The Weird Part of the Internet: Post-Wisdom Teeth Removal Videos

By now, most people with internet access have heard of David After Dentist. Something about little David under the influence of drugs after oral surgery just makes for the lols. On the other hand, kids do say the darnedest things. Don't get me wrong, David After Dentist is hilarious but 7 year-olds don't always make a lot of sense. Nonsensical little kids are cute but I much rather see someone who has since recovered from elementary school humiliation making a fool of themselves. Getting your wisdom teeth removed is common for the high school to college aged crowd and might produce the funniest results. For this week's The Weird Part of the Internet aka TWPOTI, I wanted to take a look at post-wisdom teeth removal videos on Youtube. Why someone would actually submit themselves to this public embarrassment is beyond me but I definitely appreciate their contribution to my hysterical laughter.

Maybe it's because I feel slightly less mortified at my own reaction to getting my wisdom teeth out when I watch these videos, although I can totally relate to them. Apparently I woke up biting and kicking. Don't remember this at all and I usually like to think of myself as a pretty docile person. Then I remember being escorted into another room where I was greeted by my parents. I remember my face being really numb and my arm hurting because it took the dentist way too many tries to get the IV in (Tiny Vein Club). Apparently I had a conversation with my mother that went like this:

Mom: Don't touch the gauze.

Me: My face is sooooooo numb.

Mom: That's okay.

Me: No it feels like I have a beard.

Mom: A beard?

Me: Mommmm I think I have a beard. *starts crying*

Mom: It's okay. You don't have a beard.

Me: I want to see a mirror.

Mom: Okay. *hands me her compact*

Me: Ohhhhhh hahahahaha

Mom: ???

Dad: ???

Me: lolololol

Mom: Don't touch the gauze.

I know this nurse is just doing her job but how could she be so disgruntled and not lol at this obviously loopy dude?!

"I don't know how I'm doing, I'm just crying and watching soccer." I feel you bro, I feel you.

It's kind of irritating how you can tell the mom is just dying to film her kids.

This girl is my spirit animal.

GAWZ. Best accent ever.

The Weird Part of the Internet: Gender Cakes

You know you should probably just go to sleep when you've reached the bizarre depths of cyberspace and have gotten to the weird part of the internet aka TWPOTI. 

Does that usually stop me? No. Do I typically fall further into a trance-like state where I become completely consumed by the wacky and strange train wreck that I have deemed internet-gold? Absolutely. 

For this week's TWPOTI I would like to focus on a spectacular kind of YouTube video that seems to have become quite a phenomenon amongst expecting mothers: gender cake videos. What is a gender cake you might ask? A gender cake or a gender reveal as some call it, is a cake baked with a blue or pink inside to indicate whether the expecting parents are having a girl or a boy. How it all goes down - typically the parents to be give a copy of their ultrasound to a baker (not seen in the video) and then mommy and daddy dramatically cut into the cake in front of their entire family to reveal that they're having a little Jane or Johnny. Then I would guess that they eat the cake but usually there's too much shrieking and crying for the family to film that part. Aside from the obvious blunder/confusion about gender vs. sex, I am fascinated by the pure creepiness of using a cake, a dessert item that you eat, to deliver information about your future child's genitals. Not that I expect much in the "tone down the smugness" or "lack of cliches" department (see this lovely tune by Garfunkel and Oates), but what ever happened to good old email or telephone to deliver the news? So without further ado, I present the best of gender cake videos:

Despite the sheer number of gender reveal videos, most people still haven't figured out to cut a corner of the cake so it's easier to see...

The kid in the Spongebob shirt is pretty much going to be a superstar, I can tell.

This family is so excited about their cake reveal they forget their screaming will scare the baby, you know, the one that's actually born.

Wedding/cake reveal double whammy.

This week's TWPOTI wouldn't be complete without an epic cake fail.

Basically my feelings on gender cakes can be summed up in one picture from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life: