December 21st, 2009
Mountain Time 140
Where I’m from, potato wedges are called jojos. Check it out: I used the more broadly accepted term so as not to be all ethnocentric or whatever, but then I realized that calling them “potato wedges” is just as overly literal and bland as “Big Mountain” and “Not-so-exciting Cow”. So that’s, um, that’s the thematic message of today’s episode?
December 21st, 2009 at 12:29 am
Man Climber 2, you really took that metaphor a little too far. (Note the generic and also bland naming for the climbers)
December 21st, 2009 at 9:27 am
Count Tater sounds like the greatest fast food restaurant ever. Please put one in my local area. Thanks.
December 21st, 2009 at 10:31 am
How is that cow not exciting if Subby can *ride* on it? I mean, is it running, too? Cows do not run that often, but when they do it is majestic. I don’t think the cow was very well named. :p
December 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am
Count Tater is doing a fantastic job with his business, unlike his brother, Count Chocula. Where did their parents even get these names?
December 21st, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I would go to that restaurant..
and YES, why must so many things be boring and descriptive? The problem is, the non-boring terms are always just a boring term in another language..
all names are just something like “guy that has a job” or “god loves me” … which makes you wonder how you could use those names in a society where they were in their own day-to-day language.. “hey there god loves me!”
December 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I must agree with the protractor that cow-running is quite majestic. Living in an agricultural area, you often seen a cow flailing it’s gigantic fat body around a field.
December 21st, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Protractor, Hamster: After thinking on your points for a bit, it occurred to me that Subby’s proposal that she and Not-so-exciting Cow run away to the lollipop forest comes AFTER the whole setup about the mountain climber’s lame naming practices — and, of course, AFTER they had both been given names in-story. Perhaps Subby’s runaway attempt (and the cow’s performance) should be taken as an act of defiance against the blandness prescribed to them. Banging into the wall of the diorama symbolizes Subby’s inability to escape from her mundane prison. Furthermore, assuming the Lollipop Forest is indeed a forest of lollipops, she’s actually trying to run away to another blandly named place. The prison’s walls are omnipresent; they are not merely the tangible boundaries of the diorama, but are the limits of Subby’s ambitions as well. She cannot even imagine a place without a boring name.
So yeah, the cow had potential to be exciting, but ultimately, it failed.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Mmmm….Lollipops….