Minions: A View from the Top

Minions are not my thing, having not seen any of the movies they're part of. But on Thanksgiving I was visiting with a relative who has a preschooler, and he had a minion doll, rubbery and about nine inches tall, that burbles and squawks when you press a button on its stomach.

This is what the doll, and minions in general, look like:


But you may not have realized, as I had not, that this is what a minion looks like if you lay it on its stomach, spread its arms wide, and look at the top of its head:


Okay, then. I apologize for that bit of rubberized scatological humor.