Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Why Suzy Needs Therapy
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
"Suzy, what did I tell you about leaving your dolls lying around?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know? So you're telling me you don't remember any of the HUNDRED times I've warned you about leaving your toys strewn around the house?"
"No."
"So you don't remember what I said yesterday? About what would happen if I found your doll on the floor one more time?"
"Ummmm... Maybe you said something..."
[silence]
[whining] "But I want my dolly! You HAVE to give her BACK!"
"Oh, don't you worry, honey. I'm sure she'll turn up after dinner."
That's cold, Chad C. - real cold.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 283 of 283 Newer› Newest»good thing i was not drinking when i checked in today.....id might need a new computer from the sudden burst from my mouth!
Mmmm, tasty baby. So tender. Baked to perfection.
Why?
Just
Why?!?
well... in the decorators defence... it really is a beatifully done cake...
yeah...
...
Um...breathtakingly breathtaking...
please tell me it wasn't red velvet cake...
(Horror movie scream)
Ahhhh-Ahhh-Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Baby Shower Idea!!!!!
what the hell IS that? does the baby have some crazy gas going on or something?
This is just messed up, lol!
O..M..G!
However, I do have somewhat of a theory on what it's SUPPOSED to be.
If you were to look at the cake from the top..it just m i g h t look like a baby in a onesie? Sort of? Eh..just a guess, lol!
Why, oh why would someone do that though?!?
Also..LOVED the story that went along with it :)
Wow, that's ummm, very ummmm, well it's really ummm... I'm not sure. Who comes up with these ideas, I think they may need to go see one of *those* doctors.
The only thing I can figure is that this is an ice cream cake and the racks are in a refrigerator/freezer.
(Well, who has white plastic-coated racks in an oven anyway, but still...)
Shocking!
Abby Normal's comment made me laugh harder than the actual post did. Awesome.
Okay Jen...we need the real story on this cake. What was it really supposed to be all about??????
Oh yikes, that's just downright scary!
AAAAHHHH!!!
The really scary thing (assuming that it's an actual doll, not a REALLY well done fondant version)is that those dolls come perfumed with an overpowering baby powder scent. So not only is the cake visually terrifying, it's going to taste like it was doused in Love's Baby Soft.
Oh my dear God.
Hold me.
OMG that is just wrong, so wrong in so many ways!
Baby! The other other white meat!!
Seriously, this is just.... horrifying.
W.T.F ?????????
That gives a whole slant on the endearment "babycakes..."
What'd she say when she saw it?
is this like, 'have your cake and eat it too' ?
funnknee!
P'shaw. It's not THAT disturbing.
I figure you cut off the limbs/head and stuck them onto the cake after the fact? I don't see how you could cook it with the doll in it, obviously. xD Melted plastic. D:
Well...if that is not the most disturbing thing I've seen all day...
Oh my...I think I'll try that with my daughter's laptop tomorrow..LOL!
That is absolutely terrifying.
ahem
disturbing yes
all it needs now is a carrot!!
lol
Hey, Willy Wonka warned that baby. He said, "No, that one's still in testing." But did the baby listen? No, it did not. I for one do not have any sympathy for that child.
Did this child chew some of Willie Wonka's gum? She looks like she is rapidly expanding!
omg
But she deserved.
Haha- I should show it to my kids. We have a little rhyme game we play with our newborn in which we call her Babycake. I wonder what they'll have to say about this masterpiece. :D
Also- it can't be an oven. There is a cardboard liner under the cake that will burn. And like someone else mentioned, white plastic-coated oven racks?
They definitely didn't bake the baby in. I bet they removed the head, arms and legs from a regular doll and inserted post baking. The all-plastic variety have limbs that pop out.
Somebody needs slapped. That, and I just wanted to add to the incredible number of comments today!!!
WV- pegad. PEGAD! That cake is just wrong!!!!
That's just wrong on more levels than I can even comprehend. Freud would run screaming from this nightmare.
When I was a kid in the 80's my siblings and I liked this one:
"Mommy, where's my Cabbage Patch Kid?"
"Shut up and eat your cole slaw!"
My first instinct was to scream. My second was to tilt my head and think, "maybe it's not THAT bad." My third instinct was to scream. ;)
I laughed. A lot!
that is really really disturbing
Ohmygod!
I'm laughing so hard I can barely type. Ya know whats even more twisted than this cake in it's present form? -the carnage of dismembered baby parts and bits of icing that would be left over AFTER cutting it up! Awesome!
This is wrong on so many levels. Where does one start?
*Bwahahaha!!*
Possibly the view from straight above looks cute. But side on? Ummm, no.
And I had to do a double take because at first it looked like it was in the OVEN. Which would be even more freakazoid. But it must be refrigerator shelves.
Okay seriously? This is way grosser than the intestines cake. Ew, ew, ew.
Get...in...mah...belleh! (said in Fat B____rd voice hehehe)
WV: ausloide - me! I'm a loide (lady) from Australia
Wow. That is seriously disturbing.
[otherwise speechless]
oh my deity...
WTF?? How would you even shelve that, under "Toys" or under "Bakery item?"
there are some CRAZY ideas out there. XDDD
thanks for posting! ^_^ i love this site!
OMG! WTF? There is nothing else I can say about this cake.
Who would order this!? I would LOVE to meet the "decorator" of this cake.
someone here said its inside the oven, its in a fridge not in an oven. lolz.
Is that a post partum depression baby in the oven cake?
Is it bursting a la alien out of its Mother's stomach?
Scary, scary and disturbing.
Cute pansies, I love pansies.
wvotd berin...is an architural firm in New York.
The skin on thar thing is totally creeping me out.
I was just wondering what to get our dear Malia Obama for her B-Day. I wonder if it comes in black?
Reminds me of the snail people chapter in Uzumaki (their backs get huge and lumpy cos they're growing a shell). It also combines nicely with the 'evil babies' chapter for a cake seemingly made entirely of nightmare fuel...
Ugh...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzumaki
OMG.
You know what it reminds me of? The last chapter of Beverly Cleary's Beezus and Ramona, in which Mrs Quimby is baking Beezus a birthday cake and Ramona -- who has become obsessed with the story of Hansel and Gretel -- shoves one of her dolls into the oven, pretending it's the Wicked Witch.
Except of course in that case the oven was on, and the doll melted, and the cake was wrecked. Whereas in this case --
Oh, wait. Never mind.
Visons of "Alien"....
There's something terribly twisted about this cake and yet, I laughed.
-FringeGirl
I don't know what's funnier, the comments or that cake....
...Wait the cake definitely the cake!!!!
Funny but in a creepy sort of way.
Ya'll know what I mean?
Peace,
Clueuin
My three year old saw this and exclaimed in a very worried voice. . . "who is that mom?!? who is that?!?" I reply, "its a cake" he says, "but there's a baby in it!" He is very concerned!
This is bloody creepy! Eewww. I actually *can't* think of anything else to say....
oh gosh...creepy! It looks real!
I was having the worst day ever until I saw this. OH...MY.
My daughter said "It looks like a baby in an oven" 'nuff said....
nom nom nom. I always say babies are so cute I could eat them.
Is it weird that I actually kind of like this one?
Okay, okay, okay... What occasion is that for exactly????
Freaky, freaky stuff!!!
I can understand storing a cake in a cold oven once it's been frosted, though, if you don't have a container that's big enough - most ovens are every bit as airtight as any Tupperware container. I've been known to store the occasional cake or slice for several days in the oven myself, and they've kept just as well as if they had been placed in a Tupperware container.
But a baby in the oven???
Even if it is merely a cake baby???
Creepy...
Whenever we see posters that advertise to "never shake a baby" my husband always quips, "never shake-and-bake a baby". Looks like we're too late!
WWJSS?
(What would Jonathan Swift Say?)
Just think Monty Python and a whole new set of ideas comes to mind--remember the giant people-eating blanc mange? ROTFLOL
OR--what's that round reflective thing just over the baby that looks like a giant transparent eye? A baby-eating monster from outer space with a sweet tooth? (Think: "I Was a Monster From Outer Space".)
LOL. Thank you. I needed that.
*screaming* OMG!!!
I'm with Yanicka on this. The creepy factor just flew right off the scale.
hahaha. that is so disturbing, its like a partial birth of the limbs
If the turkey's in the highchair, where is the baby?
I just almost peed my pants... pregnant women should not be allowed to read your blog our bladder control just isn't strong enough.
macabre sense of humor? yes, that's me. I didn't find this cake disturbing. It is hilarious! It is so cheerful and executed with such skill.
and "the hills are alive and they are eating children" and "a pregnant belly" comments made me laugh even harder. I'm at work, hissing through my teeth, wiping my eyes, and semi-cackling mostly under my breath. I'm trying to be quiet! I'm trying... I feel a snort...
and I can just see a maniacal baker in the back with a gigantic chef knife chopping the baby doll into bits... so funny. Thank you all for the blog and comments
Hey, can you please reply with your e-mail address because I don't know it and I want to e-mail you some pictures of cakes that are horrible!
I think i'm the only one to say this so far.. i've read the page of comments.
So, who wants to see this cake made out of red velvet cake? *raises hand*
Ohhh no. Babys in ovens. Who would even CONSIDER eating that??
Is this trying to suggest that there's another baby on the way, i.e., "one in the oven?"
OMG, people. Sure, this is kinda weird but nightmares? seriously disturbing? scariest thing you've ever seen? It's a cake with a doll stuck in it, fer crying out loud. I'd hate to see how you'd react to things that are TRULY disturbing and shocking. Get some perspective.
*shudder*
I just had to add that I've discovered your site yesterday and I am totally in love. My four-year-old wandered by just as I got to this cake and offered this, "That baby has a big diaper," which is code in our house for "needs a change." It was so perfect, I had to share.
O.O where can I buy one of these?!
I would eat that cake. Cakes are starting to eat babies, soon they'll be up to full-grown adults. It's us or them, people.
OM MY GOD ITS THE BLOB!!!!!!!!!
Oh. My. God. My jaw is on the ground. Hilarious and...disturbing...all in one. xx
You know.. I have that same baby doll. It looks better here though...