"We make porn and then we dress people up as giant sponges."

April 25, 2016 9:35 AM

In the latest installment of the AV Club's Expert Witness feature, Wood Rocket co-founder Lee Roy Myers talks about how porn parodies get made.

AVC: For your Simpsons parody, you had actors in full yellow body paint. How did that work out, and are there any stories? It seems like it would have been a challenge.

LRM: It’s always a challenge with body paint. And for some reason, our most popular parodies have body paint. It’s like people want us to suffer in exchange for making parodies.

posted by Etrigan (24 comments total)

God the pictures in that article are hilarious.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 9:43 AM on April 25, 2016

Like, the twins from The Shining? Good grief.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 9:43 AM on April 25, 2016 [2 favorites]

Oh.. oh my god. Is this an actual UHF porn parody?!

... >.> DOES SOMEONE GET TO DRINK FROM THE FIREHOSE?! IykwimaItyd.

(Edit: Yes. Yes it is.)
posted by The otter lady at 9:47 AM on April 25, 2016 [7 favorites]

For whatever reason my strongest reaction to this is a desire to litigate usage of the term 'parody'
posted by beerperson at 9:48 AM on April 25, 2016 [4 favorites]

ALSO it is interesting how many of these require genderswapping characters just because mainstream narratives are so overwhelmingly male
posted by beerperson at 9:50 AM on April 25, 2016 [19 favorites]

Those pics are kinda hilarious, as are some of the titles.

I'm also finding that I have a visceral reaction of rage and disgust anytime I see James Deen's face now. I really wish I had a browser plug-in or something just to excise him from my internet viewing.

I'll go back to laughing about "The Knobbit" to cheer myself up again. Heh.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 9:59 AM on April 25, 2016 [9 favorites]

Yet somehow, James Deen as Quagmire is perhaps the best casting choice someone ever did on a porno. I was looking at that picture thinking "Yes. That seems right".
posted by lmfsilva at 10:16 AM on April 25, 2016 [5 favorites]

For those who remember Dawson's Creek, it's worth noting that James Van Der Beek was once caught with a copy of Dawson's Crack when his luggage was searched at an airport.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:29 AM on April 25, 2016 [16 favorites]

Hah. The Big Lebowski parody was partly shot down the street from me at a now-closed bowling alley.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:31 AM on April 25, 2016

I am enjoying the thought of hearing someone shouting about what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass.

/opens Incognito tab
posted by longbaugh at 10:37 AM on April 25, 2016 [10 favorites]

what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass.

I hope there's a German version where they meet a stranger in the Alps. Lederhosen and all.
posted by lmfsilva at 10:54 AM on April 25, 2016 [5 favorites]

This is the kind of stuff that appears in the margins of porn sites when I'm just trying to get off for the day, and which makes me say, out loud, "Who the fucking fuck would ever want to see Mr. Burns fucking Meg from Family Guy while Bender stands there clanging around!?" and yeah, I kinkshame the hell out of that shit because the combination of that and super-CGI monster porn cost me my boner and now I have to get to work.

That, of course, is why Swedish marriage manuals from 1974, reprinted Brownie snapshots of farmboys fooling around in Civilian Conservation Corps labor camps in 1937, and Edwardian gay porn stereopticon sets will always be superior, because I hate this stupid world of the future, sometimes.
posted by sonascope at 11:06 AM on April 25, 2016 [15 favorites]

The guy they have playing Matt Smith looks remarkably similar to Matt Smith. Come to think of it, I haven't seen him in anything else...

All the gender-swapping annoys me. If I wanted to watch a Back To The Future porn parody, why would I want to see Doc Brown fucking a woman who looks like Marty McFly? Wouldn't the obvious fantasy be Doc fucking Marty? IDEK.
posted by zeusianfog at 11:19 AM on April 25, 2016 [3 favorites]

Rule 63 Zoidberg. My head asplode.
posted by Halloween Jack at 11:19 AM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

A porn parody of The Room feels like it must run afoul of some sort of adult movie version of Poe's Law.
posted by ckape at 11:22 AM on April 25, 2016 [6 favorites]

I couldn't help it, I clicked on the Bob's Boners trailer. I am super impressed by their commitment to the H. Jon Benjamin voice. And the inclusion of Tina's butt-related fanfiction, which...that isn't even really a parody.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 1:03 PM on April 25, 2016 [3 favorites]

A porn parody of The Room feels like it must run afoul of some sort of adult movie version of Poe's Law.

You don't understand anything, man. Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:17 PM on April 25, 2016 [4 favorites]

My favorite porn parody name of all time is "Shaving Ryan's Privates"
posted by ShakeyJake at 2:07 PM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

For a while back in college, a porn parody called "The Load Warrior" was quite popular with the guys in my circle of friends; to the point that they actually once screened it for a mixed crowd.

Part of why they especially liked it, though, was that they'd actually done a decent job of coming up with a credible-to-the-Mad-Max-universe plot (the aforementioned "Load Warrior" was a loner woman, who biked her way around in a post-apocalyptic Australia trying to fuck as many guys as she could in an effort to reproduce so the human race could carry on).
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:59 PM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

Wait, I mis-remembered - The Load Warrior was actually a sort of riff on Beyond Thunderdome (scroll down that page for the review).

...I have not thought of that movie in twenty-six years.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:02 PM on April 25, 2016 [1 favorite]

The interview was interesting, but the previews were just outrageously bad. I guess that's the appeal? Or maybe there are people for whom this is their fetish?
posted by Dip Flash at 5:52 PM on April 25, 2016

Bad compared to... regular porn?
posted by Etrigan at 6:06 PM on April 25, 2016 [4 favorites]

I've always felt the best porn parody title was the send up of the John Grisham new lawyer film with Tom Cruise, The Firm.

The porn parody title: The Firm.
posted by Ghidorah at 8:04 PM on April 25, 2016 [3 favorites]

Sonascope, please send me a link to your tumblr, thanks!
posted by khedron at 1:51 AM on April 26, 2016