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In his film Pink Flamingos, notorious Baltimore criminal Babs Johnson (Divine) and her family are forced into a series of escalating outrageous escapades to defend her tabloid-given title as The Filthiest Person Alive. Dubbed "one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made." by Variety magazine, 70s audiences flocked to the theatre to see what all the fuss was about. John Water's film turned the ideal nuclear family on its head, attacking American puritanical hypocrisy and transforming shock culture into pop culture. These dolls were inspired by writer and philosopher Roger Scrunton's observation on Kitsch as "not about the thing observed but about the observer. It does not invite you to feel moved by the doll you are dressing so tenderly, but by yourself dressing the doll." 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