Fly the friendly skies, Comrade!
Yes, it's the lovely ladies of Aeroflot, apparently putting on a spontaneous production of Hello, Trolley Dolly! in what looks like - in an oddly appropriate way - the emptied set of Are You Being Served?.
Of all the disconcerting things about this little gem, the thing I can't get past is their hair - it's so totally processed, so utterly uniform - and yet it looks as if it might actually be their hair. What kind of diabolical thermo-chemical wizardry, do you suppose, was involved? Reels the mind.
Now that we're over that, how's your weekend going? Quiet times here, after a really rather appalling week. The dogs and I are being as lazy as humanly possible on what's turned out to be a lovely spring weekend, although if I don't get some cleaning done today I shan't be able to look the Mister in the face when he finally returns this week.
Confidential to Mr. Muscato: Get on that plane, stat. We're out of soup, the dogs need more walking than one person can possibly provide, and I'm running out of old What's My Line? episodes with which to fill the lonesome evenings...
Amazingly camp - but why did I expect Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks to come tap-dancing in at any moment? Jx
ReplyDeleteThey could only have helped.
DeleteAgreed. "Sweet Georgia Brown" in Polish always makes this Georgia Peach smile...
DeleteAt one point, I really expected them to break into a kick line. Missed opportunity? or just Soviet prudishness? We'll never know. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! This made my morning.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like they just painted on their highlights due to lack of suitable products. Thus the matte finish -- not even semi-gloss! Some of those girls look downright surly.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen special effects like those since George Melies...
DeleteSpeaking of fashion, it is good to see the "Leonid Brezhnev eyebrows" look again - it was so flattering. Jx
DeleteI can't even get served a miniature bag of peanuts.
ReplyDeletePeanuts? On an airplane? Haven't you heard about allergies? Don't you know that people could DIE????
Delete/fashionable hypochondria
The clip (wonderful though it is), is oddly different to my recollection of a flight I took with Aeroflot in the mid-80's. Terrifying on every level - from the flat refusal to use english (or even the latin alphabet) - leading to an anxiety I'd end up somewhere 'else', to the total indifference of the crew, and the general squalor of both the airport & the plane, it was extraordinary. Although if you add a level of surly drunkenness to the passengers depicted, that aspect is about right!
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