Why was Jackass so popular and good while all similar shows at the same time sucked horribly?

Why was Jackass so popular and good while all similar shows at the same time sucked horribly?

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Dirty Sanchez was objectively better

Cast. Jackass had great crew.

Johnny Knoxville is very good looking and charismatic.

To be honest they borrowed heavily from Tom Green.

the same reason someone in a highschool class can say something funny and no one will laugh, but if someone else says it, everyone might laugh

Chemistry.

Presentation. Any group of retards can jump a jet ski out of a pool in to a bush. It took the Jackass crew to have the guy wearing a powder blue tux well every one watching has togas on one guy in a bikini top and rabbit ears.

Charisma

No it wasn't.
Not even close.
I mean as an Englishman I should enjoy Dirty Sanchez more, but it wasn't even close to being as entertaining as Jackass... though at the time I did watch every episode... but it was so tryhard, they tried to do more puke, more pain... but they didn't have the same charisma as the Jackass crew and they didn't have better stunts or production value.
The thing that entertained me most about Dirty Sanchez was their Welsh accents.

he also had an art to it. He said he made sure each episode was balanced with like one really gross stunt and then a really light hearted almost PG rated prank after while all the other shows just tried to be as edgy and gross as possible nonstop.

Knoxville hit it on the head pretty well. Jackass was unique in that it branched off directly from skater culture, with almost every single cast member being a highly competent skateboarder and really well versed in how to fall without actually injuring themselves. It let them push the bar a lot further than most other groups were comfortable with.

Knoxville himself was unique in that he's the only one without the skater background, which provided a really solid contrast; when he fell you knew he was going to eat shit.

The "characters" were actually pretty likeable and it was fun to see them bounce off each other, which also gave you more empathy for them hurting themselves.

tfw the kenny rodgers jackass skit is the one good thing to come out of madtv or jackass

The Finnish one was actually good.

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Literally been binge watching Jackass clips, I think the best thing about Jackass is the fact that all the dudes were just great friends. All the pranks were done for laughs, never mean-spirited even if they took shit too far.

You've got it on lock.
I think most people loved the Knoxville stunts because EVERY SINGLE TIME he was gonna eat shit or be in absolute agony... he probably had the biggest balls out of everyone because skaters are so used to eating gravel on a daily basis that for him to get hurt it was different.

>Literally been binge watching Jackass clips
post some nickel

Just a reminder Steve-O is a fucking lunatic

>Does Snow Angels in Lighter Fluid for a stunt
>Gets burned (Go figure)
>Doesn't use painkillers anymore since he was so addicted to them
>Rolls into the ER FIVE DAYS LATER because the pain is as bad as he ever felt, just wanted some good burn creme
>Turns out he has 2nd/3rd degree burns

what a trooper

>one of the good things

FTFY

>No
Stopped reading there

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best one ever

>Literally the court jester making millions
>what a time to be alive

The Steve-O redemption arc is great.

yeah i definitely agree the problem was that jackass was a well-balanced mix of self-harm, gross shit, and public tomfoolery, whereas most of the competition centered around one individual aspect

the jackass group dynamic worked far better than it had any right to, any shortcoming a cast member had was easily made up by another, and often in a way that was plainly visible to the viewer

he's like those girls that look too hot to be doing porn but he's too hot to be blowing his nuts off jumping golf carts and stuff.

You just think it was good because Jackass was a communal experience that almost all adolescent boys at the time shared. It was something that could be bonded over with peers because they too had seen it. The same thing can be observed with 14 year boys today and internet memes like 'pepe'. It's not that it's 'good', it's just that it's a shared experience that can be related to and bonded over.

It wasn't.

Jackass is exactly as shallow as its name.

This movie was way better than it had any right to be

...

holy shit you suck dude

This. The show was entertaining in it's own right but the movie is on another level.

Honestly all the Jackass movies worked well because they had a consistent flow with some peaks and valleys.

This was also pretty decent. There were a few really funny moments, and even the stuff where it was purposely scripted (Who knows the legitimacy of the "unscripted" parts) was funny and a bit heartwarming.

>gross shit
>it's almost all Dave

Official Sup Forums Jackass Power Rankings

>God Tier
Chris Pontius
Johnny Knoxville

>Great Tier
Ryan Dunn
Preston Lacy

>Not Bad Tier
Steve O
Wee Man
Dave Englund

>Really Annoying Tier
Ehren McGhehey

>Still Better Than Bam Tier
A literal piece of shit

>Bam Tier
Ham Margera

The guys from Jackass use to make their own stunt videos before the show

>Jackass
>good

Hello Generation Z!

hello grandpa, did you ever dream you'd be spending your golden years on 4chins?

The guys had charisma.

Jackass is one of the best shows ever on mtv.

Shit list

>Just a reminder Steve-O is a fucking lunatic
Well, yeah, was it not obvious to someone?

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Seems like a legit nutjob now though. Not as bad as Pontius.

They had a simple easy format. Great camraderie from the cast. Knoxville was a charismatic lead guy so it opened the door to normies watching. The soundtracks on both the show and the films were great.

Everything else felt a bit like a rip-off of it because it showed up on a widely distributed network in the right place at the right time basically.

Fuck that was great.

Your list is shit.

>being a former junkie and still not using pain killers even after being in the most intense pain of your life
jfc

lol

He was in a BAD way, and he has some really great friends to help him through it.

Required Viewing
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Was that when he lit himself on fire on Jerry Springer?

No, this is some kind of new project he is doing with Jeff Tremaine

MEMORIES

Why couldn't it have been Bam?

Found the sheep shagger.

Johnny Knoxville and Steve O were genuinely charismatic, and girls wanted to fuck Bam

I think the way the cast was set is very important, all the chemistry and diversity helped it. Also the movies are pretty kino, especially the second one. I also think the way it was shot and edited helped a lot, not much explaining or story telling

Pretty much everyone does. Poor tom.

You're a gay boring faggot if you never enjoyed Jackass.

FACT.

They had class. It wasn't just doing stupid shit in the water, they did stupid shit in the water with Chris wearing a bikini and acting as the life guard.

Can someone stream the Jackass movies next weekend please

>you lived to see an age when numales try to explain and dissect jackass

This
Knoxville is the man

I saw Steve-O at an IHOP in Hollywood once

Knoxville made it work

Official Jackass crew rating

>TOP TIER
Knoxville
Chris Pontius
Steve-O

>Good Tier
Dave England
Wee-man
Jeff Tremaine
April Margera
Phil Margera
>Ok, I guess Tier
Preston
Ryan Dunn
Spike Jonze

>Shit tier
Danger Ehren
Bam Margera

>steve-O not being up there with Knoxville
>Ryan Dunn even remotely close to "great"
>Preston on great tier


Shit list buddeh

Because at its very core the show and the movies were about the absurdity of the human condition.

Preston should be higher just for being a bro. Sure he's not the funniest but he never backs down from a stunt and does tons of shit that he is really uncomfortable with.

Knoxville was fucking great and the other guys brought a lot of chemistry to the team. Also CKY kind of overlaps with Jackass so its not an entirely different venture, but it was also really great and their DVDs sold a shit ton of copies.

I just rewatched Jackass 2 actually and I noticed that Bam is always the one doing the fruity shit like the dildo up his ass stunt and branding a bunch of dicks on his ass. There's even a part where they're about to do a dangerous stunt and he says something like " If Knoxville does this, I'll french kiss him".

>bought a purple lambo
>his "logo" is a heart

The evidence is all there.

It's ironic because he's inbred too

Because BAM was a pussy and didnt like getting hurt, but he had no problem doing the embarrassing gayboi stuff.

Man everyone just rips on Ehren, even the jackass guys. He's their punching bag.

Yeah, I guess. But him being a fat fuck really pisses me off for some reason.

Well yes we all hate fatties but at least he can take a joke about it.

>His "logo" is a heart.

That's not his logo. That's the logo for the band H.I.M.

Better than Jackass desu

One of the best.

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One of the best stunts
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Seriously fuck that.

Wasn't their only competition those Finnish guys?

I don't think they had the same kind of charisma.

Who else but Dave?

he's right you moron

If you watch the seasons from the start, it's a great build-up.

The seasons are literally the perfect amount of nostalgia, entertainment, comedy, and just stupidity, to be pretty good.
You can see their friendship build throughout the seasons and then the movies make it better too.

I watched all of the seasons over the course of about a week, and by the end, you really can tell that they were great friends. Great chemistry.

I was kind of sad when I finished watching it all

>why was jackass so popular
Knoxville has charm flowing out of his ass. He's always ready with some witty funny comment and it comes out so natural. He's the glue that hold the entire show together.

Well, for being a decent looking guy Knoxville had absolutely zero coordination. Go look at any video with him running and it becomes extremely apparent.

Johnny takes shit like a man

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And to add to this:

None of the characters were unlikable, really.
They were all so open and honest about who they were that it was kind of difficult to dislike them. I mean, they were just honest and didn't give a fuck about anything.

It was just a unique bunch of characters all in one place.
They were all probably good enough/funny/weird enough to have their own individual shows, so all of them together on one show made it hilarious

this one is actually insane

>This show
>Pre-Bam going full retard
Those were some golden episodes

seriously, I feel like a fangirl or some shit but knoxville is like one a million type guy who just breathes charisma

holy fucking shit dude

Have any of these guys had kids?

With all the nut shots they took the kids would probably come out with their asshole on the front or something.

Those things can and have killed people before.

They were usually caught in the temple or the neck if that happens.

bams about to become a father!

>last to fall down
>first to get up
>walks it off while chiding Bam
Johnny is legit