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jreid - 2015-04-03

The shithole town where I live has a bunch of 'naughty pantos' every xmas season, and this video pretty much sums up the humor/vibe.

It's all about tapping into the repressed sexuality of middle-aged theater-goers. I've only been once and I can still remember seeing all those 50+ year-olds, picturing them feeling an old familiar tingling in the nethers, going home and screwing like maniacs after the show like they were 32 again.

I feel dirty and wrinkly watching this.


The Mothership - 2015-04-03

Do you live in Cambridge, England?


Harveyjames - 2015-04-04

Good find! I remember seeing posters for this in my hometown during the 90's. Even as a kid I was like, "this looks awful". Glad to see it's exactly what I imagined it'd be.


Old_Zircon - 2015-04-04

I assumed it was from around 1975 until I Googled it. Premiered in 1995. And it apparently had a very long, very successful tour.

I've got a soft spot for stuff like this that's actually from the 50s where it was still literally a federal offense to ship an LP containing the word "fuck" across state lines, but in the 90s it just seems forced.


Maggot Brain - 2015-04-04

The thing that always gets me about the early 90's is the false sense of modesty. It's like after the 80's were over everyone who was around then had kids and had to hide all the cocaine and neon from their children.


Old_Zircon - 2015-04-04

That's not at all how I experienced it. The 80s were the most socially conservative time I've been alive. The 80s were when (according to the TV) premarital sex was guaranteed AIDS, there was a molester and a mugger on every corner, the Soviets could nuke us at the drop of a hat, and any modest deviation from social norms made you a faggot (which was a Very Bad Thing To Be)... I don't think I even heard "damn" on commercial TV until the 90s.


Old_Zircon - 2015-04-04

The 90s were like this flowering of traditional liberal values (even though they weren't actually at all, unless you use the historically accurate definition of Liberalism, which has always had a lot more to do with deregulating global trade and aggressively interventionist foreign policy than with the at least cosmetically progressive social movements the term was associated with for a couple of decades in parts of North America).


Old_Zircon - 2015-04-04

I remember the hip, young, forward thinking teacher in my middle school - which was in a coastal Massachusetts town that trends a bit left of center - informing our health class of the amazing-to-him observation that AIDS was not, in fact, "God's way of punishing homosexuals and intravenous drug users" and could, in fact, happen to "normal people" too. That was around '89 or '90, but by then I was in 6th or 7th grade and already had a pretty good sense of how fucked up a lot of the middle class white people culture around me was.


There was one black kid at my school. He was adopted. I found out many years later that the agency had strongly encouraged his parents to opt for a nice, white baby.

I can only imagine what it must have been like living in the bible belt or central California or something.


Maggot Brain - 2015-04-04

point taken. I think I just remember the 90's as a more modest time because that's who I was more or less at the time. I particularly liked your third commit; people at large didn't start being nicer to homosexuals but they did figure out that they had money.


Old_Zircon - 2015-04-04

I think the 80s were probably the pinnacle of creativity for practical special effects, though.


yogarfield - 2015-04-05

"ribaldry"


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