I was sitting, bleary eyed, watching old re-runs of “Last of the Summer Wine” on UK Gold yesterday morning when an advert came on which just blew me away.
I actually can’t remember the product now, but the basic premise is that a large, female penguin (I should add that this ad is animated) is doing housework whilst her two kids and husband are doing stuff in the background. What I found hilarious and slightly confusing in a cross species relationship sort of way was that the husband was a bear.
Now I’m not one for being down on mixed marriages. If a penguin and a bear want to get married and set up home then more power to them. I’m not sure whether they would be the most sexually compatible but I’m sure they could work it out.
I didn’t do much biology past my fourth year at high school. It didn’t really interest me. However, if it were possible (and I’d say it’s highly unlikely) for a bear and a penguin to mate, I’d expect the offspring to be some kind of bear/penguin hybrid – the type of creature horror movies are crying out for.
What I would not expect is for the kids to be piglets, which is what they were in this advertisement.
It’s not right.
on Jan 19th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Piglets which hatched from…… hairy eggs?
on Jan 21st, 2009 at 5:38 am
Ah, come on
The kids can have hair and feathers—so we go for neither—a bit of bristle
Sounds logical to me
Now breed them with a cabbage, carrot and a potato and we can have all of the food groups on the hoof