Friday
Sep182009
Two Thumbs Up!
September 18, 2009 Ah, it warms the very cockles of my heart to see Hollywood embracing the Wreckage.
For example, check out what showed up on this week's episode of Glee:
As I'm sure you've guessed, this was for the shop teacher who'd just returned to work after accidentally cutting off his thumbs. Naturally they served him a whole hand, too, which he then had to eat without the benefit of a fork:
It's enough to make me think we need a new spin-off: Awkward Cake Wreck Photos. Eh? Guys?
"Ok," you're thinking, "but that's just a TV show. No one would actually order..."
"Uh..."
"Ack!"
Yeeeah. You were saying?Oh, and we can't forget this gem:
(Yes, it's a repeat; I just couldn't help myself.)MV, Angela A., & Anony M., thanks for giving me a hand with this post; I think we nailed it.
- Related Wreckage: The Nose "No"s
- Related Wreckage: The Nose "No"s
Reader Comments (92)
ugh!
jen, did you see leno last night? (not that i watch!) dl hughgely had a bake sale to help california's budget deficit. he hired a bakery who baked a Wildfire cake, an earthquake cake, and cookie pops that looked like Angelina's children. Good stuff!
"Your day has arrived" is one of my all-time favorites so I loved seeing it as a repeat. These cakes are gross.
"Your Day Has Arrived" with a severed hand next to it. Lock yourself in the bathroom, call 911, and arm yourself. (Arm yourself, severed hand...heh heh, amputation humor....)
Okay, I gotta get them out of my system:
"Gotta hand it to you!"
"Is this the dessert you get if you order a knuckle sandwich?"
"It's good to see that Thing finally got married."
"I love thumbing through the cake catalogues."
"I pinky swear, if you give me your digits, I'll take you to Palm Beach on our first date."
Okay, I'm done. It's all in good pun. (Oh no! I can't stop!)
As soon as I saw that cake on Glee, I thought of Cake Wrecks!
Hmm, Awkward cake photos? How about "Cake-engrish" wishing you much "Happy-Marriage..." yeah, I'm just going to think that the dark chocolate videogame cake was made by a Japanese bakery who doesn't even know what the two english words mean... you know, as apposed to thinking it is a grooms cake or anything like that...
Sadly, that card cake might have been cute if those thumbs hadn't been put in there...
I so thought of you during this week's Glee episode - happy to see it here!
And "your day has arrived" is creepy on so many levels...!
I watched the episode of Glee and told my husband "that cake should be on Cake Wrecks." Lo, and behold, here it is! Thanks for sharing the sugar disasters.
I saw Glee and thought Wrectastic! Then when I explained why I was laughing I toldmy hubby about the totally Cake Wreck worthy cake. So glad to see it here and so impressed that you have set a standard for us all.
Severed digits....mmm. And...gross!
The "your day has arrived" cake is still my all-time favorite. Can you imagine the happy couple saying, "Hey, don't you threaten us!!!"
It must be disembodied hand day in the blogosphere, because look what they have over at http://lovelylisting.com/2009/09/oh-hai-there.html" rel="nofollow">"Lovely Listing!"
I just about died when I saw that cake on Glee the other night! I loved it :o) So glad you included it on the blog...
And who can forget the teacher trying to eat the cake without any thumbs to hold the fork with? LOVE IT!
Besides the more sinister reading of the "Your Day Has Arrived" sentiment, I keep thinking of another subtext: "We're so relieved you finally got someone to propose to you!!!"
Kinda turns the engagement party into a victory dinner.
that thumbs up cake is hideous but oh-so-funny.
the royal flush is actually v. pretty. too bad they felt the need to add those nasty thumbs.
thumbs down on the hand cake. whaaa?!?! why???
am quite disturbed by these cakes today.
crawling away to suck my thumb ...
Are you sure that the 5th one down isn't a big toe instead of a thumb?
I thought of CakeWrecks when I was watching Glee! I'm glad you posted that! :)
The last one reminds me of a Tom Lehrer song "I hold your hand in mine, dear!" Equally gross!
I totally thought of Cake Wrecks as I was watching Glee :D
i love the look on the guys face in the second picture! and the guys behind him? priceless!
i have to get a pun out of my system too...
"man, you really gave those cakes the finger!" ;)
At first glance, I mistook the lone toe/thumb cake for something entirely different. I thought perhaps Lorena Bobbitt was celebrating, uh, something.
I could be wrong, but I don't see much happy in a marriage where obviously someone (being kind and not automatically assuming it'd be the guy) plays PSP so much that their spouse is forced to sever their thumbs!
The last one looks like a prop from the addams family: the bride of thing
mmm, thumbs
Congratulations on your warmed cockles!
At least the fingernails were clean, on all the cakes. That would of been way worse, to see grungy nails!
Okay, show of hands, people...
Who loves Glee?!?
How short are the fingers on the last cake? Nearly as disturbing as the fingers on the Holland Belly cake!
John Lloyd Young is my favorite.
And him eating that cake was fabulous.
He has pictures of "Tony's" that are thumbs.
But I would be offended if someone gave me a phalange cake after I had lost some...
I was thinking "The Big Lebowski" inspired the possible big toe, but it lacks nail polish.
And lets not forget the foot Duff and the Charm City cakes team made for a pediatrist!
Taylor, you're too cuticle. Thanks for arming us with the wrist of these puns. Too humerus.
Karen, who gets the point.
Nothing says happiness like biting into a severed body part.
WHY WHY WHY???? Now I envision a cake with a finger picking a nostril to combine the two horrors!!!!
That last one puts one in mind of the Tom Lehrer song that starts out:
"I hold your hand in mine, dear;
I press it to my lips.
I take a healthy bite
From your dainty fingertips.
My joy would be complete, dear,
If you were only here,
But still I keep your hand
As a precious souvenir."
Now, after all these years, I understand that the hand was cake!
Nothing like body parts as cake to make me loose my appetite! Yuk!
~Amy B
The last cake reminds me of Dwight Schrute's birthday banner: "It is your birthday."
It is a statement of fact.
Just FYI, but that part of Glee was one of the funniest things I've seen.
Icky !
Try to do anything without your thumbs and you realize how lucky you are to have them !
HELP!!
I was so happy to see it on GLEE!! I laughed and laughed...wonderful stuff. Can't wait until you get to Portland!
Jen, I feel like it is not said enough, so I must say it for all of us:
Bravo on the puns! Really, though, there is not enough pun-related humor these days so thank you for keeping alive a dying art
I would give you two thumbs up, but, well, given the content of this post...
Glee cake is CLASSIC!! ha ha
Love it...
I thought of Wrecks the SECOND that cake came in the room. Way to change Hollywood!
That last cake "Your day has arrived" totally cracked me up... It's like it's missing text or something "Your day has arrived that we'll chop off your hand" would be more suitable. lol!
I *TOTALLY* thought of your blog when I saw that cake on Glee! HA. Love it.
Geesh they should of at least painted the last wrecks finger nails a pretty pink for her wedding!
I'll give this post a few thumbs up. It shocks me what people want you to put on a cake. I don't think partial body parts belong on any kind of a cake that doesn't include a halloween theme. Oh wait I just did one this weekend with a dismembered foot in a grave. Guess I should keep my mouth shut.
I LOVE your site!
Excellent timing. I was just making my son's birthday cake this morning. He asked for a dinosaur so I made a 3-D one, definitely not wrecky ;-) As I was piping the nails on to the feet I thought to myself "I don't think I've ever put toenails on a cake before."