Just try to survive a day without zinc oxide

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In honor of John Landis’s birthday yesterday, here’s the "zinc oxide" portion of Kentucky Fried Movie. We’d forgotten how many uses zinc oxide had. Not only is it in soap and women’s undergarments, but it’s apparently the one thing keeping humanity from tumbling ass-over-teakettle into chaos. Or, in the case of this poor, one-legged housewife, from awkwardly toppling over.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

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