Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Parsons


1987
USA
thanks, Amber

51 comments:

Anonymous said...

"one of these is not like the other..."

Anonymous said...

Which of these things is not like the other?

stanis said...

Grandpa, grandma, mom, dad, son daughter?

Docta Slick said...

I love that the flock of seagull dude is looking right into the camera.

Katie said...

wow! I'm speechless

Anonymous said...

Holp crap I really love this site. Can I just say that right now? Really. I love this site.

looks like the cast of Tod Brownings Freaks 2!

Anonymous said...

dad you just dont get it

Daniel said...

Guess who doesn't come to Thanksgiving anymore.

Max the drunken severed head said...

Everybody sing! "Which one of these things is not like the others?"...

Colleen said...

How did Robert Smith get in this picture?

Tattered and Lost said...

This is just plain odd. Uhhhh, why didn't the photographer have them face the camera? Is this an example of Olan Mills being creative?

"Okay everybody. I want you to all lean towards the wall and no, don't look at me. Look at the doorknob over there and smile."

Everything went fine until the Flock of Seagulls fan got suspicious.

Kaypricot said...

No this one is easy.

Robert Smith is from the mother's first marriage, his dad was probably an ass so his mom remarried a goofy nerd with stability, Robert Smith does not like his step dad. Little girl is probably from the dad in the photo.

cancer said...

no, thank you.

M. said...

Everything about this picture is awesome.

Jason said...

The good son looks like Michael Cera.

Anonymous said...

Crap! I...FUCK...the more I look...so...sexy...ARGH$#%$

Brenda said...

I am so confused! This is a professional picture so why aren't they all looking the same direction? And what's up with the dude from The Cure? Seriously strange.

Mari said...

Rain man! Rain man!

Anonymous said...

JFYI: Sexy People is featured (well, just four lines on the feel-lucky-page) in this week's edition of Zeit-Magazin, a supplement to Germany's national paper Die Zeit (zeit.de, article is not online).

Renzo said...

to JFYI

thanks for the info! would you be so kind to send a scan to sexypipol@gmial.com ? that'd be great!

Meri Gil said...

Nice exchange with the Addams Family...

Bob Bobs said...

You know there was a serious argument before this picture. The step-dad arguing that the kid needs to at least put on a button down shirt, the mom saying, "I don't know what to do with him...". And what's with the dad leaning over so far? Between him and grandpa tilting his head it makes the whole picture look totally whacked out (After we get past Robert Smith giving us F-U eyes.

Cancer said...

its weird how no one seems to consider that those are a couple of Grand Parents in the back. I'm just saying, especially since the front people are clearly 40 + years younger looking.

Katie said...

Dad has a really small head.

Mr. Pants said...

The guy on the far left looks like Michael Cera if he had microcephaly.

Anonymous said...

that is so funny, i didn't notice the first time how he is the only one looking at the camera! What a great look too!! The cat that ate the canary. This guy couldn't wait to bust out of smallville, i am guessing he was the first in the town to walk around with a big boom box playing The Cure.

Laura said...

You know, it just didn't seem that weird at the time. Your big brother is -awesome-!

Laura said...

That little girl is going to grow up to be .........?

Kaypricot said...

I think the Robert Smith looking dude is hot. Better looking then the actual Robert Smith if you ask me.

I don't think people are confused that those elderly people in the back might be grandparents, they just don't think that dad-looking person could be the boy's father. Which is why I don't think he is, mom totally must have been remarried.

Anonymous said...

What a mismatched group!

SisterofWOE said...

I totally would have dated him in high school. Uh wait, I think I did...

Jamie said...

Is that the Dad?!
I thought it was one of those tragic vestigial twin cases.

Corry said...

Hmmmm . . . the kid in the middle's head is like, twice the size of everyone elses, particularly his dad's. Sure this isn't photoshop?

Leah said...

Grandpa and Grandma are awesome!

buster said...

This looks shopped. I can tell by the pixels and having seen a few shops in my time.

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Anonymous said...

As Doctor Evil, my Master said: "Alan's Parsons project" LOL! ^^ Muah ah ahhhhh!

laura linger said...

Actually, I think Robert Smith is the least awesome thing about this photo. Grandma and Grandpa both rock, Mom looks like she is straight out of the First United Church Of Christ Ladies' Circle, the little girl is rocking a hat, and the vaguely rodent-like man holding Robert Smith in place is obviously considering a bout of ToughLove.

Love love love love love this site.

Anonymous said...

again, is it THAT impossible to get everyone to look at the one and only camera lens in the room?!

someone forgot to say, "..everyone sit up straight and tall, shoulders back..."

they've cultivated 'the lean' like no other family i know...

Cassondrrra said...

Someone was going through a Cure phase...

Horrorwood Jack said...

Glad someone mentioned "Freaks". The guy at the back brings back horrible memories of that film...

Isabela said...

Two of them have tiny little heads hahahahahha so funny

Will said...

Were all good Christians so we have to forgive has "Darksidedness".

TW said...

It's the ninth wonder of the midwest: "The Leaning Family of Peoria"!

Tony said...

They look like odd overgrown hobbits... and of course with one human man whom obviously as a cannabilistic fetish for them.

Anonymous said...

leaning family of Peoria. Nothing is more genius.

Anonymous said...

I think someone like The Cure.

Suzanne said...

Oh yeah. I totally started humming "One of these things is not like the other..." That's just blatant and glaringly obvious.

Anonymous said...

Who's the Young Republican?

Anonymous said...

Okay, I admit it. In 1987 I would have been chasing that redheaded Flock of Seagulls wannabe with the eyeliner all over school only to find out years later that he was gay. Sigh...

rott said...

that guy is HUGE. is he just collaged in?