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"WHAT THE--" Strikes Again
Nov. 18th, 2010 03:41 amNight time is fun. If I’m out in the family room, I turn on my queued up MST3k or Netflixed stuff or Law’n’Orders* for ignoring and start puttering around with whatever my current thing is, like making a doll outfit or working on magpie necklaces or The Writing Process or, like today, working out a quote in Rredŕa that I’m going to paint on a mug, and it’s nice for an hour or two just to—
HOLD ON BACK UP WAS THAT A COMMERCIAL FOR AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS ON THE TVBOX?!
YES. YES, THAT WAS.
I … admit I’m a bit blindsided here. I am not used to the idea of AG on TV. It’s like we have crossed the streams or something. Or … well, it’s just WEIRD to see them on TV. Like seeing someone you know in the news.
Although I do find it amusing that they’re billing ’em as new dolls. Sure, they’ve come up with some new combinations, and the Online Gaming Experience is a recent touch, but the My American Girl line has been around for something like fifteen years, which I know because fifteen years ago I acquired one. (And back then we had to write and illustrate their stories ourselves! Barefoot! In the snow! Uphill! With barbed wire on our feet for traction!) And the design-a-doll computer program has a predecessor, in a very literal sense because the company is now deceased, in the Dream Doll Designer as well as the somewhat creepier MyTwinn. In fact, now I think about it, I probably still have the Dream Doll Designer disc around here somewhere,*** and I can still tell you all of the specs I used to design Kuen.
Anyway, weird experience. Nothing like knowing all that shit to make a twentysomething feel like an OLD GEEK. Not gonna lie, though—I am intensely curious to see how this sells. Especially with the internet element being so prominent—because having a doll is apparently not enough if you don't have a screen to go with her? I know what I think of that, but that's a whole other, more well-thought-out post.
*CI with Eames is my favorite because it has the least stupid writers and also did I mention Eames? Original Flavor has Jerry Orbach in reruns and hilarious extras in the back** so it’s my second favorite. I got sick of SVU because I got tired of watching the detectives and DAs fuck up every episode and then cry about it. Although the actors in that one are the most entertaining—Ice-T delivers every line like he expects a trumpet fanfare to follow, and Chris Meloni has two acting moods: Stabler Just About To Snap and Chris Meloni Going Over His Grocery List In His Head.
**The extras are the best part. My sister and I make up endless internal monologues for the guys in the background leafing through folders or answering phones, and we cheer when they get a line. “You just know That Guy’s whole family gathered around the TV when this first aired to watch him deliver those two words.”
***The brand that sold the dolls, and the software was called—I am not making this up—iDolls.
HOLD ON BACK UP WAS THAT A COMMERCIAL FOR AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS ON THE TVBOX?!
YES. YES, THAT WAS.
I … admit I’m a bit blindsided here. I am not used to the idea of AG on TV. It’s like we have crossed the streams or something. Or … well, it’s just WEIRD to see them on TV. Like seeing someone you know in the news.
Although I do find it amusing that they’re billing ’em as new dolls. Sure, they’ve come up with some new combinations, and the Online Gaming Experience is a recent touch, but the My American Girl line has been around for something like fifteen years, which I know because fifteen years ago I acquired one. (And back then we had to write and illustrate their stories ourselves! Barefoot! In the snow! Uphill! With barbed wire on our feet for traction!) And the design-a-doll computer program has a predecessor, in a very literal sense because the company is now deceased, in the Dream Doll Designer as well as the somewhat creepier MyTwinn. In fact, now I think about it, I probably still have the Dream Doll Designer disc around here somewhere,*** and I can still tell you all of the specs I used to design Kuen.
Anyway, weird experience. Nothing like knowing all that shit to make a twentysomething feel like an OLD GEEK. Not gonna lie, though—I am intensely curious to see how this sells. Especially with the internet element being so prominent—because having a doll is apparently not enough if you don't have a screen to go with her? I know what I think of that, but that's a whole other, more well-thought-out post.
*CI with Eames is my favorite because it has the least stupid writers and also did I mention Eames? Original Flavor has Jerry Orbach in reruns and hilarious extras in the back** so it’s my second favorite. I got sick of SVU because I got tired of watching the detectives and DAs fuck up every episode and then cry about it. Although the actors in that one are the most entertaining—Ice-T delivers every line like he expects a trumpet fanfare to follow, and Chris Meloni has two acting moods: Stabler Just About To Snap and Chris Meloni Going Over His Grocery List In His Head.
**The extras are the best part. My sister and I make up endless internal monologues for the guys in the background leafing through folders or answering phones, and we cheer when they get a line. “You just know That Guy’s whole family gathered around the TV when this first aired to watch him deliver those two words.”
***The brand that sold the dolls, and the software was called—I am not making this up—iDolls.
