Before Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", Mitch Spinelli foists "Stacked Deck", a mind-numbingly stupid porno about the misadventures of Chips & Tommy, a pair of fumbling hitmen wearing shades, played (or overplayed actually) by Alex Sanders and Steve Hatcher. They sit around at a diner counter chatting about sticking fingers up women's posteriors and finding q-tips inside. Pretty scintillating dialogue.

Worse yet, they work for officious-looking (until she's ready for sex) Kirsty Waay as encyclopedia salesmen, a silly concept that seems even more quaint decades after the VHS feature was released. They get in trouble with their boss for selling an expensive set to a deadman (Jonathan Morgan pretending to be a hayseed married to beauty Dallas), only he wasn't dead when they met him.

Two stars of the era brighten up the show considerably: Katilyn Ashley as a waitress, who our hitmen force to have sex with would-be robbers Crystal Wilder and Mark Davis -at gunpoint, and a sort of French groupie played by Rebecca Lord who f*cked rockstars last year but this season is specializing in hit men.

The finale, where the hitmen meet their boss's boss Mr. Big (but we never get to see the guy, who is limited to a voice-over with the worst Joe Pesci voice imaginable) is very poorly staged, evidently on purpose, as Spinelli misses no occasion to insult the viewer. Thanks, Mtich.

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