Remember when the Where The Wild Things Are that everyone was so exited about. Every blog was like, “OMG, it looks so good, we can’t make fun of it. This has awesome indie cred,” and all your friends were posting it to Facebook like somehow you wouldn’t have heard about it otherwise (you know, it’s not like it has millions of dollars in marketing backing it and working to create hype). Well a little while ago, that trailer and its popularity got its comeuppance in the form of brilliant parody. Not that it really deserved “comeuppance,” but when the trailer was released I basically had people shoving it up all my holes and am happy to see it made fun of.

Landline TV presents Spike Jonze’s new original movie, Everyone Poops.

Highlights:

• The parents freaking out in the beginning
• The talking toilet
• The unicorn explaining to Amanda while looking at a creek bed “This is where poop goes.” Raw sewage anyone?
• Triumphant self discovery at the end
• The tagline “Inside all of is… poop.”
• So many tiny details, like the dancing, it makes my head explode

For those who don’t know, Everyone Poops is a book, originally authored in Japan by  Taro Gomi featuring amazing illustrations of animals demonstrating a basic law of being alive — what goes in must come out. Below you can see some tween with a dog and a stuffed  Elmo doll read the book aloud, so that you can either relive your childhood potty training or regress to a toddler like state of wonder:

That being said I am still pretty excited to see Where The Wild Things Are, cliched indie tropes and all.

One Response to ““What Is There Left To Teach Her? Doesn’t She Know That Everybody Does It?””

1. kevin Says:
   May 13th, 2009 at 7:27 pm

   Brilliant parody – it should get some sort of award for “fast response”.

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