![]() ![]() Louie, Louie, the song made famous by the movie Animal House, had lyrics that were barely intelligible. It’s like that classic song from the early sixties by the Kingsmen. It’s funny what a bad recording can turn itself into in the fertile mind. Which doesn’t make much sense on its own but in the context of the film made some sort of sense (kind of). Once we saw the film we realized that what it was actually saying was: “ Stress… it’s a killer!”. It sounded like the Peter Lorre bat was telling us to “…buy some tequila.” The bat spoke with a Peter Lorre type accent and it said a handful of different phrases from the film including one that we couldn’t quite make out. When my kids were young my daughter had a toy bat from the animated movie Anastasia. After all, who doesn’t love a Starbuck’s lover? Like a trick of the eye, this is a trick of the ear. Thus “ I’ve got a long list of ex-lovers” in their minds was transmuted to “ Gotta love those Starbuck’s lovers” Well, most people don’t have a long list of ex-lovers, so they tried to interpret the lyrics based on their day-to-day experiences. In it she had a lyric about having a long list of ex-lovers. Recently Taylor Swift released a song called Blank Space. If a minion toy says a phrase with an inflection that sounds like another sentence with the same inflection we hear the sentence we are most used to hearing. Or, more accurately, people hear what they are used to hearing. The last thing they need is a scandal involving a cursing toy.īut people hear what they want to hear. They have enough trouble trying to justify the huge amounts of crappy food they sell to impressionable youths around the world. They have been scrambling in the past few years to combat their image as a major contributor to the nation’s obesity and heart disease problems. McDonald’s is a corporation whose dominance of the fast food market is not the sure thing it once was. Seriously, parents? Do you honestly think that a huge mega-corporation like McDonald’s would do that? Deliberately distribute a toy that utters profane phrases in an attempt to corrupt the youth of America? “That’s not a phrase that kids should be hearing from a toy,” they intone reproachfully. You know the minions, right? Those little yellow capsule shaped critters that speak a nonsense language that has been dubbed “ minionese” Well, the little toy in the Happy Meal speaks some of these nonsense phrases when you tap it on the butt and a lot of people think that one of the phrases sounds an awful lot like the little critter is saying “what the fuck?” Videos are being posted on youtube with parents tapping the little toys’ butts and making it say phrases until it gets to the one that sounds offensive. Recently McDonald’s came out with a line of toys for their Happy Meals based on the upcoming movie MINIONS. ![]()
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