We posted today's episode of TPMtv a little earlier this morning. It's a mash-up of the different candidates' Xmas commercials. And a reader just reminded me of the part that jumped out at me during the edit. It comes at 2:20 in. It's Mitt Romney with what I guess must be a grandson or something like that on a skiing trip. I don't pass it on as having any great meaning. But it's just funny and, well, weird in a sadistic kind of way. It's Mitt with the kid with a sled. And the kid's obviously afraid he's going to hit some pole or something. And Mitt's like, you got to do it anyway, son. And then he swooshes him down the hill and you see the little guy totally wipe out at the bottom.

I'll be honest. I'm not nearly virtuous enough not to get a laugh out of slapstick humor. But there's something just odd about it in a campaign commercial.

Like I said, about 2:20 seconds in ...

Late Update: Some sharp-eyed readers point out that the kid at the top of the hill getting the bum rush seems to be a different kid than the one you see wiping out at the bottom of the hill. Either that, or the guy put on a different pair of pants on the way down -- which given how wigged out he seemed, is certainly a possibility.

Even Later Update: Correction: Okay, I have to take my lumps on this one. I was watching our mash-up and not the original. And the sense that it's the same kid is a product of our mash-up edit, not the original. So it would seem the wiping out kid is definitely not the scared kid, pants change or no pants change.