Tuesday, December 23, 2008

more on that

folks, i said i wasn't going to look any further, and i didn't, but The Hater had a different version of the 'pieces left behind' (i want to make a spoof of the left behind series around that as the title/premise) on her page today and it is either far more, or just slightly less disturbing than the interrupted football game one. you decide.

Friday, December 19, 2008

weird tv of the week

there is so much that is awesomely disturbing about this commercial. from the anthropomorphizing of the young bear in a way that makes his nudity seem inappropriate* to the use of shame marketing** to the totally bizarre 'strength test' scene and the intense chasm between the tone and the narrative/subject matter***.



when i was looking for it on youtube, i noticed, a lot of people are uploading these commercials with the bears. i was going to investigate this bear commercial youtube uploader subculture and then i saw this video.



and i think delving any deeper might be too much for me.


*the flecks of tp on his butt emphasize his humanness, his nudity and his playing football simultaneously. but this commercial with humans instead of bears would be... oh my god totally amazing. but also really kind of icky and who would ever do that?

**the idea that "little white pieces" of toilet paper on my ass would be a source of embarrassment or disdain (his dad is so utterly and publicly disgusted) instead of discomfort or unhygiene.

***they go through all the trouble of saying 'bath tissue' and the commercial is absurdly vulgar in general message.

****i wish there was an easy way to format footnotes in a blog post where the reader could just click on the * and it would take them to the note and then you could just click back to where you were reading.