Line #38 Film/Orgazmo


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3	An early foray by Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone into the realm of feature films, made while they waited to find out if ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was going to get picked up by Creator/ComedyCentral. The film was released in 1997.
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5	Joe Young (Parker) is a naïve Mormon missionary who gets recruited by the evil Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) to star in a cheesy pornographic superhero action / adventure / porno as "Orgazmo", a superhero who fights and uses his Orgazmorator to stun evildoers with orgasms. Joe's moral scruples cause Maxxx to use a stunt cock -- a double for the missionary -- in penetration scenes, leaving Joe to handle the acting... and some softcore porn. Soon he is introduced to his sidekick-to-be, Ben Chapleski (Dian Bachar), a.k.a. "Choda Boy", a [=PhD=] from MIT with a laboratory in his basement, who only does porn because women don't take him seriously. (At least if he does porn, he gets some action.) But trouble comes when the owner of their favorite sushi bar is forced to give up his restaurant by thugs, prompting Ben to give Joe a REAL Orgazmorator...
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7	The film is infamous for receiving an NC-17 rating despite featuring no penetration whatsoever, any actual sex being no less explicit than a typical PG-13 comedy. It was to be the first of Parker and Stone's many battles with censorship.
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10	!!Tropes:
11	* AffectionateParody: Of both pornographic and superhero movies.
12	* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler:After shooting Orbison with the Orgazmorator several times, backing him up to the pool, Choda Boy figures he's had enough. Joe hesitates, then decides "one more for Jesus".]]
13	* BadassBoast: Both the BigBad and Joe near the end:
14	-->'''Orbison:''' I OWN THIS TOWN! I'm the mayor, I'm the governor, I'm the police AND the crime! And WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO CHANGE THAT?!
15	-->'''Joe:''' I'm Orgazmo.
16	* BadassPreacher: Joe Young counts as he preaches Mormonism and knows how to fight. He's also well skilled with the Orgazmorator.
17	* BadBadActing: The actress playing the DamselInDistress in the beginning is clearly phoning it in during the second take of the scene.
18	* BackBlocking: Early in the film just as a porn actress is about to be revealed naked a porn actor's ass walks into frame, obstructing our view.
19	* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Lisa]] is ChainedToABed and [[spoiler:gets tape on her mouth, too]].
20	* BecomingTheMask: Joe and Ben de-fictionalize their respective characters Orgazmo and Choda Boy.
21	* BewaretheNiceOnes: See BadassPreacher.
22	* TheBully: A-Cup loves to pick fights with people, especially Joe, for no reason.
23	* CatchPhrase: "Now. I don't wanna sound like a queer or nuthin.' but -" It's the face he makes after that really makes this a catch phrase.
24	** Also Sancho while being interviewed for a role in the latest movie:
25	-->'''Orbison''':"Who are you?"
26	-->'''Sancho''':"I (beat) am Sancho! (complete with Spanish guitar riff)
27	-->'''Orbison''':"Okay, but what do you ''do''?"
28	-->'''Sancho''':"''Do''? I (beat) am Sancho!"
29	-->'''Orbison''':"Okay, but...."
30	-->'''Sancho''':"Are you Sancho? Is he ''Sancho''? No, because I (beat) am Sancho."
31	-->'''Orbison''':"Okay, you're hired."
32	* ChainedToABed:
33	** [[spoiler:Lisa, Joe's devout Mormon fiancée,]] by Maxxx Orbison, [[CrossesTheLineTwice and on the set of a porno, too]].
34	** One scene that Joe acts in as Orgazmo involves him getting ChainedToABed as a DistressedDude who has to be saved from the Ass-Fuck Twins by Choda Boy.
35	* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: Hamster Style Kung Fu.]]
36	* ClarkKenting: No one is ever fooled by the main characters' superhero costumes.
37	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Joe Young is very clueless about when people ''don't'' want to convert to Mormonism, but he knows self-defense and his skills at hand-to-hand combat are why he gets his job.
38	* DamselInDistress: Maxxx Orbison decides to kidnap [[spoiler:Lisa, Joe's fiancee,]] to ensure that Joe continues to play the part of Orgazmo. [[SaveThePrincess Guess what Joe and Ben decide to do?]]
39	* DVDCommentary: Trey and Company get drunk and watch the movie, and while they don't get as wasted as they did on the Film/CannibalTheMusical commentary track, they do include this fun DrinkingGame: take a drink whenever anyone says "Jesus Christ", "Heavenly Father", or "Orgazmo". You'll get significantly sloshed.
40	* EunuchsAreEvil: Neutered Man.
41	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "The Ass-Fuck Twins" [[note]]AvertedTrope[[/note]]
42	* FanDisservice: Despite all the talk about porn in this movie, there are no actual sex scenes and the naked male ass is seen more often than any other R-rated piece of anatomy. And then there's [[FatBastard T-Rex]].
43	* ForcedOrgasm: The effect of the Orgazmorator on whoever is it fired at.
44	* GiveMeASign: Joe asks a figure of Jesus for a sign that he shouldn't act in a porn movie. An earthquake happens. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Joe looks around for a moment, then asks again for any sort of sign.]]
45	* GoshDangItToHeck:
46	** Joe Young and his fiancee Lisa, being devout Mormons, stand out by virtue of their abstinence from swearing.
47	--->'''Joe Young''': Would you just stop hollerin' at me? Criminy!
48	** Then there's the guys trying to muscle G-Fresh into signing over his business:
49	--->'''Jimmy:''' Curses!\
50	'''Tommy:''' ''Curses?''
51	* HairTriggerTemper: Orbison.
52	* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Naturally, after prefacing his comments with "I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin'...", everything that Dave the Lighting Guy says becomes increasingly homoerotic.
53	-->'''Dave the Lighting Guy''': I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but you got a really nice ass
54	-->'''Joe Young''': Thanks...
55	-->'''Dave the Lighting Guy''': ''(Smacks Joe's ass)''
56	* IAmNotSpock: In-Universe, Joe insists he is not Orgazmo, [[BerserkButton but hurt his cupcake]] and he becomes the titular hero.
57	* IKnowKungFaux: Choda Boy and his Hamster style kung fu.
58	* IOwnThisTown: Said word for word by Orbison.
59	* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Joe and his overly wholesome fiance Lisa are both devout, goody-goody Mormons who refrain completely from cussing, premarital sex, and other similar activities.
60	* {{Jerkass}} / SmugSnake: Orbison and his nephew, A-Cup.
61	* KarmaHoudini: A pretty narrow escape, but [[spoiler: Orbison's balls are swollen to the point where they have to be amputated. This only makes him immune to the Orgazmorator]].
62	* KnockingOnHeathensDoor: The intro of the film, and how Joe Young ended up getting into the porn business.
63	* LargeHam: Dave the cameraman, who can't control himself from suddenly screaming while on-set.
64	* LatexPerfection
65	* LewdLustChasteSex: All of the sex scenes are far from explicit and are played for comic effect and yet we get to see [[spoiler:Joe and Lisa, our two resident devout Mormons]] make out. With tongue involved.
66	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Interestingly applied to males as well as females. With the sole exceptions of G-Fresh, the owner of the sushi bar and those who regularly harass him in an attempt to run him out of his own business, every character of any importance is either involved in the porn business or a devout Mormon.
67	* MeaningfulEcho: "Looks like he's sleeping with the fishes, see?"
68	* MoneyDearBoy: In-universe: The reason Joe gets involved with porn acting in the first place. He wants to marry his fiancee, Lisa, and apparently, their temple charges a hefty fee for performing sealing ceremonies. Also, Lisa wants to have a nice place when they're married.
69	** This is TruthInTelevision, as marriages in the Temple in Salt Lake City are ridiculously expensive.
70	* MoodWhiplash: At one point ''Ron FREAKING Jeremy'' takes a moment to explain to Lisa that the porn industry exploits both men and women in a rather somber and logical argument. Note, that this takes place as he is [[spoiler:tying Lisa to a bed]]. The whiplash grows even stronger after his indictment for 30 counts of sexual assault.
71	** When Choda Boy remarks about how he won't do his "hamster style," he declares it is because he promised his father, making it sound like a poignant dramatic moment. Cut to flashback of young Choda at the breakfast table, eating cereal, with his father reading the morning paper:
72	--> '''Choda Boy:''' Dad, I don't think I'm going to do my Hamster Style anymore.
73	--> '''Dad:''' Okay son.
74	* ObviousStuntDouble: The various "Stunt Cocks" are standins for Joe who are blatantly not Joe. The last one in particular is ''black''.
75	* OneSteveLimit: "There are many Jeffs in the world, and many Toms as well. But I... am Sancho."
76	* {{Orgasmatron}}: The Orgazmorator.
77	* PrecisionFStrike:
78	** Joe has one in reaction to [[spoiler:Lisa's kidnapping]]:
79	--->'''Joe:''' I'm [[PrecisionFStrike pissed off]]!
80	** And after he deals with Maxxx Orbison.
81	---> '''Joe:''' You're an asshole! ''zaps with Orgazmorator''
82	* QuestionableCasting: In-Universe: Orbison seems to have no qualms in hiring a devout Mormon to star in his porno movies.
83	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The climax has [[spoiler: Lisa]] being forced to do a porn scene. Even though Orbison is an unlikeable {{Jerkass}}, this is what truly [[MoralEventHorizon pushes him into pure evil territory]].
84	* ResignationsNotAccepted: When Joe attempts to pull out of making any Orgazmo sequels, Maxxx Orbison decides to blackmail him to cooperate.
85	* RunningGag:
86	** "I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin'..."
87	** '''''STUNT COCK!'''''
88	** "Jesus!" "[[LiteralMinded Where?]]"
89	** "Jesus and I love you!"
90	* SaveThePrincess: See DamselInDistress above.
91	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The movie ends with Orbison learning he needs to have his testicles removed thanks to being hit with the Orgazmorator too many times having given him elaphantiasis, and him cackling maniacally that he's going to become Neutered Man and defeat Joe Young.]]
92	* ShoutOut: A couple to Dickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' and some others to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
93	-->'''Lisa''': I don't know what's happened to you, Joe, but... [[ShoutOut I hope you're happy in the life you've chosen]].
94	-->'''Joe''': [[LampshadeHanging "Don't quote Dickens in]] ''[[LampshadeHanging my]]'' [[LampshadeHanging apartment!"]]
95	** In the end, Ben quotes Tiny Tim.
96	** The GiveMeASign scene in Joe's apartment is extremely similar to a scene in ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains''.
97	* ShowWithinAShow: In-universe, it becomes so incredibly popular it gains mainstream appeal and children's toys are made based on the characters.
98	* ShownTheirWork: A lot of in-jokes from the porn industry show up. For example, porn people apparently eat a lot of Pop Tarts.
99	* SmallNameBigEgo: Sancho is a living legend, but only to himself.
100	* SpandexLatexOrLeather: In the FilmWithinAFilm, they wear spandex. In their genuine superhero personas, it's latex.
101	* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', the Broadway musical that Trey Parker and Matt Stone later wrote, which also focuses on the inner conflicts of a Mormon missionary.
102	** Two minor characters in ''Mormon'' are given the names Elder Young and Elder White, the names of the protagonist and his companion in ''Orgazmo''. They don't get paired up, though (Young gets paired up with Elder Grant and White with Elder Smith), so it may be coincidence.
103	* ThatPoorCat: Choda Boy's cock rocket sparks a lot, flies off-screen, and apparently hits a cat.
104	* TheCastShowOff: The title theme is sung by Trey Parker, and is an epic description of what is means to be a "man". Pronounced in the song as "maaay-yan".
105	* ThoseWackyNazis: Joe claims his character, who Lisa thinks killed himself (Joe lied and said the movie was an adaptation of ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman''), was actually killed by the CIA for selling smack to Nazis.
106	* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Lisa, Joe's Purity Sue fiancee,]] gives Joe one of these when she finds out that he's been acting in porn movies.
107	* YourMom: When [[spoiler:Orbison's]] thugs try to coerce G-Fresh into signing away his sushi bar, he responds with this until they beat him into signing their contract.

Context Film / Orgazmo