Denmark launches kids tv show about a man with a giant penis

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And I thought ITNG was a weird as it got!

Jolly funny man has somehow reached adulthood without any concept of boundaries or appropriacy.

But its all ok because when a woman comes along and tells him to put it away he does.

That makes everything all right.

No: someone who has not learned to keep their body to themselves by about the age of five has a problem. An adult male waggling his willy all over the place is going to be arrested if not in full time care somewhere.

It is not the job of anyone born with a vagina to manage the behaviour of people with willies. (Since apparently they do know this stuff and manage to live without waving their vulvas everywhere.) Whoever wrote this has a number of problems.

@Snowisfallinghere

I think it depends how it's done, I mean kids love books about poos, farts, bums and toilets etc and this could just be a harmless extension of that toilet humor theme and maybe there's something positive they'll get across, who knows. I'm not defending it as I haven't seen it, but I like to keep an open mind.

I get the idea of keeping an open mind, but the premise is a man with a penis he can’t control. Something’s very wrong with that

I can confirm that it is true. But then, having young kids in Denmark, I can say that safeguarding and similar concerns do not seem to be a priority here! Things that would be unacceptable in UK (according to mumsnet) are run of the mill here. So I must say I am not too surprised (and no, my kids won't get to watch it!)

I thought Lala and Tinky bloody Winky were mind bending enough - years of trying to work out if they were larvae of something since they appear and clearly grow up and... turn into something else? Fly away?

This adds to my conviction that those who write children's tv programmes are all stoned out of their little minds.

It will certainly normalise that behaviour. Disgraceful. What is it with men!!

I can say that safeguarding and similar concerns do not seem to be a priority here! Things that would be unacceptable in UK (according to mumsnet) are run of the mill here. So I must say I am not too surprised

Out of pure curiosity what sort of things? I find it hard to comprehend that most parents in Denmark would just find this not at all unusual. Especially as in the article there were some who were raising concerned about the content.

Seems hard to tell what is like without watching it, there's very limited information in the reports. Seems silly to get up in arms when none of us have actually watched it. In the picture I saw, his penis is basically like a long hosepipe, so they're clearly not aiming for realism.

@CrochetOrBust

Denmark doesn’t have a version of April Fools Day in January, does it? And the Guardian not realise that this is a joke? Grasping at straws here.

Are you sure that's a straw, @CrochetOrBust?

This show feels like a really, really bad, messed up idea, for reasons set out by PPs. Eww.

@Same4Walls: a few things off the top of my head: school playgrounds are mostly completely open; anyone can walk in (I have, with no adult in sight!) and kids can walk out. Kindergarten teachers taking the kids to their own house to play as part of the kindergarten day. Leaving babies to sleep in prams outside when they go into a shop/restaurant/cafe/whatever. None of these raise even an eyebrow here it seems.

Danish society is a trusting society and Danesput a lot of emphasis on it being a society based on trust.

Nope. Just nope. There is no way in which this is remotely acceptable. Out of all the possible things you could make a kids' tv show about, there is something very wrong with someone who chooses this.

Seems silly to get up in arms when none of us have actually watched it. In the picture I saw, his penis is basically like a long hosepipe, so they're clearly not aiming for realism.

Just because its not realistic doesn't mean that it's ok. Surely even without seeing the show we can discuss how inappropriate the concept is?

school playgrounds are mostly completely open; anyone can walk in (I have, with no adult in sight!) and kids can walk out. Kindergarten teachers taking the kids to their own house to play as part of the kindergarten day. Leaving babies to sleep in prams outside when they go into a shop/restaurant/cafe/whatever. None of these raise even an eyebrow here it seems.

To be fair these things used to be acceptable in the UK. Unfortunately after some veey sad incidents and people misusing that trust we got wise. I'm surprised that people are still so trusting these days. Everyone likes to see the good in people but being open minded and realistic that not everyones intentions are good is probably a more sensible stance.

@Thinkingg

Seems hard to tell what is like without watching it, there's very limited information in the reports. Seems silly to get up in arms when none of us have actually watched it. In the picture I saw, his penis is basically like a long hosepipe, so they're clearly not aiming for realism.

No, none of us has seen it, and yes they're not going for realism, but this programme, this children's programme is about a man who cannot control his penis and jolly japes ensue. I don't need to see the bloody thing to form the opinion that that is all sorts of wrong; just as I wouldn't have to watch a programme of, say, live executions or something else awful to have the opinion that it is wrong and inappropriate.

This is hilarious! It’s unrealistic, silly, funny (at a cheap level of humour). Bums, farts, poo, willies...that’s prime entertainment for kids.

[quote Barababam]@Same4Walls: a few things off the top of my head: school playgrounds are mostly completely open; anyone can walk in (I have, with no adult in sight!) and kids can walk out. Kindergarten teachers taking the kids to their own house to play as part of the kindergarten day. Leaving babies to sleep in prams outside when they go into a shop/restaurant/cafe/whatever. None of these raise even an eyebrow here it seems.

Danish society is a trusting society and Danesput a lot of emphasis on it being a society based on trust.[/quote]
To be fair these things used to be acceptable in the UK. Unfortunately after some very sad incidents and people misusing that trust we got wise. I'm surprised that people are still so trusting these days.

These things are still acceptable. They are just not accepted. We didn't get wise. We got paranoid.

So weird, but as others have said the culture there is different. I wouldn't let DS watch it, or if I did it would be to dissuade him from putting his willy in any electrical devices.

Just let me tickle you with my extended penis, dont worry its only like the one on tv!!

Given that we have certain members of society proclaiming feeling unsafe or they have experienced violence if there is a chance you might not use their correct pronoun , i am really surprised that these same people arent feeling triggered by this. Its a massive safeguarding concern.

At least for equality, they should introduce a woman with a large vulva that also does amusing things , like making small children disappear!!

If it’s true, I dare say the Danes will say it just shows how enlightened and un-prudish they are, unlike us poor repressed Brits.

Smuggest nation on the planet, IMO, though their burnished national halo has been tarnished somewhat lately, what with the revelation of 17 million factory farmed mink, their skins mostly destined for China.

That is in addition of course to their millions of factory farmed pigs, not that many people are sufficiently bothered about those to stop buying the hundreds of tons of Danish bacon we import.

They can shove their collective hygge up their collective arse, too. We have our own perfectly satisfactory cosiness, thanks very much.

Flapjak I suggested on the other thread, another lovely hilarious character with an impulse control challenged vagina.

It has big, steel, fuckoff pointed teeth and it eats wandering penises.

Ha ha ha. etc.

Yes, but imagine the horror in Denmark about us having a man who can't control his penis running the country. They must find that even more curious!

Very inappropriate, weird, paedophilia

Here you are. You can judge it for yourselves. I know that it's wrong, but it did make me chuckle.

Having now watched it, I would say that he's very much in control of his own penis. He has full control of it. He can light a BBQ, walk dogs with it etc. So I think that idea that it sends a message to children that men are not in charge of their own todgers is not necessarily an accurate portrayal.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I can see you have had the pleasure of knowing a few Danes

@Fandaddydoozie if you hear the narration it is made VERY clear that he has no control over his penis. It's his penis who decides what it does and not John.

To think we used to worry about some of the characters in the Magic Roundabout and hidden drug references.

Wholly wrong.