Willing Willie and Jan-Jan

The controversy begins.

April 11, 2011 at 4:02PM

It's interesting to see how societies react when everyone suddenly realizes the culture has become coarser and vulgar while they weren't looking. Or while they were looking and enjoying it, until it went too far.

Here's the moment in question.

If this aired on American TV, would there be an outrage?

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