To be honest, the Plastic People Show has always creeped me out a little. Okay, more than a little. Especially that tall gangly dude that plays the pirate in that scene. His usual character has these prosthetic on his face that make him look plastic, which is just.. it's just fucking
weird is what it is. I mean, think about it for a minute. TV and movies have always used technology like puppets and animatronics and animation to make fake people. And they often try to make the fake people as realistic as possible. Now we have the technology to make fake people so realistic that they're pretty much indistinguishable from real people. So what do they do with this guy? They use technology to make him look like a low-tech fake person. Now maybe I'm overthinking this whole thing, but it seems to me that the whole concept of a real person dressed up to look like a fake person who looks almost, but not quite, like a real person is just way too existential for a five year old.
Okay, I'm definitely overthinking this. But it still fucking creeps me out.
But the thing is, I keep going back to watch it. And now I've had that "yar har fiddle-dee-dee" crap stuck in my head for two solid days. What the fuck kind of pirate says "fiddle-dee-dee" anyway? What, is he Scarlett O'Hara? "Arrr, tomorow's another day" It's like Captain Hook meets Tom Bombadil or something. And now I can't it it to shut up inside my head.
Thank you, Ax. Thank you straight to hell.
The bad thing is that the only way I can get stuff like this out of my head is to displace it with something just as bad. So I'm off to albino black sheep for a little
Gonads & Strife.
If that doesn't work I might have to resort to
Numa Numa.
I'll keep you posted.
"yar har fiddle-dee-dee"... Shut up brain...