Dave of Garfield Ridge calls a short "educational" film he links to the most surreal film ever. It's that for sure, plus revolting (and NSFW due to shouted euphemisms for "wiener"): it's Planned Parenthood's take on how to educate the mentally handicapped about sex--from ugly-plaid-and-geeko-glasses 1975.

Other revolting things, besides the ones Dave mentions:

The idiot whistling and strumming soundtrack, like the gibbering voice of Azathoth across the cold void of space.

The bleached-out Poop-o-color print that all cheap-ass educational films and filmstrips seemed to come in. The IMDB entry says it was filmed in color--Yeah, it's in color: brown. Except for the twin black abysses of skeevy-looking narrator Richard Dix's pupils. Had the color just leached out of the film by the early 80's when I saw these things? No not this specific one, doofus, but films like this: Death Zones! (scroll down)

The funny thing is things really did look kinda colorless in the 1970's, according to my memories of that time which are, like most of America's, kinda hazy. (I have a good excuse.)

The vacuous nitrous-oxide smile on the face of the mom who catches her impaired son en flagrante and wishes him well. I've had a cult member try to recruit me and she was wearing that same beatific lobotomized smile the whole time.

The horrendous moral relativism of the 1970's and Planned Parenthood in particular...no values! Don't teach them any values! There are too many values out there already! You'll just confuse them! (Some things never change.)

Actually I'm surprised Planned Parenthood, given their eugenics-movement roots, didn't advocate a stricter control over the reproductive functions of the mentally handicapped.

How did our nation survive those dark times?

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