Thursday, February 5, 2009

To beard, or not to beard? That is the question...

I’ve finally done it.

I’ve finally come up with a theory that
HAS no logical answer!
This is it! I don’t know, after this, I might feel somewhat empty inside... I always liked finding out the real answer to my theories and have people wonder about them... But this time, it cannot be done!!! This time, I will put the standards higher than ever before, and write an actual
LOGICAL theory! Remember this day, as the day where I, Victoria, actually had some sense in her head!! Despite the irrelevance of it all and the fact that it is not important, it HAS no answer!
Okay. I was thinking about Disney movies recently and, upon recalling one of my favourites, I realized something...
Tarzan.
Has.
No.
Beard.
That's right ladies and gents, Tarzan, the triceps, steroids-driven, cave-like man has no beard. Not even a little bit of stubble.
Don’t believe me?
HAVE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF!!!!!


Clean shaven and everything. Behold the hairless Tarzan with all his glory!!! Wave to the Tarzan!!
BOW TO HIM!!
Blow him kisses!!!!
(Sorry, Simpsons flashback to that really tall guys who says ‘do you find something funny about my automobile?' Alyssia will understand...)
So why on earth am I so concerned about a cartoon character’s facial hair?
Because if he were in a jungle ever since his birth, how on earth would he shave? Or even know how to shave? Or even
WANT to shave! I mean, who is he trying to impress? The freaking gorillas?!?!?! His parents couldn’t have taught him – they died when he was 1. And he isn’t a race who has no facial hair. In the novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, it says he was British. Enough said.
And so I think to myself – okay it’s Disney. They must be undergoing a serious anti-beard policy or something because I don’t think they’ve ever had a protagonist who had facial hair... Despite the fact that I believe that jasmine had a little ‘something something’ under her lip...

So I researched.
That's right. Because I am
THAT bored, I was like bloody Poirot from an Agatha Christie novel!
I looked up Tarzan movies from back in the day. Because I knew that Disney wasn’t the first to rip off the novel.
And I found something, not only startling, but shocking at the same time!
*le gasp*

Brace yourselves kids – for a number of weird looking men:

WHAT


IS



GOING


ON!!!!!


None. That’s right.
NONE of the movies I looked up had a Tarzan worthy to grace the screen with beard and all...
I kept researching. Adamant that I would find at least one bearded Tarzan. But they just kept on getting crazier and crazier...
One interpretation (shown below) even had the audacity to have
GELLED HAIR like that guy from Grease!

NOT EVEN THE COPYCATS GOT IT RIGHT!! And George of the Jungle was a bloody good movie too!!!

Watch out for that tree George? Or watch out for that stunted growth which seems to be affecting your facial hair?

What was even more hilarious was that some representations, whilst they didn’t have any beards, had some pretty well-grown underarm hair. The kind you could braid dreadlocks in...
Now I know that there will be some reason that I cannot see at the moment – some explanation to how I am wrong. But for now, I’m going to savour the moment of knowing that I may be right about something...
Even if it
IS about bearded fictional characters...

5 comments:

  1. You never cease to amaze me. You have quite a valid point though, dispite the fact that I never would have wondered about this on my own. Kudos for writing yet another amazingly entertaining post! :)

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  2. Awww thank you! You're awesome!!
    Yay!! Someone thinks i'm entertaining!! Usually people read these theories and think i should be admitted into a mental asylum!!
    My family thinks I'm like the crazy cat lady except without the cats... (so, in other words, just plain crazy) :S
    But i'm glad you liked it! Thanks again!! :D

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  3. its always refreshing to have a new idea that nobody would ever notice (no matter how obvious it is) be thrown at us!

    i didnt even notice this! and it was right under our noses!...i guess everyone just assumed it was one of those things that you learn to do on your own. shave i mean.
    people have beards in disney! jafar!...umm ok maybe thats it. if we dont include animals...like scar.

    let us consider the following answers!
    1. he never hit puberty properly...for soem reason when you live in the bush this stunts your...growth...pattern?
    2. some plants might have been a natural steroid allowing his skin to grow...but hair couldnt catch up to the skin...so...hair just cant get through those layers of skin!
    3. he shaves with a rock...which...when you think about it you can learn to shave by yourself...kinda

    ok so maybe i cant answer it. but i tried my darndest!

    p. very much loove the simpsons quote! crud!

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  4. Hahaha! I like the rock idea - it has something to it!!!
    I don't know why but when i watch disney films, i try and pick out all the things that they got wrong.. I did the same thing when i watched 'the little mermaid' but it didn't work. Everything was unmockable... Except Ariel who falls head over heals over the guy about 5 seconds after seeing him... that i mocked...
    Tarzan, despite being beardless, is still a big favourite - best soundtrack ever in my opinion. :)
    And yay! Someone got my simpsons quote!! I am proud :)
    CRUD!!!!!!!

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  5. here i am to completely destroy your theory. the ability to grow a beard is genetic. hence why some men are unable to grow one and others can grow them really fast. tarzan merely does not have the appropriate genes for growing a beard. simple.

    :D

    LOVE

    Helsinki

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