# "Pink Flamingos" DVD - anyone else watch the extras?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-flamingos-dvd-anyone-else-watch-the-extras/742862 "2016-01-11T23:37:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-flamingos-dvd-anyone-else-watch-the-extras/742862/1 "2016-01-11T23:37:31Z")

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I’m posting this here, because I finally saw that ultra-grossout cult classic a few years ago, and of course watched all the extras. There was some professionally-shot footage in the extras of Waters & Co. making the movie, and until this weekend, I wondered who made it and where it came from; he was not (in)famous until that movie came out.

Here’s what happened: John Waters had a friend who worked for Maryland Public Television at the time, and MPT was proposing a series about interesting residents of that state. (Yeah, I’d say he’s…interesting…) So, his friend made some visits to the shoot, and later to a shoot for a later movie (I think it was “Female Trouble”) but the series never materialized and the footage not publicly viewed until the DVD came out.

🆒

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-flamingos-dvd-anyone-else-watch-the-extras/742862/2 "2016-01-12T02:06:54Z")

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I like eggs. Thinking back 40 years, I’m not sure I need to see it again.

ETA: That same night I saw something with the recently late Holly Woodlawn. I liked her as an actress and thought she was kinda normal-cute. Yeah, knew it then, too. It confused me.