I don't speak French so I have no idea what is going on here exactly... but who can deny a soap opera where all the characters are pieces of meat? Any Francophiles willing to tell the rest of us what's going on here? Trouble? (via AEIOU)
A crude babelfish translation of the episode description:
A vertiginous diving in the universe of the old anonymous pollutants. Who hides behind this obscure brotherhood of repented, of heavy meats to the conscience, ashamed sausages? For the very first time in France, our journalists dared to track the horror. An episode still more terrifying that mixed Jesus Camp and Land of the War.
Butchery, the first soap opera turned out of meat which speaks about policy. A fatty humour, bleeding counterparts, of the actors very out of tail. Finally starlets to be boned!
More episodes are available at http://www.presidentielles.net/laboucherie/
This also gives me an excuse to link to these great meat plushy toys available here (link via BB-Blog)
Rough summary:
It's a meeting of Polluters Anonymous. Each one of them tells stories of how much they used to enjoy polluting the planet. One of them loved to drive his hotrod to the bakery 200 meters away. One of them drove her SUV on city streets. Another used to get a kick out of leaving a huge mess behind when he went on picnics. The shy newcomer finally opens up and admits that she used to let the water run all the time and that she wallpapered her house with asbestos. Ah, it was fun back then when nobody cared. Oh the glorious days when George Bush "forgot" to sign the Kyoto agreement! But let's not forget about our kids who died of lung disease and our spouses hospitalized with canceer... In the last shot, the umbrella-bearing sausage exclaims, "Shit, I forgot my SPF 800 sunscreen! I'm going to get third-degree burns again!"
Posted by: Erik | April 20, 2007 at 01:37 PM