Might as well start with the background picture. I was aiming at a generic looking screen but by the time the picture took it was this cool image. Everyone is talking about this Kia commercial with where the babies come from. The production is gorgeous, and the babies are the cutest things ever. Time magazine went all serious on it (really, I just found this article because I Googled on the subject matter to see who the sponsor was. Even though they "show the metal", my take away was that the voice command worked fast without knowing which car it was). The Time link includes the video, but for those who don't want to go there, Time's article talks about how you should really talk to little kids about reproduction. Very earnest. Snooze. Let's face it, it's funny because bored kids always ask this question in the car, especially if traffic is really bad. The driver is stuck trying to answer while maintaining most of his attention on the traffic, so we get a very pretty fairy story.

So what's my gripe?

See, the whole Time Mag teachable moment issue is valid, but obvious. That's not a cranky thing. The cranky thing isn't even, really, that the babies parachuting in from Babylandia are significantly older than newborns. They're about the age of the baby in the carseat. Plus, it's a fairy story, for heaven's sake. It's all about what it looks like in imagination.

The cranky thing is that there are piggies and pandas, cows and zebras, but they're all given a gestation period of 9 months (before they arrive mature). Within the context of the story, obviously, Dad isn't thinking about the other species. But that's what makes it a good crank. It's the thing that stuck with me from the ad. Not the sponsor. It was the image of the ubercute baby astronaut and the "9 months later". If it were important, it wouldn't make a good crank. (Annoying emoticon omitted, but do take that with a lopsided grin...)