History Trivia / Jackass

** In 2021, one fan released "The Ultimate Restored Definitive" (TURD) edition to GitHub, which is a reconstruction of how the show originally aired, using better quality sources than the existing TV rips.

* AuthorExistenceFailure:
** Ryan Dunn died in a car accident in 2011.
** Averted in Johnny Knoxville's case, '''THRICE''', first during the "Rent-A-Car Crash-Up Derby" in the first movie, where one of the cars crashed into his, having its wheel smash through the windshield, inches away from Knoxville's face. The second was during the "Golf Cart Antics" in the same movie, where the golf cart with Knoxville and Dunn (who was driving) flipped over a fiberglass statue and got wrecked. Knoxville actually could have broken his neck from it. The third was in ''Number Two'' in the "Big Red Rocket" skit, the rocket he was gonna fly up into the air and into a lake ended up misfiring, exploding with him on it. It exploded on one part just ''inches'' away from his stomach. [[EnforcedMethodActing Then he tried it again]], that time it worked.

* DevelopmentHell: Plans for ''Jackass 4: We're Not [[PunnyName Dunn]] Yet'' were announced, but so far only Knoxville, Tremaine, Margera (who coined the title) and Steve-O have shown interest; the latter, on the condition that Bam would remain sober enough for filming the said movie. When it was announced in 2019, its production was stalled in early 2020 due to the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It was able to resume filming in December of that year, but it resulted in Steve-O and Knoxville having to get hospitalized for injuries, and a month later Margera announced that he wouldn't be in it due to his mental troubles and alcoholism. The film ultimately did complete shooting, however, and is set for release in 2021, now titled ''Jackass Forever''.

* DevelopmentHell: Plans for ''Jackass 4: We're Not [[PunnyName Dunn]] Yet'' were announced, but so far only Knoxville, Tremaine, Margera (who coined the title) and Steve-O have shown interest; the latter, on the condition that Bam would remain sober enough for filming the said movie. When it was announced in 2019, its production was stalled in early 2020 due to the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. It was able to resume filming in December of that year, but it resulted in Steve-O and Knoxville having to get hospitalized for injuries, and a month later Margera announced that he wouldn't be in it due to his mental troubles and alcoholism.

** Averted in Johnny Knoxville's case, '''THRICE''', first during the "Rent-A-Car Crash-Up Derby" in the first movie, where one of the cars crashed into his, having its wheel smash through the windshield, inches away from Knoxville's face. The second was during the "Golf Cart Antics" in the same movie, where the golf cart with Knoxville and Dunn (who was driving) flipped over a fiberglass statue and got wrecked. Knoxville actually could have broken his neck from it. The third was in ''Number Two'' in the "Big Red Rocket" skit, the rocket he was gonna fly up into the air and into a lake ended up misfiring, exploding with him on it. It exploded on one part just ''inches'' away from his stomach. [[CrazyAwesome Then he tried it again]], that time it worked.

* CreatorBreakdown: Bam has NOT had a good few years since Ryan died. Thankfully he stopped heavily drinking in 2015, though it was another 2 years until he could skate again due to joint problems caused by years of stunts, and the weight gain caused by not walking much during this time. That said, he's ''still'' not mentally well and even left rehab in 2018 and has done through multiple breakdowns and fights with family and even friends such as Brandon Novak (who ironically ''beat'' his heroin addiction), although 2020 showed ''some'' promise when Bam ended up pleading Dr. Phil of all people for help. This didn't last, however, as Bam made a drunken rant on his Instagram a year later confirming that he'd been fired from Jackass 4 for his continued struggles.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Among other things: after season one MTV handed Knoxville and company a list of things that they were not allowed to do, as far as content goes. Similarly, when Sen. Joseph Lieberman tried to get the show banned from airing, MTV caved like cowards, pulling all reruns of the series (which was in season two by that point) and forcing Knoxville to revise the show's warning so as to read it out loud to viewers.

** For reasons that should be incredibly obvious, MTV absolutely refused to air the part of the self defense sketch where Johnny shoots a real bullet into his bulletproof vest while wearing it, and overruled them on putting it on the DVDs too.

* CreatorBreakdown: Bam has NOT had a good few years since Ryan died. Thankfully he stopped heavily drinking in 2015, though it was another 2 years until he could skate again due to joint problems caused by years of stunts, and the weight gain caused by not walking much during this time. That said, he's ''still'' not mentally well and even left rehab in 2018 and has done through multiple breakdowns and fights with family and even friends such as Brandon Novak (who ironically ''beat'' his heroin addiction), although 2020 showed ''some'' promise when Bam ended up pleading Dr. Phil of all people for help.

* DevelopmentHell: Plans for ''Jackass 4: We're Not [[PunnyName Dunn]] Yet'' were announced, but so far only Knoxville, Tremaine, Margera (who coined the title) and Steve-O have shown interest; the latter, on the condition that Bam would remain sober enough for filming the said movie.

* FollowTheLeader: ''Jackass'' spawned many shows in the same vein, including ''Crazy Monkey'', and ''Rad Girls''. Sometimes, MTV itself did this (with Dirty Sanchez and Rob Drydek's Ridiculousness). Ironically, ''Jackass'' itself is derived at least in part by [=SuperDave=] Osborne, a [[TheParody parody]] of daredevil stuntmen like Evel Kneivel, played by comedian Bob Einstein. Einstein himself doesn't like the comparison, pointing out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa-Otn02mtY this interview]] that his antics as Super Dave were almost impossible to emulate.

* CreatorBreakdown: Bam has NOT had a good few years since Ryan died. Thankfully he stopped heavily drinking in 2015, though it was another 2 years until he could skate again due to joint problems caused by years of stunts, and the weight gain caused by not walking much during this time. That said, he's ''still'' not mentally well and even left rehab in 2018.

* CreatorBreakdown: Bam has NOT had a good few years since Ryan died. Thankfully he stopped heavily drinking in 2015, though it was another 2 years until he could skate again due to joint problems caused by years of stunts, and the weight gain caused by not walking much during this time.

* CreatorBreakdown: Bam has NOT had a good few years since Ryan died.

** Averted in Johnny Knoxville's case, '''THRICE''', first during the "Rent-A-Car Crash-Up Derby" in the first movie, where one of the cars crashed into his, having its wheel smash through the windshield, inches away from Knoxville's face. The second was during the "Golf Cart Antics" in the same movie, where the golf cart with Knoxville and Dunn (who was driving) flipped over a fiberglass statue and got wrecked. Knoxville actually could have broken his neck from it. The third was in ''Number Two'' in the "Big Red Rocket" skit, the rocket he was gonna fly up into the air and into a lake ended up misfiring, exploding with him on it. It exploded on one part just ''inches'' away from his stomach. [[TooKinkyToTorture Then he tried it again]], that time it worked.

** Averted in Johnny Knoxville's case, '''THRICE''', first in the first movie during the "Rent-A-Car Demolition Derby" where one of the cars crashed into his, having its wheel smash through the windshield, inches away from Knoxville's face. The second time, later in the first film during the "Golf Cart Antics" when a golf cart with Knoxville and Dunn (who was driving) flipped over a fiberglass statue and got wrecked. Knoxville actually could have broken his neck from it. The third was in ''Number Two'' in the "Big Red Rocket" skit, the rocket he was gonna fly up into the air and into a lake ended up misfiring, exploding with him on it. It exploded on one part just ''inches'' away from his stomach. [[TooKinkyToTorture Then he tried it again]], that time it worked.

** Averted in Johnny Knoxville's case, '''THRICE''', first in the first movie during the "Rent-A-Car Demolition Derby" where one of the cars crashed into his, having it's wheel smash through the windshield, inches away from Knoxville's face. The second time, later in the first film during the "Golf Cart Antics" when a golf cart with Knoxville and Dunn (who was driving) flipped over a fiberglass statue and got wrecked. Knoxville actually could have broken his neck from it. The third was in ''Number Two'' in the "Big Red Rocket" skit, the rocket he was gonna fly up into the air and into a lake ended up misfiring, exploding with him on it. It exploded on one part just ''inches'' away from his stomach. [[TooKinkyToTorture Then he tried it again]], that time it worked.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: [[LivingWill Ryan Dunn died in a car accident in 2011]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: MTV (who own the right to the name "Jackass") SERIOUSLY considered making a fourth season with all new cast members and even put out a teaser commercial in the 2002 VMA Awards. Thankfully they didn't when reaction to the news was extremely negative.
** Jackass: Too Hot For TV, which got killed when Lieberman started making noise against the show.
** Bam's uncle was to be in Jackass 2 a great deal (you can see the original Lambo-tooth-pull in the trailer used against him), but a judge ordered all scenes relevant to him pulled off after being convicted of child molestation.
** The Terror Taxi was very nearly almost this - they nearly got stopped by police, twice, and Jay Chandrasekhar kept going off the rails (the police were told about the skit, but they still set up a damn roadblock), and two bystanders called the cops.
*** They were also about to attach squibs to the fake dynamite to scare Ehren more, but the Fire Marshal told them they had to more or less ruin the prank.

** Bam's uncle was to be in Jackass 2 a great deal (you can see the original Lambo-tooth-pull in the trailer used against him), but a judge ordered all scenes relevant to him pulled off after being convicted of child molestation.