Ok, X-Play. We love your porn parodies. Most of them are hilarious and hot, and we love watching our favorite characters  take their on-screen antics a few steps further up each other’s skirts. We got off watching the Cosbys go at it, and Kelly from Married With Children finally get pounded. We were behind you on the cast of M*A*S*H* mashing muffs. We enjoy the way you mock the mainstream and add a dash of deviousness. But we feel like sometimes you could slow it down. Like right now.

Look, we realize the show Pan Am presents almost unlimited porn possibilities, and that in this business you’ve got to jump on top of a juicy idea before someone else humps it into oblivion. But we’d like to point out that this show just started on ABC. By the time your parody is released on October 28, it will have been airing for just over one month.  And we feel the need to ask: what’s to even parody at that point?

We’re sympathetic to your claims that ABC is copying off of you since you made Flight Attendants a while back, but if you’re calling Not Pan Am a parody, we want to point out that parodies hit harder–and make more money–if they’re referencing originals that have already made a cultural impact. We at PronInsider.com believe that porn parodies, especially, might find themselves in less-murky water when they’re parodying something that has already made an impression upon the public (the parody is then challenging an established tradition and has a right to declare itself of creative and not prurient value–ie, not obscene under Federal law). It also shows good business sense to hold off until one can make the best possible parody by using the original’s frame of reference: inside jokes, plotlines, and characters when they’ve been established. The more people know and love the original, the more they’ll want to buy the parody. But it’s hard to love an original before you even know the characters’ names.

Of course, we want to see a bunch of sexy stewardesses get it on just as much as anybody, but we’re advocating some critical thinking. You’ve already given us Flight Attendants, and that won an AVN for Best Comedy. Do we really need Not Pan Am so soon? Why not let it build before sexing it up and make a bit more cash in the process?

What do you think of too-soon, too-sexy porn parodies? Tell us at anon@proninsider.com!