A Public Service Announcement For Grandmothers Buying Videos For Their Grandkids

Attention Grandmothers! It's a fact that your grandkids are are always bugging you to buy videos for them. I also know that the video store, with its miles of shelves full of similar DVD covers, can be a frightening and confusing place. So before you venture out to purchase a video for your ungrateful descendants, study the following carefully.

This is the 1998 movie Meet The Deedles. It stars the late Paul Walker and Steve Van Wormer, the guy who was in Meet The Deedles.

It's a wacky comedy about two X-treme brothers who are into X-treme sports like luging and surfing who become bumbling X-treme forest rangers.

The film culminates with the two X-treme brothers inadvertently creating a new lake in Yellowstone Park and improbably surfing its waves.

It should not be confused with 1989's Meet The Feebles, a perverse all-puppet comedy from writer-director Peter Jackson of The Lord Of The Rings fame.

Meet The Feebles is sort of a hard R-rated Muppet Show, featuring puppets engaged in adultery, rape, illicit sex, drug use, post traumatic stress disorder, suicide and murder. There's even a character who's so riddled with sexually transmitted diseases that he literally rots in front of your eyes. It's fun for the entire family!

See? They're practically the same movie! However, your grandkids will probably be bugging your for the Deedles film, so choose wisely lest the state ban you from seeing them again.

A Public Service Announcement For Grandmothers Buying Videos For Their Grandkids

Grandmothers: In just a few weeks your grandkids will be asking you to buy the movie Frozen for them on home video. Be warned that the video store, with its miles of similar DVD covers, can be a frightening and confusing place. So before you venture out to purchase it, study the following carefully.

This is Frozen. It was released by Disney in 2013 and is loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's story The Snow Queen. 

It's the story of Elsa, who possesses cool snow-generating powers, and her younger sister Anna. After a jealous argument, Elsa plunges the city of Arendelle into Eternal Winter. When Anna sacrifices herself to save Elsa, she realizes love is the key to controlling her powers (sheesh) and the Winter Curse is lifted.

This is the 2010 film Frozen. It's the heartwarming (heh) story of three stupid college students who become stranded on a ski lift hundreds of feet above the frozen ground after the lodge closes down for the week. The three friends realize the horror of their situation as darkness falls, the temperature plunges and a pack of ravenous wolves prowls the ground beneath them. 

They then have to choose between slowly freezing to death on the ski lift, or being torn to pieces by the hungry wolves below.

See? They're practically the same movie! No wonder you're confused!

To muddy the waters even further, the 2010 Frozen stars Emma Bell, while the 2013 Frozen stars the voice of Kristen Bell. Baffling!

Be advised that your grandchildren will most likely be pestering you for the 2013 Frozen. If you buy them the 2010 version, the state may ban you from seeing them again.