satire

The next video on my big year-end countdown is the handiwork of my friend Julie Wittner and her frequent co-conspirator Kim Evey. Earlier this year C&B featured a parody music video they made a few years ago as a one-off piece; the clip below is one from their continuing series of video vignettes suggestively (but as you’ll see, coyly) titled 2 Hot Girls in the Shower, which has become part of the “Judge Me By My Friends’ Blogs” section of the C&B home page blogroll.

Part of what I love about this series may be best appreciated by others who run their own websites or YouTube channels. The title 2 Hot Girls in the Shower and its comic realization are a sly swipe at the skeevy side of SEO, a phenomenon often referred to as “keyword whoring.” In addition to its definition on urbandictionary.com, keyword whoring can take the form of lame web content that has been stuffed full of frequently-occurring Google search terms (contextual logic be damned) in an effort to attract web traffic.

Not only does 2HGITS sound like it should be the name of a pø®n site, but each clip begins with stereotypical semi-funk pø®n-ish music and the appearance of two good-looking, ostensibly naked women standing in a shower. It is all, of course, just the launching pad for a deft comic duo who excel at poking sophisticated fun at the “Loveline”/Penthouse Forum conceit. They strike a precise comic note with their droll, underplayed thwarting of horny male websurfers, a target so easy as to usually attract only self-satisfied derision from lesser wits. The elegant simplicity of their schtick is also the perfect rejoinder to the predictably cretinous inanities of their YouTube commenters and emailers.

The 2 Hot Girls in the Shower YouTube channel includes all of the 40+ episodes Julie and Kim have made so far. There are also a lot of funny outtake clips and other extras posted — for example, you might like to start with the three alternate endings to the “Revealed” video. Julie and Kim also both have their very own neato-cool individual sites, respectively located at www.juliewittner.com and www.kimevey.com.