Online parodies of "Brokeback Mountain" are proliferating faster than video websites like youtube.com, gorillamask.net, and dailysixer.com can keep up with them, writes the New York Times. Some of them have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. The parodies assume the same form: Trailers for imagined mashups that combine elements of "Brokeback Mountain" with other movies, like "Heat," "City Slickers," "Titanic," and "Fight Club."

They tease a gay plot out of what's already there, editing dialog and scenes. The spoofs are made anonymously or by comedy troupes or design shops, such as Chocolate Cake City and Robot Rumpus, which provide their website URLs at the end of their parody videos, "Brokeback to the Future" and "The Empire Breaks Back."

If well done, the parodies can presumably serve as calling cards. Most of the "Brokeback" spoofs, though, are appropriately enough labors of love (and humor).