Today the 300 parody Meet the Spartans opens in theatres everywhere. Don't pretend you're not excited.

Of course, given the fact that Spartans is spoofing the homophoberotic nipple opera that took the world by storm last March, we figured that it would feature gay jokes of some kind: it could either blindly follow the implicit homophobia of the source film and pile on the gay jokes (while simultaneously being a film carried by a bunch of men hanging out together in thongs), or - if we were lucky - it could smartly lampoon the homophobic choices made in 300 and feature proudly gay and masculine characters or mock the origin's skewed take on masculinity and sexuality.

We can't say for sure which (if either) will happen, because the film didn't screen for critics (Really? Noooooo....). But from the looks of these gay-joke-packed ads - which feature everything from a rooster-headed Sanjaya lookalike screaming "I'm not gaaaaaaaaay!" as he's kicked into a pit to the Spartans laughing at Chris Crocker to a cross-dressing Rambo (?!!), we shouldn't really get our hopes up. Not that there was much chance of that happening in the first place.

Will actor Sean Maguire, who played a gay character in the short-lived sitcom The Class, undo any goodwill he had with gay audiences by starring in this mess? It's a shame to see a man in a leather Speedo go to waste, but "class" is something that this project could used a bit more of.

Check out two of the ads here and here.

The homoeroticism of 300 is the target of the latest Scary/Date/Epic Movie parody film. In Meet the Spartans buff soldiers wearing very little armor encounter the most current pop culture parodies that film schedules will allow. (Check out the trailer after the break for more.)

A plethora of beefcake isn't the only thing about Meet the Spartans that might grab the attention of gay viewers. As GuyTV Blog noticed, Spartans' cast includes British actor Sean Maguire, who you might remember recently played gay teacher Kyle Leno on CBS' The Class. Maguire certainly seems to have been working out a lot since The Class wrapped - either that or that sweater covers up a lot.

300 and the way it mixed homoeroticsm with homophobic humor seems especially ripe for mocking. It'll be interesting to see if Meet the Spartans can offer a little bit more than the usual barely-coherent string of pop culture references.

• There might not have been much very gay about the pilots so far picked up this week, but there is some good news for fans of Neil Patrick Harris. We just got word that How I Met Your Mother will be back for a second third season. This might not be the freshest sitcom in the world, but Harris shines as the womanizing Barney Stinson