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Leave It To Beaver is said to be the first network program to show a toilet. It happened in 1957. Before then, the TV industry just pretended toilets didn't exist. But Leave It To Beaver only showed the tank. It was in an episode in which the boys hid a pet alligator in the toilet tank.
Everyone in the 1980s thought music videos were so daring, but they rarely even showed a toilet tank, let alone a whole toilet. Progress is slow, I guess. But the Canadian band Chilliwack was at least bold enough to dip their toes in the water.
The video of this lost hit is full of shots in which the camera is facing upward out of what appears to be a toilet bowl. Or at least everyone in the '80s thought it was a toilet bowl. If you were watching MTV with friends, and this video came on, everyone got excited all at once because a toilet was shown on TV. If it's anything other than a toilet, the band should have made it so it didn't look like a toilet.
Maybe it's like a Rorschach test, where your shrink tells you to interpret some inkblots any way you want, and then diagnoses you with a mental disorder because you interpret them the "wrong" way. It could be like how one of the inkblots is very clearly a bat, but you're never supposed to say it's a bat.
But everyone knew the Chilliwack video was being filmed from a toilet when the band started lighting matches and throwing them in the bowl. The big thing back then was for people to blow up school toilets with M-80's. That's why there was a restroom stall with no toilet at my high school.
The unanimous verdict: It's a toilet.
Also, Chilliwack's lead singer resembled an actor who used to play the villain in some episodes of cop shows back then. Imagine Ponch and Jon of CHiPs chasing the singer from Chilliwack through an alley on their motorcycles.
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