A few days ago I did a studio visit with a painter friend. One of the shapes in her paintings looked like the shape of Grimace.
So I told her. I was shocked (and she at the same time thought I was very weird for saying it) that she didn't know who Grimace was. "ya know, that purple gum-drop doofus from the McDonalds clan". Blank stare. I wondered if she was alive in the United States anytime between 1970 and 2000. The next day I searched for the perfect image of Grimace to send her and hopefully regain some of her confidence in my sanity. Within a couple of tries I found this image. I think it's great. Not sure it has anything to do with Grimace but worth contemplating anyhow.
October 11, 2007
Grimace or something.
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most of the characters had some connection to a particular food item: fry guys, hamburglar, etc. but grimace was what? just a symbol for processed food in general? is he a living grape milkshake? I just want to see him fight barney to the death. they each get a couple teletubbies as ringside managers. of course grimace is going to win. i just want to see what color barney's blood is and watch grimace devour the corpse.
Grimace got excited for shakes. That's all I know of him besides being the dummy. Grimace would win in most fights in the same way that Andre The Giant did... pure mass. It would be funny if when Gimace was busted open, similar to the picture, that there would be a purple vaccuum in him instead of let's say an esophagus (and he was filled with hundreds of tiny angry Grimaces'). I think a three character in the ring-fight to the the death- match would be fun too. Who or whom would be the third? Maybe idunno, the first thing that comes to mind is Whimpy from the Popeye cartoons... but he's really, really hungry.
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