I can’t think of a better way to close out the week than with one of the most irritating songs I’ve ever heard, the Care Bear clone “Yum Yums”—created by Hallmark to promote an equally irritating toyline. Eighties girl’s cartoons were trying to out-cute each other for years, and this one took it to nauseatingly saccharine heights that would even give cupcakes diabetes: I mean, really, water skiiing on Pepto Bismol? Dickish squirt flowers? Cookie Hollywood Squares?
And, good god, if you have diabetes yourself, then please tell me what to make of this when you saw it as a kid.
There is no IMDB listing for this cartoon so I will assume everyone involved is being tortured at an undisclosed location. Oh, and the Johnny Cypher Big Contest winner will be announced Monday, so be sure to enter before then!
What I find most disturbing about this clip isn’t the amount of stomach churning junk food on display (although that did make me queasy) or the constant presentation of “WE ALL LOVE THE YUM-YUMS” as a fact beyond debate.
No, it’s the moment where one of the Yum-Yums winks at the camera. It’s a small, knowing moment, one he’s sharing with us before going back to the charade. The charade of luring these idiot children into his world before he and his peers strip the flesh from their bones and choke it down with relish.
Cookies and milkshakes? Please. Only a palate cleanser.
Comment by Jon Pernisek — February 20, 2009 @ 8:42 am
Two things stand out in this that will haunt me, if not to the end of my days, to the end of this week.
1) The lion popping a mouthful of what could be pills and having a battle with that looks to be some serious constipation, before being mercifully poofed away.
2) The cat on the merry-go-round. It’s not the fact that he’s so near the lap of a young boy, but that he winks at the camera right after they press up against each other.
Either I’m very, very immature, or something is foul in the land of the Yum-Yums.
Comment by Casey — February 20, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
I didn’t have diabetes before I watched this video. Now, however, I feel as if the Yum Yums have given me a severe case of it. There’s enough saccharin on that video to give even giant, prehistoric rats cancer.
Comment by ZeroCorpse — February 22, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
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With all that “goodies” & the Yum Yums running amok, the Health Police will no time run the Yum Yums out of town! Now with a “health crazed” concern & Diabetes & Obesity running amok I don’t think the Yum Yums will ever see daylight again (unless the have the gall to release it on DVD).
Comment by bigg3469 — June 27, 2009 @ 11:40 pm