The Lesbionic Woman
Not sure how we missed this last fall, but Attack of the Show did a Bionic Woman parody featuring Olivia Munn called Lesbionic Woman.
In the Munn version of the NBC drama, Jaime Sommers is a well groomed hottie who looks more like a debutante than a bartender. Jaime gets hit by a car instead of a truck driven by a psycho, and and the giant scream reveal scene that was featured so prominently in the United States promos shows Jaime discovering she is now wearing combat boots and flannel.
The Lesbionic Woman attacks a man with a rainbow flag, knees another one in the groin, and talks on the phone with an ear peice to her headquarters just like Michelle Ryan’s Jaime chatted with Kevin Rankin’s Nathan.
All of this leads up to the video’s, um, climax, where Jaime stops a group of terrorists by stunning their blonde leader with an open mouth kiss. It’s no coincidence that the blond leader looks a bit like Katee Sackhoff’s Sarah Corvus, and the gun wielding terrorists behind her look a bit like the nondescript, gun-heavy men in black who appeared in almost every episode of the show.
In the final scene Olivia Munn’s Jaime discovers that her car alarm has hidden vibrator-esque benefits — a perk that Michelle Ryan’s Jaime definitely would have appreciated. Overall it’s pretty funny, and the Attack of the Show clip even gets a thumbs up from the ladies over at LesbianGamers.com.
In stark contrast MadTV did a Lesbionic Woman skit as well, where Jaime’s character gets a mullet and joins a softball team. This version is not even remotely funny, grabbing on all of the negative stereotypes it can stuff into its thankfully short time and lacking the fun of the Attack of the Show sketch. Still, if you like the idea of Jaime in a mullet rolling around on the grass with a Katee Sackhoff impersonator with frightening red lips, feel free to check it out.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
These are the kinds of things that we need more of - lighthearted parody fun! I know some gay people would probably find this offensive and that’s ridiculous. You have to be able to poke fun of yourself (or your sexuality) now and then. When people take themselves too seriously, that’s when things get out of hand. Brilliant parody!