Ann Summers is MLM?!
Aaah I had this in the back of my mind last night when posting in this thread !
When i first got into that show aged about 17 I didn’t fully understand what a pyramid scheme was beyond some vague implications of shadiness so didn’t fully get this either. I’ve seen it many times since over the years but not for a while.
Watching all those scenes back now it’s so perfect. They totally capture the ludicrousness of the whole thing, the tactics you’re taught to lure people in, open with a statement they can’t deny framed as a question - “how much washing up do you think you can do without any washing up liquid”
Then the self aware assurances they all have now that it’s not
that kind of scenario “first thing to say is this isn’t pyramid selling... does this look like a pyramid ? It’s a pie chart.”
literally the same thing as changing the name to Multi Level Marketing
“It’s pyramid selling Barbara I’m terribly sorry”
(worth noting just to make that last scene funnier, Jez is actually there for a job interview.)
Everyone should watch the clip for a laugh you don’t need to know peep show to get anything out of it all you need is the conviction that MLM’s are ridiculous scams - which I think we all share.
One great comment there below the video too: “‘what’s pyramid selling?’ The words of a doomed man.”