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This cartoon is significant for two reasons:
1. The crux of the idea came from a cartoon sent to me by
my e-friend, Derek, who went off on one of his rare diatribes in the comments section of this blog yesterday.
2. During the Super Bowl yesterday, there was a commercial featuring Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head.
Coincidence? Tom Cruise would say not.
Mr. Potato Head is a rich source of humor for cartoonists. Personally, my favorite aspect of the tuber folk is their detachable parts. I wonder if anyone has ever manufactured genitalia for the Potato Head line. I was careful when drawing this cartoon, for instance, to be sure the "lips" looked like a mouth. Although a plastic vagina would have been so much funnier.
When I was a kid back in the mid-1900s, we used real potatoes with these parts. It gives you far more creative options for placement when you don't have to rely on the pre-drilled holes. We also used to bring other vegetables into the storyline, dramatizing attacks from gangs of sideshow freaks or aliens from outer space.
As I write this, it occurs to me that the Potato Head line is missing a whole slew of opportunities for potato prosthetics. How about a mythology line with horns, cyclops eye, wings, animal appendages? Or a horror line with fangs, claws, melting facial features, a bloody gash. And why stop with potatoes? The cast of Broadway's "Cats" could be done with fruits. A Mr. Pumpkin Head line that looks like Rush Limbaugh seems like a natural for Right Wing kids in the Bible Belt.
Which brings to mind Bible-themed Potato Head toys. What fruit or veggy would Jesus be?
thanks dan im losing my blog privilleges for a month ..
ReplyDeletei just figured with my pepere in all the relationship was over
for those interested my original joke was a guy had lips stuck to his face and the lady said been with mrs potato head again i knew the adhesive would work
so as you can see i like dans better and the lips are drawn well
thanks
now back to business..wednesday
Dear Dan,
ReplyDeleteYour cartoons and commenters are bizarre.
Signed~
Ms Oblivious
A kiwi, because of the hair.
ReplyDeleteYou could leave a potato in the cupboard for a few months and have a Medusa.
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ReplyDeleteI am stealing Shipping Trolls idea and turning it into a Bizarro.
ReplyDeleteTwo Mr. Potato Head archeologist open The Medusa Cupboard in Ancient Greece to find the fabled Medusa Potato.
How many votes do I have for Dan to turn this idea into a cartoon?
As Jesus held the wine up, he said, "This is my blood..."
ReplyDeleteJesus is a grape. Plain & simple.
What a great post ... but I'm both laughing and speechless.
ReplyDeleteI hope that isn't real fur on that artificial vagina. THAT would be gross.
ReplyDeleteRE:the medusa cartoon...
ReplyDeleteWhile working on this post yesterday I came up with a cartoon idea about this very thing. I may use it in the coming months, or opt for the one outlined by isee3dtoo. Thanks for the input.
Regarding the plastic vagina, at least it's a sort of truth in advertising. The ad shows, right next to the, um, thing, a guy whose palm is covered with hair. So you see, your Boy Scout leader wasn't really lying.
ReplyDeleteHmmm.. I most definitely read a couple of articles about this topic and it brings me back down memory lane :)
ReplyDeleteThe question that I ask myself is what caused something like this to happen or be written??