Tim Allen’s scary Internet avatar
A few weeks ago, while doing some research on stand-up comedians who became sitcom stars, I ended up Googling a whole bunch of names to get some additional pre-television history on them. One of these was Home Improvement’s Tim Allen. While looking up Tim’s information I came upon a listing for his personal website. It was a weird listing though — something like Tim Allen — T’Avatar. Well, since I know Tim’s not a Romulan, I thought this was just an abbreviation of something. Needless to say I clicked in.
Turns out, T’Avatar was short for Tim Allen’s Avatar, which appears in an opening video to his website. Folks, this Avatar freaks the living piss out of me.
It’s just a picture of Tim, with his computer animated eyes, eyebrows and mouth. They have just the right amount of exaggeration to them that it makes the Avatar a tad bit scary. At first, I thought this was just an initial reaction to Allen’s Avatar. But, when I pulled his site up again for this post the initial appearance was just jarring.
Heck, maybe I’m being a tad too sensitive here. So, I would like you to take a look and let me know. Just click on this link and tell me if you feel the way I do about this. By the way, a less scary Tim Allen can be seen regularly on Nick at Nite’s daily airings of Home Improvement.