#Minion memes for moms spanish movie#

It is also possible to isolate elements of Japanese from their speech patterns. Hence, their language is incomprehensible to most humans, though they do understand English. They express themselves through actions, not words: their “language” is fairly basic, they speak in a strange jabber combined with various human languages - evident in some (roughly) English words such as “Banana”, “Bapples” (basically “Apple” with “B”), “Potato”, as well as Spanish-sounding words like “para tú” (roughly “for you”) and “la boda” (means “marriage”), French (poulet tikka masala, et pis c’est tout), Russian words such as “да” (Da”), and Korean words such as “Hana(하나), Dul(둘), Sae (From Set ” means One, Two, Three), and many other languages. The Minion language is similarly ambiguous.

It can be argued that they are post-racial, though in actuality, owing to their eons-long existence dating from the earliest days of carbon-based life forms, they are pre-racial. Minions do not understand the concept of race.

The Minions will comb through the wreckage of what were once our cities and culture, “Banana?” they will ask… but bananas will have died out long ago, a distant fragment of memory, floating on a wisp through the aether of time and space. They were here long before us, and they will live on long after we turn to skeleton and ash.

Given that the upcoming film Minions tracks the same characters through prehistory up until the mid-twentieth century, it is very clear that Minions are immortal. (I did not attempt to contact Minions creator Pierre Coffin to find out if Minions can or do fuck.) In the upcoming film, a Minion flirts with two similarly-shaped yellow fire hydrants, leading me to hypothesize that, yes, Minions do fuck. It would appear that they do not, yet even so, much like Adam and Eve, they choose to cover their shame with flora. Though Minions do have butts, it is less clear whether or not they have sexual organs. That said, they care little for traditional markers of masculinity or virility. This is the comedy: Darwin’s law of natural selection does not apply to Minions the hapless Minions should have died with the dinosaurs, and yet, they continue to not only survive, but thrive.Īll Minions are male (at the very least, they all have male names): Kevin, Stuart, Bob, Carl, Dave, Donny, Jerry, John, Norbert, Paul, Phil, Tim… the list goes on. Their purpose has always been to serve a villainous master. They have, apparently, not undergone any substantial evolutionary development since then. Minions, back in the primordial soup, crawled onto land from the ocean.

#Minion memes for moms spanish movie#

This trailer for the upcoming Minions movie provides many details, which serve as the seeds from which a myriad of additional questions sprout. Just as the sun’s rays enliven us, PANTONE Minion Yellow is a color that heightens awareness and creates clarity, lighting the way to the intelligence, originality and the resourcefulness of an open mind - this is the color of hope, joy and optimism.Įvery provable fact about minions reveals thousands of other questions that we do not have the answer to. The Pantone Color Institute, which decides what is and is not a real color, describes Minions thusly: Minions are blank slates of cosmic dust and computer processing power, just like the rest of us. A better question, for my idiot lizard brain, is what aren’t Minions? They have just the slightest identity to be interpreted as “distinct” or “realized,” but every facet of their design is also so vague that they are nothing. They are maybe the platonic ideal of franchise mascot. The Minions as they appear on social media are an altogether different beast. The Minions of the Despicable Me canon exist as, well, minions - hapless henchmen for a comically inept villain with a heart of gold (and worrisome body proportions). It probably doesn’t help that there’s a wide gulf between the Minions that have appeared in two - and soon, three - feature-length motion pictures and how we see Minions on the Internet.

I keep thinking that I know what Minions are, and then I’ll lose three hours on poorly maintained Facebook pages and Pinterest tags and emerge from my trance sweaty, short of breath, and somehow more baffled than I was before. Do you know what Minions are? I’m serious.