The god-awful show "Spy TV"

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"Well, what do you expect from a show titled Harassment?
A Washington, D.C., couple has filed an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against MTV and the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino after they were purportedly caught in a hidden-camera stunt for a new TV show–one that apparently thought it would be pretty funny to place a fake mutilated corpse in a hotel room.

Needless to say, hilarity did not ensue."

MAN! Quite often people sue over crappy-ass-poop, but THIS! These people BETTER win all the damn money they sue for… do you know a traumatizing that shit would be. That’s why people come home from war all messed up! What if these folks had heart trouble? What if they were prone to, WTF WAS MTV THINKING???

I LOVE pranks. But at the end, I want to make MYSELF the victim. I want to look as idiotic and stupid as I can, so that other people can witness and laugh about it. Like one time my friend and I, (when we were younger), had to make a fake menu to a fake restaurant for a finale high school project for some class. We ended up printing 7 or 8 additional copies. On the copies, we would put in omissions that were a subtlety… ‘off.’ Like: “Monday, former teen actor Anthony Michele Hall is to make a brief appearance at the restaurant between 7:00 and 7:30.” Then we would say a ‘Fonzie’ impersonator was going to be in the next night. We would get a little nuts with some of the food offerings. Then we would stick it on the mailbox handles of people we knew were able to understand the content a little better.

It was ALL a waist of time on our parts. We were STUPID for doing such a lame thing. BUT THAT’S THE POINT. If we made one person wonder for a second about the menu’s legitimacy, if we made one person chuckle at the content of the menu, IF WE MADE SOMEONE LAUGH AT WHOEVER MAD THE THING LOOK SO REAL AND PASS IT OUT FOR BEING A MORON… We did are jobs.

We also had a computer pic of the “manager” on the back of the pamphlet. It was a picture we got off the net of that guy, “Ricky” from the movie “Better Off Dead.” It looked like a real picture taking for the purpose of the menu. Just a funny guy that’s all.

We did end up hearing from a few of the neighbors at a HUGE get together my friends parents had in their yard (not knowing it was us). They were laughing about it. :slight_smile:

I think I will cut and paste this making a stupid prank thread or something

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Sorry about how crude that was… I had some computer problems, and it came out pretty lousy

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This isn’t the first time MTV’s been sued for a prank. Last year, two girls sued MTV over a prank on a eventually shelved project called Dude, This Sucks, in which a group called the “Shower Rangers” sprayed them with 100% real human fecal matter. Eck.

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In the OP you mentioned Candid Camera…man, did that show SUCK…one bit out of 60 would be mildly amusing, but you had good ol’ Allen Funt and sidekick de jeur yukkin’ it up like they could barely breathe for laughter…my parents were hooked on the show (and Lawrence Welk) and I had to sit through that crap every week.
Spy TV is no better, no worse. Cruder maybe, and a bit of a cruel streak, but the exact same lame practical jokes.
But all those shows…America’s Funniest Home Videos, The World’s Funniest Commercials, The Wackiest Mob Hits…none of them have more than 2 minutes of good material at best, and they have to drag you through an hour of really lame banter to see it.
But somebody must be watching this stuff, and these kind of shows are cheap summer TV filler for the networks (no stars, certainly no talent necessary)…
And from what I have seen from clips from foreign countries, Spy TV is tame compared to some of those Japanese shows!

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jeez, that show is like some big banality of evil study.

tonights episode had 3 guys hired to guard slaves that were trying to escape. with a nutty old man with a cattle prod keeping them in line

at the end the boss told them to throw an electric fence… 2 of the 3 did it… the last guy gets my respect, he wouldn’t throw the switch, and when the boss guy did, he flipped it back off… then walked away to report the guy.

god why does that show exist?