Gummi Gumption
Why is this news?
The badly behaving Gummi Bears featured in Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” video have manufacturers of the candy saying: Those aren’t our bears!
Despite the video’s cheery feel, it features two oversize Gummi Bears greeting Perry not with hugs and a hello, but with a rude hand gesture: The offending bear in question apparently gives the singer the finger early in the clip. Perry told MTV News earlier this week that she likes to inject her own “naughty twist” into her work, but representatives from well-known manufacturers Trolli and Haribo have insisted that their bears would never behave in such a way.
“Those are definitely not Trolli Gummi Bears in the video because Trolli Gummi Bears would never be that rude,” John Leonardo, senior brand manager of Farley’s and Sathers (which owns Trolli), told MTV News on Wednesday. “Trolli bears would extend their chubby little arms and give Katy a big old bear hug and whisper, ‘Everything is going to be all right.’ “
Do these gummi people have any idea all the times their bears have been put in sexual positions by the millions and millions of perverts out there over the years? (Present company included.)
What — no gummi threesomes? Those were my favorite to construct.
Oh, here’s that video.
Out of all the stuff going on in this video, the talk is about a Gummi Bear giving someone the bird?
Although I laughed when Snoop said “all that ass hanging out” and the video then went to the whitest girl of the group, overall this is a pretty clever/creative effort. I approve. And before you accuse me of selling out to pop, or whatever/whoever this Katy Perry is, here is what was considered cutting-edge back in my day.
And you know what? This video still kicks ass. And I remember singing “the little faggot” mini-verse back in grade school. Thank Christ I’m no longer in school. Nowadays a kid would get expelled for a hate crime or something.
