The D.C. Public Library is always trying to get more people to take advantage of its sparkling new facilities. It’s latest promotion involves teaming up with Madame Tussaud’s to bring some of the wax museum’s figures to draw people into the doors. The contest kicked off earlier this month — the idea is to get people to come to the museum, answer a few simple questions about what various celebrity wax figures were doing while “hanging out enjoying all the library has to offer,” then win prizes and the such.

The library uploaded some photos from the contest’s kickoff, and we couldn’t help but share. Are these things just killing the Unintentional Comedy scale or what? I mean, it’s enough to have the current President rocking a Sheryl Crow CD through some bulky headphones, but could Lyndon Johnson look any less interested in these pictures? Here he is, the man who was the father of the Great Society and oversaw the passage of the Civil Rights Act, holding a kid’s copy of Which Puppy? as he texts his friends, getting patted on the head by one hands-on visitor and looking generally looking like a man who knows he’s been transformed into a wax figure.

Then again, these are much less creepy than the last time one of the wax museum’s Presidents left the confines of Penn Quarter, so at least there’s that.

Here’s hoping that LBJ’s wax pants are as well-tailored as the ones he requested from Haggar in 1964.

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