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DVD MTV Punk'd - The Complete First Season
MTV's guerilla version of television pranking makes sadistically compelling entertainment. Host, co-creator, and mastermind Ashton Kutcher's unprecedented attack on celebrity egos--via con jobs so elaborate they might have been lifted from episodes of Mission: Impossible--can certainly make one cringe and perhaps fret over the show's dubious ethics. But there's no question of a highway-accident appeal to many of Punk'd's practical jokes, including the first season's assaults on actress Eliza Dushku (shattered after being set up to look like a shoplifter) and Justin Timberlake (devastated when he finds faux IRS agents confiscating his house, possessions, and pets). Stephen Dorff, on the other hand, won't put up with a falsified bar tab for $8,000, and Seth Green protests a fake vice cop's insinuation that the diminutive actor betrayed his friends. Less monstrous is Punk'd's 8-year-old confederate, Ryan, a spurious reporter who solicits hugs from the likes of Tori Amos and Christina Applegate. --Tom Keogh
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Kootcher is just ripping off Dick Clark
Ashton "Krazy" Kootcher and his ragtag group of wacky punkers is back on the show stolen from Mr. Comedy himself, Dick Clark. Remember back in the 80's when Dick Clark had his wacky show Bloopers and Practical Jokes? OH MY GOODNESS!!!! So funny, they would trick silly celebrities with wacky jokes and we would all have a great big laugh as a country.
Kootcher stole this idea, used terrible camera angles, lots of quick cuts, screamed a lot, and made a show of his "own" called "Punk'd" where he used street lingo, cause Mr. Kootcher is so urban you know...he learned it growing up on the mean streets of Iowa.
Well, America, we all have been PUNK'D by this show. Atleast those of us who have watched it. Because it is nothing more than a rip off of Dick Clark's brainchild....
Now, let us all take a momment of silence for the late great Dick Clark. I hope he continues to make us all laugh in Heaven.
The start of the show on an above-average DVD
The first season is always special in a television show's life, especially when they manage to live on for subsequent seasons. Punk'd is now past its 5th season at the time I'm writing this, and the show didn't completely master its present-day formula until its second season.
As such, this season is clearly more experimental and less refined than it has become later on. The most noticeable difference is of course that roughly once per episode, they're pulling pranks on random everyday people, rather than celebrities.
That's not to say this season isn't worth owning; in fact, some would argue Punk'd didn't get any better than this. I don't agree with the latter and don't hold Season 1 too high among my favorites, although there are some fun pranks to be found here, such as the one with Jessica Alba.
Matching the first season's experimental nature, the DVD itself is also less refined than that of Season 2. The most annoying omission is that the feature to watch all bonus deleted segments without having to sit through the original episodes is not yet available here. The presentation is all right otherwise; video quality is nice other than the deleted scenes - an unfortunate trait shared with the Season 2 DVD - and some minor glitches in the second episode's segment with Mandy Moore.
It's a little bit funny
This show has the host Asthon Kutcher who's an actor and does his Television sitcom "That 70's show". He plays tricks on celebrities they don't know it's fake or even hidden cameras watching them always comes out running to meat the person he played a joke on to let them know you just got punk'd.
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Yes, all of us who have been married 6 times like me remember the good times of the first few months of marriage. The times before you hate everything about your significant other.
When their farting in bed, leaving messes, bad morning breath, terrible cooking, and even their stupidity is still cute. Then come the days of all the bad stuff, where you want nothing more than to go to a cave to escape the nagging messy waste of time you married. You want to lay in that cave till a bear comes in, finds you and eats your inners in a few simple chomps....
So, as good as this show is at showing the good times, it just makes me angry because I know what the net few years have in store.
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The show is funny the first time you see it. The series is the same stuff over and over. Bam and his crew make his parents life miserable by doing really annoying stunts. They love picking on Vito because you have no idea what he mumbles about. Bam and his crew laugh about it like they were in boys watching a puberty video in grade school. I cant believe people still watch it. One epsiode and you've seen them all. Not great TV, but what you expect from MTV? More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 26 October 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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