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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)

- Jen
Thursday
Jan232014

Mama MIA!

Tabitha G. ordered a Mario cake for her five-year-old's birthday party.

You know Mario, right?

Yeah. This guy.

 

And that's when things went horribly, hilariously wrong:

"Did-a somebody call-a a plumber?" [eyebrow waggle]

 

No, no, take a moment. Soak it alllll in. The leather biker hat. The earring. The collar. The nipple and gratuitous chest hair. Oh yeah, and the fact that his lower half is on backwards. (Why? WHY??)

How did this happen? Why does this art even exist? And seriously, what the heck is going on with that front butt?

The world may never know.

We DO know the bakery replaced The Village Mario here with a free Spongebob cake, though.

So Tabitha, just one question:

Was SpongeBob wearing a gimp suit? :D

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Reader Comments (94)

I feel so bad for the lil' birthday dude! My daughter asked for a Mario cake for her 7th Birthday, and the little specialty bakery we used to go to did a Sunday Sweets-worthy job. This is clearly Bear Cub Mario. Not that there's anything wrong with that... Yes. Yes there is. For a five year old it's just a bit too 1970's lib-by Playboys openly displayed on the coffee table creepy.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterStacy D

@athersgeo-thanks for the new phrase!!! Sheer wtf'ness!!!I could use that every day at work!!!

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterWildDuck

Ahahahaaa!!!! Nope. Just square pants!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for posting. And almost two months later... still hilarious!!!!!!!! :D

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTabitha G.

Looks to me more like he is leaning against an invisible wall and crossing one leg over the other. Oh, and that "front butt" definitely a "man bulge" if you know what I mean! Lmao. This cake is so totally and completely wrong!

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHaylee

Now, whenever I play a Mario game, I'll end up thinking about that cake. Good job.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDrluigi

W.T.H.? THIS IS PRINTED. And available to be printed again.

I'm with SuBee~ speechless.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterlisadh

Is 5 year old Tony staying at the YMCA?

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAndrea

1st what's gimp mean to you and this to me rates up there with mohawk babies


[Editor's note- I didn't know what a gimp suit was either. Turns out, it's a full body black rubber suit. I don't know how Jen knows about it. O.o -john (the hubby of Jen)]

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterjean

Cannot stop laughing thinking of Mario and his after hours activities. Who know he was into fetishes? The twisted side of me wonders how the other brothers dress up after dark.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTerri

Anyone notice the collar!?

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterGwendolyn

Does anyone else hear the theme music from the Blue Oyster Bar from the Police Academy movies or is it just me?

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBen

I hate to say that I don't think that is his bottom but the front bulges of (ahem) well let's say he is supposedly very happy and no that is not a package of long pepperoni

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymomcb

Mari-OH NOOOOOO!!!!!

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterGroovyGirl

This is clearly a set up. Boo to the person who tried to pass this off as a genuine cake wreck mistake.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKaren

Are the Village People missing a member???? LOL

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTracy

@SaraCVT, it is a source of constant and crippling shame for us Canucks (especially those of us living near the Toronto area) that right now, when most Americans think of Canada, they think of Justin Bieber and Rob Ford. I seriously hope a Canadian does something GOOD that gets reported in the international news soon... Not all of us are crack-addled alcoholic overgrown children with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterStriderGirl

somebody lost a job I hope.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterafaf

I'm with Subee. The birthday kiddo was probably as happy as a plumber with a case of Drano. He also could have just turned 40-something.That's not a nipple, either. It's a spare suspender button. So there. =^~.-^=

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered Commentersendingtheclowns

I didn't think it was a backwards butt....I thought it was a bulge >.> Guess my mind is even more filthy than the Mario. :-O (P.S...It also kinda looks like he's had one too many mushrooms.)

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTracy

Creepy!! Not to mention the stoned-looking eyes.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBeth M

Y-M-C-A!!!!

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMe

Didn't anyone have any misgivings having written "Happy 5th Birthday" on it? No??? Didn't ANYONE at the bakery do a double-take and then recheck the order form? NO??? They didn't notice that Mario had a severely broken knee??!!!

When I can pick myself up from the floor from laughing so hard I will ponder these questions further!

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterGingerSnap

Chest hair and a man nipple, just what every 5 year old wants to see on his birthday cake.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKatie

What kind of bakery would do that to a childrens charachter especially for a 5 year old.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterRyan

I think he's got love handles and a prominent package instead of front butt... the whole is total wtf'ness.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKristy

So, I had to Google "Dirty Mario" and I actually found a picture of Ron Jeremy (fully dressed) as Mario. Bwahahahahahahahaha

http://tower22.blogspot.com/2010/09/controlfreak.html

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBecky

I don't think it's a front butt, I'm sorry to say... It's supposed to be a man bulge.

January 23, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBix Dugan

@karen, I know the person who submitted it and it is NOT a setup. It is legitimately what she was given after asking for mario. And to her horror this is what she got. The store made it right after she pointed it out to them...

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterliam j

"'You must be the plumbing repair man.'"
"Lord, you can see where this is going."
"He fixes the plumbing?"

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterEmma

Oh man lol. At least I hope the replacement cake was better than whatever the heck this was. Can't even begin to fathom how this even happened. Brain gone.

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterArlene

Lmao!! Yeah. I would have a cake made up so that on my son's fifth birthday I would have to call a regional office to let them know I received an inappropriate cake hours before his party. That makes complete sense. Don't be jealous that you haven't had a horrible cake made for you! ;)

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTabitha G.

This is maybe the best Cake wreck ever. I am disturbed by how well-endowed Mario is! I am cry-laughing

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMelissa

The image is the second image that comes up when you search "gay Mario"

Gay Mario

So they had to be looking for it.

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJenna

Oh - also - this art exists as fan art. People think Mario & Luigi are... you know, together. *wink wink* You should see what's out there between Kirk and Mr. Spock. On second thought, maybe you shouldn't.

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJenna

There's so much going on here that I don't know where to look.

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered Commentercat

That may not be a front butt, it may be a crotch bulge... not that it is any better!

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMarisma

Ohhh boy. Perhaps I should take away my son's Mario & Luigi dolls now. They go EVERYWHERE with him. Sometimes they are accompanied by Bowser or one of his one-in-every-color-of-the-rainbow-and-then-some collection of Yoshi-es. And if he asks for a Mario birthday cake, I sure will be *very careful* where I purchase that cake! I will also be sure to bring a Mario doll so they know what the cake should look like! :-)

PS Perhaps everyone's joking, but I think that 'pink triangle' is actually a heart. It's too dark (and upside) down to be the pink triangle traditionally (?originally) used as a symbol for Gay Rights...which was originally used by Hitler to ID gay men :-( ...which is partly why it was swapped out for a rainbow flag specifically designed in 1978 to represent the entire LGBT community. (And there's your social studies lesson for the day! :-)

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKarate Lady

@jean and john(thoj) - How does Jen know about the gimp suit? No worries! They covered it in a recent episode of 'Elementary' where someone stuffed the murder victim (not knowing it was a murder, no less!) into a 'gimp suit' so that the victim's employer could claim he violated a 'morals clause' in his employment contract and thus refuse to pay his family a 'bonus' sudden-death lump sum. Anyway, I'm *positive* that's how Jen knows about this gimp suit, john, and you don't...unless she's been disappearing lately for long stretches of time....naaahh. She's probably just going to the gym - New Year's Resolutions and all that, just to look extra-sexy for her ol' johnny boy. Yeah, that's got to be it... ;-)

January 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKarate Lady

Go home, Mario. You're drunk.

January 25, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterNancy

All I can think is that the baker got fed up with people asking for copyrighted images they didn't actually have any rights to use, so he decided to do the most offensive one he could find.
My only question is...why is Mario wearing Wario's pants?

January 25, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterChanel

I use to be a cake maker at two different chains, one a grocery store the other an ice cream confectionary. I have personally met many foreign cake makers who also work in these chains and surprising as it is, a majority of them don't know who a lot of popular characters are, example, Spongebob, My Little Pony, etc. What is pictured here is called an edible image- you take an image from a USB drive, place it into a special printer and print it into this material. The best I can imagine for this situation is that said cake maker did an image search and, somehow, this very image popped up. I've seen my share of goof ups; images that had nothing to do with what the person ordered because the maker had no idea what it was. Given that they're foteign, they could have typed something like "Stupid Mario," because that's what their ears hear.

... Or we're just dealing with an asshole.

January 25, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterElle

Yeah, that's not 'front butt'. That's love handles and a curvy 'package'.

January 26, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterjudy

Possibly the cakerator (cake perpetrator) just Googled 'Mario art' and picked the first one he could find at print size. Or he's a rebel who hates his job...

January 26, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterPere

Given the apparent proclivities of the wreckorator, are we sure that the replacement wasn't a "SpongeBob NoPants" cake?

January 27, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterrocketride

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