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You are my buddy chucky lyrics5/2/2024 I mean, where’s the huge conclusion? The celeb cameos? “My Buddy” snorting coke with Doc and Darryl? “My Buddy” chillin’ with Mike Dukakis on the campaign trail? Dancing at Studio 54. The wrap-up is a little underwhelming.I dig how the guys come running out of a clubhouse, labeled CLUBHOUSE just so the viewers don’t get confused.It’s the boys hiding behind the nearby bushes, preparing to throw rocks at his head, then steal “My Buddy” and set him on fire. But if, as happens 19 seconds in, I were to catch him in, say, the driveway, spinning ’round and ’round with his “best friend,” I’d be a bit worried. However, tree climbing with a doll the size of “My Buddy” is an awful idea, and in 1987 12 separate lawsuits in nine states were filed against the Playschool Toy Company for damage caused to young boys who fell from trees while accompanied by a doll. Easily the most famous line from the “My Buddy” commercials is, “My Buddy and me like to climb up a tree.” And, admittedly, as a boy I watched the ad and sorta wished for a doll I, too, could bring up into a tree.It’s, “thaaaat eyyyyyyeeeee knooooooooow.” That’s how you grab an audition, Wendy. She doesn’t just go with a simple, “that I know.” Nope. The girl-disguised-as-a-boy-but-is-really-a-girl busts out the vocals here. I have to say, my kids are 100 percent on about seconds 11 and 12.Now Tim has no friends to speak of, and Dad has to come home early from work every Thursday to meet with Tim’s therapist, then drag him and Manute around in the red wagon. But the wife insisted it’d be good for character development and growth and whatnot, and Dad glumly nodded his head and plunked down the $19.95. Now, Dad knows his son needs to ditch the doll, and he was strongly against “My Buddy” as a gift two Christmases back. A few seconds later, a very sad reality: Tommy has escaped, and it’s just Tim, his dog Manute and Dad.He brings that doll e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e …” But Tom’s mom and Tim’s mom are friends from the pool club, and it’s sorta awkward, so Tommy’s mom pretends to listen as her son whines on about Tim being, “just so weird. I’m actually guessing Tommy doesn’t want to play with Tim, and told his parents as much. You just can’t bring your “My Buddy” into the clubhouse and expect respect. And I must say again-Tim is destined for a beating. Third, four seconds in we find Tim, Tommy and, of course, “My Buddy” peeking out of the clubhouse.I can picture the auditions-100 boys fucking the thing up, and the director finally settling on Wendy, the pudgy girl with dimples and a boy’s voice. Second, I am convinced the singer of the “My Buddy” theme song is a girl, trying to sound like a boy but ultimately sounding like a boy either halfway through puberty or halfway through early transgender work. Really, “My Buddy” is “My Adam Rich,” and if I’m this guy in 2015, struggling for dough and battling the demons of the forced undersized child labor that only a select few fully understand (paging Emmanuel Lewis …), I’m finding anyone associated with “My Buddy” and retroactively suing his/her ass off. He doesn’t seem psychotic, per se, but he’s a dead ringer for Adam Rich, the former “Eight is Enough” cuter-than-cute tyke who went on to years of addiction and has been arrested at least three times on DUI charges. Imagine walking around the playground, age 7, with a “My Buddy” tucked beneath your arm. First and foremost, “My Buddy” is an ass beating waiting to happen.The “My Buddy” commercial is amazing for about 823 different reasons, none of them having to do with Kim Kardashian’s buttocks or former KISS drummer Eric Carr. So over the course of the past few weeks I’ve been singing the song from the commercial to that classic 1980s toy, “My Buddy.” I’m not sure why, and the other day my kids asked if they could see the original television spot.
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