Did you see the gigantic vagina on So You Think You Can Dance this week? No, we don’t mean Nigel Lythgoe.
The actual gigantic vagina. No, really, we fully understand that any TV show featuring so many close-ups of Nigel Lythgoe’s great big mingey smug face might desensitise viewers to the sight of any female genitalia, but So You Think You Can Dance literally broadcast footage of a contestant’s vagina this week. Or at least something close enough to ensure that everyone’s talking about it.
Readers should be warned that the following contains graphic, unsettling descriptions of Nigel Lythgoe’s face.
In America, you’ve got a choice of dance-based TV shows – Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. They’re both fairly similar, apart from one crucial fact – one has a gigantic sweaty vagina in it, and then there’s So You Think You Can Dance, which doesn’t feature Kelly Osbourne as a contestant.
Oh, we’re kidding. It’s So You Think You Can Dance that’s full of tumpsies. If you’ve never seen So You Think You Can Dance, this is roughly how it works – various dancers are put through American Idol-style auditions where they must perform in front of judges. If they’re not very good, they go home. But if they show even a basic level of ability, then they hitch up their skirts and roll around on the floor pointing their vaginas at whatever happens to be closest to them like in some kind of nightmarish Thai ping-pong show or the last scene from Requiem For A Dream or whatever.
That seems to be the case, at least. On Tuesday’s edition of So You Think You Can Dance, a female contestant was told that she’d made it to the next stage and promptly fell to the floor where she demonstrated to the judges and viewers that she had either a) forgotten to wear any knickers, b) was wearing the world’s most chronically inoperative pair of knickers or c) invested in a pair of knickers designed to look exactly like her own bare vagina. There’s a slow-motion video of the flash at Huffington Post. Perverts.
Now commentators are predicting a wave of fines for Fox, which broadcasts So You Think You Can Dance, much in the vein of the fines following Janet Jackson‘s nipple flash at the Super Bowl in 2004. However, it’s likely that any fines doles out would be much smaller because So You Think You Can Dance attracts a smaller audience than the Super Bowl, because it’s unclear whether or not the contestant was actually wearing undergarments and because Justin Timberlake’s gimpish face wasn’t contorted into a twisted display of perverted glee this time around.
It’s not all bad news, though, because this controversy has almost definitely gained So You Think You Can Dance a bigger audience than Dancing With The Stars. That’ll chance next week, though, when Len Goodman interrupts Aaron Carter‘s Paso Doble to jam his erect penis into a pensioner’s eye. But until then, So You Think You Can Dance should enjoy its moment in the spotlight.
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htbw says
You can see the pics here http://spankadamonkey.blogspot.com/2009/10/so-you-think-you-can-show-your-vagina.html