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{{quote|''"[[Don't Try This At Home|Neither you nor your dumb little buddies]] [[Captain Obvious|should attempt anything you see on this show]]."''}}
And so begins '''''Jackass''''', which was either the most horrifying thing ever put on American television, the most awesome thing ever put on American television, or just the gayest (in more ways than one) thing ever put on American television. Or all three, [[Your Mileage May Vary|as it depends on who you ask]].
''Jackass'' has its roots in skateboard culture and the skateboard magazine ''Big Brother'', and Bam Margeras's humor/stunt video series
Similar material was being filmed by Bam Margera and his gang of skaters and his parents. Their material would make up the first CKY video, titled ''Landspeed: CKY''. The two ultimately decided to combine forces when ''Big Brother'' magazine began talks with [[Spike Jonze]] to create a pilot for [[MTV]]. Along with Ehren McGhehey, an ex-snowboarder, ''Jackass'' was born.
[[Media Watchdogs]] and [[Moral Guardians]] more or less had panic-induced heart attacks at the very thought of their kids watching this one, so there was a huge movement to get the show canned ([[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|
The format was popular enough to spawn
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* [[Ace Custom]]: Knoxville's hydraulic scooter, from the Old Man segment in ''Jackass 3D''. He can pop wheelies with the thing for extended amounts of time and drives around blaring rap.
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Bam's reaction to the "Valentine" prank in the second movie: the "valentine"
** In addition, the entire crew's reaction to the "High Five" in ''Jackass 3D'':
* [[All Lowercase Letters]]:
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Ehren [[Mc Ghehey]] is supposedly one and is constantly the butt of jokes and pranks in the group.▼
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Probably the whole point of the show.
** The first film's end credits turn this into [[Bloody Hilarious]], as the elderly Jackass crew are killed off in increasingly gory ways.
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: The hour long "Gumball Rally" episode, which focuses on the Jackass crew going through a relatively prank-free race from Britain to Moscow and back.▼
* [[Ass Shove]]: Hot Wheels + Ryan Dunn's anus, noted below.
** And then in the sequel, the Strongman challenge.
{{quote|''"Is it wrong to be strong? You be the judge."''}}
** Then Bam flies a kite out of his ass with anal beads... and then has one flown into his ass.
** The Butt Billows of ''2.5'', which was part of a production [[Running Gag]] of trying to make farts visible (the successful product can be shown in ''Jackass Number Two''). {{spoiler|This WAS successful, but for some reason taken out: Lacy farts on Steve-O, who was blowing into Lacy's ass. Yes, it makes sense in context
** "The Apple of My Ass"... which is what it says on the tin. Then they bring out the pig.
** The second film's Butt Chug.
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* [[Bad Santa]]: Who promptly gets slammed from a giant tree.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Preston doesn't like being covered in a hat full of egg-nog vomit.
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: At the end of ''Jackass Number Two''. Unfortunately for Knoxville, the wall fell because of a wrecking ball...▼
** The "Diamond Robbers" prank played on office workers has two crew members falling out of the ceiling with a bag of, uh, diamonds. Someone actually called the cops.▼
** The Punching Glove prank in the beginning of ''Jackass Number Two''.▼
* [[Bowdlerize]]: The Self-Defense Test sketch; after the taser test, Johnny dons a cheap bulletproof vest and has a friend SHOOT HIM in order to see if the vest will protect him (it does). Filmed for a ''Big Brother'' magazine video, the gun/vest test was cut from the sketch when it was incorporated into the pilot and thanks to MTV being obstinate bastards, one of the reasons why it took six years for a season one DVD to come out, as MTV refused and WON its struggle to keep Knoxville from including the full sketch on a ''Jackass'' DVD.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130117104338/http://www.zappinternet.com/video/JiTbMokVuh/Johnny-Knoxvilles-Self-Defense-pre-Jackass Knoxville actually pulled the trigger himself in the bullet-proof vest test (@ 3 min mark)].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Danger Ehren, who is constantly mocked for the fact that no one recognizes him.
** In ''Jackass Number Two'', he got an entire skit dedicated to humiliating his ass: Terror Taxi.
** Ryan Dunn was also a [[Butt Monkey]] of sorts. As Bam exclaims in ''Jackass Number
{{quote|'''Bam''': What rhymes with Dunn? ''Fun!''}}
*** And he's promptly slammed into a garage wall at high speed.
▲* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: At the end of ''Jackass Number Two''. Unfortunately for Knoxville, the wall fell because of a wrecking ball...
* [[Cash Lure]]: "Street Fishing".▼
▲** The "Diamond Robbers" prank played on office workers has two crew members falling out of the ceiling with a bag of, uh, diamonds. Someone actually called the cops.
* [[Clip Show]]: The very first episode of the series is one; essentially a compilation of all of the best clips from ''Landspeed'' and the ''Big Brother'' videos.▼
▲** The Punching Glove prank in the beginning of ''Jackass Number Two''.
* [[Candid Camera Prank]]: What would you do if a half-naked man jumped out of a car's trunk and ran away, bound and gagged?
** There are ''several.'' Here's just a sampling:
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** Random crew members fighting in a boxing sports store.
** Preston Lacy enters a port-a-potty. Wee Man leaves it.
** Pontius dressed as [[Satan]] and waving around a sign that says "Keep God out of California
*** ''Twice
** The infamous "toy car in bum" prank.
** Skateboarding in panda mascot suits, beating each other up (again), and getting wasted in a karaoke bar.
** [[Brad Pitt]] ([[Cameo|Yes, the real one]]) being "kidnapped" in full view of a packed movie line.
** [[Spike Jonze]] ([[Cameo|Yes, the real one]]) and someone totally not Johnny Knoxville put in old people makeup and pulling off sexual acts (the former walking around partially topless or having "her" clothes ripped off, the latter having fake testicles dangling out of his shorts as he walks around: often to the point where you really have no choice but to stare at his balls). They do it in all three films.
** Johnny Knoxville as the old grandpa again riding a scooter out of a scooter store. How? Via the glass front, that's how.
** Making out with his supposed "granddaughter" and having his "wife" come up and yell at him.
** Also the midget bar fight. You think it's a regular "midget people beating each other" skit, but then {{spoiler|a midget cop comes in out of nowhere and clubs on of them in the head, and then midget paramedics rush in with miniature stretchers to cart out the wounded
** And, finally, the Terror Taxi.
*** Combined with the Kansas City Shuffle: Ehren thinks it's on the driver. [[Unwitting Pawn|Ehren is the real target.]]
▲* [[Cash Lure]]: "Street Fishing".
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I'm X, and this is [the] Y."
** The shows (and the second movie) opened with the phrase, "Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to ''Jackass''!". And it wasn't always Knoxville who said it, either.
▲* [[Clip Show]]: The very first episode of the series is one; essentially a compilation of all of the best clips from ''Landspeed'' and the ''Big Brother'' videos.
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: If it were higher-brow, it could be called "Schadenfreude - The Series".
* [[Crossover]]: A special had the ''Jackass'' guys appearing with the stars of the wheelchair-rugby movie ''[[Murderball]]''. Yes, [[Black Comedy|there was plentiful]] [[Lampshade Hanging]] about how easily the ''Jackass'' guys could become disabled; why do you ask?
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** The Jackasses' homes were the subject of an episode of ''[[Cribs]]''. Steve-O's apartment had an entire wall blocked by a stack of empty beer cans, a skate ramp ''in the kitchen'', and he bragged about (and showed off) a pile of noise and ordinance violations. Chris Pontius' "crib" was a Toyota Tacoma.
** [[The Dudesons]] show up for one skit in ''Jackass 3D'', but before that, Steve-O and Knoxville have shown up on the Dudeson shows.
* [[Determinator]]: Johnny Knoxville has been punched by boxers (one was a heavyweight, and we do mean heavy) several times, shot by riot control devices, hit by bulls, and destroyed by wrecking balls and he keeps going! ▼
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Knoxville's boxing "match" with Butterbean. Knoxville winds up with a concussion and has to get eight stitches in his head.
{{quote|'''Knoxville''': So, what's the record for fastest knockout?
'''Butterbean''': Um...the California state record is 18 seconds--and that includes the ten-count.
'''Knoxville''': ''(timidly)'' I think you're gonna break that record today...
▲* [[Determinator]]: Johnny Knoxville has been punched by boxers (one was a heavyweight, and we do mean heavy) several times, shot by riot control devices, hit by bulls, and destroyed by wrecking balls and he keeps going!
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: As the quote above shows. This warning was modified later on to be more serious.
** It still shows up on the DVD covers, and has shown up in the ''Jackass 3D'' trailer.
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* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: In ''Jackass 2.5'':
{{quote|'''Wee Man''': Hola, amigos! Me llamo<ref>Simply using "[Yo] soy" would've worked just fine</ref> Wee-Man, y soy un matador... pequeno...
'''Chris Pontius''': ''...y muerte.'' ''(everyone else laughs)''
* [[Groin Attack]]: Happens too many times to count. Sometimes self-inflicted.
** Actually invoked: Bam would rather take a dildo up the ass than a weight to his balls
** The worst of the worst: One of the crew members having his balls slammed in a dictionary.
** In the opener for one episode, Johnny Knoxville gets kicked in the groin by several kids, has his groin used as a croquet target, hit by a sledgehammer swinging on a rope, attempts to have pool balls dropped on his crotch from a 2-storey building (wasn't successful), and shot with a paintball gun from just 2-3 feet away. Of course, even a Jackass has '''some''' common sense, so he was wearing a cup.
* [[Humiliation Conga]]: "Terror Taxi
** Bam's punishment for the ''Rocky'' pranks (he would splash a random crew member and then punch them to the ''Rocky'' theme), which involved a fake floor, rubber snakes, and real snakes.
*** For an added bonus, Bam happens to have a crippling fear of snakes.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: The crew visit Mianus, Connecticut. [[Hilarity Ensues]]
{{quote|'''Wee Man''': Check it out, there's a map to Mianus.
'''Chris Pontius''': I don't need a map. I know Mianus better than any man, woman or child.
* [[I Ate What?|I have what glued to my face?]]
* [[Jerk Jock]]: The football segments of ''Jackass 3D'', each of which has Jared Allen in it, just for laughs. "What's your role?" '''''"MURDER. KNOXVILLE'S. FACE."'''''
** "And what's your role, Johnny?" "<small>Catch the ball.</small>"
▲* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Ehren [[Mc Ghehey]] is supposedly one and is constantly the butt of jokes and pranks in the group.
* [[The Movie]]: Three even more outrageous movies involved stunts like peeing, eating, and then vomiting up a snow cone, all in one shot
▲* [[The Movie]]: Three even more outrageous movies involved stunts like peeing, eating, and then vomiting up a snow cone, all in one shot. (And then eating it again). Probably the most extreme thing to ever be shown on basic cable (at one AM on a Sunday morning with A LOT of pixellation but still).
** Ironically, ''even the unrated DVDs are censored.'' The unreleased trailer hidden in ''Jackass Number Two'' reveals David England taking a watery shit after the "Firehouse Rodeo" incident in which he scraped his rectum. It gets worse.
* [[No Ending]]: Knoxville opted to not film a finale for the series; partly because Bam Margera and his crew had left the series midway through season three (as they were starting work on their spin-off) and to leave the door open for possible reunion specials.
* [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity]]: Invoked in the advertisements for ''Jackass Number Two''.
{{quote|''[Negative reviews of ''Jackass: The Movie'' appear] Unfortunately for [the critics], we just made Number Two.'' ([[Spike Jonze]] promptly flashes the camera dressed as an old lady)}}
** When Johnny Knoxville was arrested for impersonating an officer. When he said his catchphrase in the car, he was released with no charges.
▲* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]]: The hour long "Gumball Rally" episode, which focuses on the Jackass crew going through a relatively prank-free race from Britain to Moscow and back.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Subverted in ''Jackass 2.5'' when Bam informs his mother they were able to get a permit to fly a kite out of his ass on a public beach. His mother is... uncharacteristically happy about it.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Everyone's face when staring down the "Electric Avenue" hallway of tasers and cattle prods in the third film; they really have to summon up the courage to go through with it.
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** This ends up being a common sentiment for half of the stunts on ''Jackass 2.5''. Preston even says this after his botched "King Kong" stunt.
* [[Sequel Snark]]: The first movie pulls out a final skit after the credits, a future sequel dubbed "Son of Jackass" that involves the elderly cast dying horrible flaming deaths. While there ''was'' a sequel, it wasn't called ''Son of Jackass''.
** One of the outtakes on the ''Jackass 2'' credits is Bam pleading that there not be a ''Jackass 3''.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: They couldn't ''possibly'' think up of a crazier, more insanely dangerous/disgusting stunt... right?
* [[Shmuck Bait]]: A porta potty on the Jackass set. If you use it, they will hold the door shut and tip it over with you in it. Or push it down a hill. Or hit it with a car. Or God knows what else.
* [[Snake Pit]]: In the third film, Bam falls through a trick floor into what appears to be a pit of snakes. After an intense period of panic, he realises the snakes are fake. That's when the real ones are poured in on top of him.
* [[Spin-Off]]: This show has had quite a few, the most popular being ''[[Viva La Bam]]'' (starring Bam Margera, who tormented his family) and ''[[Wildboyz]]'' (starring Steve-O and Chris Pontius, and basically ''Jackass'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] the [[Discovery Channel]]).
** Unofficial spin-offs: ''[[Dirty Sanchez]]'', ''[[Tokyo Shock Boys]]'', and ''[[Extreme Dudsonit]]''. It should be noted Dirty Sanchez was deemed [[Too Hot For Television]] and ''Extreme Dudsonit'' came before, though is now popular in the States and has its own America-based TV show.
** One of the sketches, Bad Grandpa, also got its own movie.
* [[Tar and Feathers]]: Ryan Dunn was tarred and feathered by Bam Margera.
* [[Team Mom]]: Bam's mother, April, is usually the only person to care when they get hurt. They thank her by turning her staircase into a ski slope, sneaking in Preston to replace Phil Margera while they're asleep, launching rockets at her in the kitchen, and putting an alligator in her kitchen.
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'''Steve-O''': ''(downtrodden)'' No... }}
** Said word for word by Ehren, right before he gets his tooth pulled out {{spoiler|by a Lamborghini}}.
** You know it's going to be bad when Steve-O apologizes to his father before a stunt.
*** Then he promptly drank it and vomited.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Between the cast of the show and the people who tried to recreate the stunts, there's gotta be more than a few in there.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Johnny Knoxville seems genuinely excited at most stunts even when his fellow cast is terrified.
** In one particular stunt in the second movie - getting blown to bits by an anti-riot claymore - Bam and Dunn are on the floor (Bam is crying, rather predictably) and Knoxville? He's ''happy
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The most recent trailer shows director Spike Jonze [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|jumping over a speeding Lamborghini]]. This does occur in the film, but only during the closing credits montage. No other footage with the Lambo is in the film, besides the {{spoiler|tooth pull}}.
* [[Trilogy Creep]]: The first movie was intended as a [[Grand Finale]], with the crew doing stunts they weren't allowed to do on TV. Then they made the second movie, after a guest spot on ''Wildboyz'' led to Knoxville
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: After completing rehab, Steve-O said that his craziest stunts were actually the ones he did sober. Go ahead and take a minute to let that sink in. We'll wait.
** To support Steve-O's rehabilitation, the cast made sure that no beer was available on set during the filming of ''Jackass 3D'', so ''everyone'' performed sober. Which may explain why they appear to be noticeably more miserable.
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** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And then they threw a rubber hose on his back.]]
** And that's after they chase him around with the snake.
** Oh, yeah, the third movie '''gets even worse for him
*** Preston Lacy is deathly afraid of heights. A scene in ''2.5'' had him on top of a couple of portapotties, recreating [[King Kong]] with RC aircraft.
**** Don't forget the stunt where Wee-Man bungee jumped off of a bridge, pulling Preston down with him. Before the stunt even starts, you can see Preston shaking with fear.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]
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