November 20, 2008
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1 I know I've been down this road before, but every time I SEE a commercial for Barbie in A Christmas Carol I get weirded out.
2 Barbie shouldn't talk. Period.
3 She shouldn't be British.
4 And she would look stupid in a nightgown and a funny hat. Plus even though she turns 50 this coming year, she doesn't make a good miserly old man.
5 She's miscast.
6 And once again, Barbie's starring in A Christmas Carol reminds me of Tinker Bell the movie that has the petite pixie talking as well.
7 The immortal Goof straightened me AND the Disney people out last time I brought that up by telling us that it SHOULD be Tinkerbell, NOT Tinker Bell.
8 He's correct. J.M. Barrie used one word: Tinkerbell.
9 But I'm not here to talk about all that, just that the commercial for Barbie in A Christmas Carol and it just doesn' work for me. It looks a lot like it's a scam to sell all sorts of Barbie in A Christmas Carol stuff this Christmas.
10 And how annoying that you have to include "Barbie in" in the title.
11 I think it has something to do with the Bratz lawsuit, but we've been all over that one too.
12 Moving on: Has anyone seen that commercial with the thumbs and fingers that have faces on them?
13 <shudders>
14 Ew.
15 So I guess what I'm driving at is a new conspiracy theory.
16 The CIA is trying to make me go crazy by controlling my teevee and having things come through it that give me the heebie-jeebies.
17 I was about to say, "Nah..." when some Target commercial came on with really freaky gingerbread men.
18 Maybe it's just me.
19 But all that stuff just seems so unnatural, almost like the arm of a corpse lying on a lawn or something.
20 Just weird.
21 Enough of this.
22 It's Thursday, and I've a lonnnnnng day coming up. About six billion teachers are supposed to converge on the District Office tonight at 6 p.m. tonight in order to protest the upcoming budget cuts.
23 So I'll bow out now.
24 Wishing you all a lovely Thursday.
25 Peace.
~H~
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