Anybody Seen This Commercial?
 

"Basilsunshine" posted this a little while ago on the IMDb Foster's forum, regarding a CN commercial in which Madame Foster is holding a garage/yard sale, and all the other CN characters are there. At the end of the commercial, Wilt reaches into a box and pulls out what appears to be his other arm, and smiles and says, "Hey!" Anyone else seen this? I'm assuming that it was a prosthetic arm, designed to look like the real one, since I've always wondered why Wilt never got a prosthesis, but then again, they ARE really, really expensive. Maybe Madame Foster was holding the sale to raise money to buy him one, since he sure deserves a break like that(especially since they won't buy him a BED).

pitbulllady

:wiltshock:

That's a little...strange! Nope, haven't seen it (the commercial or the arm!).

Yes,I seen that comercial. It looked like some kind of fork to me.

Yes, I saw it...made me laugh so hard that he thought it was his other arm, but was a giant red fork! XDD

nope, haven't seen it. Souds interesting though!

Yeah, it's a nice bumper -- one of the better ones in recent weeks. :D

EDIT: I have the video (the 30 second version, anyway. Is there a one-minute one?).

Post it to youtube if you could? Pwease?

Aw he did, how ace is ORD?

Yard Sale

And thus I made this:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1...s/wiltsarm.gif

I just LMAO'd when I saw Bloo haggle with Chip and Skip. XDDD

Yeah, I seen it! The Wilt finding the red, arm looking thing did seem a bit wierd though. But I laughed!

I agree with Wilt's arm & Bloo's haggling with Chip/Skip were funny. Would of been funnier with Rodney, since he's a "professional" haggler! :p

I saw it. Pretty funny, actually- the fork really does look like his arm!

I saw it... Ha, it was a cute commercial.

I think they should have done more with the Wilt thing. I mean, they just had him exclaim, "Hey!" and left it at that.

-Marty 8-)

O.O Wow. That's...Kinda freaky...

Haha, it was an awesome bumper, though.

Aw, funny.

That got me thinking. Would Wilt rather have a second arm or a long bed?

Given the choice, I'd want the arm. So would Wilt, I think, if only so that someone else can use the bed.

Yeah, if I'd had an arm amputated, and was given the choice between a prosthetic arm that actually worked, and a long bed, I'd go with the arm, but then, I'm 5' 2". Knowing Wilt, he'd just as soon let someone else have the bed, and reason that he could do even more to help people if he had two arms(even if only one was real).

pitbulllady

I think he was imagined that way. I'd take a bed, instead of sleeping on a wood floor for the rest of your life.

It's strange how much the fork resembles his arm... it's even got tines like his fingertips, with the pads at the ends. I love Wilt's reaction to it, though! :D

Edit: AH, I just noticed something! Right after Edd says "This could house 73% of my gerbils!", you start to see something bronze in the screen, and whenever the view pans out, it looks like it's a trophy or statue of Wilt playing basketball... Maybe I'm just the last to notice this and thinking too much into it, but it DID spark my imagination.

What do you guys think? Foster's of course doesn't seem to have much of a basketball tournament going, so could it be something given to him outside the house, or even before he moved in?

It's actually pretty obvious that Wilt was NOT imagined that way-with a missing arm and a missing eye and scars on both sides of his face. For one thing, the official Cartoon Network character description of him says, "even though life has been rough to Wilt...", which indicates some really dark times in his past. Wilt refers to himself as "broken" in the pilot; now if something is broken, that means it once was whole, and no longer is. I've often used the analogy of a snake not having ANY limbs by default, yet we know that's normal and don't think of snakes as "broken" because of it, anymore than we think of ourselves as "broken" for lacking wings by default. We were made that way, but if a bird is missing a wing, we know that something is wrong. That bird is, in that sense, broken, since it's not normal for a bird to be missing a wing. It's not normal for Wilt to be missing an arm and an eye, either, and he knows it. Wilt also gives some clues that he was not made that way in the pilot. After the first meeting of him with Mac and Bloo, when Bloo tells him that he should play basketball, he says(rather nervously, with obvious hesitation), "Oh...well, I used to...you know...uh, how about that tour?" As he says this, he wiggles his stump of an arm, and sort of gestures towards it with his head, as if to indicate that THIS is the reason he no longer plays basketball(not competitively, at least), then abruptly changes the subject, making it clear that this is not a topic he's comfortable with. If he had always had just one arm and one eye, he'd have no reason to feel that way. In the early concept drawings of Wilt that Craig has up on his blog, he has several of various incarnations of Wilt still in bandages, with far more injuries than he's shown with now, PLUS he has one that is identical to the current familiar Wilt, but with BOTH eyes and BOTH arms and no scars on his face, to compare with the current Wilt-Before, and After.

Besides, it would make no sense whatsoever, not even considering that Wilt was created by a child, for that child to create an Imaginary Friend to play basketball, and yet create him with a missing arm and missing eye, which would hardly contribute to his basketball playing success. Even children's logic is more sound than that.

pitbulllady

I haven't noticed the trophy, so I will have to go back and watch it on YouTube again, IF it's still up, that is. Wilt drops a subtle hint that he DID once play basketball, seriously and competitively, though, in the pilot, and no longer can after losing his arm and eye, so it's possible that he was at one time some team's MVP, to the extent that a trophy was named after him!

pitbulllady

Yeesh, just my opinion. I haven't seen the pilot in forever. So you can guess I forgot.

Umm, if its a fork M. Foster's got weird taste. And if its Wilt's arm... well maybe that explains why new friends arrive off every month and yet the house never gets full... :p

Yeah, I remember him making a reference to his possible competitive sports playing, but the only two things that I don't get are: 1) The trophy appears to have been made to look like him AFTER the injuries (I'm not absolutely 100% positive on this, though, because the quality of the video might have fuzzed it a little). Since he makes is relatively clear that he couldn't play professionally after his injuries occured, perhaps he might have won it in a tournament for people/IFs with handicaps? Of course, Wilt never treats his missing arm like a handicap, so maybe that's why he was so good at it and won a trophy of his likeness? and 2) if it IS of him with both arms and eyes and from a time whenever he played competitively, why would he be selling it? I know he probably has a lot of bad memories, so why would he sell something that is seemingly from a high point in his life? The only way I could see that happening is if it accidentally got put in there by someone who didn't talk to him that much and thought "He probably has hundreds of these."

The trophy could have been made in HONOR of Wilt, to give to some other athlete, perhaps someone who also had a physical handicap to overcome. It could also have been given to him for something else other than athletic achievement, in gratitude for something he'd done in the community, perhaps having something to do with him being "Friend Of The Month" so many times for rescuing abandoned IF's. Knowing Wilt, if Madame Foster asked him to donate anything for the sale, especially if the money were to benefit Foster's, he'd donate anything of any value he owned, without thinking twice about doing so.

It also suddenly occured to me what the object in the box that Wilt finds(which looks a bit like his arm)actually is-it's a BACK SCRATCHER! You probably have seen the ones made of wood that you can buy in some roadside novelty places, that look like a HUMAN arm and hand, right? I guess someone made one for Wilt, and he either put it away(like most people would do with such a lovely "gift")and forgot about it, or the person actually forgot to give it to him in the first place, and this was the first time he'd seen it.

pitbulllady

Ah PBL, once again you make everything make sense! :D

Hah... the back scratcher thing cracks me up! Whenever I saw it, I thought "Who would need a giant red Wilt's hand-shaped fork?", so the back scratcher thing makes more sense anyhow.

Although I'll never forget when my friend bought a 3 ft. long wooden fork and spoon for 50 cents at a garage sale... lol 8D

That is a big fork.:)

I just watched the commercial.

1)Yes, there is a bronze/gold trophy/statue of Wilt in his current "broken" state playing basketball (and honestly I wouldn't worry too much about whether it was made because he trumped a handicaps-only basketball tournament; it's just a statue saying he won a match, duh. He's awesome with basketball anyway. :D )

2) The thing Wilt picks up at the end does really look more like a "prosthetic arm" than a fork, since it appears to have a "thumb" appendage. I'm looking at this from an animation standpoint and that Wilt picking up something that looks like an old arm of his is merely a sight-gag/cute joke and leaving it at that, lol. It was a nice, effective commercial.

I love the fact that the sales banner in the beginning reads "BLOO BROKE ALL THIS STUFF! EVERYTHING MUST GO!" XD

Ohhhhh....it's a fork. No, wait! A back scratcher. Now it makes sense. As for the trophy, they may have made a trophy to look like Wilt commemmorating an expert imaginary friend basketball player. Either way, I'm sure Wilt does have a hundred of these, and may have contributed it himself. He is a pretty giving person.

i haven't seen that! intresting...