Bayploitation: When Michael Bay directs a film adaptation or reboot of an already established Franchise. The essence of the Franchise is altered to become more economically viable and appealing to a larger target audience. The resulting film is usually a polar opposite from the source material.
Example: The New Care Bears film is suffering from Bayploitation, the entire film consists of the Care Bears creating multi million dollar explosions with their chest beams as revenge for the multi million dollar CGI destruction of Care-A-Lot.
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Nowhere is gayploitation more blatant than in the HBO television show, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." In this popular show, a group of amusingly foppish gay men dole out fashion, decorating and dining advice to largely non-participatory straight men, and help said straight men win over their grateful straight girlfriends. The gay men in the show are eunuchs, and ostensibly could wash the dishes after the straight couples' dinner while the straight folks engage in socially sanctioned sexual intercourse.
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Shaft
Who's the black private dick
that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft!)
You're damn right
Who is the man
that would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Shaft!)
Can ya dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
when there's danger all about
(Shaft!)
Right on
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about Shaft
(Then we can dig it)
He's a complicated man
but no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft)
Who's the black private dick
that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft!)
You're damn right
Who is the man
that would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Shaft!)
Can ya dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out
when there's danger all about
(Shaft!)
Right on
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about Shaft
(Then we can dig it)
He's a complicated man
but no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft)
by Gumba Gumba April 11, 2004
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Nowhere is gayploitation more blatant than in the HBO television show, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." In this popular show, a group of amusingly foppish gay men dole out fashion, decorating and dining advice to largely non-participatory straight men, and help said straight men win over their grateful straight girlfriends. The gay men in the show are eunuchs, and ostensibly could wash the dishes after the straight couples' dinner while the straight folks engage in socially sanctioned sexual intercourse.
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