As funny as a sitcom set in a concentration camp.

August 25, 2001 10:59 PM

As funny as a sitcom set in a concentration camp. So, your dad was into sex play and amateur "photography." Oh, yeah, and he was a celebrity. And he died under mysterious circumstances. Would the thought ever occur to you to charge folks to take a gander at your pop "gettin' it on?" This is several levels of creepy-from low level "huh, that's odd" all the way up to "oh, god I didn't need to see that!" levels of creepy. Link not safe for work, unless you work at a place where they encourge you to look at celebrities getting hummers.
posted by ColdChef (14 comments total)

Thirty years before there was Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, Bob Crane was pioneering amateur pornography.

For the first time ever, you'll be able to see the controversial photographs that may well have cost Bob Crane his life! Totally uncensored photos of Bob and friends letting it all hang out, including group sex shots.

Keep in mind that this site is run by his SON.
posted by ColdChef at 11:07 PM on August 25, 2001

scotty sells 3 day access to pictures of his dead naked dad for $7.95 a pop. nobler pursuits i cannot image.
posted by quonsar at 11:22 PM on August 25, 2001

For those who don't know who Bob Crane was and Hogan's Heroes was funny.
posted by skallas at 11:46 PM on August 25, 2001

Clarification:
A concentration camp and a prisoner of war camp are two distinct things. Hogan's Heroes was set in a POW camp.
posted by artlung at 12:01 AM on August 26, 2001

man, that's cold.
posted by Hackworth at 12:09 AM on August 26, 2001

Wow. I can never watch Hogan's Heroes the same way again!

But then again, how many people in Hollywood do this, but not "document" their lifestyle? This is just his son's SICK way of cashing in on his father's fame. The son was actually on Howard Stern promoting the website!

I can just hear Sgt. Schultz walking onto one of these "picture shoots" and yelling:

I see nothing,
I hear nothing!

and Klink yelling:

Hogan!!!
posted by Rastafari at 12:53 AM on August 26, 2001

What's really sad is there is a demand for this stuff. Since I talked about it on my site a while back my server logs are FULL of people searching for "Bob Crane Porno" and other variations. What's next, the Lucy and Ricky home video?
posted by Xkot at 6:02 AM on August 26, 2001

Distinctions between concentration camp and POW camps aside, Hogan's Heroes was disturbing, plain and simple. Anyone ever take a moment to think about representing Nazis as madcap, nutty chuckleheads?
posted by O Boingo at 7:01 AM on August 26, 2001

I'm not so sure that representing Nazis as madcap, nutty chuckleheads is any more disingenuous than representing the entire Germanic population of Europe as sadistic, anti-Semitic monsters, but that doesn't stop anybody either. At least in the first instance there's a laugh track so you can be sure not to take it all too seriously...
posted by m.polo at 8:34 AM on August 26, 2001

Oh my goodness. I knew about BobCrane.com, and I thought "hmm, that's funny and strange." Buh... but... but, it's run by his son?!

I am stupefied.
posted by anildash at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2001

Oh my goodness. I knew about BobCrane.com, and I thought "hmm, that's funny and strange." Buh... but... but, it's run by his son?!

I am stupefied.
posted by anildash at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2001

They interviewed him on NPR a couple of weeks ago. He sounds pretty normal and well-adjusted, actually, and is pretty matter-of-fact about the whole deal. Apparently he didn't grow up with his dad, but this is partly his way of defending him against sicker rumors. Showing him involved in "mere" amateur sex orgies is apparently preferable to rumors of interest in hardcore BDSM and things like autoerotic asphyxiation.

Since Dad was so open about his activities in the first place (apparently you couldn't visit his house without being confronted by ... intriguing still photography; and "home movies" were to be dreaded even more), he doesn't feel this is as big an invasion of privacy as others might.
posted by dhartung at 12:23 PM on August 26, 2001

Everything's relative to your own world. As dhartung points out, it wasn't really a big deal for the younger Crane to see his dad in pictures having sex.

Would I want to see pictures of my father having sex? Hell no! Let alone sell them. But let's not condemn someone for not having the hang-ups we do.
posted by jpoulos at 6:31 PM on August 26, 2001

The Internet has proven to us that, if nothing else, we're a planet of exhibitionists and voyeurs.

It didn't start with the Internet.

Hell, even Dr. Laura was into taking skanky snaps back before she became a puckered anus.

I dunno, something tells me the Bobster's winking at his offspring from beyond the grave.
posted by tpoh.org at 9:08 PM on August 26, 2001