TiVo occasionally records some really weird stuff for us. The other day Ger was looking through its “TiVo Suggestions” and noticed something called “Go Baby!”. It’s this little 5-minute mini-show about a little baby and the disembodied hand that raises him. Baby does things that babies do, like going to the beach, playing with a toy drum, and presumably crapping his pants. The show looks like it’s done on a double-digit budget using a few stock photographs and the demo version of Macromedia Flash. A typical scene looks like this:
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Sam, of course, loves the show. She’s mesmerized by it. I, on the other hand, am totally creeped out by it. First of all, the low-budget, photo-and-Flash look of the thing makes me think that the titular Baby grew up on the wrong side of The Uncanny Valley. He looks human, but the way he moves make me think he’s a robot covered in thick latex skin.
The worst part, though, is the voice of the disembodied hand. It’s got this weird, overly exact enunciation on every tittering word. It makes me cringe and I’m always expecting its next words to be “It puts the lotion in the basket!”
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. You can see three episodes on Disney’s website here.
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