No More ‘Mr Potato Head’!

EXACTLY Oldwoman70. Really, WGAF.

Terribull.

Let's not forget Miss Sweet Potato. But there again, she's quite thick skinned!

I despair that I live in a time when someone was actually paid to consider the gender of a plastic potato!

My bloke loves it, and I watched it with him, but animation isn't my thing. But you're right, I will do ANYTHING for my GS, so I will give it a go. Thank you for the recommendation.

Gaga Jo when you're back with your little grandson again, and if you get the chance, sit down and watch that film with him. My little boy was about 5 when we saw it when it first came out. He sat through it agog. I remember thinking what a great children's film it was. Possibly a Pixar first so that animation was quite ground breaking then. The dialogue was very clever with adult overtones that went right over the heads of the children it was aimed at.

Hahahahahaha Terribull, smashed it. Excellent. Made me actually laugh aloud.

I think there is a tendency to underestimate the piece of plastic the individual formerly known as Mr Potato Head. I think as potatoes go, he is multi layered, one only has to see that when he they present as a Dauphinoise. Furthermore they are blessed with an intuitiveness that goes beyond the realms of anything Mattel could possibly have imagined. Did they not inform the world of "laser envy" ? even Fraud himself hadn't come up with that one Clearly Potato Head, as he is now known smashed it when he revealed that to an in thrall audience of Toy Story 1.

I had a Mr Potato Head in the ‘50s. No wonder I grew up so sexist!

I'm with you absent and Ilovecheese. It's a spud. They don't have genitalia or gender identity.

Storm in a chip shop.

I don't understand why people are so annoyed about this. Why should a potato be assumed to be male? It is a potato!

I used to think that "Woke" was what I did first thing in the morning!
We are being bullied my a minority who are determined to take offence at anything. They will try to convince you that the colour of your garage door is racist.
They have to little to do, and should get a life!
OH and I are old enough to be content with what we have and not to try to dominate everyone else's lives.
Now that makes me a Grumpy Old Something (Non gender specific?)

First real laugh Ive had in ages.

Callistemom

We got both the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head years before Toy Story came out.

agnurse

Oh, there was a Mrs. Potato Head around years before Toy Story ever came out. We got a Mrs. Potato Head when I was a child, probably a good five years or so before Toy Story.

Terribull ???

I failed to curtsey to King Edward this evening.
He said 'Orf with her head'!
So I chopped him and (s)mashed him.

agnurse yes, Toy Story is 1995 and my oldest DD had a Mr PotatoHead in the 1970s.
He didn't have a wife

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Terribull ?

Not sure Mollygo King Edward could well veto that when the chips are down!!

Thank you so much for this thread it has given me the best laugh for a long time.

TerriBull we’ll be able to see the interview on YouTuber!

I gather there's plans afoot for Okra to interview The Potato Heads to see if she can root out how they feel now

TerriBull??

?, I love it TerriBull.

How has it come to this? No one bothered to ask them how they were doing, whether they were ok and comfortable in their own skins

Mrs Potato Head? Thank goodness they were respectably married!

It's a plastic potato – a real potato in my childhood – it doesn't identify anything, including gender.