Disclaimer: I have been uncertain whether or not I should post this comic today.
I try to avoid passing along images, jokes, comics, or photos that could appear to denigrate gender-specific body parts. I think the human body is a marvelous invention (the male or female version), and a lot of crass joking about human plumbing often doesn’t seem funny to me—it can border on ugly, to be honest.
Oh, I find tales of the various true-life mishaps that befall our all-too-fallible bodies to be hilarious, and I have posted numerous tales of some of my own body parts being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ill-fitting spandex, underwire gone rogue, thighs gone wild, and people-flashing skirts, to name only a few, have all been part of my public blogging experience. And of course, all of these incidents stem directly from my female body.
Such tales are never intended to belittle either gender’s body, but rather to laugh out loud about some of the shared experiences of being human.
I am sharing the cartoon below for the following reasons: 1) I find it hilarious, and 2) I have had a crush on Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head for my whole life. And I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll probably always have a crush on the adorable brown-plastic orbs with the killer clip-on fashion accessories.
So if this comic offends anyone, I am truly apologetic. No objectification, ugliness, or rudeness is intended—I just found it flat-out funny.
Enjoy!
Hahahah, Cara!! So you used the plastic potatoes? I remember the days when you only bought the ears, moustache, nose, arms, etc. and stuck them in a REAL potato! I guess that really dates me; but I’ve always loved Mr. and Mrs. P-H as well! Thanks for the laugh!
What fun, Andy! I always wondered what the history of Mr. Potato Head was prior to plastic production of both the accessories and the plastic body. I knew it must have stemmed from real potatoes, but I haven’t been able to figure out what types of accessory stick-ins would have been used by children of long ago prior to plastic. Toothpicks weren’t readily available for many families, I would have guessed—maybe they used sewing pins to push in bits of vegetables, cloth, etc? I would love to know more about it—I love that today’s Mr. P-H toy sprang from the ingenuity of children and parents from the past.
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