Alas, you can’t buy a weird Barbie doll that looks like Kate McKinnon—you’ll just cut a regular doll’s hair and doodle on her face yourself. But you Maybe buy a version of the pooping Barbie that Weird Barbie lives with Greta Gerwig‘S Barbie. The plastic pet is packed with a Barbie doll wearing a striped sweater and sneakers; Its officially sanctioned names are Barbie Walk and Potty Pup. “When it’s potty time, press on the puppy’s tail,” the ad reads. “Barbie dolls can be cleaned with a broom and a shovel.” Congratulations kid. This is a pile of crap!
Barbie doll is a salesman’s dream, a generally well-received, lovable subversive product that remains a glorified two-hour toy commercial. But to the film’s credit, it doesn’t shy away from referencing some of Mattel’s quirky offerings. According to one New Yorkers the article, the pooping dog was actually based on Tanner, a Barbie accessory from aughts that ate its own poop—yes!—and was eventually recalled not out of disgust, but because the magnet inside Barbie’s poop scooper could loosen and be swallowed by a child. (The Walk and Potty Pup is essentially a toy, minus the magnet.)
Below, we list more toys like Tanner: Weird real-life Barbies that have drawn complaints, ridicule, and celebration as accidental gay symbols. Proust Barbie is not one of them – at least not yet.
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then it’s emerald got an honored cameo in Barbie doll as Midge, a red-haired doll in an oven. Yes, that’s right: Midge is pregnant. That distinguishes the doll version in the film from her original incarnation, which debuted in 1963 as Barbie’s more relatable best friend. She was discontinued in 1967, then reintroduced in 1987, again in the ’90s, and most famously again in the 1990s, as part of the “Happy Family” series — which gave Midge a baby doll that could be placed in a distended belly (which girls could attach and detach from Midge’s belly with the same magnet) or Her husband and three-year-old son were sold separately.
Gaetz Ginger, wife of Mattannounced on Tuesday that she had seen Barbie doll film, and was disappointed with the film in part because the film “unfairly treated the pregnant Barbie Midge.” Ironically, because conservative rage was instrumental in the cancellation of Happy Family Midge. “It’s a bad idea. It promotes teenage pregnancy. What would an eight-year-old or 12-year-old get out of that baby doll?” A mother asked the AP in 2002. The doll was withdrawn from Wal-Mart due to numerous complaints; like the narrator. Helen Mirren tell us in Barbie doll, she was eventually dropped from the Mattel lineup entirely for being “too weird.” But maybe Midge has the last laugh: according to at least one collector, she’s currently worth upwards of $400 in mint condition.
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Remember how Midge got a husband? It would be Allan, played in the movie by a very Michael Cera. First introduced in 1964, he was made to be Ken’s best friend. (Barbie was named for creator Ruth Handler’s daughter, and Ken for her son; Allan was named for her then-son-in-law, Allen Segal.) Ken and Allan were very close; as Cera tells us in the movie, “all his clothes fit me” (a straight line in the ad).
Like Midge, Allan has been in and out of the Barbie universe for nearly 60 years — mostly out. Mattel has not released Allan yet Barbie doll tethered dolls, but given Cera’s humor in the movie, they really should.
