According to CNN, Barbie and Ken have decided to spend some time apart, but will still remain friends: It’s splitsville for Barbie and Ken.
What is the world coming to? And for that matter, what is CNN coming to that this is front page news??
This is also front page news at msnbc.com.
How this qualifies as news I don’t know.
And why I bothered to read the article is also a mystery to me.
Barbie, you ignornat slut!
Oh, who didn’t see this coming? Everybody has noticed Ken eyeing those trashy ‘Bratz’ girls – always had a thing for jailbait that creep, notice you haven’t seen Skipper around the Malabu dream house lately?
Ken’s coming out of the closet have a tissue ready.
When I lived in LA, I once dated a woman who worked in the marketing section of Mattel, and who was involved with “the Barbie line,” as she put it. She freely admitted that “some pretty weird people worked there”–in other words, just the sort of people who would put out a press release announcing the “separation” of two dolls.
Now the people in “the G.I. Joe line,” she said those people were “really weird.”
Now that you mention it, I haven’t seen Skipper in quite a while. That slut.
At times like these, I wish the dubious smilie wasn’t broken. Maybe Mattel is finally taking those quirky internet invented Barbies and putting them into action. Divorcee Barbie - comes with half of Ken’s stuff. How long before there’s a “white trash” Barbie?
Ken? Who needs that stinkin’ Ken? My childhood Barbie always went on dates with my brother’s GI Joe.
Guess we should start looking for the Single Girl Barbie Haagen Dazs -n- Vibrator Playset.
Batteries sold separately? 
And we all thought those kids would make it work.
Done. Trailer Trash Doll.
Not quite Barbie, but oh so slutty!
You know, once you get Ken’s pants off, it’s easy to see why Barbie dumped him. Just surprising that it took her 43 years to figure out he was a bit, er… lacking in the equipment department.
Um.
Let’s think this one through.
Ken is a well-groomed, well-dressed man who’s never made any formal committment to Barbie.
Barbie, meanwhile, has sported how many hundreds of wedding dresses? She has her own house, her own car, her own line of … everything. She’s highly desired and highly marketable. She doesn’t need a man. She can survive on her own well enough; she did just that for over a year before Ken was even in the picture. She isn’t sold as an accessory to Ken, she’s sold alone.
Three guesses who’s dressing Ken, folks. Three guesses why his skin is so well-tanned, why his forearms are so well-muscled and he looks so sharp.
It ain’t because he’s been hanging around the pencil sharpener.
My favorite quote:
“Arons hinted Wednesday that the separation may be partially due to Ken’s [ahem] reluctance to getting married.”
Ken, meet Billy.
I heard that Ken was secretly dating Ann Coulter. Longer hair and a bigger mouth…
T.V Guide had an even better quote:
Of course, they then went on to qualify it
But I had to come her just to post the first part.
Wow…that almost seems like an Onion article.
Well, it comes as no surprise to me. I remember seeing, as a kid, those looks that my sister’s Ken doll would give my GI Joe action figure.
He’s an action figure, not a doll! There is to a difference!
Thanks to all of the silly personification of these dolls, I can’t make heads or tails of what the Mattel corporation is doing. Barbie and Ken are “splitting up”, boo hoo!
So, does that mean they won’t be producing the Ken doll at all? Will they just be focusing Barbie’s accessories on individual pursuits? Are they going to replace Ken with Blaine the Aussie? Will Blaine be a pain?
I have no clue, because these ‘news’ outlets are acting like nothing but an advertising arm for Barbie. :rolleyes: My kingdom for some facts!
Yes, I’m just an angry malcontent.