The safety video is one of those gifts that keeps giving. It's a multi-layered work of art that hits on so many levels. The Hurt Locker has nothing on this piece of finely crafted film-making. It is the Mad Men of safety videos; the Mona Lisa of in-flight instructional information.

It's just recently that I've started taking joy in watching the gleeful male flight attendant demonstrating the life preserver inflation. It's now a highlight for me. The look on his face is hysterical.

It's a wonder that passengers have not started showing up on the plane dressed to play the parts of the safety video, ala Rocky Horror.