Saturday, July 22, 2006

Troll Dolls in Our Subconscious


Whenever we think of the word "Meemie", we think of troll dolls, and that is because we used to watch The Drew Carey Show when we were very, very young, and somehow it has imprinted itself upon our subconscious. This is why, if you plop your 6 year old down to watch National Geographic documentaries everyday, all they will gain from it is a mild association of South Africa with the sandwich squares they used to get at TV time. It is also why those creepy Baby Einstein flash-cards aren't good for anything but man-nurse jokes on Meet the Fockers. You might as well let the little brats watch Xena. Though it is clear what years of watching Xena has done to our sister, who is somehow registered as a "lethal weapon". We aren't actually sure what this entails, beyond that it is not illegal to conceal her or bring her on airplanes.
And just now, in an attempt to find a picture suitable for demonstrating the troll dolls we think of, we realized how pervy these things are. We never actually owned a troll doll, so we have not had the chance to get up close and personal with one in many, many years. To think, our less fortunate friends were playing with little ugly naked men with cotton-candy hair when we were pretending our Barbies were lesbian Amazon queens (another result of watching too much Xena, although we are sure lots of little girls had lesbian Barbies, considering how Ken has all the personality of a pile of tater-tots). These things are creepier than Yoda and Ferbies combined.