Hey, you guys;

I don't know if you guys have ever noticed this, but in the 1977 movie Slap Shot, during the parade at the end of the movie, in the background is a movie theatre marquee with two movie titles...Meatballs, and, yes, Deep Throat. I thought this was interesting, because this seems like a flagrant promotion of pornography in a Hollywood movie. In 1977, the porn industry was very young. I don;t even know how many people knew about the porn industry in 1977.

Meatballs was a mainstream Hollywood movie....raunchy, but not pornographic. I find it highly unlikely that a movie theatre back in 1977 would promote a movie like Deep Throat alongside a mainstream motion picture like Meatballs, which was not a porn. This only leaves one conclusion.....that the producers of Slap Shot purposely put the movie Deep Throat in the background, in order to introduce the viewer to the porn industry.

Do you think that this was Hollywood's way of promoting the porn industry....getting people to ask themselves "What is Deep Throat," so as to get them to watch porn, or to drum up acceptance of the porn industry?

I wonder how many people who hadn't heard about Deep Throat" actually sought it out and watched it because of this scene?