Big week for dogs on Strange Brew. Big week. After we saw one very good boy catch a frisbee 83 yards down field yesterday, today we bring you this little pupper catching ALL of the feels watching the Mufasa death scene from the Lion King. Is this where I say spoiler alert? Or should I have said that before that sentence? I'm never sure what the parameters of a spoiler alert are. I feel like if a movie is 25 years old, then spoiler alerts no longer matter. You had two and a half decades to watch it, if you haven't done it yet then that's kind of on you. But also, there's that new live action Lion King coming out, so maybe a younger audience is being introduced to that content for the first time, so maybe spoiler alerts do apply? Huh. Tough spot.
Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yeah! This dog is literally any person/being/half blood/whatever watching that scene play out. What a brutal moment that was in every 90's kid's childhood. Here we thought we were going to see an innocent Disney animated musical extravaganza, and we got blindsided by a harsh reality of life. We learned that not everything works out the way we want it to, we learned that nothing lasts forever, and we learned that if your uncle kills your dad you have no choice but to let your uncle's hyenas kill him to gain vengeance. That's a lot to take it in. So I know exactly how this dog feels. The good news for him is that he'll forget about this scene the second a tennis ball or treat enters his consciousness. For the rest of us? Well, some 90's kids never recovered. Some of us were probably destined to become Major League Baseball players or world class investigative journalists. Then the trauma experienced from the Mufasa death scene sent us spiraling into a pit of despair/internet blogging. Instead of writing about the next Watergate, we're writing about a pizza conspiracy at Chuck E Cheese. Tale as old as time.
PS: This video is also proof that dogs, on some level, understand TV. I'll never quite comprehend why dogs don't watch TV. Instead of waiting for me to get home all day and intermittently napping and staring off into space, Brewer could be on the end of his tail binge watching Game of Thrones. And then maybe explaining it to me when I get home.
Double PS: This game was my JAM back in the day:
It was also flat out impossible. I never beat the damn thing despite playing it regularly for the better part of two years. Another lesson the Lion King taught me: life/video games are a series of failures until you eventually tap out. (cue NBC the more you know music).