The innocence of tickling. (And a comment on a kid's vid)

[JoBelle]

I didn't want to put this in the tickling forum because it has more to do with tickling in relation to the minds of kids. It's not about tickling kids though.

That being said...

I bought another Veggie Tales video for my son. They are good vids in that they are centered around building morals, and having faith, but they don't do that whole fire and brimstone thing. Te fact that the characters are vegetables is just too funny.I feel comfortable enough letting him watch these Bible based vids without coming out fearing the concept of "god" that I'm teaching him. Plus, they are just damn funny even to adults. Monty Python meets Captain Kangaroo meets...a carton...hell...I don't know. 😀

The reason for this post then?

In this particular vid, called Esther, the girl who Would be Queen....there is a segment where these evil little peas with French accents are tyring to drop a piano on the king's head. The king is a zucchini by the way. So the evil planned is ruined and the grape, the first man to the king, asks what the punishment is for the peas.

Imagine all sorts of overacted dramatics here along with mystery music!

"They break into your castle....they come before you uncalled....they try to drop a piano on your head. What is the punishment for this????"

The king replies, "Well, I think that must be....being banned to the ISLAND OF PERPETUAL TICKLING!"

Groans and gasps are heard. The peas question, "NO! Not the island where you are tickled night and day. Where there is not stopping, not even if you say 'Prettyplease?'"

"YES!"

Flash to a door that opens to reveal a cloak (a la grimreaper) weilding a huge white feather. It goes to the peas and tickles them as they run out the door witht he tickler following.

Now, that tells me one of two things.

Either tickling is so much of an aspect of human nature that in a mass market video it is used to entertain.

or

There is a ticklephile in the writing group for the company.

I opt for the former.

Joby

Just sharin'

 

[TummyDragon]

Nice post...

I have never viewed one of the vegetable cartoons, but, the Island of Perpetual Tickling must have its place in human nature. I would agree that it's the former. 🙂

That being said, I must say that with vegetable tickling, I much prefer the term 'underleaf' as opposed to 'stempit'. The former is just wildly sensual while the latter just doesn't quite do it for me.

Ticklehugs to one of my favorite people in the world...

 

[BigJim]

Evil!!!! Wicked!!! Report it to the Moderators!!!

Oops, sorry. I fell asleep for a moment and dreamt I was 1golfer.


That sounds very funny Jo. 🙂 I think tickling definately has a place in the collective human psyche. It's a bit like enjoying horror movies or liking the huge rides at theme parks. We love it and fear it at the same time. It's terrifying and mesmerising. (At least to a lee it is. As a wicked, evil, sadistic ler, I find it a tad different. )

Nice find, just a shame the island doesn't really exist. 😛

 

[JoBelle]

Nice find, just a shame the island doesn't really exist. 😛

Never been to my house....have ya?
Joby

 

[BigJim]

Never been to my house....have ya?
Joby

 

[milagros317]

Never been to my house....have ya?
Joby

No, but it sounds like a wonderful place. 😀

 

[JoBelle]

hehe Mila,

You always make me smile while I think about making you smile.

What fun you'd be!

Joby

 

[JoBelle]

Re: Nice post...

That being said, I must say that with vegetable tickling, I much prefer the term 'underleaf' as opposed to 'stempit'. The former is just wildly sensual while the latter just doesn't quite do it for me.

Stop DOING that!

I can't take a drink without having to wash my monitor when reading things you write.

You little fake tickler you! I bet you're really a LEE!

GASP!
Joby

 

[jordan]

I'm not into the whole vegetable tickling thing, but still a good find.

 

[Oddjob0226]

It just adds more support to the theory I have. Humans, even the nicest ones like Jobelle have somewhat of a sadistic side to them (I'm not saying a big one, just somewhat of one - it could be tiny. It's like people have a natural aggresive side, even if it only involves plaing football....) and tickling is thrilling and a little mean to indulge in or whitness while seeming uterly harmless. It's not 'real' cruelty unless it is taken too far. That's why people who are into harmless and "playful" tickling who look down on those of us into the more intense aspects drive me crazy - it's ALWAYS based on stimulating the warning system of another's body, thus there is always some power play aspect to it whether those engaing in it recognize it or not. A toast: To evil.

 

[cs217903]

Sadly enough, I am very familiar with the Veggie Tales. My friends and I thought it would be a FABULOUS idea to get messed up and go to the new Veggie Tales movie, so we did, and it was quite possibly one of the funniest things I have EVER seen in my entire life! Point being, I do remember when I was a kid that tickling was incorporated into many cartoons: Gummi Bears, The Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more. As a child I used to love the idea, but it terrified the hell out of my friends, one of them couldn't even watch scenes that had tickle torture in them. I definitely don't think that there is a ticklephile at the production company, it's just good marketing because kids can relate to that kind of torment.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Well, I have some vacation time to use up next year. I think Ann and I will take a visit to Joby's island resort.


Drew😉

 

[His Divine Shadow]

I think I'll join you.😀 Surprised I am, to hear that this was in a Veggie Tales vid.

 

[JoBelle]

Hehe,

Yes, it's alovely resort. We only INSIST that you pay in giggles,and smiles. My travel agents are a talented bunch. Just let me know if you want to be put in touch with them. 😉

Nutters the bunch of ya!
Joby

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Giggles and Smiles are all very well indeed, but I'm a big believer in paying extra.....as in Guffaws, Chortles, Screams, and a few Kootchie Koos. We don't require much luggage, can get a couple toothbrushes and ten thousand feathers in one napsack!


Drew

 

[venray]

Hey Drew..I know how to get us a good "group" rate......

😉

Ray

 

[JoBelle]

Hmmm...
I'mnot sure about that Venray group. I hear he's an unsavory character who resorts to all sorts of behavior that might be considered...great fun perhaps??? 😛

Can you imagine?

Little huts made of feathers with swinging hammocks full of ticklish bodies.

Oh, to dream,
Joby

 

[venray]

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1

"To sleep: perchance to dream"


Taken out of context from the following.......

HAMLET

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

 

[JoBelle]

Oh, Dear.

I'm glad to see you recognize a line that comes from something besides the latest tickle video! 😛 But, in all fairness, I was not quoting Mr. Wigglestick. I was just daydreamin'.

Nice bit though. I made my high school students memorize that when I was student teaching...lol They hated me, but just a little.

Joby

Now, just thinkin' about all that flesh exposed on the cabana boys.