haha - no, this isn't another sobbing "why do they play 20 minutes of commercials before a movie I just paid $9 to see!?!". quite the contrary, actually.....

i've been living in Munich for a couple months now, and as well all know, Europeans are much more liberal when it comes to public nudity, sex, drugs, etc. I've grown quite accustomed to seeing topless pictures in newspapers, soft-core on public TV, and un-covered porn magazines at all newsstands.

But what I saw before watching Broken Flowers tonight at a local English-speaking theater (well, "original movie language" theater, which basically means English) caught me off guard. After some normal drink/car ads, there was a Kangaroo Shoes commercial (we all remember those from the 80's, yeah?). Starts out with an attractive couple under a full moon on a dock in a lake. They start making out, yada yada yada, then off comes her shirt. Hmm, some boobs - not too uncommon. But then... of come her pants - talking full-frontal here! Then off come his pants and a back shot as they jump in the lake. All the while, some pink Kangaroo shoes are still sitting on the dock. So they swim for a second, then she's on the dock on her back, he steps up the ladder and they go straight into some soft-core sex, but after he's mounted her, she stops him, reaches over to the Kangaroo shoes, and pulls a fucking silver vibrator out of one of the shoes. WTF? They cut away as she uses it suggestively and he is shunned, then a second later they are embraced on the dock and the vibrator rolls away from them down to the shoes, and it pops up on its end, like boiioioioonnng.

I don't know if this was an unusual commercial even for Europe, or if it was because this was a largely English speaking crowd, but the audience got quieter and quieter through the whole thing until the entire theater was in uncomfortable silence, with the occasional nervous laugh..... strange.

that is all. just thought i'd share that.

9/23/2005 5:21:39 PM

LINK PLZ

9/23/2005 7:54:41 PM

nah, i've looked on iFilm, AdCritic, bittorrent - turns up nothing. Kangaroos Shoes don't appear to have much of a web-presense at all anyways.

Actually - this just occurred to me: I had forgotten that the whole selling point of Kangaroos (and the namesake) was that there was a little zipper pouch on the side where you could carry stuff.... I guess keeping a vibrator in your shoe was playing on the kangaroos concept.

9/24/2005 8:16:11 AM

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"LINK PLZ"

haahahahhhahahahahahahahahahaha

9/24/2005 10:46:03 AM

That sounds way better than that Fanta shit we have to sit through.

9/24/2005 12:15:55 PM

yeah, I'd much rather have softcore porn before my movies than an add chastising me for downloading movies or those damn fanta girls.

9/24/2005 12:19:00 PM