2 Girls 1 Cup - Media Recognition

Media Recognition

In the media the video has been used as an example of the poor content quality of YouTube and similar video-sharing websites, and their tendency towards deliberately shocking content.

• The video was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, where the video's existence and propagation was declared to cause "Moral Bankruptcy" to have the "Best Week Ever!" Esquire magazine showed the video to actor George Clooney during an interview, prompting him to compare it to a rodeo, saying the point of the video was to see "how long you can last."
• In Robot Chicken episode, "The Ramblings of Maurice" in the "Chocolate Grain" segment, a cereal company uses a viral video video to increase sales. When their Chocolate Grain video turns out a success, they turn to the man who came up with first video to produce a second, which he dubs "2 Berries 1 Cup" and shows the company executives a rough demo, which causes all the executives (save for the man who came up with the viral video, who shows no reaction to it at all) to vomit uncontrollably. In the episode "Eviscerated Post-Coital By A Six Foot Mantis", John Rambo's flashbacks to Colonel Troutman at the end of First Blood includes Vietnam flashbacks with him being shown "Two Girls, One Cup".
• The video is mentioned during a cutaway gag in the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods", where Brian shows the video to Stewie and films his reaction with a camera. Despite his initial revulsion, Stewie decides to search for a possible male alternative.
• In Lil Wayne's song "Gonorrhea" he mentions 2 Girls 1 Cup.
• In an episode of Tosh.0, the entire audience is filmed reacting to this video.
• The Toronto Star's blog covering the 2010 FIFA World Cup is titled "Two Guys, One Cup."
• The site was featured in a Dr. Pepper Facebook promotion open to minors, which resulted in the Coca-Cola Company terminating its relationship with the digital marketing agency responsible. Jim Edwards of BNET said that Coca Cola has full responsibility for allowing the situation to occur, arguing that Coca-Cola selected an advertising agency that openly advertised "profane" advertising campaigns and that the Coca-Cola executive who approved the 2 Girls 1 Cup line failed to do research on what the name meant.
• The cast of Avenue Q, responding to The Muppets' version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", made a video of "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions" (known as "We Will Rock Q"), ending with Nicky surfing the internet, finding 2 Girls 1 Cup (indicated by the soundtrack), and vomiting as the screen fades to black.