Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Star Wars and Candy Bars

There is an advocacy group out there called the Dove Foundation.

No, wait, it gets worse.

This group is after Burger King to cease and desist its popular Star Wars kid's meal tie in. Why? Because they can't stand to see innocent children let down by another Lucas stinker? Because children have a 1 in 13 chance of receiving a toy that depicts characters from the planet Crapticon, like Jar Jar Binks or "sack-of-rubber alien in the corner of the cantina whose performance Frank Oz phoned in by jiggling an arm or two"?

No.

They want these toys, and all Star Wars imagery, removed from the kid's meals immediately because this film is rated PG-13, and therefore unfit for the meal's target audience of children aged 4-9. No, it's true. Read all about it here.

Yet these same children can refresh themselves with a tasty 3 Musketeers bar, which boldly proclaims on the wrapper, "whipped up, fluffy chocolate-on-chocolate taste."

Now who's inappropriate?

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