'Actually, It's a Slanket. God!'

[America's hippest starlet, Amanda Seyfriend, explains why she would never wear a passé Snuggie to an underling on the set of "Now." Image via Bauer-Griffin]

[America's hippest starlet, Amanda Seyfriend, explains why she would never wear a passé Snuggie to an underling on the set of "Now." Image via Bauer-Griffin]

The mighty Snuggie has come under assault from the doppelgangerish Slanket, the hipsterish Sealpelt, the alien mommyish Peekaru, and the camperish Lippi Selk bag. What do all these products lack? That's right: they don't look like togas. No more—the Wearable Towel is here!
What happens after The Real World? Y'know, like, before you go on one of the Challenges? Well, if you're Scott from the recent Brooklyn iteration, you advertise Snuggies like they're goin' outta style. (They are.)
Do you find the Snuggie too cliche, the Slanket too knockoff, the Sealpelt too needy, and the Peekaru too bourgeois? Do you like to wear sleeping bags as clothes? The Lippi Selk bag is for you:
Finally, someone has combined the most puzzling qualities of Snuggies and Park Slope Parenthood into one atrocious product: the "Peekaru."
The Snuggie-Slanket wars have been joined—by the "Sealpelt." It's only $400. Yep. [via Likecool.com]
It's "funny/horrifying political photo funnies Friday" here at Gawker HQ! This is Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelwhatever wearing one of those popular "Snuggie" things.