# Ridiculousness the tv show cancelled after 46 seasons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470 "2025-11-01T02:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/1 "2025-11-01T02:02:23Z")
I didn’t GAF about the show, but a story I scrolled past said it was cancelled after 46 seasons. I thought, “it was on since 1980???”. No, it was 46 seasons in 14 years. I gave up looking for an explanation of how you get 46 seasons out of 14 years. Is it the “new math”? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/2 "2025-11-01T02:25:47Z")
While broadcast television has an annual cycle for t.v. show “seasons” for various historical reasons, cable (and now streaming) ‘seasons’ (or ‘series’ as the British sensibly refer to them) can occur on different and completely arbitrary timeframes. I’ve never seen the show in question but my understanding is that it has long comprised the majority of ‘programming’ for MTV. So, may I assume that MTV is also being disestablished? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/3 "2025-11-01T02:26:51Z")
Survivor has two seasons per year, which is how they have season 50 coming up when they started in 2000. I have _never_ heard of the show you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/4 "2025-11-01T02:39:07Z")
Evidently the show is just hosts reacting to videos of feats gone wrong, so it was cheap and easy to produce. The Wikipedia article shows how many seasons/episodes per year (under Episodes). > **[Ridiculousness (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridiculousness_(TV_series))** > > Ridiculousness was an American comedy clip show that began airing on August 29, 2011, on MTV. It is hosted by Rob Dyrdek and co-hosted by Sterling "Steelo" Brim, Chanel West Coast (formerly) and Lauren "Lolo" Wood. Ridiculousness strictly showcases various viral videos from the Internet, usually involving failed do-it-yourself attempts at stunts, to which Dyrdek and his panelists add mockery and reaction. The producers of the series and MTV refuse any submitted videos for the show for the safe... ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/5 "2025-11-01T02:44:00Z")
My teenage son loves this show. He’s exactly the demographic for it. No wonder us old fogies never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/6 "2025-11-01T02:50:43Z")
I’d never heard of it either. They made almost 1700 episodes of it though. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/7 "2025-11-01T03:21:02Z")
Maybe their swanee whistle broke, and they had nothing else left to offer. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/8 "2025-11-01T03:47:45Z")
I have heard this is about the only thing that airs on MTV, which is essentially a dead network at this point. What are they going to air now? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/9 "2025-11-01T03:59:03Z")
Reruns of the show. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/10 "2025-11-01T08:40:45Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > reacting to videos of feats gone wrong Feats, don’t fail me now! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/11 "2025-11-01T13:05:55Z")
I’ve watched it on occasion and I am am old fogey(ette). They’d run a series of clips with a similar theme- say, someone falling off a bike-and mock them, as said above. Usually the clips involved someone doing something stupid which caused the mishap. It was about as low-budget a show as you could get, since all the videos were found on-line. It could be amusing in small doses but not something I would make a point of watching. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/12 "2025-11-01T13:30:59Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of this show. From your description, it sounds sort of like a cross between _America’s Funniest Home Videos_ and _[Ow! My Balls!](https://youtu.be/FWfOMeLk6m0)_ ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/13 "2025-11-01T14:02:31Z")
Yeah, it was something you could put on in the background and not really pay attention to. It’s also on like 20 hours a day on MTV, so the whole channel must be shutting down. Rob Dyrdek can be funny, but they really should have ended it when Big Black died. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/14 "2025-11-01T14:05:42Z")
Eh - call me when TruTV cancels “Impractical Jokers.” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/15 "2025-11-01T14:08:30Z")
I forgot all about that show. Thanks? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/16 "2025-11-01T14:30:20Z")
I’ve never seen it but the description reminds me a bit of Tosh.0 (formerly on Comedy Central) or The Soup (formerly on E!). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/17 "2025-11-01T14:42:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What are they going to air now? They could maybe get some popular songs, and get the artists to produce videos that go along with the songs, and show those? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/18 "2025-11-01T14:46:51Z")
Sterling was good but it was annoying with Chanel’s giggling. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/19 "2025-11-01T14:51:13Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of this show. From your description, it sounds sort of like a cross between _America’s Funniest Home Videos_ and _[Ow! My Balls!](https://youtu.be/FWfOMeLk6m0)_ Pretty much, I think. I used to watch The Soup(and Talk Soup) and even Tosh.0 when it was new. Those, at least to me, had a very cutting, sardonic humor that made them enjoyable. > [@Chronos](#): > > They could maybe get some popular songs, and get the artists to produce videos that go along with the songs, and show those? Come on, now. Don’t be ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470/20 "2025-11-01T14:53:29Z")
When anyone can go to YouTube and see whatever music video they want, the MTV of old is no longer needed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculousness-the-tv-show-cancelled-after-46-seasons/1024470.md?page=2)