Mousehunt (1997)

Whoa.

Devo Tooth Tunes from 2008 featuring “Brush It!” A re-recorded version of their classic song “Whip It” with tooth brushing centric lyrics

If you’re watching an 80s sci-fi/horror movie and one of the main characters looks like this

You know you’re in for a TREAT

I'm honestly not entirely certain as there were definitely dolls available in 1918 that would seem to fit Ruth's criteria.

(source: Sears catalog, Fall/Winter 1918)

My best guess is that she was either referring to quality, and/or she wanted a doll with a bisque porcelain head and limbs - as that would have been the predominant style when her mother was a child.

By the late teens most doll heads/limbs were made of composition - a material consisting mainly of sawdust and glue. Composition dolls were marketed as "almost unbreakable" (as you can see above) which, considering how many late 19th/early 20th century letters to Santa involve stories of broken porcelain dolls, was definitely a needed innovation.

The most prized dolls at the time were made in Germany and France - which obviously meant that WWI severely interrupted the supply chain.

The fact that so many little girls coveted German-made dolls took a rather hilarious turn once the US and Germany were at war. I've found many, many dear Santa letters from children vehemently declaring that they would rather not have a doll at all than one made in Germany. Some went as far as to purposely break their German dolls in tiny fits of patriotism - such as Nancy from last year who had to request a new doll from Santa after she took her German-made doll and "chop it head off".

(source: Grand magasins du Louvre catalog, Christmas 1918.)

If you compare the Sears catalog dolls to dolls from a French catalog from the same period, you can definitely see the difference in quality - as well as the fact they more closely resemble dolls from when Ruth's mother was growing up.

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I feel ya

*torturous craving for one of those string cheese balls from Mouse Hunt movie*

Clangy Bangy's debut EP (Reverse Oingo Boingo EP version)

Hi y'all! Here I am to show the reverse version of the Oingo Boingo debut EP. It's definitely not much but it's at least something as I want to be as active as possible :]

Kinke Kooi (Dutch, 1961) - The Grotesque of Yielding (2015)