Oooo-weee-oooo I wear backwards, shiatty robes
Oooooooh and I give them out as gifts
I don't care if they charge a ton for handling
I don't care about that

Kinda reminds me of that Drive Shaft diaper commercials on LOST.. now THAT looked degrading.

/approves

Slankets are better

Wake me up when they make a terrycloth one. That will be the ultimate in lazy tech.

jonasborg: Slankets are better

You got your big cheese, I got my snuggy tight!

Say what you want, the "idiots" that came up with Snuggies® are laughing all the way to the bank.

R.A.Danny: Say what you want, the "idiots" that came up with Snuggies® are laughing all the way to the bank.

True - always astonishing how successful a well constructed scam can be.

I'm still waiting for the headline "I wore my Snuggie to a football match ... and survived!"

gobbles71: True - always astonishing how successful a well constructed scam can be.

Scam? Maybe you should check out the dictionary.

There's no deceit, there's just tacky yet popular.

While it is a little late to hop on the Snuggie bandwagon (in terms of being ironic) this is exactly the kind of keepsake pairing that the record industry does (and has done for years) with every other "special edition collection" out there.

I know lots of Weezer fans who would never buy a Slanket that might buy one now just because of the Weezer logo.

I've openly questioned Cuomo's mental stability ever since the Blue album. Yeah, the songs weren't weird/creepy until Pinkerton but even back then he had a "I'm not sure I want him alone with my pets" vibe to him.

It would take a lot from him to elicit a genuine "WTF?" from me.

Now Weezer's biggest fan.

I was at bed bath and beyond and saw Snuggie for Dogs

I'm sorry Weezer, we will have to deduct 5 hipster points for improper use of irony.

A man wearing a tee shirt that says "Bun in the oven"? Yes, ironic.
Carefully styling your hair so that it looks messed up? Again, ironic.
Taking 20 different photos of yourself to find a Facebook shot that looks spontaneous? Um hmm.

A blanket/CD combo? Sigh, no.

Weezer hasn't been relevant since Pinkerton.

Prof. Ann Marion: I'm sorry Weezer, we will have to deduct 5 hipster points for improper use of irony.

A man wearing a tee shirt that says "Bun in the oven"? Yes, ironic.
Carefully styling your hair so that it looks messed up? Again, ironic.
Taking 20 different photos of yourself to find a Facebook shot that looks spontaneous? Um hmm.

A blanket/CD combo? Sigh, no.

So, by your count, Steve Guttenberg is a hipster?

Gene Simmons wishes he thought of it first.

Kiss Snuggie to be released in all black with Kiss costume patterns on them in 3... 2...

/I want my cut Gene.

NorCalLos: Prof. Ann Marion: I'm sorry Weezer, we will have to deduct 5 hipster points for improper use of irony.

A man wearing a tee shirt that says "Bun in the oven"? Yes, ironic.
Carefully styling your hair so that it looks messed up? Again, ironic.
Taking 20 different photos of yourself to find a Facebook shot that looks spontaneous? Um hmm.

A blanket/CD combo? Sigh, no.

So, by your count, Steve Guttenberg is a hipster?

Nah, but he does have his irony firmly in place... and maybe a little off to the right.

Can we just pretend the whole band died in a plane crash in 1997?

/plz?

No, they're really promoting with the WTF Blanket!

tricycleracer: Weezer hasn't been relevant since Pinkerton.

Yet here you are talking about them.

Prof. Ann Marion: I'm sorry Weezer, we will have to deduct 5 hipster points for improper use of irony.

A man wearing a tee shirt that says "Bun in the oven"? Yes, ironic.
Carefully styling your hair so that it looks messed up? Again, ironic.
Taking 20 different photos of yourself to find a Facebook shot that looks spontaneous? Um hmm.

A blanket/CD combo? Sigh, no.

I think you're reading it wrong.

Weezer doesn't do irony. I think that's why so many people have no idea what to make of them post-Pinkerton--because the crap they're producing sounds like it's being produced with an inordinate amount of snark, aimed toward a smarmy hipster audience.

But it is in fact just the completely sincere (and yet still profoundly farked up) product of Rivers Cuomo's bizarre and counterintuitive absolute sincerity. Rivers Cuomo is, ironically, maybe one of the most straightforward musicians in the world. When he says he likes Top-40 hits, he absolutely 100% means it. When he admits to creepy sexual predilections with underage Asian fans, he has no idea how creepy it actually is. The thing is, it's just that no one can believe this is the case, because irony is very much the dominant mode of contemporary cultural expression.

Note: none of what I've said should be taken as an endorsement of post-Pinkerton Weezer (I like about two and a half songs on Ratitude); I'm just honestly trying to grapple with the decisions Cuomo keeps making, and this theory (cribbed in part from Chuck Klosterman) is what so-far makes the most sense to me.

that's true. ever consider maybe the guy is just a farkin weirdo?

Right. The Snuggies thing is totally earnest. He genuinely believes in Snuggies.