This ad is most excellent because:
a. It’s eco-friendly
b. It’s punny
c. It involves Darth Vader cuddling a lamb
d. All of the above!

Via Like Cool

Today’s WTF Wednesday is a double dose, because there’s lots of weird stuff to share. First up, Star Wars themed burlesque, because apparently sexy girls in and of themselves aren’t enough to excite men? If you’re in LA and want to see a topless C3PO have at it I guess?

Via LA Weekly

In other totally unrelated WTF news, remember last month when the mayor of Copenhagen made a fuss about how the environmental summit crowd should save the planet by avoiding the city’s prostitutes? This puritanical posturing seems like quite a far cry from the country’s bizarre attempt at viral marketing.

VisitDenmark put out a video featuring an attractive young Danish woman claiming that she was looking for the father of her baby — a tourist she had a drunken one night stand with. So I guess the message was supposed to be something along the lines of “Denmark: come for the beer, stay for the unprotected sex with our loose women?”  I like how, in the video, she say she hasn’t been with anyone but this tourist, so he must be the father. That’s right, hot Danish girls are saving themselves for unsafe sex with drunk tourists.

When asked about this major marketing fail, VisitDenmark’s spokeswoman said “Karens story shows that Denmark is a free place with space for you to be who you want. The film is good exposure for Danish self sufficient and dignified women.” WTF?! Naturally, response to this video was less than favorable and VisitDenmark removed their video, but you know how it is, once in cyberspace, always in cyberspace. You can enjoy the WTFery below:

Would this actually make people want to visit Denmark?

via Adland

As a child of the 80s, I am a huge fan of the Back II The Future trilogy. So much so that I will defend its superiority over the original Star Wars trilogy to my dying breath. Outside of the ‘Roswell That Ends Well’ episode of Futurama, it may be the single most cohesive and understandable explanation of the basic principles of space-time (I have no scientific documentation to back that claim up).

So it was with a mixture of trepidation and glee that I watched Rachel Maddow interview game show legend Bob Barker on her nightly MSNBC show this evening. Rachel represents my adulthood perfectly: a precise mixture of geekiness and seriousness. While it would be a stretch to say that The Price Is Right played a defining role in my development as a child, I can say that it was easily the best part of staying home sick (outside of actually not going to school). Plinko, the showcase showdown, the grotesquely jiggling mothers of eight trundling down the studio steps, Bob’s strange magic wand-like microphone, announcer Rod Roddy looking like a methed-out Liberace—it was all I could do not to scream out prices in my football footy PJs, spitting Quaker Instant Oatmeal out of my mouth as I did so.

While the nature of Bob’s interview with Rachel was serious and no laughing matter, the surreality of the situation didn’t escape Rachel:

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While I did find it a bit disconcerting how calm and measured Bob was in describing the dispute between the Japanese whalers and the Sea Shepherds as “war” (he seemed a bit medicated throughout the segment, but especially during that bit), I love that even in retirement the old guy is still working tirelessly as a conservationist. And I really appreciated Rachel allowing him the time to articulately explain his position on spaying and neutering domesticated companion animals in the U.S.; it’s one of the big reasons I find the culture of pedigree breeding so distasteful. My Silk Nog supplies are dwindling, but I’m raising a glass to Mr. Barker tonight.