WTF Wednesday Holiday Edition
Today’s WTF Wednesday is brought to you by Mattel!
Christmas is coming up and I was thinking it might be helpful if I showcased some of the hot new toys kids will be asking for this year. My personal favorite is the Barbie Hot Tub Party Bus!
“There’s nothing like a good house party — and Barbie and her friends take their parties on the road. This festive RV bus keeps playtime rolling! The living room features an entertainment center with a flat-screen TV, a spinning driver’s chair, and a sofa that opens into a bed. There’s even a second pull-down bed for party guests to snooze in. Best of all, the hot tub in the back
keeps Barbie’s friends warm and toasty.”
Having been raised on innumerable episodes of Three’s Company, which was always heavily laced with double-entendres, I have to ask…is it just me or does Hot Tub Party Bus sound like a euphemism for “Hot SEX Party Bus“? Because growing up in the swinging seventies, the hot tub references were common and were NEVER about merely getting “warm and toasty” (unless you were on a ski trip with your church youth group grandparents.)
And even though he’s from a different era, I keep hearing Austin Powers’ voice in my head:
A sofa that opens into a bed?
A second pull-down bed for “guests”? *wink wink*
And a hot tub in the back???
Yeahhhh Bayyyybeee!!!
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So is it just my dirty mind playing in the gutter again or is this a total “WTF were they thinking?” kind of toy?
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What chou talkin’ bout, Izzy?
Don’t you have a Hot Tub in your RV too…?
Umm…yah, that definetely warrants a WTF? in my book!
Ditto here — WTF is up with that?
I just saw that toy in some Christmas catalogue the other day and had the same thought! A hot tub? WTF?!
Next it’ll be College Barbie - complete with keg, Solo cups and little packages of Trojans.
You’re right — total WTF moment. “Whoring Barbie N Pals hit the road looking for the latest taping of Girls Gone Wild! Complete with mardi gras beads!”
I haven’t started looking at toys yet for my girls, but that sounds like one we won’t be buying. Luckily my girls are not so into dolls…barbie, bratz, etc. So it is one battle I don’t need to fight.
That toy is totally sexified. I had a Barbie RV that was really an RV, that served as a wholesome (*snark*) vehicle for my pretend roadtrips to my backyard, not as a mobile brothel. Where’s Borat when you need him? Sexy time!
i was going to post about this as well, but you beat me to it. totally gross.
That’s really disturbing.
barbie is sooo very dirty.
Yup, what were they thinking? Course we’re talking about the Bratz Era.
Absolutely scary. No wonder my mom gave away all my barbies while I was away at my Grandmother’s house.
A hottub party bus? For realio? How nuts!
There is no excuse for that toy. NO excuse! Totally a WTF toy. Good call. :)
Nope, not just you. Totally WTF - they put it right next to the toy pole dancing kit –> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3842060a4560,00.html
(it was not actually supposed to be in the toy section - doh!)
As someone raising a girl, I”m afraid. Very afraid.
WTF?-you are right on the money! Am I glad my daughters are grown up and so past Barbie.
Call me boring, but I’m still waiting for grad school Barbie….or Barbie with a job.
Ya know I never thought I was going to be one of those uptight mothers…..
But I remember the first time my cousin wanted a Bratz doll I was totally appauled when I got to the store and saw them. Little hooker dolls for children….WHY?!?!? I vowed to NEVER let my child even SEE a bratz doll. I wasn’t even pregnant yet. Barbie isn’t quite as bad as bratz, but from the look of this, they’re gettin there!
Yep. When I saw that commercial, my first thought was “Dammit, I don’t want to have to boycott Barbie too.”
I mean, really. We pretended Barbie’s Dream House was a whorehouse, but at least we were using our imaginations. This sort of crap doesn’t even allow for that.
Synonymous perhaps with “Girls Gone Wild Barbie” or “Barbie comes home from Mardi Gras with a suitcase full of beads”? WTF is right. Is it just me, or do they look like Bratz dolls? WHY SO HOOCHIE? WHY?????
Didn’t realize there was an earlier reference in your comments to both! It wasn’t plagarism! Great minds think alike. At least they think the Barbie set is just plain wierd and hoochie.
Goodness me, I don’t know what in the heavens that of which you speak!
I had the Barbie three story townhouse with an elevator (much to the chagrine of my hamster), the beach bus, the tent, the above-ground pool (aka Trailer Park Barbie’s Pool Party fun sans PBR), the shopping mall with a very spastic escalator, and the airplane with reclining seats. Hot sex romps with genitally challenged Mod Hair Ken in all locations were strictly my idea (and my dirty-minded little friends, too). Nonetheless, I am appalled as well.
My daughter received a My Scene Barbie for her birthday last year on a very cool scooter–still in the package after 8 months. I’m ditching the collagen-lipped doll in the short shorts and keeping the scooter. Perhaps I should take her in the back yard and with my daughter and we can throw stones at the little harlot before she spends eternity in a landfill. ;) (I wouldn’t dare give her to charity. Those kids have enough problems as it is.)
I had a three story doll house for Barbie’s with an elevator you operated with a pull string. It was the awesomest thing I owned and my sisters and I loved it well into our teens. There was no hot tub.
What is the deal with the need to slut up our kids at ever an earlier age? I’m so sick of it!
WTF, indeed.
I also saw the barbie toliet..that flushes. ANYWAY- come on over everyone…I’ve got DELTA (the anti breastfeeding hate mongers) info for us all to abuse
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Is it just me, or do those Barbie chicks look pretty cozy in that little hot tub? Reminds me of Paris and Lindsay… or not. ;-)
Am I the only one who got a little squirmy at the “church youth group” line? Mmmmm, bus trips.
Anyway, my grandmother made me an amazing Barbie wardrobe, thereby insuring that they were completely covered and each had their own polyester pantsuit. The hot tub would have never flown at my house.
Fire! Fire! I vote for destruction by fire!
Just don’t let the Bratz get anywhere near that. Or Matthew McConaughey.
I have a thing against RVs ever since my two-year-old Pigtail Sprite daughter fell out of the back of my sister’s. My sister also accidentally drove her RV into the tree in my front yard and took out a hulking branch in a second flat with a simple depression of the gas pedal. Speaking of sex and RVs, my avid RV-ing sister always says, “If the RV is a rockin’, don’ t come knockin’!”
You are totally right. A BED??? WTF???
Is the Joe Francis doll included, complete with video camera???
That’s just not cool.
And the three’s company double entendres. Oh how I love Izzy!!
Yeah, not so much. In a way I truly hope I don’t have a girl so I don’t have to deal with the Barbie/Bratz thing, but if it’s a boy, then we have the war toys/guns issue. ACK!
It’s like a Motley Crue video.
If I ever show this to my husband he will refuse to have sex with me again for fear of accidental implantation of female dna.
Oh, and WTF is right!
Scary scary scary! Occasionally I wish for a little girl to raise to be a feminist like her mommy and friends … and then I take a peek out there and all I see is pink and Barbie toys like this.
I think I’ll just raise my boys to be feminists instead!
Without the Barbie RV.
That is awful. Who would buy that for their kids?!?!?!??!
Lets not forget!! On the add they say “A whore house on the inside!!”
Listen carefully and you’ll hear it, and if anyway has a copy of that ad on their computer could you please send it to me??
They are skanky. I always thought that style of Barbie was a little funky. (In a bad way!)
Thank God my daughter hates this whole Barbie/Bratz phenomenon as much as I do! We were in the toy aisle once looking at the Bratz camping set and she said, “How are you supposed to camp in a miniskirt and high heels?!”
That was bad enough… but then we saw the ’sexed up’ Bratz Babies. Really, lingerie and not being potty trained yet?! Gross!
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