>Last night was so hilarious. SO funny. I can’t even express it except to say my cheeks still hurt from laughing and I can’t wait for next time.
>Heather linked to this video of the tiny Mormon folk singing at school about NOT LYING (BIG SMILE) and man, I just about died from remembering how many times I sang that song as a kid. Those kids probably had to get temple recommends to be in the commercial. Oh, wait. Maybe not because here is Alfonso Ribeiro, who I believe is not a tiny Mormon folk, TELLING THE TRUTH about breaking a window in another 80s Mormon commercial. (HE’S SMILING!) I must assume they will let you be in the Mormon commercials as long as you can smile very large and for long periods of filming time.
Now THIS commercial still freaks me out. I remember bawling when it came on because my life was never going to be as perfectly awesome as the little girl who kept morphing into an older version of herself. My heart strings – they were pulled. Now when I watch, I can’t get over the fact that the mom, who has just birthed a baby girl, is hallucinating in the hospital and they are LETTING HER GO HOME WITH HER BABY! Perhaps they should check her for a little postpartum depression? If your newborn is morphing into a pre-teen and arabesque-ing down the hallway on your way out, you may have an issue or two.
And this commercial is a perfect representation of how every young adult in the L.D.S. religion talks over lunch. Always.
I don’t remember now who sent me this link (SORRY! I LOVE YOU!) but it explains why polygamy exists according to the 13-year-old male mind. Things misrepresented – the young gentleman would never be alone – Always! Always! with his companion and his name tag was WAAAAY too small. Mormon Missionaries are proud, dangit! And they have the name tags to prove it.
And please don’t live your entire life and miss the Johnny Lingo temple visitor’s center film. You can view the 3 segments here, here and here. Watch for the part where the loving father says, ‘Mahana, you ugly! What are you hiding up there for? Today is the day of bargaining. Come down and be ready to greet your husband to be!‘ so he can trade her to the highest bidder. Still, to this day, I don’t understand why they play it there. Like, it’s a really great representation of how Mormons live? Not. But, it is funny. Just ask Joe. He’s had to sit through both the original version and the new version. (Yes. It was so awesome, they made it again.)
>I’m done scanning. (YAY!)
I’m supposed to be getting ready for my day, you know. My work as I currently call it, and here I sit clicking on videos and spewing coffee out of my mouth (possibly my nose) and it’s amazing. Great way to start the day.
Ditto Mocha. I’m lucky the coffee only came out one nostril. The Johnny Lingo stuff is classic.
Congratulations on finishing the scanning!
A few years ago I worked at a Girl Scout resident camp and one of my fellow staff members was a Mormon. She thought the rest of the staff was suffering from low self esteem and hunted down a copy of Johnny Lingo for us to watch together And considering we were in backwoods Louisiana at the time she really put a lot of effort into finding a copy).
On our one night off, we piled into the mess hall around a teeny tiny tv and embraced Johnny. Oh. My. God. Our friend only had the best intentions for suggesting we watch the movie but we could not stop laughing. To this day I have a friend from that summer who ends email to with “You are worth many cows”
This is truly strange stuff. This is PR??? Cheers, PaL
“done scanning”?? OMG that was fast. You are awesome!
Leah,
You are the original 100 cow woman.
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