Which of these will be in your dreams tonight? Vote for the creepiest!
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are we asking the question for the dummies or non-dummies?
Plea by Richard — February 24, 2006 @ 12:21 am
I shouldn’t have looked at this before going to bed. Now I am going to have nightmares about Chucky–I mean Joey.
Plea by Gordon Cloud — February 24, 2006 @ 12:29 am
“My name is Talkie Tina, and I HATE you.”
Plea by Chuck — February 24, 2006 @ 1:04 am
I don’t like Marcy. Think of the children!
Plea by Derek Smith — February 24, 2006 @ 1:27 am
Am I the only one who has always thought that ‘ventriloquists’ have always been a little weird? I mean, why would you spend all that time learning how to manipulate a puppet just to throw your voice?
I’ve always found this to be strangely creepy.
Plea by Marcguyver — February 24, 2006 @ 1:31 am
Has anyone noticed that there are no dummy soloists, they all work with a human partner. I think it is a conspiracy to keep the wooden man down. Call CBS.
Plea by Christopher — February 24, 2006 @ 6:17 am
Joey scares me. A lot.
Plea by C.H.H. — February 24, 2006 @ 6:37 am
Ricky reminds me of Elvis. Joey gives me the creeps.
The one in the picture with the cardboard robot will bring me to night sweats.
Thanks a lot!
;~)
Plea by Rose~ — February 24, 2006 @ 6:51 am
Heres Joey is so so scary… with a close 2nd being the Amen album… These people were crazy!
Plea by Andy — February 24, 2006 @ 7:31 am
#1 for sure. There’s something very creepy about that woman praying with a doll.
Plea by gary — February 24, 2006 @ 7:40 am
Aaargh! The ‘creepy’ factor. You know darned well they’re all first among equals!
At first glance, I thought the Marcy Sings lady was naked behind the TULIP.
I think I just brought up some of my coffee.
Y’know, I’ve been looking at that ‘here’s joey’ picture in your header (is that what it’s called? at the top of your webpage) for over a month now wondering if that’s Tammy Faye Baker or not.
Seing the album cover from whence it came, now I know it’s her.
Plea by Susan Maurer — February 24, 2006 @ 8:02 am
That TULIP on the Marcy Sings album is subliminal anti-Calvinist advertising, y’know.
Plea by Susan Maurer — February 24, 2006 @ 8:05 am
Marcy Sings to Children is by far the creepiest - she’s working solo!
And what’s the point of a ventriloquist making an ALBUM???? Wouldn’t an 8mm film make more sense? Did they even bring the stupid dummies into the studio? How dumb would that have looked? So many questions…
Plea by Wes Kenney — February 24, 2006 @ 8:09 am
Here’s my question - I’ve ALWAYS laughed at the idea of an audio recording (or radio broadcast) of ventriloquists… I mean - that’s sort of like putting up an applause sign for an audience filled with armless people… isn’t it? I mean - heck - even I could do ventriloquism on the radio, or on a record - - -
Plea by dan mcgowan — February 24, 2006 @ 8:10 am
I think that all of the non-dummies need to work on social skills and start making friends with some other non-dummies.
When you start praying with a wooden doll or playing “shepherds” and “pirates” with your dummie, it may be time for an intervention.
Perhaps the symbolism is over my head, but I am still wondering what is the meaning of the picketing pajama-clad devil on the “Shiver me Timbers” album. I’ll try not to put too much thought into it.
Plea by Scot — February 24, 2006 @ 8:13 am
someone should write a book on the sheer importance of the ventriloquist ministry of the church. Truly a lost art today.
Plea by Clif — February 24, 2006 @ 8:19 am
Erick and Beverly on the #1 looks like snuggling romantically not praying. Notice their smiles.
I vote all of them.
Plea by Paul Schafer — February 24, 2006 @ 8:23 am
Marc. I wonder why you have this deep psychological need to show dummies and Catholics on your blog. I would be concerned about the subconcious implications if I were you. Feel free to share about your childhood if you need, we’re here to listen. It’s ok. We love you just the way you are. And remember……Jesus loves you just the way you are and loves you enough to change you. (been searching my brain for Christianese phrases the last few days)
Plea by candyinsierras — February 24, 2006 @ 8:24 am
They are all freaky, but # 1 wins out. What were they thinking putting a tender moment between a ventriloquist and her dummy on the cover of an album?
Plea by Brian — February 24, 2006 @ 8:59 am
Ah-right, that has creeped me out and my day is now shot.
Is it just me, or does Marcy’s handler look a bit non-plussed.
“Hey, we’re going to shoot your album cover. Look excited!!”
Plea by Bill Lamkin — February 24, 2006 @ 9:00 am
Nah, I’m over it. Dummies don’t scare me anymore. But after looking at Harry and Terry (don’t know which one is the dummy), I’ve gotten nostalgic and plan to watch Planet of the Apes this weekend.
Plea by bugblaster — February 24, 2006 @ 9:05 am
I vote for (scary) Harry & (scary) Terry “live”!
Why? Well here’s how I arrived at my decision. Where to start?
False start: Eenie meenie miney mo., catch the spookiest album cover by its show! Wait a minute! Something is terribly wrong with these pictures.
Better start: It stands to reason that seeing and hearing are inseparable and complementary. Hence, listen to the words written on the album covers.
Step the 2nd: Knowing that these albums are Xtian in nature and that faith comes by hearing the Truth; what is Truth or, where is the truth?
Step the 3rd: Since hearing is hidden behind what is seen (i.e., pictures & words), what do the album covers tell me and which message is the scariest?
Pregnant pause: Survey the images & know that “Harry & Terry live” frighten me most! Why? Let’s continue…
Step the 4th & Answer the 1st: Harry & Terry will be talking, singing, etc. but to tell you the truth, I really won’t know which is which. Who is really talking? Is it the ventriloquist or the dummy?
Step the 5th & Answer the 2nd & main concern: How exactly can an album be “live”? Even scarier is the notion that a ventriloquist’s dummy can be “live” & talking, singing, etc. (the gospel).
Conclusion: The Harry & Terry Album Live cover succeeds in conveying no truth at all either in the image or the words. Thus it belongs to a totally different domain and that’s scary! Especially frightening is how pre-emergent the concept of a “live dummy” talking (the gospel) becomes in light of today’s gospel fads.
Worship & enjoy, ron
Marc, I’m heading up to St Cloud to attend my daughter’s traveling basketball tournament this week end. So if you honk on the way by, I won’t hear you!
Plea by revdrron — February 24, 2006 @ 9:09 am
Both Erik and Marcy disturb me on a number of levels. Little wooden people, seems a little like idolatry, or at least a dollatry.
Plea by Alan — February 24, 2006 @ 9:24 am
I’m sorry, but Marcy still gives me the heebie jeebies.
Plea by Julie S — February 24, 2006 @ 9:47 am
Bill said, “Is it just me, or does Marcy’s handler look a bit non-plussed.”
Marcy’s handler is a mere conduit for Marcy, having had her mind taken over by the evil doll.
Plea by Julie S — February 24, 2006 @ 9:49 am
My question is where exactly does the person’s hand go for the robot given the expression on it’s face?
And that dummy sitting on its arm looks a little too effeminante.
I think there’s something going on there!
Plea by mark james — February 24, 2006 @ 10:05 am
Candy said: “Marc. I wonder why you have this deep psychological need to show dummies and Catholics on your blog. I would be concerned about the subconcious implications if I were you. Feel free to share about your childhood if you need, we’re here to listen.”
Candy,
I saw a movie with Anthony Hopkins called “Magic” about this lame magician/ventriloquist named Corky and his creepy dummy and it has obviously messed me up for life.
As to the catholic thing… nuns crack me up for some reason.
Plea by Marc — February 24, 2006 @ 10:24 am
My freak meter maxes out with #1. Next on the list is Joey. Now excuse me, I need to go to therapy.
Plea by Brandon Withrow — February 24, 2006 @ 10:33 am
I’m surprised that this use of talking, worshipping images was not more directly foreseen and prohibited in our scriptures. Beholding these horrers (like Marcy and Ezra) I should think there should exist a commandment prohibiting talking representations, images of human beings and animals,(yes,even vegetables), from worshipping. Ventriloquists have caused the downfall of many nations. And a commandment about Robots would have been helpful. A related issue: I do not comprehend why Clowns are not dealt with harshly, as Samson dealt with the Philistines. Lots of smiting of Clowns would alleviate my nightmares, and preserve Christendom.
Plea by Brent — February 24, 2006 @ 11:04 am
WAY scarier than wooden dummies are big people dressed up as (hot-dogs, chickens, disney characters) who come up to you in (supermarkets, carnivals, Disneyland), to (shake your hand, hug you, pose with you). Nuns qualify in this category also. It is not the handshake I fear from a nun, it is the “glance of disapproval”.
Plea by candyinsierras — February 24, 2006 @ 11:07 am
I’m gonna have to agree with Brandon on this one. The Amen! album with Beverly and Erick sharing a “quiet moment” is positively disturbing.
Plea by Tristan — February 24, 2006 @ 11:11 am
When I was younger I worked as a portrait artist at Disneyland (the Renaissance Florence of our time). It was scary to see teenagers and adults backstage, with their character costumes not completely assembled. For instance, imagine a person wearing Donald Duck-shaped padding, but with their human head visible. I saw this during my first week of work, along with other characters in a similar state of transition, at a distance, and thought, for a moment, that I was on the Island of Dr. Moreau.
Plea by Brent — February 24, 2006 @ 11:22 am
Think about it - why make a record album with a ventriloquist and a dummy? If you don’t have the visual - the entire thing doesn’t work! What’s creepy is how warped the people have to be to carry the illusion over far enough to buy a RECORD of a dummy. Whoo hoo! Who needs therapy now baby?
For the record - I’m kind of attracted to gal #1.
Plea by Reid — February 24, 2006 @ 11:24 am
Reid,
Erick the Dummy seems to be attracted to her too.
Plea by Brent — February 24, 2006 @ 11:28 am
Joey gets my vote. I forget which Nightmare on Elm Street movie has Freddy saying “Heeere’s Johnny!” (It’s the only one I’ve seen…forced into watching it with some college friends years ago). Well, “Heeere’s Joey!” with that album cover might have made the movie much scarier.
Wow, I’m impressed with how incomprehensible revdrron can get even on a devine vinyl post!
Plea by Chris Wilde — February 24, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
Joey is very sinister.
Marcy reminds me of an old Mystery Theatre (anyone else remember that program?) in which a doll in a toy store turns out to be real, and the store owner is actually a toy. My skin is crawling just thinking about it.
Plea by David Kjos — February 24, 2006 @ 12:47 pm
I remember Geraldine & Ricky! I saw them live several times…(rethink) I saw *her* live with him (not alive) a couple of times. She was actually pretty funny with him.
I’m creeped out by all the rest of them, though, with Marcy being the scariest. She’s not a puppet or a dummy. She’s a *doll*.
Plea by Beka — February 24, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
Geraldine and Ricky were popular until fame went to Ricky’s head. I think Ricky eventually ran off with a Birch tree.
Seeing Bible stories done by those things would have scared me out of church for good as a kid.
Plea by Brandon Withrow — February 24, 2006 @ 3:14 pm
OK - I grew up listening to little Marcy, so I wanna know: what’s everybody’s issue with Little Marcy? Sure, her voice can break a window, she’s a bit stiff in her performance and tends to come across with a wooden edge…
Oh - I get it now…
Plea by AWHall — February 24, 2006 @ 3:35 pm
Nearly 30 years ago a motivational speaker came to the high school where I taught. He had a dummy with him. He taught about good morals, etc. as he entertained and challenged the students to live a good, moral upright life. After he was done, a few of us talked to him. He was a Christian. Someone asked him if he used the dummy for Christian presentations. He got very serious and said that he would never use the dummy for evangelizing or teaching Christian beliefs. He strongly believed that an artificial device lent an air of unreality and falseness to a presentation of the Way, the Truth and the Life. He opposed fakes such as dummies, etc. I never forgot that.
Pat
Plea by Pat McGee — February 24, 2006 @ 3:40 pm
brent..dude..you are so funny today! I agree about the clowns. Smite them and utterly remove them from the land.
Plea by candyinsierras — February 24, 2006 @ 3:59 pm
Kjos i do remeber that radio program. Its very creepy now that you mention it. Thanks ill be haveing nightmares for weeks
Plea by the screaming pirate — February 24, 2006 @ 4:05 pm
I thought at first I’d be voting for Joey, but “Marcy Sings to Children” is scarier than both of Joey’s album covers combined.
Plea by Kyle — February 24, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
The first Here’s Joey is the scariest.
Plea by pilgrim — February 24, 2006 @ 6:48 pm
I am still having a hard time realizing that Dan and Louie are up to volume III!
Louie must feel like he’s really at home among all of those trees. That explains his creepy euphoric grinning!
Plea by Philip — February 25, 2006 @ 1:24 am
Don’t tell me…. Louie’s favorite story is 2 Kings 6 when Elisha throws in the stick to make the axe head float. But he hates the part (which he always forgets) when Dan throws him in to re enact the story for the kiddies.
Plea by Philip — February 25, 2006 @ 1:36 am
Hey AWHall,
I had no idea Mom had you listening to little Marcy as a kid. It explains a lot, especially why those albums weren’t around for my youth. Hope your therapy has been productive
Blessings bro!
Plea by ch — February 25, 2006 @ 2:22 am
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the top the top the top!
i’ll be haunted for a while now.
Plea by Laur — February 25, 2006 @ 11:53 am
“Trees Talk Too!” What does that mean? and what does that have to do with….I mean….whoa. I think the Geraldine and Ricky cover is the creepiest just because of the “trees talk too” nonsense. “Bible stories that live” is a close second because the afro puppet looks demon possessed.
Plea by Roxana — February 25, 2006 @ 1:39 pm
I’m just glad to see Jim and Tammy Bakker back together and making records again! Anybody remembr Mr Mailbox?
Plea by chuck h — February 25, 2006 @ 7:29 pm
It would have to be Geraldine and Ricky. It’s hard to tell which one’s the puppet.
Plea by Grant — February 26, 2006 @ 6:04 am
If you’ll notice, on the $1.98 album, Marcy’s handler is gone. For me, that makes Marcy the runner up for creepiness.
Even she couldn’t beat album number one though, because Erick and Beverly look a little bit like girlfriend and dummyfriend to me in that pose.
Plea by Jodi — February 26, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Amen for “Amen” due to the creepy Flesh-and-Wood relationship implication.
“Trees Talk” is the runner up; it reminds me of some Druidic sacrifice practices.
“Gail and Ezra” merely makes me want to pummel Gail, but that’s not creepy, I’m just a curmudgeon.
Plea by Respectabiggle — February 27, 2006 @ 8:12 am
I think $1.98 is about $1.97 too much for both of Marcie’s albums combined.
Plea by Bill Lamkin — February 27, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
the most frightful to me is definately, definately “Amen” because it does seem as if Erick and Beverly are “involved” somehow.
Plea by george — February 27, 2006 @ 5:12 pm
Disturbing or Disturbed
Divine Vinyl for Dummies *shudder*…
Trackback by TulipGirl — February 27, 2006 @ 6:45 pm
Why did they use Wayne Newton as a puppet on “Trees talk too?”
Plea by Andy — February 27, 2006 @ 11:01 pm
I saw Ricky just 4 years ago. He kicks ass.
Plea by Dan — February 28, 2006 @ 10:35 am
Am I the only one that thinks it looks like Tammy is impaling Jim?
Plea by Alex — February 28, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
I mean Jim is impaling Tammy. See - the whole thing has gotten my mind all warped.
Plea by Alex — February 28, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
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Uh…what’s going on with Ezra and his ICEE? I hope that’s the cup leaking…and not Ezra.
Plea by He-Mom — November 2, 2006 @ 12:55 pm
Little Marcy rocks.
Plea by Ramona — January 3, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
OK, I see the ick factor with most of this stuff. (And I have commenter privileges on Gawker blogs, so I definitely grok irony.)
That said, I freakin’ grew up on Gail & Ezra and still have a soft spot for, uh, “them.” And hey, they’re still going! www.gailnezra.com.
Plea by Reid Davis — June 29, 2008 @ 10:29 pm