IKEA (IPA: [i'keːa]) is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer. Founded in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden, the company is named as an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), the farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd), and his hometown (Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden).
The firm is known for the attention it gives to cost control, operational details and continuous product development, allowing it to lower its prices by an average of two to three per cent over the decade to 2010, while continuing its global expansion.
The groups of companies that form IKEA are all controlled by INGKA Holding ., a Dutch corporation, which in turn is controlled by a tax-exempt, not-for-profit Dutch foundation. The IKEA trademark and concept is controlled by a series of corporations that can be traced to the Netherlands Antilles and to the Interogo Foundation in Liechtenstein.
Plot
Unkempt security guard John's right arm was transformed into a costumed super-limb after being stuck in a vending machine (stocked with irradiated soda). With villains from around the globe hitting town for their annual convention, can John's Arm (and his low-rent super-team, the Superior Friends) keep the bad guys at bay and save Earth from total annihilation?
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, alien, ambulance, arcade-game, asian-man, bar, black-comedy, blood, body-swap, car
Evil gets one across the mouth.
Willis: [voiceover] Grandma says John is a bad influence on me.::John: Willis. I need your grandma's car. I been drinking Robitussin all day and I'm pretty sure I can drive it with my penis.::Willis: Grandma says you can't use her car anymore unless she's in it. She doesn't like where you leave the radio tuned.::John: Box 'er old bones up then, let's go. I needs mo' 'Tussin.
Heartbreaker: I sure wish there were more people out there like you. Money's been tight. The name "Kap'n Kill-Krazy" doesn't move merch the way it used to. I blame the parents, and their baffling aversion to killing.::John: Plus, that video game sucked a big drippy.::Heartbreaker: Christ, don't remind me. I told him to slap his name on the Tetris clone, but did he listen? Hell no.::[pause]::Heartbreaker: Seventeen different juvenile vehicular homicides, the Times said. Don't think even the All-Seeing Eye saw that coming.
Old Man on Bench: Hail Satan.
Bonk: I implore you, sharp ones; heed my tale of danger! I had no choice but to flee Earth! For there, I encountered terrors that make the Vootliff Massacre look like a friggin' toe-tappy tea party!::Horned Councillor #1: Explain.::Bonk: There... were... wallopers! And whackers. And zappers! And BITING! Oh... such... biting!::Horned Councillor #3: Our scanners showed no sign of biters in that sector.::Bonk: They were... stealth biters! Stealthy... AND bitey!
Kraig Rizzo: I'm talking way bigger than anatomically correct plastic, my five-fingered friend. I mean themesong ringtones! Charlie Kaufman pens a movie of your life story! Wristwatch ads got Vin Diesel's ass on a marquee, why not yours?
The Mayor: Jesus eatin' fajitas, Jacobs. Have you been watching too much Bravo?
Bonk: All yall's my bitches now.
Lefty: [after his fake arm falls off] Er,uh... I totally have cancer.
Long ago in days of yore
It all began with a god named Thor
There were Vikings and boats
And some plans for a furniture store
It’s not a bodega, it’s not a mall
And they sell things for apartments smaller than mine
As if there were apartments smaller than mine
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of
Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced
Everyone has a home
But if you don’t have a home you can buy one there
So rent a car or take the bus
Lay your cash down and put your trust
In the land where the furniture folds to a much smaller
size
Billy the bookcase says hello
And so does a table whose name is Ingo
And the chair is a ladder-back birch but his friends
call him Karl
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of
Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced
Everyone has a home
But if you don’t have a home you can buy one there
Ikea: plywood, brushed steel
Ikea: meatballs, tasty
Ikea: Allen wrenches
All of them for free
All of them for me
I’m sorry I said Ikea sucks
I just bought a table for 60 bucks
And a chair and a lamp
And a shelf and some candles for you
I was a doubter just like you
Till I saw the American dream come true
In New Jersey, they got a goddamned Swedish parade
Ikea: just some oak and some pine and a handful of
Norsemen
Ikea: selling furniture for college kids and divorced
Everyone has a home