What the hell is this show supposed to be? If they are trying to convince me that he is pulling pranks on his unsuspecting parents then they are doing a piss poor job of it. His parents are CLEARLY aware of everything that is going to happen in the show so can someon tell me, What the hell is this shows purpose? HE sends his parents away for the day with a camera crew filming them during the day and then they come home “shocked” that he trashed the house or something stupid like that.
I think you could ask the same questions about any of MTV’s programming. In this case, basically Johnny Knoxville stopped doing Jackass, and MTV must have forked over enough dough to convince someone in the Jackass crew to do it. And they’re not trying to convince you, you can obviously see right through the show’s plot(for lack of a better word) holes.
The dad and Vito’s names are listed in the end credits under “executive producers”. Even if it’s just a vanity title, they are clearly willing dupes for the “gags” being pulled on them. I’ve only see the show a few times but the tunnel episode was very obviously fake. After how little they got dug during daylight, they just happened to finish it before he got home? And since they tunneled underground, wouldn’t there have been some kind of concrete foundation to go through as well?
Wild Boyz is just a big tease, idiots harassing animals until they risk real serious injury. They can’t do anything that would injure the animals, think of the lawsuits, criminal charges, or backlash directed at the network. I saw an episode the other day where after lots of build up about how dangerous jaguars are, one of the twits was messing with the one perched on a tree trunk behind them during the buildup until it actually made its intentions known. Then they scampered away taking about how stupid (but fun) it was to do what the moron just did.
I want to see an episode where one of the gang intentionally gets between a mother grizzly bear and her cubs in the wild. Or decides to try to cuddle up with a cape buffalo. Or take a chum bath and swim with piranas.
I thought it was funny when Tom Green pulled pranks on his parents since they were such straight laced conservative Canadians.
It just doesn’t have the same punch on the Bam show when his parents are as juvenile as he is.
Bam pulled similar “stunts” with his parents on Jackass, like setting off fireworks in his dad’s car and bringing a live crocodile into his parent’s kitchen. Maybe that particular brand of stunts proved particularly popular with MTV’s demographic, so they did a spinoff of Jackass starring Bam and company.