Naturally, more choices = more pain for Victor...
(Sorry, Bictor...You people have been eating that name change up!)
Owen scores Batman vs. Dracula (who I don't ever recall battling Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, or Christian Bale...)
Ethan finds "The Little Einsteins" featuring the red rocket ship...Easy sell...
Summer decides on "Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus." Apparently, she's been looking for this one...I know this because she said
"I...I...Bictor...I been lookin for dis one"
(Fun Wikipedia Fact: There are two versions of the birth of the winged stallion Pegasus and his brother Chrysaor,
- One is that they sprang from Medusa's neck as Perseus beheaded her, like the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus.
- Another says that they were born of the Earth as Medusa's blood spilled onto it, in which case Poseidon would not be their sire. A variation on this story holds that they were formed from the mingling of Medusa's blood and the sea foam, thus including Poseidon in their making. )
However, everything was cool up until I stumbled across "Handy Manny."
Oh, if you aren't familiar with "Handy Manny" allow me to bring you up to speed.
"Manny" (Not to be confused with THE MANNY) is a handy man...he's also clearly of a Hispanic origin...On top of that...His voice? Wilmer Valderama...
So just in case you guys weren't sure he was blatantly being billed as a latino...Wilmer stepped in to lend his fantastic take on English...
To recap: I am now familiar with the Spanish Grandmother story where they visit sweatshops and orange stands...and now I know about Handy Manny...I'm half waiting for the movie
"Handy Manny waits for work at the Home Depot"
It's Soap Box time...How come white people get princesses and super heroes and minorities get stereotype reinforcement?
This. Is. Ridiculous.
"Handy Manny"
*********** OH PS (CUSSING ALERT) *************
I'd like to thank the assholes at Blockbuster who put Barbie & the Pegasus back in circulation after a past renter apparently ran nails across its surface...I now have two kids with a movie and one girl contemplating stabbing me because her movie doesn't work...
KUDOS BLOCKBUSTER...REALLY YOU GUYS GET AN A+ TODAY!!!
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