Bread Girl

Written by: zoz

Minoto Disturb Through

well, O.M.G., it's about time! I mean if you can't depend on Minoto on a Saturday, what hope is there for any normalcy?

having gotten that off my chest, so to speak, let me just warn everyone that Minoto seems to be plunging further into the depths of psychological pathology with every episode, imho.

To Wit:

-- we begin with a "bread girl" who is clearly suffering from an oral fixation of enormous magnitude.

--next we get a magnetic card, the description of which is "there are signs used. there are tiny holes." Freud, anyone?

--moving along, we enter a dentist's office. Aside from the obvious implications for Sado-Masochism inherent in the profession, there is a shovel in the office! Good God, could the game makers be more explicit? The presence of the cd player is clearly meant to sooth nervousness - or, perhaps to lull the patient into a false sense of security???

--leaving the Little Shop of Horrors, we find ourselves in a Safari Park, where we encounter a Yeti (Bigfoot) character with a runny nose seemingly surrounded by Easter Eggs (rites of fertility? bodily fluids?).

--also in this scene is a green telephone that takes our "holy" magnetic card, and an animal that is so steeped in denial that it
1. does not realize that it is in dire need of dental work, and
2. thinks that those Uber-long nails are somehow sexy.

Frightening as the thought may be,we move to the next scene, where we find a woman at a vegetable stand. But not just any woman at a vegetable stand, no this woman is a clear representation of the domineering mother - right down to the "M" on her matronly smock. the sunglasses and headband label her as an aging hippie, but the bodyguard on the edge of the screen hints at something much more sinister. Beware.

--returning to the first scene (the one with little Miss Oral Fixation) we can use the shovel in the field to dig up a "Secret case. It was buried in the soil. It is a secret case." A secret case holding secrets of long-suppressed events from childhood, perhaps? We can only wonder.

--a Secret Case clearly belongs in the hands of the Secret Service, so we will give the case to the guy guarding Mommy Dearest.

--Mr. Secret Agent Man takes the case into a nondescript factory building. We follow him and find an exotic animal in a cage. International smuggling ring, perhaps? Maybe the DVD in the briefcase will shed some light on things, even though it is a "disk that person on the blacklist's data entered". Sinister, indeed.

--since the Dastardly Dentist has a CD/DVD player, we can see what's on this blacklist DVD. OMG it sure looks alot like Mom, even though her eyes are blacked out. Not only that, but we get a tissue from her! although it ostensibly "obtained it from a suspicious child on the road", we know that child is Mother. After all, it is a known fact that every mother carries an abundant supply of tissues with her at all times. Often tucked into her sleeve.

--the long-suffering runny-nosed Yeti looks like he could use a tissue. But, gag me with a spoon! We give him the tissue and he blows his nose and out comes a Green Potato. I mean, Ewwww! "Because time has passed since it was put out from the soil, it is green". Oh, sure, like the time it spent in Yeti's nose has nothing to do with the color!

--let's put this green "potato" in the field and bury it at once. When we do, something grows. We dig it up and it seems to be "a lot of potatoes. It has grown up in the soil in the arid zone. It is a potato." It seems the girl with the Oral Fixation is surrounded by a zone of rare fertility.

--ok, we'll take the potatoes to the market, where Mom snatches them up immediately (don't ever get between Mom and ripe produce). Once she has the potatoes, she gives us the "free gift" from the greengrocer to occupy our time. This "free gift" is a nailclipper. What kind of mother gives her child a nailclipper to play with? The kind that wears those Jackie O sunglasses, apparently.

--Because we are caring individuals, even in the face of Extreme Pathology, we will give the nailclipper to the poor creature with the extravagant yet crippling fingernails. It is a Saber Tiger, and it is possible to move freely by clipping the fingernail. Liberation from bondage, it seems.

--This Saber Tiger looks like it may belong to the same species as the caged animal in the factory. When we take it there, it becomes so distraught that it attacks the cage. "The tiger bit the iron-barred window. Teeth have broken". Clearly, this Tiger is a mother who will go to any length to save her cub (unlike Miami Mom).

--But for now, Tiger Mother has a wicked toothache, so let's take her to the dentist (even though he's kind of scary, he's still the only dentist in town).

--Sure enough, Doc fixed the Tiger's teeth without even resorting to laughing gas (which is kind of a shame, actually) and she becomes a Saber Tiger whose "teeth were treated. In addition, it became strengthened teeth". Don't get in Mother Tiger's way now, or you'll be sorry!

--With her strengthened teeth, Mother Tiger bites cleanly through the iron bars of her cub's cage and it's a Mother and Son Reunion, that, coincidentally, releases a key (just a usual key).

--It may be just a "usual key", but try telling that to the little girl with the bread in her mouth when you unlock the gate to the fence that she was unable to climb over. (Releasing a captive damsel in distress; being a hero; there are soooo many implications here!)

--In her haste to escape the boredom of living in a very small town (only one house) the Bread Girl runs headlong into a boy who looks very much like her. A "cute meet" you might think. But this boy looks an awful lot like her brother. Just saying.

Anyway, A busy preparation in the morning was finished! Girl who went to school (with a piece of bread in her mouth, btw), it collided with the boy in the alley.

Draw your own conclusions. I, for one, find this all deeply disturbing.
21/3/10 08:56