it’s not called mongoloid anymore.

Somehow, I don’t think the creators of this doll were remotely joking.

Introducing the Down Syndrome Girl Doll! The description from the website selling the product is as follows:

A soft-sculpt cloth doll with all the features of a down’s child

A doll that looks like me

$27.50

An incredible gift and affirmation, our Down Syndrome dolls are created in love, given in love and received in love.

Serene in their love for us, in the joy they find in their lives and in their accomplishments, special children with an extra large capacity for love.

The Pattycake Doll Co. takes great pride in presenting the first ever soft-sculpt cloth dolls for these special Down Syndrome children. Build self-esteem and self respect with a doll the “looks like me!” A doll that teaches your child the positive message that “we’re beautiful too.”

Approx. 14 inches tall, lightweight all cloth and fiber filled, machine wash and dry, easy to dress slip on pants and velcro-strip top. Available for either boys or girls and in white or ethnic skin tones. Age safe starting at 2 years old.

foam-rubber puppet children

Of all my questions that have gone unanswered, the one that resonates within the confines of my skull is this one:

Who the fuck pulled the plug on Muppet Babies?

It’s been almost 15 years since the show last aired, and to this day I find it funny. How many other programs have featured Tom Selleck professing his love to a cartoon pig with blonde hair? Where else is “Native American” a valid career path?*

Did you think Garbage Pail Kids was canceled before it even reached American TV sets because it was a crap show? No. Garbage Pail Kids was canceled because it was set to air in the timeslot after Muppet Babies, a show so brilliant that you could air M*A*S*H* after it and it would seem like a very special episode of Yogi Bear.

Watch:

*Completely serious – during a tune about career paths, Miss Piggy Sports a festive Indian headdress.

shit SINema: meet the spartans

As if Robot Chicken hadn’t worn out the now-famous “THIS IS SPARTA!” line by devoting ten segments to it, Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg have cooked up another steaming batch of shit soup for moviegoers to devour.

Who keeps signing off on all these lame-ass Seltzer-Friedberg projects anyway? Yes, we all know that Paris Hilton popularized the phrase “that’s hot”. And we’ve all put it behind us. There’s no reason to pluck it from obscurity to score a cheap laugh that will most likely not make it past the inaudible chuckle phase anyway.

Meet the Spartans offers all of the quality Seltzer-Friedberg humor that we’ve grown to love: fat jokes, midget jokes, gay jokes… there’s even a crack at Paula Abdul!

The only thing that would have been more predictable is if they titled the movie “Meet the Fartans”.

I’m not begging for the Mariana Trench, but I like my movies to have a bit more depth than a visual gag where Donald Trump’s hair is pulled off by Spiderman’s web.