When the credits roll after a film, you might wonder what became of the characters or their actors. (Wonder what that rich douche from Ghosts Can't Do It is up to these days?). It's far less often that anyone thinks about what happened to the poor, innocent sets. And that's too bad, because it turns out that many famous movie backdrops have led lives that are just as exciting -- and in a few cases, just as tragic -- as anything that happened in the films. So until these sets get movies of their own, let us tell you about how ...

5 One Of The Ships From Pirates Of The Caribbean Sunk (But Only After They Shot A Porno On It)

If you name a boat after the most famous one to ever mutiny, then you're asking for trouble. It's like how you don't see a lot of ships named Titanic anymore. The Bounty's fate was almost as tragic as that of its namesake (the HMS Bounty), but at least it had some, uh, "good times" along the way.

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The Bounty was built in 1960 for, logically, the film Mutiny On The Bounty. It then went on to show up in a whole bunch of other movies. It was used in an episode of Flipper, the '80s comedy Yellowbeard, and the 1990 version of Treasure Island. Moving on to shit you've actually watched, the Bounty got to meet Johnny Depp when it played the part of the Edinburgh Trader in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It even had a cameo in The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie as the greatest non-David-Hasselhoff-shaped vessel in the film:

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But perhaps most notoriously, it was featured in Pirates Of The Caribbean...'s porn parody, called simply Pirates. (Really? No Penis-ates Of The Caribbeass?) The owners of the boat wouldn't have allowed it, so the producers told them they were making "a Disney-type pirate film for families." Hey, some families watch porn together, right?

But there's a sad ending for this ship that brought so many happy ones to so many people. Perhaps unable to get the stench of pirate-fucking out, the owners ended up selling it in 2010. Unfortunately, in 2012, the Bounty was caught in Hurricane Sandy while off the coast of North Carolina. As a report into what happened later showed, the captain ordered his crew to abandon ship much too late, leading to the death of one of them and his own disappearance.