How a 30-second video clip about chapped lips propelled a local man to Internet stardom and taught the world to love Poo-Poo.
You can’t help but stare at his giant, yellow buckteeth. There’s some black hair on his upper lip, but it’s the teeth that are mesmerizing. Then the camera pans out, and you see the man’s entire face. He has small hazel eyes and a black goatee. His long curly hair falls out from beneath a crumpled blue cap.
He furrows his brow and speaks in a thick Cajun accent. “Man, I don’t know what it is this time of year when it gets cool like dat, if my lip is too short or my teeth is too long. But man, my lips get chapped this time of year! POOO! They chap, chap! I need some Carmex. Some Blistex or sumtin’. Some Vaseline.”
Meet Poo-Poo Broussard. If you own a computer and live in southwest Louisiana, you’ve probably met him a few times already, maybe receiving five e-mails with Poo-Poo’s video clips from five different people within a week. And each time, you probably watched the clips, even the ones you’ve already seen.
His teeth are astounding; his wisdom is confounding. “If you want to see something spectacular, watch me eat a grape popsicle,” he proclaims. His simplistic worldview has inspired local men, women, and even children to proclaim that their lips are chapped — even when they’re not — and to randomly proclaim POOO!, without reason or provocation.
Everybody has gone cuckoo for Poo-Poo.
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By R. Reese Fuller
The Ind