Well, here it is, the famous Ass Cake picture! The picture was taken at Bob Clampett's house in the early eighties. It was Bob's birthday and John Kricfalusi and Wendell Washer had conspired to make this truly one-of-a-kind present for Bob. The heart shape is actually two Sarah Lee cakes shaped into buttocks with licorice for hairs and a real pair of butcher shop bull testicles to represent...well, to represent testicles. The cow tongue represents...er...a tongue! Bob loved it! I, in my red and white Uncle Eddie costume, took the picture.
It's worth commenting on John's expression (detail, above) in this picture. This is my all-time favorite picture of John. He's ecstatic! I don't know if a human being can look happier than he does here. And why not!? He's in the home of his hero, he's surrounded by friends and he's got his whole career ahead of him! It was a magical night. I swear, you could feel the electricity in the air.
Well, here it is, the famous Ass Cake picture! The picture was taken at Bob Clampett's house in the early eighties. It was Bob's birthday and John Kricfalusi and Wendell Washer had conspired to make this truly one-of-a-kind present for Bob. The heart shape is actually two Sarah Lee cakes shaped into buttocks with licorice for hairs and a real pair of butcher shop bull testicles to represent...well, to represent testicles. The cow tongue represents...er...a tongue! Bob loved it! I, in my red and white Uncle Eddie costume, took the picture.
It's worth commenting on John's expression (detail, above) in this picture. This is my all-time favorite picture of John. He's ecstatic! I don't know if a human being can look happier than he does here. And why not!? He's in the home of his hero, he's surrounded by friends and he's got his whole career ahead of him! It was a magical night. I swear, you could feel the electricity in the air.
That is a fine picture.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like an old ad from an aged 80s magazine or something.
Except, you know, advertising ass/testicle cake.
Was that the same night you drop kicked the realistic looking fake baby across the floor and made Bob Clampett howl with laughter while all the ladies cried?? John told me the whole crazy story, you twickster!
ReplyDeleteUnnnh, y'all nasty.
ReplyDeleteI. . .I just don't know what to say.
ReplyDeleteBut I can't help but smile at that photo.
- Corbett
Personally, I wouldn't have put the testicles on the cake. I hate cake a` la mode let alone "cake a` la scrotum". Y'see, I'm one of those neurotics that hates it when my food touches other food.
ReplyDeleteI would love a slice of ass cake though (just as long as no bull ass from the butcher shop touches it).
I feel exactly like Johnnie in that picture.
ReplyDelete(he still looks the same doesnt he?)
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haha, that's cool, I once made a cake shaped like an ass for a friend of mine too! Well, actually i did the sculpture from which my other friends took the mold and then made the thing. Except the cake didn't work, and they did a big chocolate ass and put a candle right in the hole.
ReplyDeleteMMMM... looks delicious! Wow! a young John K. He looks like he's full of piss and vinegar!
ReplyDeleteGot anymore Clampett stories?
ReplyDeleteWhoa! The famous ass cake that I've been hearing about for 18 years! It finally rears it's ugly, er, ...thingy.
ReplyDeleteWhere'd you put the candles, anyway? Never mind, I don't wanna know.
I saw a photo of another ass-cake that was presented at Filmation, with you & some of the other Filmation people around it(including John, who made it)circa 1981 or so...it was all frosting, though. No real testicles as far as I could tell. Was this Cake #1 or Cake #2? or #99? ; )
ReplyDeleteQUOTE: "He looks like he's full of piss and vinegar!"
ReplyDeleteNo, that was the frosting...
What I want to know....why are you guys lying next to it?
ReplyDeleteYou guys are so cute! 80s clothing...ahhhh!!!!!!
The Wendell Washer ass cake, which took like an entire day to sculpt out of commercial foodstuffs, remains the only true ass cake ever made. Filmation's cake must've been a cheaper version, without the black licorice or proper filling.
ReplyDeleteTom Minton
You crazy kids.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good time was had by all.
Did anyone venture to take a bite out of the cake?
Tom: I'm so glad you wrote because it occurs to me that you were one of the creators of the ass cake! It was made by you, John and Wendell at Wendell's house! I don't know how I could have forgotten that!
ReplyDeleteHey Eddie. The ass cake! I finally get to see it. It was fun meeting you on saturday. Keep in touch. I'm coming back to L.A.
ReplyDeleteThat's just flat-out adorable. You guys are so creative. :)
ReplyDeleteHey Eddie, I just posted a blog entry about my saturday at the archive and the conversations I had with you, check it out. Thanks for all the stories, including the ass cake one, and all the theories.
ReplyDeleteMax: I read it and was genuinely moved. It's the way I felt when I met some of my favorite people when I first came to Hollywood. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteCable: You're right! The ability to have fun is somehow sexy.
See, I thought that was Bob Clampett himself lying there, based on this photo of him (and others from around that time):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.toonsart.com/images/artists/bob-clampett.jpg
They have the same expression on their faces! And since the genitalia cake photo dyes are faded, it read as "old" to me. Which is dumb, I know.
In any event, I enjoyed the back-to-back comments that John K. looks totally different/exactly the same.
I'm with i don't really care, though: Ick. And I boldly posit that he cares quite a lot.