It's spelled PARODY you douchey fan of sub-par porno... and PS, I'm pretty sure these guys put their press release announcing their Jersey Shore before that other lady did, just sayin'

Listen up "Anonymous" - we have nothing but love and respect for Taryn Thomas and her version of Jersey Shore. Here's how it went down - We were asked to do a Jersey Shore parody and we said yes because we thought it would be fun. We had no way of knowing that "they" created a domain name on Dec 15th - who are we - the domain police? And forgive us for not knowing that "they" announced their plans on twitter. I don't pay attention to anything on twitter except for my @replies.

This is fucking porno, we're not making Citizen Kane here. Please get over yourself and just except the fact that 2 parties decided to make similar movies at once, it happens ALL the time in the porno world - a world that takes advantage of trends and is very rarely original or creative.

Now, how about we all shut up and get back to doing what we do best - filming people fuck on camera.

Once I got her to talk to me on the phone when I wasn't even industry.
I was a "nobody", man!
She told me she would come to my band's show when we came through on tour.
But then a week later when I called her back, she pretty much ignored me and made me feel like a fool!
Then another week later, I heard she got married!

Now THAT'S a fucking Taryn Thomas story, isn't it?

Whoa!

Also, Katy Perry once flicked me off because I didn't know who she was and said she looked like Zooey Deschanel, to her face.

Here's the thing (and you probably won't like the answer but I'm gonna give it to ya straight) we're not in love with the title OFFICIAL JERSEY SHORE PARODY. However, we don't make the final decision on that. This movie is a Zero Tolerance production, their money, their say so thus, in the end, they decide what the movie is called.

We wanted to call it "Jersey Whores". Sadly (or maybe fortunately) the word "whores" can be a stumbling block in some "family" friendly adult store carrying the product. It would be silly to limit your ability to sell a movie you spent around $60K on so that name wouldn't work.

We then suggested Not Jersey Shore: Jersey Whores (the title we are huge fans of, by the way) but then you get people like Jeff Mullen from X-Play saying things like, please don't use "Not..." in front of a porn parody because we've been trying to use that as our trademark. So we said, sure, no problem.

We then suggested Better Than Jersey Shore: Jersey Whores which we still felt, kinda ruled, but alas, at the end of the day, the decision was made at Zero Tolerance to name the movie Official Jersey Shore Parody. I think it's pretty logical why they would do that if selling units is a competition. If you are trying to sell more units of your movie over a competitor, wouldn't you name it something that made it sound "official" to make it stand out from your competition? Plus, I think that once Taryn and some co-horts started being nasty about the whole two parodies thing, I don't think Zero Tolerance was really interested in playing nice. At the end of the day, studios and the sales reps job is sell movies. It's a competition and Zero is doing all they can to win that competition.

- Not Fade Away

If we actually had the money to finance our movies, I'd totally agree with you, but we don't - we are POOR AS FUCK. Here's the thing - for every "original" movie we make, we make a movie that the studio wants to make. Not saying that we don't want to do them, but let's face it - the studio wants to make money and parodies sell more than our original movies do (for now...). We made TMSleaze (non-original) so we could make How to be a Ladies Man (original). We made Jersey Shore (non-original) so we could make our next original movie - The Delinquents. Then we'll probably do another movie that the studio wants so we can make our magnum-opus - Two Guys 1 Force.

Same thing happens in Hollywood. David Lynch had to make Dune to make Blue Velvet. For every great indie flick that Soderberg makes he has to do another Ocean's 11. One back scratches the other...

That's why it's called the movie "business". Do I wish we could make all-original movies all the time? Hell yes! But on the other hand, I'm lucky that I'm involved in adult production at all so I'm grateful for any opportunity to expand my knowledge of productions. If that means taking 3 days out of my life to film a Jersey Shore parody, so be it. I learn a lot more every time we make a movie and that can only benefit our vision in the future. As I said before - they asked us to do it so we said yes... way before we knew Taryn was making one. Does that make us sellouts? Tell ya what, if we ever meet in person let's see who has more money in their wallet - I guarantee it won't be me.

PS - If you actually take the time to watch our Jersey Shore parody you'll see that it is filled with the revolutionary humor and ridiculousness that we are known for (by about 102 people). Just because its a parody doesn't mean it's unoriginal. Hell, I've never even seen the actual show so I wouldn't know how to copy it.

PPS - I love you.

PPPS - Who are you?

- Not Fade Away

wow, time for the music analogies to stop.

Let's not confuse things here - "POPPORN" has never produced a movie. "POPPORN" is not a studio. Zero Tolerance and 3rd Degree put out our movies and we're lucky that they do. We give them ideas, and they pay to produce the ideas they like. That's pretty much it. If POPPORN was a money-making entity (which it is not, rather a money-losing entity) we would probably not do parodies... except for maybe a Twin Peaks spoof. I'm not sure what point you're trying to prove here. Sorry dude, I'm poor - I don't make good money. If someone wants to pay me to make a movie isn't the most original thing in the world, I'm going to take that money and make one fuck of a funny movie. The actual shows of TMZ and Jersey Shore are blights on society and are very fun to make fun of. If that makes us sellouts or whatever - then sell me the fuck out. I'm proud of every one of the 4 movies we've been a part of. Proud as fuck and thankful to be given the opportunity.

Believe it or not, I don't need porn to satisfy my artistic integrity or vision- i've got this website, art, music and "regular" movies to do that. It's just a bonus that we've been lucky enough to make some actual porn movies.

PS - Minus 100 points for admitting you know the name of anyone in Slipknot.

I think maybe folks are straying from what you believe to be the key issue because I'm not sure they are clear on what your point is, exactly. Maybe I can clarify...

It seems like, ultimately, what you are saying is that for you, POPPORN has created, or attempted to create a brand that for you, was meant to represent originality and creativity within the adult world.

Our production of a parody, specifically our Jersey Shore parody, for you, flies in the face of that brand that you believe we have created. Ultimately, conforming to standard same old same old within the adult universe.

If I am correct, and that is truly the root of your argument (I could be wrong, but I'm really trying to understand) then I suppose I can only say this in response:

1. It's very flattering that you take our site and our short career in adult film making so seriously as to assign it a particular brand and thus, expectation that we must live up to it on your terms. We really appreciate all of the support we have gotten from fans of our site (and our movies) and if that means we are doing something that those supporters feel gives them a participatory ownership in what they believe our brand to be that's not a bad thing. Unfortunately tho, those types of expectations can never be lived up to as they are a moving target based on individual expectations. Thus, we can only do what we feel makes sense to us when we're not high or drunk and accept the fact that not all of our decisions will make everyone happy.

2. Don't you feel, being an experienced director of adult content as you say you are that if we here at POPPORN were to come on the scene, spouting off obnoxious bullshit like, "OH, WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE FACE OF ADULT" we'd be a little retarded? We don't believe that is what we are doing. Not at all, and I'm sorry if you felt that our brand or whatever you call it was one of elitism. It's not. Sure, we take the piss out of things all the time, and we say that POPPORN offers something different to the adult industry because, we feel that it does. It offers humor and a simple sense of not taking the adult industry, or ourselves too seriously. Ultimately, I think that might be where you lose us and your perception of what our brand is ultimately veers off...you're trying to assign some sort of serious, adult industry saving goal to who we are...which to me, seems unfair, elitist and generally not what we would ever want to be a part of...

- Not Fade Away

Well Dude when POPPORN directs 2000 internet scenes that no one gives a shit about. Until they can drop a name like Slipknot. How will they ever get the art? I kinda want to beat up that Jimmy guy and get it on tape.

hahahahahaha, this guy is fired up and mad at me for saying or being concerned with absolutely none of the things that he's mad about. Thats pretty impressive. I explained my issue and what i felt was douchie and rushing your product to beat the one you were aware was completed first doesnt make you any cooler or original a guy friend. Doesn"t make you less of a douche for going forward with it when you had a talented writting team that could have put a different twist on things and went a different direction with it and still given you a top notch product. So that, plus my other explanation leaves the point of your anger irrelevant. Funny you mention cuckolding ass my first ever site back in 2002, is called xxxproposal.com and its about boyfriends and husbands watching their girlie's getting banged out by other dudes , so that's been quite the successful niche. Oh and don"t feel bad about not knowing any singers names cuz all you gotta do is a simple thing called google. I coulda told you Maynard is from Tool and Zack is from Rage and Taime Downe is from Faster Pussycat and Mike Tramp is from White Lion. I know, its amazing! But i'm telling you, You can do it too! Its easy! So can Spock.

Anyhow, have Brian explain what went on here and what the point has been and how there is now understanding. Might help ya make it through such an angry time, i know english can be tough to read and understand sometimes. Just take your time and sound things out. Right on brotha.