It's a familiar, horrifying scenario.?An exhausted parent in a video store or supermarket sees a videotape packaged for sale.?The tape boasts a familiar title "Aladdin" or "The Hunchback of Notre Dame and an attractive sticker price.?Upon arriving home, the tape is proffered to media-savvy children, who immediately proclaim, in loud, whiny voices, "This isn't the real Aladdin." Following a careful examination of the product by the now red-faced parent, a decision is made to watch it anyway.?After one or more members of the family leave the room out of disgust or boredom, the tape is ejected before completion and stored at the bottom of the family's videotape collection, a dusty reminder of the parent's basic marketplace incompetence.?Read more at Suck.com.
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