German Government Hoping To Promote Energy Conservation By Equating It With Sex

Short of getting Rainier Wolfcastle to break out his "The Goggles Do Nothing" campaign, the Germans may have come up with the best energy conservation ad in history. According to RT.com (link below), this new ad campaign was launched by The German Ministry of Environment and uses the oldest advertising trick in the book to get its point across: Sex.

The scene: A young girl arrives home late one night and is confronted with the awkward situation of finding her parents engaged in the act inside a brightly lit room. After uttering a meek, “Hi,” the teenager proceeds to switch off the lights in the room. 

The lesson learned, as the female narrator says: “The world says thanks. 5 percent less energy consumption in German households makes one coal power plant redundant. Together it’s climate protection.”

Another commercial in the campaign finds Germany's equivalent of Chris Farley trying desperately to impress a woman on a bicycle.

The message, aside from acting asinine apparently attracts females: “The climate says thanks. The climate is happy about every single bicycle ride,” the narrator says.

Not everyone is thrilled with the campaign, however, namely because someone's got to be up in arms about every single thing that happens nowadays.

The video stirred the internet with many saying “that was awkward!” and others wondering if it’s customary for Germans to do it fully dressed.

“According to the video, it seems so. Perhaps the German Ministry of Environment has also decreed sex only in unheated rooms,” P Gosselin wrote on the NoTricksZone website.

“This is the nanny state at work,” argues Gosselin. “But here the nanny in charge obviously has really gone completely idiotic.” However, in this case, the “nanny” is not German Chancellor Angela Merkel, since it wasn’t her Christian Democratic Union party that financed the productions.

Apparently even in Germany nobody does their research before opening their yaps to bitch about something.

Via RT.com