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Hot tubs in popular culture and throughout history
Hot tubs, spas, saunas, and bath houses have been a popular
way for movies, television shows, and literature to present
a luxurious lifestyle, or an element of wealth and prestige
for decades. These heated baths and steam rooms are often
a gathering place for influential characters and people
of prominence.
In almost any old film depicting ancient Rome, the members
of the Senate and other dignitaries often discuss matter
of state while recreating in elaborate bath houses. Of
course, these baths were indeed a staple of Roman society
and typically a destination of the elite-although there
were bath houses for the middle /lower classes as well.
With the hot tub/spa explosion of the 1970s into mainstream
(middle class) America, hot tub parties became a fad and
the warm baths became more synonymous with sex and decadence.
Eventually movies, television, and music videos adopted
this outlook as well.
Perhaps one of the more comical depictions of the hot
tub genre came from comedian Eddie Murphy on the television
skit show Saturday Night Live. Murphy did a rousing impersonation
of soul singer James Brown complete with grunts and screams.
With Murphy acting as the energetic Brown, the skit intimated
that he was the host of a celeb interview show that takes
place in a hot tub. Naturally, it was called James Brown's
Celebrity Hot Tub. The funny part was that very rarely
did Brown ever get in the tub. He would dance around it
and dip his foot in and give one of his patented high-pitched
shrieks---as if the water was too hot.
Movies began to offer up hot tubs and spas as one of the
leading places for teenagers to lose their virginity and
go skinny dipping with their friends. Almost any coming-of-age
movie since 1975 where a teen's parents obliviously leave
him unattended so that he may have a party in their absence
almost always has a rowdy hot tub scene. You know the
one; the kind of scene where bikini tops come off and
someone inevitably resurfaces from underwater with a huge
grin on their face.
Television shows including comedies such as Married with
Children, 2 ½ Men, and That '70s show all the up
to adult dramas like Knots Landing and Falcon Crest have
paraded a long line of beautiful women in and out of hot
tubs. Often times as a prelude to even steamier scenes.
Tony Soprano and his other mafia buddies used to make
deals and seal people's fates while lounging in the comfort
of a steam bath at the club.
The latest hot tub themed effort to come out of Hollywood
is the motion picture due in theatres any day now. It's
called Hot Tub Time Machine and sends four buddies back
to the 1980s thru the hot tub on the deck of their vacation
suite. They get in the hot tub in 2009 and they climb
out of it in 1986.
It just goes to show that over the last 90 years of movies,
books, television, and other forms of entertainment, the
hot tub and steam bath still are a major link to luxury,
wealth, prestige, and sex.
And now apparently even time travel. |
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