Things We Saw Today: CGI Clifford the Big Red Dog Will Haunt Our Nightmares

There are some things you see on the internet that are so baffling you don’t even know what to make of them. Slenderman. All your base are belong to us. Sonic the Hedgehog with human teeth. And now, the nightmare that is a “live-action” version of Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Now, the Clifford books and cartoons were a huge part of many a childhood. They were sweet and it was cute in illustrated form to see a giant dog. But in reality … he’s kind of terrifying! The Clifford in the above teaser not only makes you think of the horrifying logistics of owning a dog that’s 10 feet tall (no pooper scooper will be big enough) but he also looks … bad.

In one way I’m reminded of the “horse of a different color” scene from The Wizard of Oz, where the made a normal horse change color by painting the technicolor film a certain way. This feels like that, where they took a normal puppy and just used the fill tool on a computer program to make him red. But even the little movement we saw has some uncanny valley aspects to it.

But when you see how they made Clifford, the madness really takes hold.

And personally, I’d love to see THIS movie:

Well, at least we know he’s big and red. I guess we couldn’t have expected anything else.

(image: Paramount)

Here are a few less terrifying things we saw today:

• The SNL December line-up is looking pretty amazing. (via Entertainment Weekly)
• Glenn Close refused a scene in Air Force One that made her Vice President character look weak. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
• Do you agree with The New York Time’s list of 25 greatest actors of the 21st Century? (via The New York Times)
• Our Princess Weekes has a new It’s Lit on Graphic Novels!
• Twitter users had some ideas for where to put a Trump presidential library. (via Huff Post)
• Dave Chapelle had requested that his series be taken off Netflix, and Netflix did so. (via Decider)
• Alert! Sarah Brightman and Andrew Lloyd Webber are reuniting for a live-streamed concert! (via Deadline)
• And finally, the Vice President-Elect has some brining advice.
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  How much does @KamalaHarris like to cook? She answered my husband’s ? about brining a turkey about 1 min before going on @PoliticsNation from Columbia, SC (after I was on). I recorded her response ’cause I don’t cook and she was speaking a foreign language. 😂 #kamalacooks pic.twitter.com/IZiQ6iOnTQ

  — Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) November 26, 2019

Have a happy and safe holiday (AT HOME)!

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Jessica Mason (she/her) is a writer based in Portland, Oregon with a focus on fandom, queer representation, and amazing women in film and television. She's a trained lawyer and opera singer as well as a mom and author.

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