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A judge has banned Toto's "Washlet" cleaning system billboard from a Times Square building. One of the building's tenants happens to be the Times Square Church, which sued to stop the billboard by claiming it was "certainly unsuited for public exposure to children, and antithetical to the values of our congregation and church.” No word if the parishioners feel their bottoms are clean enough already.
State Supreme Court Justice Marcy Friedman said, "The court finds that the motion presents novel and significant issues on which further legal authority is required," and wants to review some other court rulings. We're also curious is there are legal precedents involving bathroom behavior! She also asked the church and its pastor Rev. Neil Rhodes to put up a $90,000 bond, which, per the AP, Judge Friedman "said ...would go to the defendants for damages and costs - including lost revenues - if the court determines the church was not entitled to an injunction." There is no value, however, on free publicity. We eagerly await the judge's decision, and not just because we'll giggle while reading anything remotely related to bodily functions.
Earlier, Toto said, "We introduced this kind of lighthearted campaign to really get people to stop and think amount about something they take for granted and they may not have thought about for sometime." And Toto's cleanishappy website is still up. For more analysis about Toto's Washlet system, check out the Poop Report.
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Poop Report..?
OK it's official, now there really IS a web-site for everything
Toto's response: "But...but...but...?" Ha. I kill me!
Speaking of poop--when you flush the toilet, little microscopic pieces of shit spray out of the bowl and onto items around the bathroom, including towels, sinktops and toothbrushes.
Remedy: close the lid.
Too much information
BTW I really don't care to look at bare bottoms on billboards--especially if they have happy faces on them.
cleanliness is godliness should be Toto's slogan.
Better if they were all clutching their cheeks and spreading them. Brown-eyed girl.
It amazes me how anything to do with the human body offends religious people. How in the world does a picture of someone's behind with a smile face harm children?
i was wondering how they were getting away with putting a butt billboard in times sq. guess they weren't.
didnt god create yours and my asses?
I'm confused.
Bare butts on a billboard in Times Square is NOT okay, but the Naked Cowgirl wearing pasties in Times Sq. while strumming a guitar, is okay?
I think the woman on the left has a really great ass.
"We introduced this kind of lighthearted campaign to really get people to stop and think amount about something they take for granted and they may not have thought about for sometime."
They are full of the stuff that they are supposed to clean. The billboard is sexually provacative by design. Do they think people really believe their bs?
"Sexually provocative"? What exactly is sexually provocative about that ad? If anything, it looks like it was actually made by and for children.
It amazes me how anything to do with the human body offends religious people. How in the world does a picture of someone's behind with a smile face harm children?
I don't find it "offensive" but that doesn't mean I want to look at it. And it hardly sells me on the company and their product. You would think all the Ivy League geniuses on Madison Avenue could come up with something more creative than naked asses to sell toilets. Zzzzzzzz. And really, did they have to put it on the same building the church is housed in? Show some class.
Who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?
Religion ruins everything.
Fantasy worshipers are the whiniest asses on the planet.
That ad was not the least bit sexually provocative.
If you think so, you are living a repressed life, and don't have the ability to see the humor in it.
A delusional devotion to a mythological deity, who's own creation is considered "dirty" by minless unthinking worshpers is so friggin stupid.
repressed morons.
damn! I wish I had the confidence to be a "butt model". I wouldn't get so worked up, they're just butts.
But hey, whether you like it or not, EVERYONE is talking about the ad, and therefore they've done their job. I think it's genius.
have we blamed the midwest yet? anyone?
Wait, didn't Adam and Eve look like this?
Ick, it was on Salon.com last week, and it was annoying there.
Forget the ad, get these Totos installed in more places (like they're everywhere in japan) so I can wash my butt with confidence and get back to work.
It's just butts. Not even sexual. What a bunch of puritanical babies. Religion needs to grow up.
repressed morons
It's just butts. Not even sexual. What a bunch of puritanical babies. Religion needs to grow up.
You guys are such simpletons. You act as if naked butts is some sort of political statement and as if your rights have been violated because you can't see the billboard. It would be nice if we lived in a society where people actually didn't go for shock value and the lowest common denominator. And where people took their neighbors into account, in this case a church.
To call people repressed and puritanical when you know nothing about them is elitist, bigoted, and shows how pathetic you people are. Some people prefer to keep certain behavior private and not flaunt it in public. It's called having class.
how bout banning cop killers, rapists, pedhphiles and bad bosses?
stop this conservative bullshit with nekkidness. it's an ass for christs sake!
It's just butts. Grow up.
love,
simpleton
p.s. They are selling something that cleans your booty. They aren't using naked butts to sell a Lexus.
Take down this, take down the Larry Flynt Hustler Club billboards.
What does the church recommend as an ad to demonstrate the effectiveness of these electronic bidets? Sometimes I wipe and I wipe and I wipe and I wipe and I wipe and I wipe and it seems to never end. I would like an ad that makes it explicitly clear all that wiping will no longer be necessary.
This excess wiping is often the case as I eat my mcdonalds, take my liqui-shit, and then go to church every sunday.
I love that ad. I don't get what the big controversy is. What should we do, put burkas on the butts?
Uh, not even real butts. They're computer-generated.
This commentary is all just so funny! My friend has one of these at home and she LOVES it. As for the ad, I don't see anything wrong with it but if the church had a problem with having it on the side of its building, it has every right to say so. We all have the right to our views and opinions, however conservative or liberal they are. Live and let live, I say!
Oh, and at least they used nice attractive butts and not ugly ones. I don't think ANYONE would want to look at those! LOL
Bonjour New York from Europe.... just reading through these comments so funny; apart from the fact the ad is cheap and tacky, I think they were very clever in choosing the side of a church to plaster it on, did they honestly think that it would be acceptable to do this?? I think not. PUBLICITY STUNT, which worked, after all we have even heard of this product all the way over here now because of their stunt. America seems to contradict itself with what is okay and what is not... this ad is good and harmless but yet you are so rigid with what is and isn't sexual harrasment at the office, or would it be indecent if a guy flashed his butt on the subway?? or would that too be harmless and marvelous... maybe if he had a smile drawn on it..
The Times Square Church (along with all churches in America) pays zero dollars in taxes.
On the other hand, I'm sure the billboard generates some sort of tax money for the city.
Why doesn't the church just butt out of everyone's business? And get over their neurotic fear of the human body?