The Penguin

The Penguin:  An act of revenge. A humiliation prank involving pulling a guys pants down to his ankles and have him waddle around, mimicking a penguin. 

I never really watched Ally McBeal when it originally aired.  I remember seeing a few episodes, but I was still in school at the time, and it didn't really interest me. Still, given the press the show and it's stars got, I was familiar the cast.  I did do two Actors & Skin pieces on two of the male cast members.  Gil Bellow, (HERE:) after seeing him in The Shawshank Redemption.   I also did a Thanksgiving piece on Peter McNicol after seeing him Addams Family Values. (HERE:)

I recently started streaming the series and am glad I finally began to watch.  I'm still making my way through season one, but so far, I'm really enjoying it.  The cast is great, but I could watch an hour of Jane Krakowski as Elaine.  It has the familiar fell of most David E. Kelley series, and although very serious in parts, is also really funny.  I just finished episode 13, and as you can see, it inspired a post.

I'm a sucker for any scene with a nude male model posing for an art class.  In this case, it's a sculpting class taken by Ally (Calista Flockart) and her roommate Renee. (Lisa Nicole Carson)  The male model in this case is Glenn, played by actor Michael Easton.  I've watched some soaps off and on over the years, but I've always seemed to miss Easton's appearances.  I know he spent some time on several soaps including stints on Days of Our Lives and General Hospital.

Glenn, (and Easton) looks exactly like what a typical artsy nude model would look like.  I'm sorry Easton's time on television mostly passed me by as he's incredibly hot in his two episode stint.  Maybe in part, because his character has a REALLY impressive penis.  You can tell Ally is stunned when Glenn first takes off his robe.

The funniest part of the story was the ending.  Glenn and Ally end up sleeping together, but he ends up not interest in pursuing anything more.  Ally enlist Renee to help get a little revenge.  The decide to do the 'Penguin', a sexual humiliation ritual to get Glenn back.  Renee convinces Glenn she wants to pleasure him, and has him drop his pants in a public space, they walk, (waddle) after her for his reward.

Turns out the only reward for poor Glenn is embarrassment.  I'm not sure if the version I watched was the same that aired in the 1990's, but you actually got a wee bit of skin from Glenn, especially for a show on prime-time.  A bit of side butt and crack when Renee pulls down his pants, and when Glenn pulls them back up.  Now, it's much, but given I don't think Easton did any other nudity, (that I could find) a little was enough to grab my attention!