Cosby, who is now known to a younger generation who wore ugly sweaters, ate Jello Puddin Pops, and said things like “zip-zap-zoodle” a lot, was a pioneer of a certain type of sweater that rappers and athletes took a step further with the equally-butt-ugly Coogi sweater.

Such gratuitous ugliness actually came about due to two practical concerns: Cosby liked to be comfortable on set, and he was frequently the subject of close-ups, which would reveal wardrobe inconsistencies when using two different takes. Seeing as how Cosby sweaters are pretty much magic-eye puzzles that completely disorient the most astute of viewers, they served to mask the jump.

Also, they are colorful and ridiculous. There’s much more to the (great) story here. (via The A.V. Club)

Flippin’-and-a-floppin’-floppity-boop!!!

Well, that synergy will only get you so far. I understand the big parodies like Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, but some porn producers pursued parodies that were just awful and pretty damn unsexy. So we figured we would list a few of these wildly unnecessary parodies.

(I had to watch so much porn for this piece.)

7. Taxi Driver – Taxi Driver

Hmm. Travis Bickle, the protypical anti-hero, goes around banging chicks. Okay. I guess that’s a thing that could be made. Of course, I’m guessing the female lead won’t be Jodie Foster‘s character, the 14 year-old whore, but nothing would surprise me any more.

Nope. There’s her character. Right on the cover. Great.

6. The Cosby Show – Not The Cosby Show XXX

First of all – this intro is perhaps the funniest thing I have seen in six months. Please enjoy it. It’s safe for work, provided you don’t work at a Klan headquarters or something.

Beyond that, I have a number of issues with this production. But the only one worth addressing in this space is who wanders around a porn store and says to the clerk, “I love watching people have sex, but I don’t like it when one of them isn’t Bill Cosby“?

Has the well run dry? Couldn’t someone just do another Star Wars porn parody? Must we reach into the annals (hehe) of unsexy sitcoms and have people busting nuts to America’s first family? Is nothing sacred?

5. American Beauty – American Booty

OK. I get that “beauty” sounds like “booty.” But if that’s your only tenuous connection between your film and anything mildly erotic, you might want to change course. The non-porn version was a scathing social commentary on the hollowness of suburban life (which is so cliché that THAT should be parodied) as played out through the lives of a half-dozen miserable people.

You hard yet?

Yeah, me neither.

Ghost Dad

The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Just Like Heaven

Heart and Souls

Casper

The Sixth Sense

Vigo the Carpathian

Return of the Jedi

Patrick Swayze

The man knew how to wear a sweater.