How Cardboard Cutouts Helped Make the Pandemic a Little Less Strange

Let’s be honest…

The pandemic was weird. Very weird.

Restaurants were closed, parties were cancelled and seeing friends and family became something we did through a screen while pretending our internet connection wasn’t mysteriously breaking every five minutes.

But there was one rather unusual way people brought a little bit of fun back into their lives…

Cardboard Cutouts.

Famous Faces at Home

When you couldn’t exactly go out and meet your favourite celebrities, there was always another option.

Bring them to you.

Celebrity Cardboard Cutouts became a way of having some of the biggest names in entertainment standing right there in your home. Want a famous actor standing in your living room? Why not? Fancy having a pop star in your bedroom? Absolutely normal behaviour.

Want to spend lockdown with a celebrity who has no idea you’re even there?

Well, that’s basically the entire point.

A Bit of Fun During Lockdown

Perhaps that’s what made Cardboard Cutouts so useful during the pandemic. They weren’t trying to replace real people. They were simply there to make things a little more entertaining. When you couldn’t go to the cinema, you could still surround yourself with your favourite movie stars. When you couldn’t have a huge party, you could have a famous face standing in the corner. And when your house had started to become the place where you worked, ate, relaxed and occasionally wondered what day it was…

At least you could have a celebrity keeping you company.

TV Time

Considering we were all at home and didn’t have to commute, we had plenty of time to catch up on TV. Now, of course, we understand that this was the time to binge all of the Marvel movies from start to finish or watch that Netflix drama that you had been saying you were going to watch but never had time for. Actual live TV was still going on.

One such example was the 2020 Emmys. The pandemic and lockdown had just started, and of course, the Celebrities NEEDED to be seen, so Jimmy Kimmel, who was hosting them, did it the only way he knew how.

In front of a fair few Cardboard Cutouts of Celebrities, which made up his crowd. Luckily, because they were Cardboard, he was able to sit in the middle of them all without breaking any social distancing rules!

The Ultimate Party Guest

Parties didn’t exactly disappear during the pandemic. They just became… smaller.

That didn’t stop people from having birthdays, celebrations and themed nights at home. A Celebrity Cutout could become the guest of honour without breaking any rules.

And unlike a real guest, they didn’t need a chair, they didn’t eat your food and they definitely didn’t steal the last slice of pizza.

Honestly, the perfect party guest.

A Little Bit of Fun

Perhaps that’s what made Cardboard Cutouts so useful during the pandemic. They weren’t trying to replace real people; they were simply there to make things a little more entertaining.

When you couldn’t go to the cinema, you could still surround yourself with your favourite movie stars. When you couldn’t have a huge party, you could have a famous face standing in the corner.

And when your house had become the place where you worked, ate, relaxed and occasionally wondered what day it was…

At least you could have a celebrity keeping you company.

The pandemic was strange enough already. A few Cardboard Cutouts just made it a little more fun.

How about it then?

The pandemic is over, but that doesn’t stop you from filling the void with some Celebrities.

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