Sega's HomeStar Spa: Plane-arium edition
By Thomas Ricker 
posted June 20th 2008 7:00AM
posted June 20th 2008 7:00AM
[Via Environmental Graffiti, thanks guest-editor Dr. Adams]
posted June 20th 2008 7:00AM
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Sega Saturn II
W - F
I love cheesy poofs,
You love cheesy poofs.
If we didn't eat cheesy poofs,
We'd be... LAME
"This one slipped past but it's worth a backtrack to the glory days of celestial bathing. No, not Roman times, but the first week of June, when Sega toys introduced its Homestar Planetarium Spa Edition to the rubby-ducky infested waters of the home bath. The waterproof orb projects the night sky onto the ceiling or patterns such as roses and manta rays onto the tub below. $65, that's how much. Oh, damn this bone disease!"
Thank god for Ctrl-H
Totally tits!
LOL @ the South Park reference! :-)
Seriously though, I wonder if HomeStarRunner.com will sue for using HomeStar's name...
why are there no T's???
broken??
It's a joke, folks. Look at the name of the product being described.
Look at the title, the name of the product i believe is titled 'Plane-arium', so engadget thought theyd play the same game and not type any T's...
or atleast im pretty sure thats whats going on
but there are t's in it's name in the read link...
It's a south park joke... click on the guest editors name.
i see what they did there
Ahem:
/comicbookguy
In the episode the bone disease caused the owner of the planetarium to be unable to pronounce the "T" in the word Planetarium. All other T's were unaffected. Hence the joke about a guy who cannot say the T in planetarium working AT a planetarium.
/end comicbookguy
Flit,
Thanks for the explanation.
That must have been the most obscure reference that Engadget has come up with yet.
That was stupid, considering only the "t" in Planetarium was affected and Engadget did EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Ah, I thought it was a homestarrunner reference. God HSR is unfunny. South Park is funny, but I'm not dedicated enough to keep up with every episode.
You never realize how each and every letter is so important until something like this turns out. I shudder to think of a world without vowels.. I mean.. I shddr t thnk f wrld wtht vwls.
A world without vowels? Just go be a dick over on boingboing. Then you'll be in a world of hurt! I mean… a world of no vowels.
Finally! the best grammar I've seen in an engadget news post!
Well technically it was only the T in plane-arium that should have been left out. The guy could speak the other Ts just fine!
I've never been much of a South Park viewer, would someone like to explain/send a link to a clip?
Just click on the guest editors name.
heh heh heh heh heh ahhhhhh mmmmm
i agree
Get a new keyboard dude
WAIT, why is she wearing that towel when she is sat in the bath full of water?
You expect her to share a bath with Dr. Adams naked?
The Japanese have a deeper understanding of life than us westerners do.
Don't forget to bring a towel!
In Japanese bath houses women often keep towels with them for modesty reasons. That said, I don't think most people would really ever wear an entire towel in their own home bath tub, but then if the ad were really realistic it'd be X-rated.
In Japan that would be "owel."
You missed a T in "infested"
but infested should be infes-ed
Thomas must have that rare bone disease
-here are ac-ually qui-e a few -'s lef- in the ar-icle 6 in fac-
Also missed a T in first - first week of June.
This is for the sophisticated Tubgirl.
I love cheesy poofs
you love cheesy poofs,
if we all didnt love cheesy poofs,
we'd be
lame
Ok so the idea of this is that whoever wants to take a bath stares at some balls and stay dirty?
Wait, is she having her periods in the second picture ?
ok, i gte the joke, Sega missed out the T. but seriously. thats the most annoying thing you guys have done in a long time.
behave and repost it!
"Behave and repost it"
That just made me chuckle... mostly the "behave" part.
I hate to be a southpark nazi, but in the episode he only couldn't pronounce the 't' in the word 'planetarium'. All his other 't's were fine. This was a *very* rare bone disease.
Damn, you're fast. That's what i wanted to say too. So, fix it engadget!
I hate to be difficult, but blorgbeard is right, it's only Plane-arium that he can't say the T.
And to Mr Proper Pants, Matt, some people who do work during the day instead of finding ways to criticize others sense of humor, actually LIKE to see something a little funny and different. Just because you don't get it doesn't mean someone else didn't enjoy it. Be a bigger man, you grow up and just let somethings slide. ;-)
Wow, I'm surprised so few people got the joke. I can't even hear the word Planetarium without repeating "Plane-arium" out loud and chuckling a bit. Oh well, bravo on the attempt!
Ya, I didn't even get to the title. I saw the guy in the tub and just thought "plane-arium."
Then I read the story... omg.
This is like something Gizmodo would do
Gizmodo is childish and annoying and I don't read it
Please grow up. thanks.