What Jackass stunt still makes your stomach drop?

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What Jackass stunt still makes your stomach drop?
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Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, and Jeff Tremaine’s indelible comedy franchise Jackass debuted on MTV 20 years ago this week on October 1, 2000. So we’re asking:

What Jackass stunt still makes your stomach drop?

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One-thousand percent, it’s the Jackass guys giving each other paper cuts. I can’t even think about that bit without feeling a large amount of vomit rising up in my throat. (In that way I very much identify with cameraman Lance Bangs, who practically passed out during this bit.) It’s hard enough to think about ever getting a paper cut myself randomly, but the idea that Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and the other dudes knew that the paper cuts were coming—and knew they were coming between their fingers, on their tongues, and beyond… god, I can’t even. I’d say go watch it if you want to be reminded of how bad it is, but maybe don’t. I don’t know. It’s your gag reflex. [Marah Eakin]

67 Comments

  • cosmiagramma-av says:

    Fuck every last second of the papercut video.

  • martianlaw-av says:

    The riot control device used at the front of embassies which blasts rubber pellets is the one that sticks with me. You can see the fear on the faces of everyone except for Knoxville.

    • weedlord420-av says:

      The end of that one cracks me up every time with Knoxville’s “is this okay? Then we’re good”

    • annihilatrix--av says:

      ahaahaha, is that the one where bam’s splayed out on the ground crying saying something like “i ride skateboards, man, what the fuck?”

    • shindean-av says:

      The gun ones were always the best ones to watch in the theater. Every other scene either had people laughing their ass off, or wanting to gag…but when guns came up, everything went dead silent.
      Maybe I’m the wrong man to review this, but I firmly believe that what made Jackass so entertaining across various generations was that it always found a way to poke at our base, instinctive fears and make fun of them.
      Anyone can fall off a tree, gun is hard.   

    • chefrobbyp-av says:

      This and only this. Full stop.

  • deletethisshitasshole-av says:

    It’s either that porta-potty one, or the one where Steve-o drinks the sweat from that fat dude after he wore a plastic suit or whatever the hell it was to make him sweat while he was on a treadmill, or maybe it was a exercise bike. The fart-huffing helmet was pretty foul as well.

    • blpppt-av says:

      Port-o-potty for the win.I think I’d be in a padded cell if that was me in that blue tsunami. Gah.

      • deletethisshitasshole-av says:

        The stuff with piss/shit is just straight up nasty. Maybe I’ve just grown up or matured mostly in the last 20 years, but Jackass is mostly unwatchable, unfunny garbage to me now. I even saw the first movie in the theater, but I just can’t anymore.Party Boy is still funny as hell to me, as it’s just absurd wtf comedy. But the stuff where they jam a matchbox car up their ass or shit in a Home Depot/Lowe’s toilet just cause me to cringe really hard.

  • twenty0nepart3-av says:

    Department store boxing. Seeing Knoxville just drop after getting hit, I’m amazed some of these guys don’t have CTE.

  • perlafas-av says:

    The episode where Hormel Chavez gets kicked in the balls down the balcony and springs on a telephone line before landing on a fence and getting bitten by a dog. Especially when he drops from the roof onto a trestle and gets hit by a wrecking ball on the testicles. 

  • honeycorn-av says:

    Fuck slideshows. That shit was wack in 2006.

  • diabolik7-av says:

    I guess Johnny Knoxville doesn’t have any children. Or balls left.

  • cura-te-ipsum-av says:

    There’s the one in Jackass 3 (the movie – which is the only thing I’ve seen from the movies and series) where someone ends something with a somersault where they landed on their neck in about exactly the way you do not want to land on your neck. I’m amazed (and relieved) they didn’t end up a paraplegic from that but was left decidedly queasy just from seeing that happen.

  • zorrocat310-av says:

    Pontius getting his dick bitten by a snake stuck with me…….

  • bio-wd-av says:

    None of these people can have kids after three movies and a TV show.  For me anything with alligators is horrifying. 

    • smudgedblurs-av says:

      Y’all this shit is easy to look up instead of making claims. Knoxville has three kids. One was born after the show and two movies (and a non-Jackass accident in which a motorcycle tore his damn urethra) and the third was born after the third movie. Some genitals are apparently very resilient.

  • urinate-av says:

    It’s the omelette, of course.

  • weedlord420-av says:

    Anyfthing that involves them ingesting something disgusting and/or makes them vomit is too much for me.  I can watch hours of some of the brutal shit they do to their bodies but as soon as someone pukes, so do I

  • robutt-av says:

    Party Boy drinking the horse semen. That has haunted me for decades. When someone mentions “Jackass”, that sequence invades my thoughts. And yet, I love Party Boy so I’m kind of conflicted, but not really.

  • cinecraf-av says:

    Hands down, it’s the one where they used the sharp edge of a manila envelope to give each other papercuts on the webbing between their toes, fingers, lips.

  • crackblind-av says:

    I’ll never forget the time my wife found me lying on my back in bed watching Jackass 2. After the requisite “Let me know when you’re done watching this shot” comment, she noticed something just passed my belly and realized our 9 y.o. son was watching with me. What he heard after that was worse than anything he could possibly see on the show.As he was marched out of the room, he turned back and staged whispered as only a 9 y.o. does, “Can we watch it when she’s not around?” God bless my wife for not only not losing it immediately but understanding the inevitable and telling him he could contue watching.

  • endsongx23-av says:

    The piss snow cone is the thing that almost made me vomit in theaters

  • mindbrain-av says:

    Mine would be Dave England cooking an omelette. He ate all the ingredients raw, then puked it up, cooked and ate it. Wretched and turns my stomach but Dave still made me laugh.

  • c2three-av says:

    It would have to be the one where one of the guys drank horse jizz.

  • m0nit0rman-av says:

    Obligatory “it’s sad to see Ryan Dunn” post.

  • theodorexxfrostxxmca-av says:

    I was going to reply to another comment but I guess it got deleted (not sure if by the OP or moderators) but they mentioned seeing Knoxville in his first pre-Jackass stunt where he shoots himself while wearing a bullet proof vest. I just wanted to mention that was part of the Big Brother skateboarding magazine that Knoxville started at as a writer, and he wanted to write about his stunts but they ended up realizing it would be much better to see it happen. They ended up in the skateboarding videos known as “Number Two”, “Crap”, and “Boob”. In some ways, he’s a gonzo journalist and not just a jackass. As for the grossest stunt? To choose one that hasn’t been mentioned yet, I’d have to say Knoxville shoving his arm inside a cow to inseminate it. Oooh boy.

    • xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-av says:

      My dad was a veterinarian, and while that procedure is pretty gross…meh.Unless Knoxville didn’t wear the shoulder-length plastic glove…

      • theodorexxfrostxxmca-av says:

        It’s amazing how there’s an Onion headline for almost every scenario.

        • xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-av says:

          Haha close, but…I don’t recall the exact reason, but the procedure referenced is actually going shoulder-deep into a cow’s rectum. IIRC, it’s actually to feel and see if there is a little cow growing in there, though it may be a part of the insemination process as well. And yeah…it’s gross as hell. I imagine that your average farmer just uses his bare arm, though when I saw it done by my father he had a shoulder-length plastic glove on, which he just peeled off as he exited, turning it inside out to be discarded. Because it was absolutely covered in cow shit.

    • thelivingtribunal2-av says:

      Yeah, the bulletproof vest one is what came to mind for me, even though I’ve never actually seen it. Has anyone seen it, or is it just an urban legend? In any case, that most assuredly crosses some kind of line.

      I think the only other one that truly seems to cross some kind of line is the one where he puts the (fake) baby in the baby bassinet on top of his car and then drives off, scaring the living shit out of all the innocent bystanders. That just seems cruel.

      A lot of them make my stomach drop, but for some reason my favorite is probably that one from the first season where they all drink eggnog and start puking. I can’t remember what the premise of the stunt was, but I remember being stunned at the audacity of it all, the raw unscripted feel of it, especially when Preston Lacy goes nuts and starts tearing apart the set.

      Remember this was 2000 and the concept of reality television was, if not brand new, at least somewhat of a brave new world. In its own braindead way, Jackass was truly brilliant. It managed the incredible feat of showing us something we had never seen before, on basic cable TV no less.

      • daddddd-av says:

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      • theodorexxfrostxxmca-av says:

        I have all 3 of the Big Brother videos on VHS. The bulletproof vest one is on the first video. I believe they’re on YouTube now and also partially in the documentary “Dumb: The Story of Big Brother”. Sadly because Hulu produced the documentary, I can’t find it on DVD. 

    • tripe46-av says:

      I dunno, Pontius drinking the horse jizz was pretty bad.

      • theodorexxfrostxxmca-av says:

        Oh I completely agree, I meant to include ones not mentioned in the list or comments section. 

  • dennyxmas-av says:

    The paper cuts. Sides of the mouth. Webbing of fingers and toes. I feel faint typing this. 

  • stotm-av says:

    In Jackass 2, Knoxville riding a big red rocket into a lake and something shoots violently out of the side of the rocket. If the thing had been rotated 30 degrees when he got on it it would have torn him in half. Of course, he immediately gets on and tries again.

  • stopmeantome-av says:

    They were papercutting themselves once, and Steve-O papercut his tongue and just…had to shut it off and walk away. Nope. Not a squeamish person, but no. 

  • theodorexxfrostxxmca-av says:

    I also am a big fan of that vomiting Jackass logo gif. Party Boy approves!

  • airwolff-av says:

    This guy in a septic tank outdoes the porta potty

  • quetzalcoatl49-av says:

    It’s gotta be the papercuts one for me. Just thinking about it is making me physically anxious.Also, fuck slideshows. 

  • thekinjacaffeinespider-av says:

    Did you guys know that Johnny Knoxville has children?

  • returning-the-screw-av says:

    Anything to do with butt or eye stuff. 

  • typingbob-av says:

    I preferred ‘Poo Cocktail’ in its original, grainy form. It was Art, you see. Who are these cultural revisionists, telling us this version’s “better quality”? Next thing, The Godfather will have no pants.

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  • dwarfandpliers-av says:

    definitely the one where they drink the horse semen. Just typing it makes me a little queasy. Of all the times I have watched those movies I have only seen that scene once.  The wasabe “snooters” is a distant second.

  • yesidrivea240-av says:

    The stunt that really made me squirm was the yellow snow snowcones. It might have been Bam’s constant puking during that segment that did it for me, but I still can’t sit through the whole thing.

  • necgray-av says:

    I know it’s not the question but I will take any chance I get to reminisce about Pontius in the Werewolf in London bits. They make me laugh pretty hard. Especially the one in the elevator!

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