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Aug
31
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Now that Mascot Monday appears to just be an inexplicable part of our past, the other local morning shows are picking up the slack with mascots. Good show, 10! Good show.
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dmac | 11:05 AM | 0 Comments
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Aug
17
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The race for Pennsylvania’s junior senate seat just keeps getting more and more exciting. (And by “exciting,” we mean “stupid.”)
While Rick Santorum is on TV proclaiming that a newspaper called him too liberal, and Bob Casey is, uh, in a secret underground bunker somewhere with duct tape over his mouth, interested parties are trying to sway the votes toward their candidate of choice.
The newest way to gain the public’s trust: Mascots.
Yes, that’s right. Rick Santorum has been sending a staffer in a duck costume to Casey events — because Casey “ducks” the issues, har de har har — for a while now, and a group that would like Casey to win is joining the fray with “Grandpa Gorilla.”
Grandpa Gorilla is an 11-foot inflatable gorilla that is supposed to show that Rick Santorum doesn’t care about old people, or at least Social Security. The DC-based group Americans United is angry that Santorum wanted to privatize Social Security.
So, basically, come November, you have a choice between a gorilla and a duck. Ain’t politics grand?
Monkey on Rick’s back [Daily News]
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dmac | 12:25 PM | 1 Comment
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Jul
26
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From MLBMascots.com:
The Phanatic is at his mischievous best while riding on his all-terrain vehicle before the game. He even tries to knock off the players of the opposing team to give the home team any advantage. He participates in scoffing and hooting at the opposing team along with the fans. In the crowd he is up to any mischief. He may awkwardly a tub of popcorn, steal your girlfriend, buff a bald head or just sit down and watch the game with you - from your lap.
Truer words were never written.
Phillie Phanatic [MLBMascots.com]
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dmac | 3:30 PM | 2 Comments
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Jul
10
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It’s beginning to look like Good Day Philadelphia is never going to run out of mascots. When they began doing Mascot Monday, it seemed like they’d have a few weeks of mascots to dance with, then, well, they’d run out.
Touché:
Jennaphr Frederick is off today, so George Mallet and an intern take over the dancing — with two mascots who may have just been created specifically for Mascot Monday.
Our favorite character here is “Caitlin the Intern,” though, as, basically, we’re hoping she’s getting college credit for this.
Archives: Good Day Philadelphia
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dmac | 9:25 AM | 7 Comments
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Apr
17
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 When you think about it, Philadelphia has a bunch of fairly lame sports mascots. Except for the Eagles, which is both a patriotic and fearsome (kinda) mascot, the rest of the city’s pro sports teams have pretty shitty nicknames. You have to go to a minor league team — the Phantoms — to find anything even remotely cool. I guess a Phillie is a Philadelphian, or possibly a giant green bird-like creature, so maybe that’s a little fearsome. But Flyers? 76ers? Huh?
Now it’s mathematically proven. Alkaline Earth has put together a City Name Sports Team Fearsomeness Index, and Philadelphia is close to the bottom of the list, and is the lowest-ranked city among those with all four major sports teams. (Philly does beat a couple terrible team names, like the Spurs, Jazz, Packers, &c.)
Each mascot gets a fearsomeness score from 0 to 4, and the scores are then averaged by city, etc. The Eagles are the only Philadelphia team to not get a 0. Oakland — with the Raiders and Warriors balancing out the Athletics — was the top-ranked city.
The methodology is a little weird — the Sacramento Kings are more fearsome than the Los Angeles Kings, oddly — but it is safe to say that if you need to go to defunct women’s teams (Charge, Rage) and a lacrosse team (Barrage) to get something fearsome, Philadelphia’s mascots are pretty lame.
Our fans, however, more than make up for it.
What City is Awesomest? [Alkaline Earth via Deadspin]
Image from Philadelphia-Eagles.Net
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dmac | 11:51 AM | 1 Comment
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Mar
6
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Anytime somebody bashes Philly, I am just going to show them the following video. It really doesn’t get any better than this: On Good Day Philadelphia, Jennaphr Frederick dances with the director of security and a pre-cancerous colon polyp known as Polypman. (March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.) The guy in the polyp suit is a med student who needs extra money. Oh, and they’re dancing to Sasha Baron Cohen’s cover of “I Like To Move It” from the Madagascar soundtrack. And the director of security, Harry, is doing the ‘Raj’ From What’s Happening.
A bit of backtracking: I am not positive, but I believe the first time they did this was when guys in penguins suits came on to celebrate the DVD release of Madagascar. And since then they’ve danced with a steak, a muffler that looked like a flask, a baby, the University of Delaware mascot and a griffin. It’s usually just Frederick dancing, but if we’re lucky, Kerri-Lee Halkett joins them, too.
There are so many questions: Who is their target audience? Do they really enjoy dancing? Do they get embarassed to do this? Whose idea was this in the first place? If you’re a mascot, how do you get on this show? Is there some sort of application process?
But this much is definitely known: This could not happen anywhere else. Even with all the silly things the anchors on, say, Today, do, it doesn’t hold a candle to this. Only in Philadelphia could anchors on a morning show dance like this and not be fired immediately. And for that I am grateful, because things like this are simply awesome.
That being said, it’s time to invoke the fair use laws and show the video:
Archives: Good Day Philadelphia
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dmac | 10:08 AM | 2 Comments
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