And thence BASEketball has sprung. From the makers of the Naked Guns and starring South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, BASEketball is a satire on this sort of mindset – though primarily it’s just a string of fairly lazy sight gags.

The premise behind BASEketball has Stone and Parker as two best-friend losers, Coop and Remer respectively, who invent a new game that melds the games of baseball and basketball. In short order, a millionaire (Ernest Borgnine) takes the sport nationwide, dies, and leaves the team to Coop. Their team, the Milwaukee Beers, must win the next season’s championship or ownership goes to the millionaire’s widow (Jenny McCarthy), who has struck up a deal with a rival team owner who wants to change the very rules that make the game unique. Meanwhile, Coop and Remer are competing for the affections of Jenna (Yasmine Bleeth), the sexy, good-hearted director of a children’s charity.

BASEketball does get in a few good jabs about the state of sports – the corporate-named arenas, the incessant town-switching, etc. The game itself is a joke, since it requires skills that only the truly slovenly and boorish possess. It also takes a somewhat amusing swipe at TV (Road Kill). Of course, for every halfway thoughtful joke, there are three more involving either vomit, pubic hair, or the like. What exactly can be said about a film that includes Viking-garbed midgets spinning plates? Borgnine singing “I’m Too Sexy for My Shirt”? Stone and Parker making out?