Uh-oh. From MTV’s Movie Blog:

Believe it or not, Alvin & the Chipmunks is about to cross the $200 million box-office mark, could become the most successful family film released in 2007, and is already the highest-grossing talking animal/live-action cartoon adaptation ever. All this can only mean one thing: Chipettes. “There has been a lot of talk about it,” revealed Janice Karman, one of the film’s producers. “A lot of people have been asking about the little girls.”

Of course, in times like this, we go to YouTube, where we quickly learn that “asking about the little girls” is a problematic concept indeed. Check out the comment exchange that sprung up (um, definitely no double entendre intended) under the above video:

randomuser1105: The Chipettes are just a pedophilic rape waiting to happen.

LiamGodlington: What the hell are you talking about? They are just cartoon characters and they are chipmunks.

randomuser1105: Yes, and many strange/creepy men have had various sexual fantasies about them.

And now we can count at least two voices of the Chipmunks among those strange/creepy men––including the Mac guy! Back to the MTV piece:

I have a big crush on all of them,” insisted “Theodore” voice Matthew Gray Gubler. “I want to see them naked…I’d pay to see that.”

“I would very much like to see that,” laughed Justin “Alvin” Long. “They’re hot. What are you going to do?”

So, to recap: Fox made $200 million off of little boy chipmunks eating their own feces; they’re now hoping to make another couple of hundred mil by appealing to a young male audience’s latent lust for a trio of tarted-up little girl chipmunks. Is this whole thing not a fetish case study waiting to happen?