The Snuggie

Posted on 12/16/2008 at 11:55 pm by Bob Cesca

The Snuggie, as you may or may not know from the cable, is a blanket with sleeves. If there’s one thing that sucks about life, its the brutality involved in moving your arms out from under a blanket. The horror. Oh the horror.

I’ve been trying to think where I’ve seen it before. And then it hit me. Chewbacca wears one in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special:

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  • jane

    Bob! Go to bed! This is much too late for you to be entertaining us.If you are late posting teh Morning Awesome, I do not want to see the results…

  • jane

    (…and yes, The Snuggie just looks like a robe…that you could trip on. A hospital-gown-style robe.)

  • GItheJOE

    Bob, they don’t understand the ways of the force. I am young but still of the star wars generation. Ask anything of me Obi Won and it is yours.

  • josh dobbin

    And a Thneed is a something that everyone, EVERYONE needs!

  • GItheJOE

    Never go to bed Master Knobi, your will is my command.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Oh dear… snuggies were my favorite favorite favorite things – and they were fluffy like comforters, not flat like sheets.Now you’ve made me want one again… and I haven’t had one since I was like.. .12?QT

  • Leigh

    So, Snuggies and Chia Pets for all, then?

  • GItheJOE

    The snuggie has saved my ass more than once.

  • http://petertupitza@comcast.net smackdab

    Heading off to the ball park I used t’ think, “Oh gawd, now I have t’ paint my chest!”… this thing has taken all the brain work outta lookin’ like an idiot!

  • GItheJOE

    but it is so warm and promote celibate marriages. You couldn’t possibly get close to your partner in this thing. Again, thank you snuggie!

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Bob, you do NOT gain cool points for knowing the minutiae of the Star Wars Christmas craptacular. Indeed I am erasing one cool point from your total for mentioning it, one more for the pic, and one of my own for instantly recognizing that scene myself.UGHH…

  • GItheJOE

    Matt, so that is Bob minus ten cool points?

  • Rod Majors

    In the commercial it shows a family sitting around a campfire all wearing these crazy robes. With those baggy sleeves it seems like a burn victim waiting to happen if you ask me.

  • 24hourjack

    wow.almost as necessary as the “visorganizer”.

  • josh dobbin

    With Chewbacca, I bet the reason for the ceremonial robe had more to do with Mayhew not wanting to get into a full hair-body-suit. Or they realized they could skimp on the costuming budget with a blanket instead of a long and involved costume application.It is a little distressing, though, to see that the economic downturn has made this instant rush of products and marketing concerning stretching dollars by way of living in an impossibly cold house.And they got all mad at Carter for wearing a sweater!All the big box stores have changed their ads, too, to the effect of “You’re broke! And we’re cheap!”

  • josh dobbin

    Also, this is the Mitch Hedberg joke given dread life:I want to invent a pair of pajamas, made out of blankets.

  • midad

    And it actually fits Chewbaca! And the family at the baseball game – like a bunch of lost druids.

  • http://www.politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ politicalpartypooper

    “Chewbacca wears one in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special:”All the rest of the time, he runs around butt-neked

  • Ursus Major

    OMG!I thought that the Christman special was blocked from human collective memory! You had to resurrect it, didn’t you? The cheesy storyline, the introduction of the Ewoks, the implausable idea that Wookiees and Ewoks were related, H. Ford trying to believe he had actually signed up for the crap-fest and the pained look on his face.I going to get a drink, my mind is reeling from the overload!

  • Tbest

    I’m late on this post, but my brother thinks these are the weirdest things in the world. So naturally, i bought it for him as an xmas present.

  • Jennifer

    Both the SLANKET and the SNUGGIE are guilty of stealing this idea from the owners and original inventors of the FREEDOM BLANKET, Sean & Jennifer Iannuzzi. The FREEDOM BLANKET was out long before these two companies! The Slanket actually purchased a FREEDOM BLANKET months before they started up their business. AND the Snuggie is an EXACT copy of a FREEDOM BLANKET!
    Now, my question is…Is it fair these two companies are making millions off of someone elses idea that they STOLE?