Monday, August 11, 2008

55) Everything about the product name "Koala Bear Kare Baby Changing Stations"

Let's just do a quick run-down of the specific crimes perpetrated by this company:


Warning: Before using Koala Bear Baby Changing Stations, please be sure you are an over-the-top caricature of a stereotypical mother from a 1950s propaganda poster.

1) Using the word "koala" in your product name does not justify changing the spelling of "care" so as that it begins with the letter "k"
This kind of thing makes us stabby.*

2) Koalas aren't bears
And even if they were, they still don't wear diapers, so we're struggling to see the tie-in here...

3) The term "Baby Changing Station" is tantalizingly, crushingly misleading
It's a diaper-changing station, not a "baby changing station". If it were a baby changing station, then you could use it to change your baby into a different, less obnoxious baby; maybe one that doesn't cry or eat or poop so goddamn much...or, like, at all.

Even more promisingly, it suggests that you could change your baby for something equally "valuable" (we're using that term objectively, as a measure of how much babies wind up costing you), like, say, a beachfront property in Monaco or a lifetime of peace and happiness.

*Except when "The Daily Show" runs old Stephen Colbert bits and calls it "Klassic Kolbert", because that's just hilarious.

3 comments:

Kari said...

oh my god, thank you.

Cassie said...

One of my daughters actually cries every time I lay her down on one of these things. She is terrified of them. I don't know if it's the creepy koala in diaper, the rickety nature of the "support table" or the poop-odor absorbing cold plastic but whatever it is, she is totally with you guys. On behalf of Sammie I say, "Right on."

seoppcforwebsites said...

I think the changes are reflected in babies comfort and hence the name baby changing station.Changing babies crying face to a lovelier smile.