2 Girls 1 Cup
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| Hungry Bitches | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Marco Villanova |
| Produced by | Marco Fiorito |
| Starring | Karla and Latifa |
| Music by | Hervé Roy |
| Distributed by | MFX Media |
| Release date(s) | 2007 |
| Running time | 62 minutes (film) 60 seconds (trailer) |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Preceded by | Fresh Bodies |
| Followed by | Kinky Anal Breakfast |
2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media.[1] The trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic intimate relations, including defecating into a cup, taking turns ostensibly consuming the excrement, and regurgitating it into each other's mouths. "Lovers Theme" by Hervé Roy, from the movie La folie des grandeurs, plays throughout.[2][3]
This one-minute trailer is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme among bloggers and message boards for the reactions its graphic content elicited from viewers who have not seen such films before.[4][5] Around mid-October 2007, video sites such as YouTube were flooded with videos depicting others' reactions to watching the video for the first time.[6]
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Origin
The video originated from a Brazilian distributor and filmographer, Marco Fiorito, who describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist".[7] Fiorito originally produced foot fetish videos but soon moved on to coprophagia. The film was produced by MFX Video, one of several companies owned by Fiorito.[7] Fiorito contends his films are legal in Brazil[citation needed], but authorities in the United States have branded some of his films as obscene and filed charges against Danilo Croce, a Brazilian lawyer living in Florida, listed as an officer of a company distributing Fiorito's films in the United States.[7] Croce accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000.[7] Fiorito said he did not know his films were illegal in the United States and that his films often contained chocolate instead of feces to appease some of his actors who were willing to appear in scat films but not actually eat fecal matter.[7]
The first few seconds of the 2 Girls 1 Cup video contain the text "MFX 1209" (the product code for Hungry Bitches) and the URL mfxvideos.com, the website of Fiorito's MFX Video, leading some in the media to incorrectly believe the video is one of the many Croce had to surrender to the Department of Justice but was somehow leaked in the process.[8][9]
Reception
Reaction videos
Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.[10] Thousands of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and taping their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.[4][5][10] Even Joe Rogan, past host of Fear Factor, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants are forced to eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.[11] A reaction video starring a Kermit the Frog puppet proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg.[12] In January 2008, Slate documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.[13] Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming "the new 'tubgirl' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love" in a San Francisco Chronicle article.[14] In the "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears, co-host Gavin St. Ours watches the video after claiming he never will, and his entire reaction is caught on tape.[15] "Genuine Nerd" Toby Radloff was so disgusted by the clip that he had to immediately watch it again.[16] Veteran porn star Ron Jeremy walked off while watching the video on The Playhouse.[17] Singer Wyclef Jean sat through the whole thing without looking away on The Playhouse — while he was eating.[18] Ace Frehley, formerly of KISS, was shown the video on The Opie and Anthony Show in July 2009, and was unfazed, declaring, "Crazier things than that have happened on the road."[19]
Parodies
A short film by singer John Mayer to his blog entitled "2 Guys 1 Cup" where Mayer and Best Week Ever correspondent Sherrod Small enjoy Pinkberry frozen yogurt in the same manner that the women in the original consumed the feces.[20][21] Blogger Perez Hilton also made a parody titled "1 Guy 1 Jar", which he posted to YouTube, and began to eat peanut butter out of the jar, in the same style as the original video.[7] Filmmakers Justin Roiland and Christian Le Guilloux made a five-minute series called "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show" for the short film competition site, Channel 101. It debuted in first place on January 27, 2008.[22] Canadian comedian Jon Lajoie also made a song named "2 Girls 1 Cup song", which described the activities in the video as if the two women were expressing their love for each other. The music video was instantly popular, gaining over 7 million views on YouTube.[23]
Media recognition
In the media the video has been used as an example of the poor content quality of YouTube and similar video-sharing websites, and their tendency towards deliberately shocking content.[4][5][24] The video was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, where the video's existence and propagation was declared to cause "Moral Bankruptcy" to have the "Best Week Ever!"[25] Esquire magazine showed the video to actor George Clooney during an interview, prompting him to compare it to a rodeo, saying the point of the video was to see "how long you can last".[26]
The video is mentioned during a cutaway gag in the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods", where Brian shows the video to Stewie and films his reaction.[27]
The main characters of The Inbetweeners watch it at the beginning of episode 4, series 2.
In an episode of Tosh.0, the entire audience is filmed reacting to this video.[28]
In the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Babes" (originally airing in 2008), Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer) references the video as a sign of society's declining morals. He is comparing it to fictional videos showing homeless people being beaten up that pertains to a case that the Special Victims Unit is working on.
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