Things you couldn't show on US television

[jducoeur]

Thanks to TechCrunch for pointing out this remarkably odd Danish commercial. Warning: thoroughly NSFW, as nudity is central to it. And personally, I find the ending a tad disturbing, not least because the filmmakers apparently don't.

Suffice it to say, though, this is certainly the first time I've ever associated the phrases "topless skydiving" and "washing machine"...

Comments

[vairavi.livejournal.com]

That may win merely for the link one of the commenters posted to a video of "Why Men Shouldn't Parachute Naked"

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I saw that, and cringed re: windburn.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Well, the music choice was certainly appropriate :-)

[siderea]

Thank you. You are the only person I've seen so far notice that too. It was the musical reference which totally made it for me.

[jducoeur]

Well, true -- but if they *really* wanted the nail the musical reference, I want to see horns on their helmets...

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Danes... Perhaps if we had done that, we would have won in Viet Nam.

For whatever reason, I don't find the end disturbing. Unless you're thinking of the vanishingly small possibility that she'd have survived such a dunking in the pool?

[jducoeur]

Just so, actually. I mean, yes, the ad's played for laughs -- but the instinctive "no *way* she survived that" reaction really takes me out of the comedic mood. It's rather jarring, at least to me...

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I am also wondering at the other thousand or so parachuters whose heels broke their ankles on landing.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I am relieved for the sake of the models by the conspicuous photoshopping.

[serakit.livejournal.com]

Yes. That ending was disturbing. My first reaction was "and now she's dead on the bottom of their pool...?" Also, what are the odds that some crazy kid is going to see that and then want to try that?

What I want to know is why they're using an add so clearly directed towards men for a washing machine. I realize this is stereotyping, but isn't the general demographic for household stuff women?

[dryfoo.livejournal.com]

People saved from certain falling death by landing in a swimming pool is a well-established comedy trope. Being concerned about that girl's safety once a swimming pool had appeared at any point earlier in the commercial is like watching a movie pie fight and worrying, "but won't the fruit fillings irritate someone's contact lenses?"

Hurting the pretty girl with the lovely boobies is simply not part of the genre.