This video spoofing playground designers is hilariously real
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"We could make that out of a metal that's freezing in the winter but scalding in the summer."
Do you ever wonder why it seems like every playground on Earth has the same glaring design flaws? Are they put there on purpose to antagonize parents and cause as many bumps, bruises and skinned knees as possible? According to one hilarious viral video, yes. Yes they are.
Comedian George Lewis posted the video on Instagram where he satirically acts out the part of two playground designers, tossing out ideas for a new playground. These will sound very familiar to any parent who’s taken their child to a park recently, since every playground already has all of these.
“On the main climbing frame platform, we’ve currently got ladders on one side, bridge on the other, slide on the third, and on the fourth, at the moment, just a sheer drop,” Lewis says as one of the playground designer characters.
Switching to the other character in the skit, he replies, “Perfect. Leave it like that.”
“Makes sense,” the first character replies, before moving on to the next item on the list.
“Next, we were thinking about monkey bars. But to use them, you do need the upper body strength of, if not an Olympian, certainly a keen amateur gymnast.”
The other designer thinks for a minute and then replies, “Alright, so two sets of them?”
The first character is on board: “Absolutely!” he says.
Next up: “Oh, and you probably saw on the designs we thought it might be quite nice to put little metal sunflowers on either side of the park with little holes in the middle for the children to speak into.”
The other designer asks, “Oh, so they can talk to one another?”
The first one clarifies, “You’d think that, wouldn’t you? But no, no, these won’t be connected.”
The second designer asks, “So the kids are just like, shouting into the void? Yeah, that’s good.”
As we all know, that particular design has made its way onto pretty much every park.
And finally, the one you know was coming. Lewis’ first character introduces his final design idea: the big slide.
“We thought we’d put that at a height that’s just out of reach of the average nervous parent,” he says. “We could make that out of a metal that’s freezing in the winter but scalding in the summer.”
The other designer replies, “As long as there’s a nice dip at the bottom for dirty water to pool in, make it out of what you like.”
And now we finally know why playgrounds are like this: It is, in fact, on purpose.
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