Parent Dish -- one of TV Squad's... cousins? step-aunts? -- has a great article about the newest baby fashion accessory: baby wigs. Seriously. Someone has invented and is marketing wigs for infants. In fact, Tyra Banks devoted a segment on her talk show to the phenomenon. I expected her to be all for it, as she has made no secret of her love affair with wigs, but to her credit, she seems appropriately disgusted by the idea.

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The article makes it seem as though parents are buying these for their children because having a bald head hurts the baby's self-esteem. That sounds somehow... familiar.

Yes, the first thing I thought of when I read about this and then saw the terrifying-looking wigs on Tyra was the hilarious Saturday Night Live skit in which Bill Hader is trying to sell Nelson's Baby Toupees: "You gave him life, now give him confidence." What made the sketch so funny at the time is that the idea of putting a baby in a wig is just patently ridiculous. But, really, with the emphasis that's being put on image as related to babies and motherhood, it really shouldn't be much of a surprise that this has become our reality.

Now, the funniest thing to me is simply how much better the fake wigs on SNL look as compared to the weird, monk-like Baby Bangs that Tyra has on her show.