Oscars -- cringing
- Feb. 24th, 2013 at 11:11 PM
....of course, that meant Twitter was snarking away without me. So I had to turn it on.
To see, and I wish I was kidding, a talking teddy bear telling us that he wanted to join an orgy right before launching into various anti-Semitic jokes.
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To be honest, I don't care much for "bits" in general. Just present the damn award already.
Frankly the Grey Poupon and Unicorn Zombie Apocalypse commercials were more entertaining. Oh, and the Twitter snark.
Almost.
So overall I'd have to say that even by Oscar standards that was a failure. Except for the Grey Poupon and Unicorn Zombie Apocalypse commercials. And that's really really sad.
You know what bothered me about the Ted presentation? That Mark Wahlberg, who went from petty thug to Marky-Mark, to Dirk Diggler and on up and up to the point of being a respected producer/director in his own right not only DID Ted, but had to present at the Oscars with that ill-concieved, misogynistic Peter Griffin mimic at all.
As for jokes, well, that's Seth MacFarlane for you. Gentle isn't in his vocabulary.