That's what my son likely thought when he finished watching Toast Wars this morning. To understand the humor in this little moment, allow me to provide some back story.
When I was in my junior year of high school, my cousins and I decided to make a Star Wars parody movie during the summer. The goal wasn't to be too serious and accurately reproduce everything but to see how ridiculous we could make things and still have a working script.
The plot revolves around Dark Vapor (Darth Vader) intercepting a message from Luke Piewalker to Leia Organa, letting her know the Rebel Toaster is operational and can now make toast for her. With the help of his apprentice (Dark Paper), Dark Vapor and the Emperor set off to destroy the toaster to annoy Leia, while Luke Piewalker trains with Yoga (Yoda) to stop them.
In one particular scene, we mocked the "Imperial walker" by creating an Imperial "roller." The contraption was nothing more than a box on top of a toy flatbed truck, with a face doodled on the front, and eyeholes cut out so we could put turkey basters through the holes and shoot water.
Fast forward to this morning and my son, who is now obsessed with watching Toast Wars after he found out I helped make it, abruptly comes up to me while I'm soaking my shoulder in the bathtub (That's another story for a different day) and says "Did you know that the Imperial roller is just a box on a toy truck? I can see the yellow wheels!" I responded to my son with, "Yes, it's pretend. It's to be funny." His frown turned into a grin and then a smile, when he realized it wasn't supposed to be a trick but just a joke.
This just goes to show you that even kids can sometimes take things too seriously and not enjoy things simply for the amusement, joy or entertainment they bring. Sometimes the simple things are better, and if we can move past the fact that something isn't "professionally done" or quite as detailed as we'd like, we can begin to notice and appreciate the smaller things that we likely overlook and take for granted.
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