The Chick Flick Trick
Sep 04, 2007 in Observations
I got tricked into a chick flick last night. It was an honest mistake (honest). As I flipped past one of the movie channels I saw a large dog - a mastiff I believe - wearing roller skates. Now, if you ask a guy if he wants to watch a large dog on skates, one of two things will happen: he will respond “Oh hell yeah!” or he will lie. So, naturally, when that voice in my head asked if I wanted to watch that I thought “Oh hell Yeah!”
I was disappointed to discover that roller skating dogs was most definitely not a major theme to the movie. This was like the TV equivalent of being Rick Rolled. I sat down to watch something cool and, instead, saw a lot of shopping, crying, and rain. I’d been tricked. I am hard pressed to think of a movie that involves those three elements that isn’t a chick flick. Come to think of it, I’m hard pressed to think of a flick that does prominently feature skating mastiffs. I could almost feel the TV sapping the testosterone from my body, so I told the wife she was on her own and bailed.
So, of course, I promptly went searching for videos of skating dogs.