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Published 16:39 19 Dec 2018 GMT
In the massive filmography of animated Disney films made over the year, you've got a wide range of features that form the narrative of Disney's complicated history.
You've got your instant classics like the Lion King or Beauty and the Beast, you've got your insane, regrettable mistakes (Song of the South did not age well), but one movie people often forget about when discussing Disney's best is the 1997 film Hercules.
Despite its general unevenness, Hercules is a glorious triumph of music, comedy and Greek mythology, and any film featuring an honest-to-God musical number from Danny DeVito simply has to be one of my favourite movies.
Hercules, of course, featured Tate Donovan as the titular Greek hero, but one wise decision they made was to give him a sidekick - the petulant, hilarious Pegasus.
Pegasus is one in a long list of memorable Disney sidekicks, and in this writer's opinion it's no surprise that the winged horse has been featured on a kid's birthday cake. I am a little surprised that it happened today, because the movie came out over 20 years ago, but I guess the movie's got a new generation of fans.
One of those fans is the son of this aspiring baker mom, who decided to use Pegasus as the inspiration for a custom-made birthday cake. Unfortunately, although her heart was in the right place, she made a crucial error that's got her entire family (as well as the internet at large) laughing their butts off.
"The cake my wife made was supposed to portray Pegasus and Baby Pegasus. She doesn't understand why everyone kept laughing," said her husband when submitting the photo to the Awkward Family Photos Instagram page, but I'm sure you saw it right away.
If you look at the white space, you can tell what she was trying to do - to have the baby version of Pegasus in the foreground while the adult version made up a silhouette, but unfortunately, because of the way the shadow worked, it kind of looks like the adult Pegasus has a particularly... large endowment.
Naturally, people in the comments were quick to weigh in with their opinions and jokes. "Took me a minute to see the baby Pegasus," said one comment, while another added: "Lol it took me a second." But one commenter took the time to say that while there was an unfortunate design flaw, it was "still an awesome cake". Can't argue with that.
And besides, as we've seen a few times before, it's actually super hard to make a child's birthday cake without accidentally making it X-rated or simply terrible. I still don't understand why we're making Hercules cakes in this day and age, but it's still a pretty good attempt, and I'd imagine that once you get over the joke and take a bite, it probably tastes pretty good as well.
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Published 16:28 10 Jul 2019 GMT
Everyone deserves to be celebrated on their birthday. Heartfelt cards, thoughtful gifts and some coloured streamers never fail to make loved ones feel special. But what if your extravagant efforts to please an ageing individual don't turn out how you expect? That's what happened for one mother when she tried to celebrate her daughter's big day.
Tammy Davis, a woman from Georgia, ordered a Moana cake for her daughter's birthday weekend. But when bakers delivered the cake on the day of the party, the mother realised they had misheard her over the phone and drastically butchered her kid's favourite Disney character.
Instead of being decorated with the strong-willed Disney girl, the cake donned a large cannabis leaf with icing to match that read: "Happy 25th birthday Kensli." Luckily Kensli is a 25-year-old who loves Moana, instead of a small child who received the surprise. On the cake, there was also a green My Little Pony with a matching leaf on its rear end. The horse had red eyes and was smoking something. We'll let you decide what it was.
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Birthday girl Kensli Taylor Davis posted a photo of the cake on Facebook with words over the picture that read: "Y'all, my mama got me a Moana cake and these b*tches thought she said marijuana." But her big day was far from ruined. She ended her sentence with a string of crying laughing emojis. She included a caption that said:
"I haven’t had a chance to tell y’all about our experience this weekend with my birthday cake. So my mama called and ordered me a cake telling them how much I loved Moana. (Because really I do) Well needless to say these people thought she said marijuana. That ice cream cake was still good though."
And the internet thought it was hilarious. Since Kensli posted the photo last week, it has received 10,000 likes and 11,000 shares. Several comments find the miscommunication hilarious, and many people even tagged their friends, inviting them to celebrate similarly for their next special day. Here's hoping this blunder inspired you as well.
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Published 11:59 08 Jan 2021 GMT
It's no secret that some of the major production companies behind children's animated movies tend to throw in risqué jokes every now and again. You know, to keep parents as entertained by the movie as their kid - they're the ones buying the tickets after all.
Some of the most wholesome Disney movies, for example, will have moms and dads cackling away while their youngsters watch on in oblivion.
And as far as Disney is concerned, Mickey and Minnie Mouse are as wholesome as it gets. But even they are not immune to this treatment.
In fact, one Disney enthusiast has taken to TikTok to share a discovery she made after she bought a mat adorned with an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
On closer inspection, a particular part of Minnie's skirt resembled something quite "rude".
Check out the discovery here:Michelle explained in the video text that she "picked up the cutest mat today and realized when I got home that something was 'up' with Minnie."
Needless to say, a number of people took to the comments to weigh in on the x-rated discovery.
One person had a lucky escape, explaining that they too had been planning to buy it.
They wrote: "I had this in my cart at Hobby Lobby but realized it wasn't 40% off. Glad I didn't buy it."
Another commenter recognized that mat from her work, writing: "Omg my job sells this mat and I will not be able to see it the same."
Carrying on the theme of not being able to "unsee" the "rude" addition to a supposedly innocent Disney mat, another TikTok user shared: "I had to watch this twice to see it. Now I can't unsee it."
But while many could not "unsee" it, others couldn't see it full stop.
"Please explain," said one user, while another asked, "What is wrong?"
User @alexiana did the less eagle-eyed viewers a solid by giving them this handy tip: "Look at her skirt, y'all."
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Published 11:46 25 Aug 2024 GMT
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Published 08:42 21 Sep 2018 GMT
While I've never had kids of my own, I only had to look at my mother's face when the day came to realise how hard it is to watch your kid head off for university. While you're immeasurably proud to watch them take their first tentative steps out on their own, it's all too easy as a parent to notice that these are also your son or daughter's first proper steps away from you, and that from that point on, your relationship won't quite be the same as it was.
But that's no reason to be sad or bitter, moms and dads out there. This mother's got the right idea - baking her kid a cake to send him off to college in the best way - but the message on that cake didn't read quite as she expected. At least, I hope it didn't read quite as she expected.
For this unfortunate cake message, we go to the world of Reddit, where this kind of thing happens all too often, weirdly enough. This time, you'll find the CasualUK SubReddit, where the user Yellow-SP shared a picture of a cake a friend of theirs baked for their son, before they left for uni.
"A friend made a cake for her son last week," explained the Redditor last week, and I'm sure this parent had only the best intentions when she wrote to her son "Good luck @ Uni" in icing, but I don't think those intentions were appreciated fully. Take a look at this cake, and you might be able to see why.
There - can you see it? The sight of good intentions paving the road to Hell? The rest of Reddit certainly did. "Delighted to see the little s*** finally leave after eighteen long years," joked one, while another added: "Absolute gold- when you head says 'Good Luck @ Uni', but your heart says 'Get the f*** out of my house.'"
This was almost - almost - a great cake message, but the thing with abbreviating words and the like is that it's really - oddly - easy to accidentally spell out the C-Word. It's kind of insane how easy it is to accidentally be obscene when we're trying to bake a cake for the ones we love. Think I'm being glib? This isn't the first time it's happened.
This is meant to be a cake for a child's first birthday party - that flesh coloured stripper pole the cute little monkey is grinding on is meant to represent a one - but as you can see, it went horribly wrong. The blue flowery discharge is an inspired bit of terrible cake-making. But wait till you see this birthday cake for a two-year-old.
This cake is meant to say 'two', but as you can see (at least from this angle), it does not say 'two'. It's uncanny, really. How hard can it be to not write something obscene in a birthday cake? Apparently, it's really, really hard.
lifestyle1 min(s) read
Published 15:02 14 Nov 2018 GMT
You'd think it wouldn't be too hard to put together a child's birthday cake.
Children are easily amused, kind of dumb creatures, and all you have to do is lob an animal or a cool cartoon character on a piece of cake, and things should be mostly good. But time and time again, cake makers go so wide of the mark, that I kind of have to wonder how they did so.
But as ugly or as unintentionally offensive as these cakes can be, one thing you can't accuse these bumbling bakers of is a lack of effort. They may have accidentally made your one-year-old's birthday cake in the shape of a giant penis, but you know that they spent many hours creating that catastrophic failure. They always get an A for effort.
But sometimes, you come across a cake with so little effort put in, you probably could have saved yourself the stress and disappointed your young child for free. That's probably what this Australian dad is thinking, after he asked local supermarket chain Woolworth's to help him out for his son's third birthday party.
Shane Hallford, a 43-year-old living in Tamworth, New South Wales, just wanted a lovely cake for his son Mason's birthday. Shane's little man was turning three, and for his frog-themed birthday party, Shane wanted a frog-themed cake, shelling out $49 AUD (£28) to make sure this happened.
"I went down to the store three days before my son’s birthday to order the cake. I explained to them we wanted a frog theme, as my son loves frogs. They told me it could done, no worries at all. He wrote down everything I said and said it would be ready by Sunday morning. I was very excited to see it."
Should be simple enough, right?
Wrong.
Shane was pretty annoyed (and understandably so) when the cake arrived on the big day, and instead of a colourful, entertaining frog, this three-year-old had to do make do with some sort of minimalist interpretation of a frog-themed birthday cake.
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"I just assumed it would be fine," lamented Shane of the "pathetic" cake design, knowing all too well with hindsight that things would decidedly not be fine.
"When I got home, I opened it up with my wife and we were both mortified. They had this tiny little number three, along with a smiley face, all written in green icing. It would have taken five seconds to do. Amy was very upset, as our guests were arriving in a couple of hours. We thought we would have to try and bake something else."
Luckily, Mason wasn't too put off by the design despite not being a huge art appreciator; after all, for a young child, cake is cake, and this one apparently tasted quite good.
But when Shane and his wife Amy called up Woolworth's to complain that they'd paid nearly $50 AUD for something which could have literally been done by a three-year-old, they were told by the supermarket chain that they do not "decorate" cakes. Which raises a few questions as to why they accepted money to decorate a cake.
Anyway, at least Mason's birthday wasn't ruined, and he'll have a funny story to tell when he's older.