I think it's just because movies like American Pie come at the right time to a really specific audience - teenagers who find those jokes funny (and probably won't in a few years).
The successful marketing behind these films isn't that different to Monty Python in some ways...American Pie and its clones are appealing to an angsty teen generation that thrives on sexual marketing through music videos, clothing and even food products. The people that make these films know what their audiences want - sex and sex jokes - and they give it to them. It probably wouldn't have worked twenty years ago when people were looking for something else...and from your post I'm guessing you're one of the many who doesn't find this sort of thing appealing.
Monty Python was doing somthing similar in the 70s, which we know from the Austin Powers movies was a pretty irreverent era. Well, at least I'm told that young people in the 70s wanted to rebel against everything and so Python played upon this...adults at the time thought it was crap, too. There were protests when Life of Brian poked fun at Catholicism.
Monty Python still rocks, but I know some people who hate it and love the American Pie style of humour. Each fits its own historical context, I guess. Maybe Bubble Boy will be 'classic' humour in thirty years.
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