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The Bikini Bandits
The Bikini Bandits

The Bikini Bandits are a parody of famous female action teams like Charlie's Angels. They are a band of bikini-clad, gun-toting super vixens, who star in internet film shorts and their own feature length movies. The Bandits are often pursued by local law enforcement and a cast of other stereotypical characters in their fight against the evil G-Mart Corporation. The Bikini Bandits style of humor is often sexually crass and contains many double entendres and scenes of sex and violence. Maynard James Keenan of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle is a noteworthy fan, and has starred in The Bikini Bandit Experience (2002) and The Bikini Bandits Save Christmas (2004). They also starred in the A Perfect Circle video for The Outsider. These movies and internet shorts are an obvious homage to exploitation films of the 1970's. Image File history File links Amberwgirls. ... Image File history File links Amberwgirls. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... This article is about the television series. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... In modern usage, a stereotype is a simplified mental picture of an individual or group of people who share a certain characteristic (or stereotypical) qualities. ... A double entendre or innuendo is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. ... Maynard James Keenan (born April 17, 1964, as James Herbert Keenan) is an American rock singer. ... Tool is an American progressive rock band, formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California, when drummer Danny Carey joined the rehearsal of his neighbor, singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul dAmour, when nobody else would show up [] . His decision proved to be a stroke of... A Perfect Circle (often referred to as APC) was an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ... A Perfect Circle (often referred to as APC) was an alternative rock band, formed by guitarist Billy Howerdel. ... The Outsider is a song from A Perfect Circles second album, Thirteenth Step. ... For a description of the medieval homage ceremony see commendation ceremony Homage is generally used in modern English to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom you feel indebted. ... Exploitation is the name given to genre of films, extant since the earliest days of moviemaking, but popularized in the 1970s. ...

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History

The Bikini Bandits initially found success via the internet, where they became one of the most downloaded clips in the history of AtomFilms, a website specializing in independent short films. The studio later went on to bankroll several sequels, helmed by writer/director Steven Grasse. Promotional materials make the proud claim that "all our actresses are real strippers". The bandits are dancers at Delilah's Den, a business that Grasse lists as a client in his other life, as founder of the Gyro Worldwide ad agency. Steven and brother Peter Grasse (who acts in the films) decided they wanted to branch out from advertising into music videos and films. They wanted their films to reflect their favorite subjects ""bikinis, girls, and boobs". So they recruited actresses from Delilah's, and began filming Bikini Bandits.


After submitting their quickie thrillers to half a dozen Webcasters, a mini-bidding war broke out. Eventually they selected AtomFilms, which promoted Bikini Bandits on MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central. Many have described the series as a mixture of Russ Meyer and Quentin Tarantino. MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... Comedy Central is a cable television and satellite television channel in the United States and as of January 15, 2007, in Germany[1]. In the course of 2007, Dutch channel The Box will be transformed into the Dutch version of Comedy Central. ... Russ Meyer Russ Meyer (left) and Roger Ebert, (1970) Russell Albion Russ Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American motion picture director and photographer. ... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and Oscar-winning screenwriter. ...


Actresses

Heather Victoria Ray
Heather Victoria Ray

Perhaps the most well known of the Bikini Bandits cast, is lead bandit Heather Victoria Ray. In typical Bikini Bandit fashion, Heather was quoted as saying the following during an interview, when asked what she was doing before she joined the bandits cast, "They found me in a deep six-foot hole with a flashlight and some lotion. I was listening to the Pixies 'Where is My Mind' on repeat, they thought I needed a change, so they gave me a gun and a car. I'm so thankful for their guidance". The biography information on each of the four Bikini Bandits are as follows: Image File history File links Hvrpic. ... Image File history File links Hvrpic. ... The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. ...


Heather

Sign: Scorpio Favorite food: Burritos Turn-ons: 35-year-old virgins Played by actress Heather-Victoria Ray.


Buffy

Sign: Virgo Favorite food: Cotton candy and nuts Turn-ons: Massages and bubble baths


Cassie

Sign: Pisces Favorite food: Chinese take-out Turn-ons: Tickling, feathers


Jan

Sign: Capricorn Favorite food: Corn on the cob Turn-ons: Mountain men and log cabins


Filmography

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Other Media

The Bikini Bandits graphic novel
The Bikini Bandits graphic novel

In 2004, Gyro Worldwide commissioned a Bikini Bandits comic book graphic novel with writer Ryan Scott Ottney (The Legend of Isis, Scryptic Studios), and artist Andie Tong (Masters of the Universe). The graphic novel has not been published, to date, but slowly remains in development according to those close to the project. Image File history File links Banditscomic. ... Image File history File links Banditscomic. ... Trade paperback of Will Eisners A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel. ... Ryan Scott Ottney (b. ... For the DC Comics character, see: Isis (DC Comics). ... Scryptic Studios (or simply, Scryptic) is a website created by a group of comic book writers as a massive resource for comic book writers to network, research stories, read news & columns, and find script samples. ... Clash of the titans: He-Man and Skeletor face off on the cover of a vintage MOTU graphic novel. ...


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