Showing posts with label Kwirgegard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kwirgegard. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2016

And now it's time for the most intellectual Twinkies comic ad ever. Featuring the existential satire of "KWIRKEGARD, a philosophically sinister villain, aims his existential depression ray at New York City's water supply."
"OK, you maudlin monster; your depressing days of disaster are over."
"Never...Shellhead: your hide may be thick but your head is soft."
"Oh gosh! I feel too sad to even fight! But I must try."
Who at Marvel decided to create a Twinkies ad based on Kierkegaard? I definitely would have never gotten this as a kid (what kid would?), but like The Simpson's making Nixon jokes, it still worked on both adult and kid levels.
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
-- Soren Kierkegaard