Products don’t emerge on the market overnight, and especially not from well-established corporations with departments devoted to research and development.
Which is why we’re scratching our heads over how in God’s name Play-Doh’s Sweet Shoppe Cake Mountain Playset came with an icing attachment that looks so irrefutably like an alien phallus.
And we’re not the only ones who think so. Play-Doh had to do some major damage control to its Facebook feed when photos started popping up of angry customer complaints in the form of weird plastic dick pics.
Here’s a few:
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Play-Doh has promised to replace the parts with something that doesn’t look like it’s a prop from a space porn, but that didn’t stop families the world over from having an extra special Christmas surprise lurking under the tree this year.
h/t Gawker
Billy Budd
They did it for the publicity. Totally intentional.
BBellairs
I’m sorry I didn’t get this for my grandkids. The look on my daughter’s face would have been priceless! (I should have gotten one for my husband as well!)
Thomathy
Anything shaped even remotely phallic-like is a dildo? And the age of children intended to play with this toy know what dildos are?
This is projection on a grand scale. The ones with the dirty minds are the parents who are complaining rather than finding this inherently funny (because it’s absurd to think that a child 3-10 would know what a dildo is).
bingoboy969
There dirty minds ruin their child’s Christmas a child with just play with it and bought nothing else of it ,sorry just how I feel
SpunkyBunks
All little boys should be ashamed to have a penis. What was Play-doh thinking!
Have you seen the replacement? It looks like an Aneros!! Not kidding. Play-doh needs to hire more gays in their marketing department.
jwtraveler
In Kawasaki, Japan there is a fertility festival at a local temple every year. There’s a metal penis sculpture in the temple that people come to worship. Drag queens carry around a platform with a giant pink penis on it and penis trinkets are sold and distributed. Families with little children come and the children suck on penis-shaped lollipops. (Needless to say, the event is very popular with foreigners). Everyone has a good time; there’s lots of celebration and laughter. To my knowledge, no child has been psychologically harmed by this event, nor has it led to the breakdown of civil society or social mores. Perversion is all in the mind. The people who are offended by this toy need to clean up their minds. (That said, it does look very much like a penis, but so what?)
jwtraveler
Here’s the link. Check it out. You’ll be amused. (Very long link)
https://www.google.com/search?q=kawasaki+fertility+festival&biw=1093&bih=514&tbm=isch&imgil=3ba2lK1LPF37NM%253A%253B2pcW81SKRMvdJM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fmikecash.aminus3.com%25252Fimage%25252F2010-06-03.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=3ba2lK1LPF37NM%253A%252C2pcW81SKRMvdJM%252C_&usg=__oOrankYx3AkePuGzemXnGc2UkJU%3D&ved=0CDgQyjc&ei=GVakVM2_MsWZNs3wgZAG#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=3ba2lK1LPF37NM%253A%3B2pcW81SKRMvdJM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Faminus3.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fimage%252Fg0002%252Fu00001070%252Fi00917016%252Fb83a6eae585bbfccc45e02324d897e4d_large.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmikecash.aminus3.com%252Fimage%252F2010-06-03.html%3B800%3B1131
Chris
Too funny. They should rename themselves “play DOH!” since they pulled a real Homer Simpson with that one.
polarisfashion
How long till we see a webcam video of someone using one of these things as a dildo? 3 2 1…
Curtispsf
Sweetie darling, don’t cry. Mummy will give you your play doh toy after she and daddy are done using it.
NoCagada
The only problem for these women is getting it back from their husbands
Will L
HAHAHA I love the dramatic reaction “This completely ruined our Christmas…”
Ellipse Kirk
I have seen >>cough<< several penises in my life.
1) I have never seen a vein pattern that swirls down in a spiral.
2) I have never seen coronal balls that look like they belong on "The Little KIng" cartoon strip.
3) I have never seen a star-shaped urethral opening, even in the most exotic fetish porn
mlbumiller
supermarkets need to get rid of all those cucumbers carrots zucchini summer sausage Italian sausage hot dogs those penises in the grocery store. oh my god it’s a grocery store is an edible adult store
omacdonald
That poster “Jennifer Turner” needs to get a grip. “Completely ruined our Christmas”? Seriously? Did your house burn down? Did someone die? I bet small children won’t know what that thing resembles and even if they did, have a giggle, explain the birds and bees to the kids and move on for Pete’s sake.
I just am surprised at lack of perspective sometimes. We give fake guns, GI Joes, toy tanks, mass murder video games for Christmas and that’s all fine, but have anything that comes to sexual and people f*cking lose their minds. Sex is not sinful or dirty people – just calm the f*ck down.
@mlbumiller I totally agree with you, but you omitted bananas and popsicles.
darkanser
@Thomathy: I’m with you there. Is it the internet or abusive parents who say obscene things before their children or both? So should we censor or ban anything cylindrically shaped lest it be perceived as a phallus? Reading this I’m somehow reminded of an encounter with an apparent “mother” telling her son in a supermarket during Christmas time — in what I’ll call real ghetto fashion — that any man coming down the chimney is a pedophile. I looked at her aghast. I wanted to ask her if she was she proud of herself. I don’t care how you feel about Christmas or Santa Claus. Why on God’s green earth would you contaminate the concept of Santa Claus with the concept of pedophilia? And what does this little boy know about pedophilia? Hopefully nothing but you can see what I mean.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
The only reason it “ruined” Jennifer’s Christmas is that the thingy was too damm small! :p
Matt G
If a plastic toy that remotely resembles a wang (which is the interpretation you’ve made of a fairly ambiguous shape) is the only thing needed to ruin your christmas then your christmas must have been pretty shitty to begin with
Queer4Life
what I think is great is if the parents hadn’t freaked the children wouldn’t think anything of it.
RainbowMama
@Thomathy: My son is 11 and knows what a dildo is…. How? He found one at his friends house 4 years ago and learned what it was. Imagine my surprise when he returned to tell me what it was!
bottom72
It is a great applicator for lube.