I mean, c'mon, who takes a lovely sunburned R.O.U.S. like this:
...and turns it into Disney's Mushu, twisted up like a pretzel?
P.S. For you non-Disney folk, this is Mushu:
This next one is much better, though:
Bwahahaha!! Yes, I lied. Get used to disappointment.
How about a simple star?
Think it'll work?
Correct answer: "It would take a miracle."At this point it's just morbid curiosity keeping you going, isn't it? [nodding] Yeah. I'm right there with ya.
[blinking] Hoo boy. Anyone else have a bad feeling about this?
Oh. Well, I guess it could be worse..
It's worse, it's worse!Hey, you know those videos online where you see the freight train headed for the tanker truck full of gasoline, and part of you is cringing and thinking what a horrible tragedy is about to occur, and the other part is all, "Oh man, this is gonna be GOOD!"
Well, allow me to introduce a tanker truck full of gasoline:
Now, heeeere comes the freight traaaaaiiiin!! (Choo choo!)
KERBLOOOIEEE!!!
Thanks to today's Wreckporters Steve R., Rebecca W., Tug T., Valerie, & Stephanie, who would never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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To be fair, it now occurs to me that the original Broncos logo looks like a thestral, too.
Ah, so many Princess Bride references, I love it. But, um what is that THING in the last wreck doing? Trying to cover it's privates because it's embarrassed? Well, it should be, shouldn't it?
Ah, the Princess Bride quotes. They make me smile. :)
A blue frog?? A BLUE frog?? A blue FROG?? Nope, I see no resemblance whatsoever to the logo. Are you sure that tanker truck wasn't full of radioactive materials that transformed the logo on impact? That's the explanation that works for me.
Congratulations! Today you made me spit on my keyboard. That Broncos cake... Loved the train wreck too. Kudos to an artist such as yourself.
Loved the Princess Bride references! Now I'm going to go have to watch that movie...again...for the 3 millionth time.
-Mimi
Oh, and I'm sure everyone will say this, but I loved the Princess Bride quotes.
WV: auteduck--when you see the train coming, you auteduck.
Can't stop giggling... perhaps I can comment later.
Ahhh...The day could end now and I would be happy because someone quoted "The PRincess Bride." Now, if only they weren't highlighting such hideous cakes, it would be perfect. I guess we can't always get want...if only we had a wheelbarrow and a holocaust cloak, now that would be something.
These wrecks definitely fall in the category of 'classic blunders'...thanks for the Princess Bride references!
As for the last one does Miss Piggy know that Grover and Kermit have alove child?
all I did was laugh.
A Razorback isn't a rodent...it's a pig.
I know others have said it and will say it, but I can't resist, given today's theme:
"Dear God, what is that THING?!"
Hehe. Awesome.
I must concur with the 9:34 Anon- the Broncos logo does look a bit like a spectacularly colored thestral.
Given how the team has been performing this season (from what I hear) the harrowed deathly mutation on the cake is probably just what the orange and blue thestral should currently look like.
A Razorback is not a ROUS, but that cake might be because it is most definitely not a Razorback...
Now I have another entry for our holiday movie marathon!
Uh, ma'am? Ma'am?
I said "Horned Toads."
That's "HornED Toads." That's right.
Now, would you please move the toad's hands?
I fell out of my chair laughing at the R.O.U.S. reference - GO HOGS!
To understand the last wreck, it helps to know that Texas Christian University's (TCU's) mascot is the "Horn Frog," and its school colors are purple and white. A "Horn Frog" is the spiny lizard more commonly known as the "Horned Toad" or "Horny Toad," as shown in the official logo (yes, we know it's not really a frog or a toad, but that's what people call it). It used to be very common around Fort Worth, Texas, and still can be found there occasionally.
So you can see how a combination of taking the word "Frog" too literally, poor drawing ability, and a color that was hard to mix resulted in this cake. That in no way excuses it, but you can see how the wreck happened, just as you can see how the gas tanker truck got stalled on the train tracks and ...
heh heh. Ah, the horny toads, er, horned frogs. I had no idea what that friggin' logo was supposed to be, and that's before it was rendered in frosting.
This summer during a cheap-crap-haul at our local Ocean State Job Lot, my daughter dug through a bin of Crocs. She fell in love with a purple and silver pair and wore them home before I noticed that TCU creepy frog printed on the back. I had to google it. I'm guessing their athletic teams are a big deal, but what merchandising genius is ordering toddler-size Crocs? She wore them all summer with pride, until she kicked one off a pier into the ocean. Be free, horney toad. Godspeed.
For any of these to sell - "It would take a miracle"......thanks for the Princess Bride day. Peace....
In related news, have you seen these toasters that imprint your team's logo on bread? http://www.amazon.com/Pangea-Angeles-Kings-ProToast-Toaster/dp/B0048I08V6
I don't care much for sports, but The Princess Bride references were hilarious.
I just watched that with my nephew this last Saturday!
As a Denver Broncos fan, I hate to say that I almost like that particular wreck because it is a fantastic representation of my team's abysmal performance this season. They should be ashamed of themselves, but the Wreckerator should be proud of that cake. Proud, I say!
And "Princess Bride" references for the win!
1) You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means... Aheh...
2) At least both the "Saints" wreckerators managed to spell it correctly. That's something, right? (sound of crickets chirping)...
3) Okay, then... Well... I find it interesting that both "Saints" wreckerators, appropos of precisely nothing, managed to put a stylish belt on their manglement of the fleur-de-lis.
Stop it now, and I mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?
I can hear each and every Wreckerator saying "As you wish," when they were asked to make these cakes!
WV: caces - how Wreckerators spell cakes.
I never wanted this post to end.
As a TCU alumni, now living in Denver, you hit me where it hurts this morning. My beloved Horned Frog has been massacred into that blue blob creation. And the Denver Broncos logo? Shame.
The broncos cake reminds me a lot of this lady/man . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leAT2R9Jw8&feature=related
just sayin'. . .
Love the Princess Bride quotes. Also never thought of the Arkansas Razorbac as an ROUS, but I totally see it now. The more things in life I can relate to the Princess Bride, the better.
I woke my puppies up laughing. Thank you Cake Wrecks :)
Great post as always, Jen! When you displayed the fleur-de-lis, I expected one to be (unsuccessfully) rendered as a dreaded CCC (ptooie!). Now that would be a wreck of grand proportions.
As for the last wreck, I, too, thought it was a cross between Grover and Kermit - great minds think alike.
Hahaha those are great! Tanker truck cake? INCONCEIVABLE!
The Broncos one looks like a cross between the baby alien at the end of Alien 4: Ressurection and the gremlin on the wing in the Twilight Zone movie. The last one? What the heck?
You keep saying "cake" weckerators. I do no think that word means what you think it means.
wv: derme Derme, Ah do declare, that Horny Toad has been de-horned.
I love Princess Bride!!
While I know it isn't cake related, I am having a free fudge giveaway on my blog...is it okay to shamelessly plug it here?
juliakoponick.blogspot.com/2010/11/anyone-want-fudge-giveaway.html
I will give you an extra entry into the contest if you mention you saw this comment on Cake Blogs and came to visit my blog for the first time because you saw it here!!
Julia
Crazy wrecks...bad, bad work, but the really important fact is that the Princess Bride quotes made me smile when I seriously needed it. Thanks Jen.
The last one is Grover!
Have fun storming the castle!!!
(I loves me some Princess Bride)
There's a shortage of perfect blogs in the world. It would be a pity to spoil yours. ;)
For the second Saints wreck I see, I see... a cartoon Karate man who has earned his Yellow Belt! yeah!
The last one is just ridonkulus. Instead of a horned toad it looks suspiciously like a playing piece from the Ants in your Pants game by Milton Bradley.
I do believe the Dallas Cowboys wreckerator is a closet trekkie. The mishapen star vaguely resembles the Star Trek logo.
As for the Denver Bronco logo...what IS that?!?
STOP SAYING THAT!
Heheheheheheheheheh... Especially funny because I'm a Bronco Fan (rabid - that one hurt). Hubby is a Cowboys fan. And as an Air Force Falcons fan, the TCU was quite funny!
For the WIN!!!: Christian Johnson said...
Uh, ma'am? Ma'am?
I said "Horned Toads."
That's "HornED Toads." That's right.
Now, would you please move the toad's hands?
That Broncos cake looks like it's trying to withstand the machine. But of course no one can withstand the machine.
Watching them this season has been torture too for this Broncos fan. The Princess Bride quotes make it all feel better.
I assume that last one is the love child of Kermit and Grover. Or is that inconceivable?
The Broncos one looks exactly like a Scarran from Farscape to me!
http://www.oocities.com/motemeal/Scarran.htm
The particular quote for the Wreckerated Cowboys logo - "it would take a miracle" - is apropos for their season. You could even say that the wreckiness of the cake is in direct proportion to the team's record.
To add to the wrecks factor of the Saints' cakes, isn't it "Geaux Saints"? And, of course, TCU just left its conference - perhaps running away from that wreck?
Being from Arkansas I facepalmed at the sight of the first...then I cried
I just have to say, the Princess Bride quotes? Totally made my day.
So many of them so wrong....I dont know where to start!!
Who knew that the Saints' "logo" was a belted, aroused, road-killed badger?!
Just saying...
WV: tatal; someone should tatal to the wreckerators' bosses.
bahahahah the last one is incredible!
haha - I love me some Princess Bride!!!
the cakes? not so much - I need to start every day here to remind me to be good on my diet... you know, the one I start every morning and give up on by noon.
The Broncos cake looks like an orc. A very unhappy orc.
Thestral? I thought it looked like a ghost with flames coming out the back of its head.
Thanks for sharing, these had me laughing uncontrollably.
The Broncos logo made me laugh out loud, hard. Here in Boise, with the numerous 'victories' of the Boise State Broncos this season, everywhere you go all you see is a bunch of blue and orange CRAP! It's a relief to see how awfully awesome their logo can be displayed. It looks like a murloc from World of Warcraft. LOL
And that TCU logo makes no sense...Frogs don't have claws!
I'm wondering if the Cowboys logo cake wasn't being sold in a Washington DC bakery...
My Lord, that Bronco looks like some spiny headed alien out of Predator. This post made me laugh uproariously!
If it wasn't a stretch, I'd go with that last one being someone's homage to a sheila nagig, but that would be a serious stretch
*snap*
that would be the band breaking.
I wish there would ever be some Princess Bride quotes on this blog. ;-)
#1 E for effort. Might have worked if the chosen medium were a real cake and not one of *those*. (Evidently, though, the customer was less forgiving, thus the manager's seal of 'approval'.)
#2,3,4... So much for the choice-of-medium theory.
#5 Looks like a certain character from Uncle Remus. Just sayin'.
#6 When asked to replicate a logo, isn't it a really good idea to look at the logo? If the customer, in a fit of optimism, doesn't supply an image of said logo (though to be fair, customer may have feared that the image would simply be pasted on the cake), is it not wise to do a very basic web search?
Now to the real question: What was the mental (and that word ought to be flashing) process that led to that result? "I have no idea what the TCU logo looks like (and they're not paying me to do research), so what symbolizes TCU to me? Got it! Now, 'Jenny' I get, but 'Sharor'? Oh well, whatever the customer wants..."
Go, Pornfrogs! Go Pornfrogs! Rah! Rah! Rah!
What can always make a good Cake Wrecks post awesome? Princess Bride quotes!!!! Have fun storming the castle!
I think the Hogs' cake is actually supposed to be a "warthog faced buffoon." Just so you know. ; )
The Princess Bride just might be the most quotable movie EVAH.
WV: solissin - These cakes are really bad, solissin to me, you might not want to look!
Thank you, Jen, for making laugh out loud on a really crappy morning.
Now, I know Westley was being sarcastic when he said this, but I do mean it, with all sincerity, when I say:
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. :)
The Saints's cakes remind me of road kill, and TCU?... well, that oft-overlooked and forgotten Texas school has a football program ranked 3rd in the nation right now. Even they don't deserve a logo that looks like that!
Someone pass the iocaine powder... the people who "conceived" (heh) these wrecks need to be put out of their misery.
wv: catslyin Well, at least this set don't have catslyin on the cake!
I just LOVE all the Princess Bride references! I heart you!
Yay,my favorite movie and my favorite sports team all in the same post! Woo, Pig! Sooie! (and don't you go callin' our Hogs rodents, now. Seriously.)
Love all the Princess Bride references! Gosh, wrecks like these almost make you wish they'd use edible photo paper. Wait a sec, maybe not.
btw, I got The Princess Bride at walmart on blu-ray for 5 bucks black friday. score!
The Broncos cake looks like an albino monkey farting fire.
We were going to watch Princess Bride last night, but after I warned my partner that I'd be quoting just about every line along with the movie, we went with Shrek.
LOVE the Princess Bride references, BTW. Was the TCU thing supposed to be a toad of some kind? I don't know why bakeries think that they can just make any non-talented person off the street into a decorator. I am a decorator and it is hard work and takes talent. Thanks again for making my day!
My nose is now burning from the soda that just shot out of it! You just made my day! Bwwaaahhhhaaahhhhaaaahhhh!!!
Ha! HA! HA! That Broncos logo looks like a flaming Skeletor!
The Broncos cake looks a lot like a ceratopsian dinosaur.
Protoceratop I think.
Most hilarious post today. Harkens back to the U of K wreck (one of my personal faves).
Keep up the good work and I say "ditto" to A. A. LeBlanc's post. :-)
You didn't mention the misspelling on the Saints cakes...
As any Saints fan knows, it should be GEAUX SAINTS!
Love the Princess Bride quotes, too. :)
Kyla
Oh, thank Dog I wasn't the only one to see flattened roadkill in that first fleur de lis. NiteNurse got flattened badger, but I saw smashed armadillo. The rest of the wrecks? Lemme 'splain...no, would take too long. Lemme sum up...Inconceivable!
wv: redis
Dissing these cakes once was enough. I don't need to redis 'em.
The Grover meets Kermit thing on the last cake made me laugh out loud. Thankfully I'm alone in the house.
that last one is giving birth
I'm in love with a big blue frog
A big blue frog loves me
It's not as bad as it appears
He wears glasses and he's six foot three
Well I'm not worried about our kids
I know they'll turn out neat
They'll be great looking 'cause they'll have my face
And great swimmers 'cause they'll have his feet
I'm in love with a big blue frog
A big blue frog loves me
He's not as bad as he appears
He's got rhythm and a Ph.D.
Well I know we can make things work
He's got a good family since
His mother was a frog from Philadelphia
His daddy an enchanted prince
(instrumental and froglike bubbling)
The neighbors are against it, it's clear to me
And it's probably clear to you
They think value on their property'll go right down
If the family next door is blue
Well I'm in love with a big blue frog
A big blue frog loves me
I've got a tattoo on my chest
That says P-H-R-O-G, that's frog to me
P-H-R-O-G
My dad is a huge Arkansas Razorbacks fan and just the other day I told him that the mascot looked like an ROUS. I didn't think about the sunburn, though... Woo Pig Sooie!
As usual, you guys crack me up.
Love The Princess Bride references.
The Broncos mishap looks like the creature from the movie "Aliens". The next thing you know a mini horse-alien mouth will come shooting out.
Princess Bride FTW.
Always makes me smile!!
I run into people very frequently who do not understand my roller derby name (Dread Pirate Robyn) and therefore fail to understand why my number is 6fingers, my cell phone yells inconceivable when I get a text, or why people aww when I say that we replaced the "I do" with "As you Wish" in our vows. For these people I have purchased SEVERAL copies of TPB when it was $2 on Black Friday. That way they kinda understand the next time they hear my intro line ("ROUS-es? You mean Rollergirls Of Unbeatable Skill? She doesn't believe they exist.")
On the upside, at least they spelled the teams right on the cakes! Loved PB quotes!
Love the Princess Bride quotes. Only way it could have been better is if you'd included "Stop it, I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" :D
Well, that Broncos cookie could explain a lot about the season they are having, bwahahahaha... Seriously, looks like death in a bad hairdo...
Princess Bride and cake are the only two things that could have put a smile on my face today, and you delivered both. Thank you!
I was just quoting The Princess Bride to my boss a bit ago. Spooky!
Wuv, twue wuv is what bwings us togevver today.
Actually, that Bronco's cookie was merely a mistaking of the wrong refference. They didn't have the picture at hand, and instead referred from this : http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/rockytalklive/archives/diamustang.jpg
"Do you want me to send you back to where you were, unemployed in Greenland?!?" (angry manager to Wreckerator upon discovering today's atrocities)
This post was AWESOME!!!!
Of course, a wrecked sports team themed wedding cake would have given us the
"Mawwage, mawwage is what bwings us togedda today."
That second cake looks like one of the soldier class Scarrans from Farscape.
Have fun storming the castle!!
Add some cakes that are meant to be thrown, not looked at, to you assets
Razorbacks definitely aren't rodents, but to someone not versed in Arkansas tradition it doesn't look like your standard pig either. And the version of that cake is wonderfully awful. I love the ROUS reference.
What I think is even funnier is the dallas cowboys cake. I can get how it's hard to render the Arkansas razorback in cake and frosting, but how hard is it to make a star?
Great post! Princess Bride rocks. And to the wreckerators: I do not think it means what you think it means.
To the pain...I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery, forever.
what's that last thing SUPPOSED to be? 'cause he's a happy blue frog in cake....
meanwhile, those fleurs-de-lis look like belted babies--one with a tail, and one with a gimpy foot. utterly frightening.
wv: accalis. maybe it's not a pimple. maybe it's just accalis.
Wow!! Who knew that Lord Voldemort was the Broncos new mascot!! Gee I thought he would have much preferred Quidditch over football!
I am now wiping tears from my eyes...
You could do PB quotes every day! They NEVER get old. Any PB cakes out there?
I seriously fall more in love with you guys every time you speak Princess Bride to me. (Wow, that sounds so stalker crazy. Oops)
GO SUNBURNED R.O.U.S.-es!! (That's awkward. I'll have to keep cheering for the Hogs, I guess)
These cakes are inconceivable!
My 5 year old thought the second Saint's cake was a gingerbread man! :)
Princess Bride theme!!! I love it! The demonic Bronco was the best lol- WHY!
"who are you? I must know!"
"Get used to disappointment."
Dear Jen, I adore you for your princess bride references.
Now find me a Fezzik cake ok?
Yay, Princess Bride! Have you read the book?
The first Saints cake attempted fleur de lis looks like a dead lizard wearing a Michelle Obama signature belt.
LOL this cake wrecks made my morning!
My name is Inigo Montoya. Today is my birthday. Prepare to eat cake.
Good way to celebrate, Jen, thanks for the laffs!
The Broncos cake looks like the creature for the 4th Alien Movie!
Well, you were remarkably apropos or just incredibly nerdy with the Princess Bride quotes. Apparently (according to the facebook princess bride page) today is Inigo's birthday. So Happy Birthday Inigo!
Hello! My name Inigo Montoya. Today is my birthday. Prepare to celebrate.
Okay, I am not that clever. That was the facebook quote. But good anyway!
whoa! That may not be a bronco, but it's a dead-accurate Scarran (from Farscape)!
LOL'd right from the start. I just watched Princess Bride yesterday.
LOVE this post!!
By the way...I believe the quote you're looking for is...
No more rhymes now...I mean it.
Anybody want a peanut?
Ironically...the WV is Saltys
I am a current TCU student -- and we are the horned frogs! It's this little spiney lizzard found in Fort Worth that apparently shoots blood out of its eyes (or at least the bakeries around here think they do?). If you guys could only see the absolute tragedies of baked goods that are produced around here... it's enough for a whole post! Especially lately because our football team is likely headed to the Rose Bowl, there are all these cakes with "frogs" and roses, it looks like a giant bloody purple masacre. I understand that a horned frog is an ambiguous mascot but that's what the internet is for!
*facepalm*
To the pain... so seriously, when viewing this set of wrecks.
I'm still cringing. And whinging.
I'd love a peanut. It might take my mind off the sight of that unknown cake. I mean it.
BTW - love the blue frog song.
Elizabeth C. -- Well played!!
~~Di
Horned toad, blue frog, same difference, right?
Yep it is official. My brain has just exploded from these cakes lol. And I loved the R.O.U.S reference. Wow haven't seen "Princess Bride" in forever. Must read the book again too..
Props on the Princess Bride quotes! Always a solid choice. I would like to point out, and thank you, for the Star Wars reference as well. Hee! You made my day so much better!
"What an incredible smell you've discovered," could be applied to the cakes.
(Am I the only one who saw the SW reference?)
What have you done with Grover's nose?!
To me, the Broncos logo looks like a flaming hell's angel skull and the last cake looks like Grover unfortunately in the "little monsters" room.
I snorked on my pizza just now. That's a mix of choking on pizza and blwoing it out my nose simultaneously.
After looking at all those cakes...anybody want a peanut?!!!
GO TEAM! Go team. Go team?.... Oh, forgeddabowtit.
That last one WTF?!
Oh my gracious! The Razorback cake...no wonder it was on Manager Special (though it wasn't marked down ENOUGH, if you ask me) The Bronco's cake - anyone else see Skeletor? :)
That blue monstrosity in the last cake wreck is just strange. What the heck were they thinking.
Freaky Frog at the end looks disturbingly like No Face in the film "Spirited Away." Yes? Yes? Anyone else see the resemblance? Do I sense a post on Anime cakes gone horribly wrong in the offing?
Okay, so... does the middle Saints cake look to anyone else like a man wearing a belt and, erm... well endowed? o_O
Am i the only one thinks the Bronco wreck looks like Voldemort?
I was throwing up all day Sunday and didn't have much of a reason to laugh at ALL until I woke up Monday morning to this HILARIOUS post! OH man, and I'm not even a sports fan. You guys are AWESOME!
Only you could mingle sports and Princess Bride quotes with such aplomb.
Cracked up at the last one. Almost snorted rice. IMMLunchBreak
Well, before Disney, there was just mushu pork, am I right?
I could understand HOME bakers coming up with indescribable birthday cakes, but the worst offenders today (and usually everyday at Cake Wrecks) are the STORE bakeries. A SKULL AND CROSSBONES ON LIPS? What's the message--"I'm dying to kiss you"? "Kiss me and you're DEAD"?
I think that last cake was made by the same Wreckerator that created the Baby Tristan cake last summer! http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/07/baby-showers.html
How could they get the star wrong?! It's a basic shape you learn in preschool!
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the horse looks like one of the gargoyle-dogs in ghostbusters :)
Elizabeth C- you are as cool as Jen & John!!! lol
either I missed it or no one realized we finally have the answer to wrecks: they were frosting left handed!!!!!
-Barbara Anne
wow, that denver broncos logo totally looks like voldemort :]
The bronco logo cake looked to me like Lord Voldemort's ace pushing itself out of an unfortunately colored Quirrel. But that could just be me.
As a fellow horned frog (TCU) I must say... wow, that is one pathetic cake! A frog =/= horned frog, baker friend. Excuse me while I go cry and find out which bakery to NOT buy my TCU cake from for the bowl game! :)