I just saw something that I think explains a lot about how I ended up where I am today. This barely qualifies as Too Much Information since most of it is just context.

One of my favorite movies growing up was Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. No, not the Disney version. Not the Rankin-Bass animated version either. My favorite was a 1985 animated made-for-TV version produced by Burbank Studios in Australia, which pumped out an average of two movies a year during the eighties and then folded. Why we even had it is still a mystery to me.

Anyways, I just put it on this evening for nostalgia's sake and noticed something that I'd never (consciously?) noticed before: in one of the opening scenes, around the 3:45 minute mark, Professor Arronax and Conseil are climbing out of their carriage on the way to board the Abraham Lincoln. Featured prominently in the background is the prow of a ship, decorated with a figurehead of a mermaid with HUGE FREAKING TITS. Seriously, they are bigger than her head. And no scallop-shell bikinis or Godiva hair; big, fat nipples all over the place.

I must have watched this movie hundreds of times. Every time, right at the start, ridiculous juicy boobs. My love of gazongas makes a lot more sense now. I need to watch the rest of the movie and see if there's anything else I missed. If there's a statue or something with a giant dong, I'm going to flip the fuck out.