That's a rather expensive way to pull a joke that only 10% of the audience will get. Most of the people freezing their buns off had little idea what he had to do with Foster's, I'll bet.
Quel and I got it, but I think only I was amused. Nobody else in our house did; my stepdaughter wasn't familiar with EITHER the meme OR the cartoon.
(In context, it's not all THAT pricey -- at least a couple of others in the parade had singers of some repute -- including JAMES TAYLOR. So it wasn't any more expensive than a regular float-with-name-singer.)
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Date: 2008-11-27 06:59 pm (UTC)*Facepalm*
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:41 pm (UTC)Just, wow.
That's a rather expensive way to pull a joke that only 10% of the audience will get. Most of the people freezing their buns off had little idea what he had to do with Foster's, I'll bet.
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Date: 2008-11-27 10:02 pm (UTC)(In context, it's not all THAT pricey -- at least a couple of others in the parade had singers of some repute -- including JAMES TAYLOR. So it wasn't any more expensive than a regular float-with-name-singer.)