Les Steenfort, maîtres de l'orge (1996)

Mr. Skin likes to call TV the boob tube; it’s a funny though often misleading moniker. In France, however, where the girls often wear no underpants, the boob tube is a literal fact. There are more boobs on an average night of primetime TV in France than a year’s worth of Hollywood R-rated releases. Even staid family mini-series like Les Steenfort, maîtres de l'orge are riddled with boobs--and buns and bush too! This drama follows the brouhaha of a family of beer brewers. It’s epic in scope and quite moving, especially when the actresses take off their tops. Julie Du Page opens up the book to an even more carnal chapter with a skinny-dipping scene that will have viewers scratching their hairy pie-balls! We’ll drink to that!