Monday, December 26, 2011

The End May Be Near

I'm guessing the Founding Fathers never saw this coming.
This week in my travels, I found this particularly upsetting example of a product that manages to combine our culture's unhealthy obsession with both youth and fame in one garish package.

No, your eyes don't deceive you. It's a Justin Bieber "Brush Buddies™" set.

Is there no end to the indignities we must endure?

Apparently not.

It's bad enough that numerous news agencies are all up in our collective faces incessantly reporting the dimwitted escapades of the cretinous celebrities our declining society has produced, but now we're being asked to put them in our mouths.

According to the product's description, in addition to dental floss, this boxed set contains not only a "child-sized" Justin Bieber toothbrush but also an "adult-sized" version. Personally, I'm a bit appalled by both, but there's something extra-creepy about the fact the toothbrush is available in a model for grownups.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm thinking if the only way you can find to bond with your offspring is by hovering over the bathroom sink together and scrubbing your pearly-whites with singing* toothbrushes embellished with Justin's face (whose features, like the toothbrush itself, appear to have been molded of plastic), the time may have come for you to take a hard look at who is actually in charge of your household.

And if you're an adult buying this product for yourself? Well . . .  decorum prohibits me from continuing. Let's just say that perhaps some sort of counseling is in order, and leave it there.

If you're still skeptical that the End Times are rapidly drawing near, feel free to follow this link: Justin Bieber Singing Toothbrush. Or perhaps this one: Brush Buddies Commercial.

Or, better yet, skip both links altogether and preserve whatever shreds of sanity you may still possess.

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*You heard right: At the touch of a button, the toothbrushes also "sing" a two-minute rendition of your choice of two tunes from The Bieb's musical catalog. Somehow I suspect that the sound quality will be less than "Audiophile".