Every Home Should Have One


Every Home Should Have One is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Jim Clark and starring Marty Feldman. It was released in the United States in theatres and on home video under the title Think Dirty.
The overall concept is in direct ridicule of the then ongoing campaign by Mary Whitehouse on gratuitous sex in advertising. Certain sections such as the parish council watching entire programmes which they are offended by simply to count the offensive incidents, exactly parodies Mary Whitehouse's infamous and ironic behaviour of the time.

Plot

An advertising man is assigned by his boss to come up with a sexy new image for Mrs McLaughlin's Frozen Porridge. While his wife runs a clean-up-TV campaign organized by the local vicar, he has an affair with the au-pair girl.
The overall concept is that adverts play out before their lives connecting to the products to hand.
The various porridge advertising campaigns get more and more extreme: the most relevant being the Goldilocks and the Three Bears campaign. This leads to a secondary campaign to search for "Miss Goldilocks".

Cast

The film was produced at Shepperton Studios in England.
The film's titles and animated sequences were provided by Richard Williams. The feature's theme song, "Every Home Should Have One", was written by John Cameron, Caryl Brahms, and Ned Sherrin, arranged by Alan Tew, produced by Jackie Rand, and sung by Millicent Martin. The song was released as a single to promote the film.

Reception

The film was one of the most popular movies in 1970 at the British box office.