Toy Soldier Takes a Digger during Disneyland Christmas Parade

Posted by Eddie on July 24, 2013 in Uncategorized

What is it about people falling down that’s so very funny? Or what is it about people just being clumsy and causing (mostly) mild physical harm to themselves that’s just so gut-bustingly hilarious? Is it because that — as long as the harm done to the person in question isn’t serious in nature – it’s perfectly okay to laugh because we’re all human and it happens to all of us? Perhaps I’m thinking entirely too deeply into this while asking myself entirely too many questions?

Alas, the video above provides us just such a situation. Yet the funny factor of said video is amplified exponentially due to A.) It’s someone in a toy soldier costume and, B.) There’s a half-minute or so build-up to the fall during an otherwise very serious, very festive Disneyland Christmas Parade. Oh, I almost forgot – the costume is designed in such a way whereas it’s almost impossible for the person to get to their own feet by themselves. Indeed, a wonderful, upstanding citizen has to help the toy soldier to their feet due to them essentially being trapped, helpless upon the ground, as if they were a turtle stuck lying on the back of their shell.

All in all, it’s just some very funny stuff. I think it may even consist of the very definition of pure comedy – if you could quantify that somehow. Which we can’t, so let’s just point, laugh and be merry, shall we? Hahaha!