2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the
trailer for
Hungry Bitches,
a
scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media. The
trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic
intimate relations, including
defecating
into a cup, taking turns ostensibly
consuming the excrement, and
vomiting it into each other's mouths. "Lovers
Theme", from Hervé Roy's
Romantic Themes, plays
throughout.
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. Around mid-October
2007, video sites such as
YouTube were
flooded with videos depicting others' reactions to watching the
video for the first time.
Origin
The video
originated from a Brazilian
distributor and filmographer, Marco Fiorito, who
describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist". 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.
Fiorito
contends his films are legal in Brazil, 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. Croce accepted a
plea bargain and was sentenced to 3 years of
unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000. 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.
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.
Reception
Reaction videos
Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the
reactions it causes. 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. 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. A reaction video starring a
Kermit the Frog puppet proved very popular
on the community-based popularity website
Digg.
In January 2008,
Slate
magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow
featuring various reactions.
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. 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. "Genuine Nerd"
Toby Radloff was so disgusted by the
clip that he had to immediately watch it again. Veteran porn star
Ron Jeremy walked off while watching the
video on
The
Playhouse. Singer
Wyclef Jean
sat through the whole thing without looking away on
The Playhouse while he was
eating.
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."
Parodies
Culo A Boca, a band that performs a song "two girls one cup" that
describes the contents of the film as a love song . It was released
on their self titled album in 2009. 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. 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.
Filmmakers Justin Roiland and Christian Le Guilloux made a 5-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. 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.
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. 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!"
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".
The video is mentioned during a cutaway of the
Family Guy episode "
Back to the Woods", where
Brian shows the video to
Stewie and films his reaction.
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.
In the
Law and
Order: SVU episode "Babes" (originally airing in 2008),
Detective Munch references the video as a sign of society's
declining morals. He is comparing it to fictional videos showing
the beatings of New York homeless people that pertains to a case
that the Special Victims Unit is working on.
References
- MFX - Hungry Bitches - Amsterdam Happy
Shop
- Tele Music - TMCD1034 Romantic Themes
- Top Score Music - TMCD1034 Romantic Themes
- Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
- " The top 10 sex memes of 2007 From convictions to
hoaxes, Violet Blue looks at 2007's most-clicked items."
San Francisco Chronicle.
December 27, 2007. Accessed July 29, 2008.
- The "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your
Ears
- " 2
Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd". Accessed 2009-09-22. Archived
2009-09-25.
- " Ron Jeremy - 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction." Playhouse TV.
November 16, 2007. Retrieved on September 15, 2009
- " Wyclef Jean 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction." Playhouse TV
-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrx11giO9w&feature=player_embedded
- http://www.culoaboca.com
- johnmayer.com
- 2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show
- "2 Girls 1 Cup song" by Jon Lajoie
- Watch Best Week Ever: Full Act 4 View Original
Reality TV Shows | VH1.com
-
http://www.esquire.com/features/george-clooney-2-girls-1-cup-0408-3
- Tosh.0 Blog - 2 Girls 1 Cup: The Biggest Reaction
Video Ever!
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