Every year, the annoying as hell “Ch-Ch-Chia Pets!” commercials run. This year we have the fabulously whimsical Chia Scooby and Chia Shaggy.
Who gives these things as gifts? Are they considered gag gifts? Who actually writes these things on their Christmas wish lists? And who are these people that keep buying them and keeping Ch-Ch-Chia Pets in business?
The commercials are actually coded instructions for the alien secret operatives who have infiltrated our government, churches, schools, and mall photographers.
I have been on the recieving end. My son thought it made a good Christmas gift for Mom.
It’s the Chia Head that frightens me the most. The prospect of growing a vicarious afro is rather disconcerting.
I still say Kia needs to parody them in their ads!
My mom bought a chia head for her father-in-law. Since he was bald she had taken off all of the seeds from the top of his head. Funny thing was he never noticed.
I don’t know if any parody could match SNL’s.
I’ve wondered that, myself. IMO, they’re a bit too expensive to be a gag gift, and a bit too cheap and useless to be a real gift.
I wish I had enough light for their herb garden. Fresh herbs would be nice.
Chia’s are what I classify as “Dammit, I’m Obligated to Get You a Fucking Gift, Here’s a Gift!” (which, for the remainder of my thread, I will refer to as a “DIOGYAFGHAG”).
The thing about Chia’s is that they’re sorta’ frivolous and goofy enough to be a kitsch gift. Sorta’ cool enough to be a cool gift. And above all, neutral enough for when you have the misfortune to have become the Secret Santa to that mousy little secretary in the office who seems:
What’s the solution?
Cha, cha, cha, CHIA!
Or Sea-Monkeys…
