6 Cakes Creepier Than The Giant Olympics Baby
July 30, 2012 Friday night my Twitter feed suddenly erupted with chatter about the "creepy Cake Wrecks baby" featured on the Olympics' opening ceremonies. Naturally this piqued my interest, but by the time I found the channel I'd missed it. (I watched the rest anyway. Even the parade of nations - although I *might* have fallen asleep between letters D and M.)
Later some readers were kind enough to send me screen shots, though, and WOW. You guys weren't kidding!
Creeeepy.
Has the giant baby been lobotomized?
And shouldn't his/her feet be a little better acquainted with the rest of the body?
I mention all this because I feel that trauma is something that should be shared. That way, we can all begin the healing process together.
After all, it could have been worse; the baby *could* have been face down:
Or had its eyes open, fixing us with a cold, dead stare:
(I honestly can't decide which is worse. Yeesh.)
Or what if it didn't have any arms or legs?
[checking pictures] Oh. Er...
Well, what if it didn't have any arms or legs, AND it was dressed as a lady bug?
;)
We'll call it a draw.
Ok, supposing they wheeled out a giant two-story grill, and stuck the giant baby on top of that.
;)
Then suppose they'd had some interpretive dancers dressed as beer bottles, and those disturbingly oversized feet were motorized to kick every time the baby hiccupped.
Yeah, the Olympics one is seeming down right cute by now, isn't it?
But wait, there's more!
What if the baby had been a creepy muppet with questionable taste in animal prints?
(Waldorf? Is that you?)
Or what if, instead of disembodied feet, there'd been tiny disembodied hands?
"The better to creep up Thing-style and pinch you with, my dears."
Or, OR - what if, instead of the giant creepy lobotomized baby, they'd had a small chemically-burned one rising slowly out of a fine porcelain teacup filled with radioactive sludge?
Let's just hope it gets super powers out of this.
I'm voting for invisibility.
And finally, for the ultimate in perspective, consider this:
NO ONE HAD TO EAT THE OLYMPICS BABY.
But people did eat these. [click at your own risk]
Thanks to wreckporters Erin R., Anony M., Christine C., Crystal B., Sarah C., Michelle F., & Dawn M. for the disturbing slice of perspective.
Reader Comments (64)
I was hoping you would have a response to the creepy giant dismembered autopsy baby and I was not disappointed. Wish I could say the same for the opening ceremonies. Well, Mr. Bean was kind of funny and the corgis were nice. Everything else was "meh."
Okay, now someone HAS To replicate creepy giant dismembered autopsy baby in cake! Make this happen, people!
Normally I check Cakewrecks in the morning but of course I had to check this one at night. No worries though, I showed them to my husband so I won't be having nightmares by myself tonight. Misery loves company, right?
Oh my.. what the fern indeed. I am so glad I missed out on that opening ceremony baby thing lol. Plus these cakes are enough to fuel many nightmares for years to come especially the lady bug one..and the creepy baby with weird floaty hands.. help!!
Fiberglass paper, eh? How many did it serve?
JB: <like>
I'm another who shouted "cake wreck! cake wreck!" at the TV when the giant baby came on. Hubs looked at me in complete confusion. Definitely creepy. But the NHS - yup, it's a good thing. We moan a lot about the waiting times, but at least we do have the option of paying for insurance, going private OR going with the NHS. The rest of the Opening Ceremony I thought was amazing, and the Queen is a good sport. Still can't figure out what the giant baby nightmare had to do with it though....
Um. "Giant two-story grill"? As if you were telling us more than one tale?
Umm, did anybody notice that the baby had no body? You shold have noticed because there were 20something nurses holding the blanket up. LOL
Did the last cake make anyone else think of Robert Downey Jr.'s character on "Tropic Thunder"?
Read to the tune of the nursery rhyme "This is the house that Jack built".
This is the baby feet detached
This is the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
This is the baby boy burberry
that lay aside the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
This is the ladybug prairie
that napped next to the boy burberry
that lay aside the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
This is the baby on a bed gray
that oversaw the ladybug prairie
that napped next to the boy burberry
that lay aside the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
This is the child unconcealed
that slept near the baby on a bed gray
that oversaw the ladybug prairie
that napped next to the boy burberry
that lay aside the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
This is the head and hand
that watched the child unconcealed
that slept near the baby on a bed gray
that oversaw the ladybug prairie
that napped next to the boy burberry
that lay aside the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
This is the infant tanned
that observed the head and hand
that watched the child unconcealed
that slept near the baby on a bed gray
that oversaw the ladybug prairie
that napped next to the boy burberry
that lay aside the baby not quite hatched
that missed viewing the feet detached
I've got to say, the ladybug baby has a striking resemblance to Nicholas Cage.
"It's a grill" might have been an homage cake! :-)
omg ! You made me laugh so hard ...please bakers stick with the classic....yuck!
Doesn't your #2 baby kinda look like a white C-Loo Green... By that I mean and over sized creepy, man baby?!?!?
That one with the grill reminds me of the classic "It a gril!"
Maybe these were Halloween cakes....(please, let that be the excuse).