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Like many in her generation of media-savvy slackers and post-baby boomers, McCarthy's metier is irony. That irreverent attitude served her well in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's sports comedy BASEketball, in which McCarthy plays Yvette, the glamorous trophy wife of zillionaire "Beers" team owner Ted Denslow (Ernest Borgnine). When Ted kicks the bucket by choking on a stadium hot dog, the scheming Yvette ("I gave him the best 3 months of my life," his distraught wife sobs) takes full advantage of the situation: She conspires with rival team owner Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn) to wrest control of her husband's team from its creators, Coop (Parker) and Reemer (Stone). In the meantime, the lascivious Yvette engages in unspeakable erotic perversities with Cain -- waxing his floors, shining his chrome doorknobs and laying carpet in a delicious, hilarious send-up of a behind-closed-doors sexual bargain.
BASEketball offered a veritable cornucopia of Playmates: In addition to McCarthy's leading role, the film boasted Playmates Jessica Lee (Miss August 1996) and Kelly Monaco (Miss April 1997) as the naughty, bumping and grinding team cheerleaders. 1997 Playmate of the Year Victoria Silvstedt was also featured cavorting in a hot tub with Reemer, leading to this comic exchange between Coop and Reemer:
"Duuude, who is that?"
"Who's it look like?"
"Victoria Silvstedt, Playmate of the Year..."
"Hello...Victoria Silvstedt, Playmate of the Year."
Such comic impudence was the mark of definitive Nineties films. While the Saturday Night Live skit-turned-film Wayne's World (featuring Playmates Elke Jeinsen and Carrie Westcott) acknowledged and poked fun at never-grow-up "losers" obsessed with the unattainable Playmate ideal, teen comedy American Pie (which featured a bit part by Miss February 1999 Stacy Fuson) was a post-Porky's tale of horny teens trying to lose their virginity by senior prom. Similarly, Stone and Parker's BASEketball drew comic value from the sight of the disheveled, crude, adolescent-minded Coop and Reemer finally scoring with the kind of women most men only dream about.
In the realm of adolescent fantasies, Pamela Anderson Lee -- "the most downloaded woman on the planet" -- was undoubtedly the queen. An actress who often mixed her obvious carnal appeal with a self-effacing humor, Lee's role as a bumbling but somehow successful bodyguard in the television show V.I.P. also exhibited a typically Nineties trend: taking a fluffy Charlie's Angels gimmick and investing it with a sense of ironic fun. In her 1996 starring role in Barb Wire (based on the Dark Horse comic, with a storyline modeled on Michael Curtiz's 1942 Casablanca), Miss February 1990 further established her love for roles with an element of subtle, subversive wit.
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