In this show, teenagers Beavis and Butt-Head do childish antics and do things such as watch music videos, play "frog baseball", put dead flies into the fries of someone's Burger World meal, and talk about women with sexual and crude content. What influences viewers are the references to fire. Beavis alone adds countless outburst of the word "fire". Many times in the show, Beavis makes references to fire. In Mike Judge's movie, he repeats the word "fire" idiotically around a campfire, when he was having hallucinations, fire was a primary visual, and when Butt-Head was "channel surfing" through TV shows. Beavis commented that there should "be more shows about fire" ("Beavis and Butt-Head"). Not to mention their obsession of hurting animals, like in "frog baseball". The shows characters are cruel to animals and there have been reports of children imitating the series in regards to that as well ("MTV fights" 22).
Now that you have an understanding of the shows that have influenced today's television viewers, this brings us to the actual reenactments. Jackass has had an uncountable amount of reenactments that have resulted in serious injury and major jail time. In Florida, a seventeen year-old attacked an unsuspecting twenty year-old with a gun. This is a prank that is similar to a scene in Jackass: The Movie. The attack was videotaped by the seventeen year-old's friends and after the investigation, police found .
copies of the event being distributed for "the sake of entertainment". The seventeen year-old was charged with strong-armed robbery, a felony ("I thought"). .
One of the most reenacted skits from Jackass, is where Johnny Knoxville (The shows host) puts on a flame resistant suit with pieces of meat attached to it, lays down on a human-sized barbeque and is set on fire. The stunt, entitled "Human Bar-B-Q", has been the most controversial stunt performed. The trouble with kids is that Knoxville was "smart" enough to where a flame resistant suit, whereas the wannabes didn't ("Still" 27).
