Talking Jesus Doll Hit Shelves at Walmart

Video: http://mfile.akamai.com/25580/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2007/1103/14501176.200k.asx

Text: http://www.kpho.com/news/14502043/detail.html

I think that if they're going to sell talking Jesus dolls anywhere, it should definitely be at Walmart.

I'm all for it if it says "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do".

interesting...

I think they are hilarious. And I applaud them, but for all the same reasons the religious folks seem to fear them. I think he'll be sharing a bin with GI Joes and Barbies, etc. His loaves & fishes will get mixed in with Barbie's pink high heeled pumps. Plus, I'm sure they didn't make him anatomically correct, which will open up another whole can of worms. Hee hee...

Oh just wait till they have to recall the dolls because of high level of lead (dolls are made in China)! Can see the headlines now: Jesus kills the little children..........

#6 - Bwaa haa haa!
Okay, that's not funny...
*wipes away tears*
Bwaa haa haa!
Very good, Oklahomabooklady.
:o)

>6 KathyWoodall: *tongue firmly in cheek*

Silly Oklahomabooklady! Jesus doesn't kill children... Jews kill Christian children. Jesus just makes them do crazy sh*t. ;^)

"I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I've got my plastic Jesus..."

Forget the dashboard... think about what a great hood ornament he'd make.

}:o)

I keep imagining Jesus dressed up as a Bratz doll.

"I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I've got my plastic Jesus..."

Essa,

I've had that song in my head for days, but couldn't remember where I'd heard it. In my head I kept thinking of 'chocolate Jesus'.

Now I remember it's from 'Cool Hand Luke'

"I don't care if it rains or freezes…
Long as I've got my plastic Jesus…
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car…
Comes in colors, pink and pleasant…
Glows in the dark 'cause it's iridescent…
Take it with you when you travel far."

It sprang to my mind, too, but I didn't know it was from "Cool Hand Luke!"

I seem to recall that there were chocolate Jesuses, some while back, maybe around Easter? And that those provoked some controversy (as well as some delight) in various quarters, too.

Not as appealing as the old rabbit... is it?

clam - how do you come up with these things??

Believe it or not the video link for the doll showed up on CNN yesterday, and I just had to click... didn't I?

The chocolate Hey-Zues I just googled.

I googled him and finally found him along with his mom, but I had to go through a lot of aghast headings pointing to an anatomically correct Jesus (fully human indeed).

Except for their high cost I would like some of the candies. I can imagine someone's asking me, "What are you eating?" and my replying, "Mary, the mother of God."

Robert

Aha! This topic completely validates my whinging to friends and acquaintances lo, these many years about the film "Dogma" being a textbook example of a film that is under-appreciated during its own time but that is eventually lauded as pure genius. Kevin Smith should be hubrisly laughing at the cultural zeitgeist right about now because the film's Buddy Christ doll and it's larger slick "Catholicism Wow!" campaign was eerily prescient of this WalMart wannabe.

I wonder if the Talking Jesus will be on the shelf next to The Baby Jesus Butt Plug?



... oh, wait ... you mean they don't carry those at WalMart?

 

>14 clamairy: LOL! Love it! I'd still bite the head off first.

PeaBee beat me... that dawg...

'Twas only a matter of time. ;) It's a mixture of relief and amusememt to me to note they aren't exactly flying off the shelves.

@ #14: I wonder if any of the kiddies feel funny, biting off that head!

I wonder if any of the kiddies feel funny, biting off that head!

I don't know how the benighted religions do it (*smile*), but I was swallowing a piece of the actual body at least once a week from age 7. An advantage: you wouldn't have to go to confession before eating the chocolate.

anatomically correct Jesus

There is a cure. One of the most beautiful marble sculptures I've seen is Michelangelo's "Christ Carrying the Cross." It was marred only by the metal loincloth welded on to it by Church "art critics."

#23 - Holy Sheep Dip! I've never seen or heard of that piece before...

*shakes head*

If I'm wrong, and there is a Hell, I hope those 'Church art critics' are smoking turds down there as I type.

Clam,

It doesn't get much attention. Got a line in only one of my many guidebooks. It is to the side of the altar, where the central attraction is a glass case containing a long dead saint. The faithful let their glance slide over the statue on the way to
kneel before the corpse.

Btw, the church is the one in which Galileo would have attended mass during his trial by the Inquisition. He was housed in the cloister attached.

I ran into an art history teacher outside the Vatican museum a day or so after seeing it, and we discussed the vandalism. In one of those strange coincidences that happen when you travel, I was in Florence the next week, heading into Michelangelo's house/museum, when I was hailed by someone from an upstairs window: "Come up here! You won't believe what I've found!" It was the art history man, who had just unearthed a drawing of the sculpture sans loincloth!

P.S. Thanks for the picture, Clam. As my atheist mother said, while "pulling up a pew" to spend 20 minutes or so gazing at the statue, "Now that's a god!"

The anatomically correct chocolate Jesus statue was beautiful. It wasn't flippant or sacreligious in any way. It's funny. The artist considers himself a Christian and was trying to accurately show Christ when crucified (there was no loincloth).

I remember seeing an interview with an angry lady with some Catholic anti-defamation group. She wasn't angry about the statue being made out of chocolate. She was angry because you could see his genitals (which she made sure to mention three times in a one minute interview). It made you realize just how dirty minded she was.

I've seen Jesus action figures for years. You've all obviously never been into a Christian goods shop for a while. Then again, I don't recommend it on a frequent basis. It scares my friends who are regular Joe-churchers.

If anyone is interested, I found a music video for Billy Idol singing the Plastic Jesus song. It's worth watching just to see plastic Jesus jamming on the guitar.

I don't know how to insert hyperlinks, but here's a copy if anone is interested: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2682805

Here's another link:

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NEWS/710160377/...

An excerpt:

It wasn't a sea-parting miracle to get the toys in the secular retailer's coveted shelves, but it was close. Livingstone said the company is exclusively test-marketing the Tales of Glory line in more than 400 Wal-Marts, mainly in the Midwest and South.

Gee, why did they pick those areas, do you think? ;o)

They probably prayed about it...

Because the rest of us are godless blue-staters.

How many of the interviewed people call this a "doll"?! Clearly, this is an ACTION FIGURE! :)

But is it hollow? That was the neat feature of the dashboard PJ.