]
Sprunk Vending Machine - Environmental Execution (Manhunt 2).
Trivia[]
- Sprunk, originally intended to debut in Manhunt, was originally named "Squirt" (also a sexual joke).
- This is evidenced by the early "24/7 - Squirt" sign texture for Calleggi Delicatessen Restaurant in the early build of Manhunt (v0.69), updated in the final release as a "24/7 - Sprunk" sign.[1]
- The early "Squirt" texture was later left in the same restaurant in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City due to reused early development assets from Manhunt for Vice City Mainland.[2]
- Unlike in the Manhunt series, the Sprunk vending machines in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are indestructible and cannot be damaged in any way.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
- When Carl Johnson buys a can of Sprunk from a vending machine, he drinks it upside down. This is a developer oversight.
- When Carl does so in The Definitive Edition, he not only drinks the can upside down, but also points it at his forehead. Again, this is a developer oversight.
- A Sprunk billboard featuring a short-haired woman can be found on the southern edge of Jefferson, Los Santos (next to the east-west expressway into the commercial heart of Los Santos), with the slogan "A Taste of Things to Come". Following a car chase during Reuniting the Families that ends with the gang's car crashing through the billboard, the billboard's slogan, partially cut away by a clean hole created from the crash, now reads "A Taste of _______Come", referring to "cum" (a slang term for semen). The billboard piece can in fact be destroyed before "Reuniting The Families" using any weapon, however the billboard will revert to its pre-Reuniting the Families appearance when going far enough from it.
References[]
- ↑ Texture(01/15/2024)Calleggi Delicatessen Restaurant sign texture in Manhunt.
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Bow_deli_drinksign" - ↑ Texture(01/15/2024)Calleggi Delicatessen Restaurant sign texture in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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Bow_deli_drinksign"
