January 5 is National Whipped Cream Day in the United States. Who declared it as such? I have no idea. Why? Beats me. How is it celebrated? I don’t even care! All I know is that it’s the perfect excuse to revisit these six great whipped cream moments in pop culture history.
Whipped Cream And Other Delights
Look through the vinyl at any Goodwill or Salvation Army store and you will find numerous copies of Whipped Cream & Other Delights, the hit 1965 album from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. But why? What made an album of instrumentals sell 6 million copies? Did people really enjoy listening to “A Taste of Honey” played by the whitest Tijuana brass band the world has ever known? Maybe…but I bet it has more to do with the album cover, featuring model Dolores Erickson wearing nothing but whipped cream.
Erickson was 29 years old and three months pregnant when she posed for the iconic album cover. The only whipped cream that’s actually in the photo is on Erickson’s head. Her body was wrapped in a white blanket and then covered in shaving cream, but that doesn’t matter. In the imaginations of everyone for the past 50 years, Erickson was wearing whipped cream and nothing else.
It has also spawned countless imitations over the years:
That ’70s Show
Straight-laced, old-fashioned dad Red Forman would never get high with his son Eric and Eric’s dumbass friends…but what if he did? The gang imagines what would happen if Red let loose and apparently it involves a lot of whipped cream. In fact, whipped cream made a few appearances on That ’70s Show as a pothead snack of choice. Why? Because it’s fun to eat? Because it tastes good? Or is it that other reason teens love pressurized cans of whatever they can find? Which brings us to our next whipped cream moment…
Shooter
Antoine Fuqua’s 2007 conspiracy thriller Shooter is not a good movie. It’s a stupid shoot-em-up littered with plot holes and Mark Wahlberg’s terrible acting. But we love it!
In a movie full of ridiculousness, the most ridiculous moment in Shooter doesn’t even involve any shooting. When Wahlberg’s character Bob Lee Swagger (I shit you not, that’s his name) gets shot up, he goes to the home of his deceased spotter’s widow, Sarah. Mr. Swagger gives Sarah a shopping list with 12 cans of whipped cream at the top. Why? So he can do whip-its until he passes out so Sarah can perform surgery on him.
Please, if you’re ever shot, don’t try this at home. Whip-its and home surgery are no substitute for hospitals.
The Hot Chick
Remember The Hot Chick? No? Well lucky you. The 2002 stinker is a body-switch “comedy” starring Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams. It might be Schneider’s worst film, but it does have one saving grace in that it marks the Hollywood debut of McAdams who shows us how to get a free drink with one simple trick. Although whenever I try I still have to pay and I have to wash whipped cream out of my beard.
Varsity Blues
Produced by MTV when that still meant something, Varsity Blues was a huge hit with ’90s teens. Was it because of the tense relationship between the football captain, played by Dawson’s Creek, and his coach, that old asshole from Anaconda? Probably not. For me at least, it was all about seeing Ali Larter in a whipped cream bikini.
Although Varsity Blues hasn’t survived as a cult classic, that scene lives on, thanks in no small part to its copycats, including Chris Evans in Not Another Teen Movie and James Corden on The Late Late Show.
California Gurls
Katy Perry shooting whipped cream out of her bra. ‘Nuff said.
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