Lucky and Flo, arguably two of the world’s most famous pirated-dvd-sniffing labrador retrievers, are now starring in their own MPAA-sponsored comic strip designed to educate dog-responding-to children about the extremely unlikely consequences of film piracy. If you’re not familiar with the work of Lucky and Flo (not to be confused with the movie Hustle and Flow or the arcade game Lucky and Wild), here are two interesting facts from Wikipedia to help acquaint you with the world’s two most adorable DVD-related gumshoes:
The dogs’ abilities were first demonstrated in May 2006 at the FedEx shipping hub at London Stansted Airport, though inspectors found all the discs the dogs detected that day to be legitimate.
But wait! Before you claim that the dogs are the real frauds here, stick this in your DVD burner and smell it:
After a raid on a pirate DVD ring in Johor Bahru on March 20 [2007], reports said that the dogs were now targeted by the DVD pirates and that a bounty had been put on their heads.
That’s right — Malaysian DVD pirates will pay a f*cking reward to anyone who kills these two dogs. If I were a worse person, I’d make the joke “maybe they should ask the US Marines,” but I’m way too classy for that.
Fortunately for Lucky and Flo, they’ll soon be getting some backup to cover, as well as sniff, their asses:
…two of MPAA’s most recently trained Labs, Paddy and Manny, will be given to the Malaysian government, which will establish the world’s first dedicated canine antipiracy unit.
“If the world — and to be sure the optical disc pirate syndicates — were impressed by the abilities of Lucky and Flo, let me just say that Paddy and Manny are just as impressive,” MPAA topper Dan Glickman said in a statement.
I think “Head of the Canine Antipiracy Unit” is my new dream job, topping “Head of Programming at Nickelodeon GAS” and “Fired But Still Under Contract Knicks Coach.” No matter who’s in charge, though, I think it’s safe to say that between these four dogs and the educational comic strip based on said dogs, movie piracy should be eradicated within the next hour, if not sooner.
I’ll leave you with this one final ‘tree falls in the forest’ question to ponder — What would Lucky and Flo do if they encountered this little guy?
