By: Annna
[2000-10-20]
Petey Week #5
May thy funeral pyre befit thy greatness, Petey!
Petey isn't too worried about drastic advances in AI technology, as long as he has his rabbit meat. That's just how we'll all be sucked into an Orwellian technohell.
The first adult in Petey's life. By her body language, she's plenty pissed, too. It must be hard to eat rabbit in that town without Petey showing up, and she thought she was in the clear.
The movie reference is kind of odd, the rest of Petey's universe existing as it does outside the boundaries of time.
I always thought the girl was the smart one. Here she is, summing up the whole Petey experience in one thought bubble.
Bye, Petey!
Two interobangs about sums
it up?!?! On the whole, the
"Petey Experience" was uni-
quely satisfying and jam-
packed with vitamins. Are
you planning more like this?
Perhaps more vintage adverts,
or Mythos illustrations?
I liked the Viking chick
'toon, perhaps a "Norwegians
in Space" series...There's
a book called, "The Mech-
anical Bride," that has
funny vintage ads, like
Lysol as a personal hygiene
product, and a new Buick
convertible for $895
I think the little girl grew up to be Velma in the Scooby Doo cartoons. Check the resemblance here:
http://home.att.net/~sr.hughes/scooby/profile.html
Maybe because of her childhood freindship with Petey, she was able to tolerate Scooby's fetish for those Scooby Snacks.
This whole thing comes across like it was run through some kind of cultural babelfish filter.. I put the fried robot pic on my desktop, but it is pretty unsettling, and doesn't really make for a productive enviroment in which to work.
two more notes
1) Whats with the Sambo-esqe picture of the young black boy and his mom? Are they trying to tap into the afrocentric market? Are there market surveys out there that catergorize rabbit eating amongst racial boundries?
2)Peter + Rabbit Meat = Sexual discrimination Lawsuit.
Believe me I've tried.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061735
A 1967 movie in which some white chick comes home with -- gasp! -- a black fiance. Social commentary ensues.
"Rabbit Meat! So good you'd even eat with black people!"
I find this the creepiest cartoon in the lot.
Regarding the movie of that name.. yes, the fiancee does bring back a (gasp) black fiancee. In the movie, however, they reversed the roles of the two sets of parents. In the stage play, the white family were hugely opposed to the relationship, and the black parents welcomed it.
The movie did the reverse. Now why would THAT be...?
Why was the position
of parental opposition
reversed in the film
from the stage version?
I would speculate that
Hollywood is different
than Broadway, and that
the movie-going public
is different than Broadway
theatre clientele.
On Broadway, they don't have
to worry about how it will play
in Peoria. The last statistic
that I saw had about 110,000
married couples with a black
husband and a white wife, and
about 52,000 married couples
with a white husband and a
black wife. I would venture
that there is a bit of political
economy at work in some of these
social arrangements. Indeed, there
seems to be a fad here for young
professional women to marry
Latino professional men.
Some people like rabbit for
its game flavour, I wouldn't
be surprised if some people
couple as a result of funk.
I wonder if Petey is a member of BESNA?
www.freespeech.org/besna
