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MTV's Punk'd - The Complete Second Season
Paramount // Unrated // October 12, 2004
List Price: $26.99 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
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Episode One
- Bling Bling Bling: A mix-up at a jewelry store pops Missy Elliott's diamond-studded necklace into the hands of a courier, and Missy threatens to trash the place if she doesn't get her bling back now.
- Driving School: Hillary Duff takes her first driving lesson, and her helpful instructor B.J. shows her how to handle some stressful driving situations. Hillary doesn't completely agree: "I think I would have never gotten out of my car and hit him with a Smoothie and a baseball bat." The drivers of the not-really-battered, milkshaken car come back for revenge and carjack Hillary.
- Shoplifting Shakedown: Usher's called in to bail his brother out when he's caught shoplifting women's clothing, and when the manager realizes who Usher is, he decides that maybe they could work things out with a radio spot.
- Crash Test Nick / Crash Test Tommy: Ghetto-fabulous Backstreet Boy Nick Carter tries to convince his pal Tommy Lee that they've gotten involved in a surreal hit-and-run while fleeing from some paparazzi. Oh, and since Nick doesn't have the cool cachet to avoid being punked, the Punk'd crew pull the same gag on him during a rehearsal.
- Vibe This: During a photo shoot with a ravenous tiger, a hundred thousand dollars of jewelry that fun-sized rapper Bow Wow was wearing disappears.
- Charity Lunch Date: A borderline-psychotic fan hocks all his worldy possessions to go on a date with pop star Mya, who's obviously been singing about her complete and total adoration of him for the past five years.
- Director's Suite: Katie Holmes has a meeting at McG's Hollywood home, and she gets caught in the middle of a lovers' squabble when she tries to cover up for the director's infidelities.
- Repossessed: Tracy Morgan, after making the fifty foot drive from the TV studio to his favorite club, finds his Jaguar being towed all the way to Barstow.
- Shopping Spree for Free: The skeletal Lara Flynn Boyle goes on an orgasmic shopping spree and then finds out...whoops! She's expected to pay for that stuff. Appalling!
- Roadside Assistance: Ashanti is saddled with an obnoxious driver and a shoddy Escalade on her way to an early morning flight, but a sunny bus driver shuttling around an Asian tour group comes to her rescue.
- Get Outta My Jacuzzi: Omarion is accused of fooling around with some mobster-type's underage daughter.
- Senior Waiter: Rachael Leigh Cook is stuck with a kindly old waiter who can't seem to clue into the fact that she's a vegetarian. The restaurant's manager apologizes profusely, then violently beats some sense into the waitstaff.
- Gothika Premiere: Stiff fire code regulations leave Halle Berry shut out of the premiere for her own movie.
- Bend and Cough: Taye Diggs gets a homoerotic physical as he gears up for a movie shoot in Africa.
- Candlelight Dinner: Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker takes his girlfriend out for a nice dinner, quickly discovering that their overaffectionate waiter is Shanna's former flame.
- Sweaty Lingerie: Jaime Pressly starts to show off how her new clothing line is being made for a business interview, but when she pulls in, the place is shut down by the authorities for being a sweatshop.
- Red Carpet: A Filipino writer from Entertainment Weekly International chats it up with the celebs on the red carpet with the help of a completely inept translator.
- Money Man into Thin Air: BMX star Dave Mirra is busted for fraud when his business partners rip off companies to the tune of a couple million in endorsements.
- Car in Window: Outkast get a 4 AM call that the $375K ride they rented for a party in the Hollywood Hills has wound up plowed through a storefront window.
- His Name is Cuddles: Joan of Arcadia's Amber Tamblyn agrees to watch a Yorkshire Terrier while her owner pops into a restaurant, but she mistakenly returns the overpriced pup to the wrong person.
- Limo Driver: A driver pops into a store for a second to pick up a gift for his wife, who's expected to give birth in a matter of minutes. While he's away, an unwitting Lindsey Lohan gives away his Lincoln Towncar.
- X-Mas Tree: Beyonce Knowles is horrified when she sends a monstrous Christmas tree plummeting to the ground, smashing the Christmas gifts for a bunch of underprivileged kids.
- Chopper Test Drive: Goldberg watches helplessly as his spiffed-up motorcycle explodes when an out of control truck runs over it. Well, the bike explodes, anyway.
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And yeah, even though it's technically a season set, this is an MTV series, meaning that more than a third of its original runtime was dedicated to commercials. These episodes average nineteen minutes and change a piece, so even though the word "season set" probably brings to mind six-disc boxed sets and weekend-long marathons, the entire second season of Punk'd runs right about the same length as Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. At least MTV has priced it like a movie instead of a TV box set, and the three and a half hours of extras piled on make it more worth a purchase instead of just a Saturday late night rental.
Video: All eight episodes are presented full-frame, and there isn't a particularly noticeable difference between the way these episodes looked on MTV and how they appear on DVD. The image quality varies throughout due to so many different types of cameras being used, but there are no problems worth noting, and I didn't spot any compression or authoring hiccups. One change from the original broadcasts is that some of the censoring has been dropped out. No more blurring around the many middle fingers that pop up, and...was Tommy Lee's ass pixelated before? I can't remember, but it isn't blurred out now.
Audio: As was the case with the first season of Punk'd, this two-disc set sports Dolby Digital 2.0 audio (192Kbps), and again, it's mostly uncensored.
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Supplements: Each episode is accompanied by audio commentary from Ashton Kutcher, Ahmed Ahmed, Steve Rannazzisi, and producer Jason Goldberg (no, not the wrestler). I really enjoyed the commentaries on the previous set, but like the second season as a whole, these tracks are good, but noticeably inferior to the prior season. For one, they aren't as talkative, with chunks of dead-air popping up periodically. On the previous set, Dax and Ashton seemed to talk about whatever came to mind, even if it had absolutely no relation to what was happening on-screen. Some reviewers might leap into multiparagraph tirades about that how unacceptable that is, but I thought that was part of what made the commentaries on the first season set so great. The commentaries this time around leap onto random tangents too -- shaving body hair in its entirety, why Ashton will never go back to South Carolina, compiling a list of the hottest women on the planet (taking care to note Nicole Kidman and "fire in the hole") -- but they just seem to run out of things to say every once in a while. Some of the topics they cover include Ashton having to fend off the cops in the Missy Elliott bit, a passerby trying to shoot the faux-carjackers, counting the wrinkles in Katie Holmes' forehead, Lara Flynn Boyle's complete comfort with being topless around men she assumes to be gay, and Ashton encouraging viewers to count the number of times he leers at Halle Berry's rack. They also play a 'Word of the Day' game to see who can say "womb" the most, but when they run out of uses for 'womb', they switch to 'cleft', 'chafe', 'karma', 'ecstasy', and briefly consider 'vortex'. So, yeah. They're still a fun listen, but the commentaries on the first season set spoiled me.
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B.J.: "Now have you done any parallel parking?"Thankfully, we're spared a glimpse of Lara Flynn Boyle baring it all. Each individual scene gets its own chapter stop, and the footage is broken up by episode. These can also be viewed individually, consecutively, or reincorporated via branching into each episode.
Hillary: "Ummm...yeah, but I hit a couple trash cans."
B.J.: "What if the trash cans were people? How would you feel about yourself?"
Hillary: "I wouldn't feel very good."
B.J.: "What if they were old people?"
Hillary: "Fuck old people, right?"
There are also a couple of unaired segments. The first, "Shearer Embarrassment" (6:18), is kinda lame. A miffed boyfriend wants to know why his fiancee has former Punker Al Shearer's jewelry draped over her. Nothing really that funny-slash-interesting happens, and it's pretty much a retread of the Omarion/jacuzzi routine anyway. Much, much better is "EMA Green Carpet" (5:33), which has a couple of kids selling candy on the 'green carpet' at the Environmental Media Awards. They're trying to drum up some cash alongside an obnoxious reporter played by Steve, who jokes about the irony of a fellow reporter bringing a leather bag to an environmentally-conscious event and inquiring about the threat of cloned duckbill platypi overtaking North America. This segment is better than a lot of what made the final cut, and it should definitely have wound up on the air. Among the celebrities pestered are Amy Smart, James Van Der Beek, Jeffrey Tambor, Danica McKellar, Alanis Morissette, and Buzz Aldrin (!).
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Each disc includes a set of 4x3 animated menus, and like the first season, Ashton berates viewers who take too long to make a menu selection. Each prank is given its own chapter stop, and these episodes can be viewed individually or played all at once.
Conclusion: Although the second season of Punk'd isn't as consistently funny as the first eight episodes of the series, there are still enough laughs to make it worth picking up for fans of the show. The mostly uncensored audio, the sheer number of extras, and a reasonable list price make a purchase a little easier to swallow too. Recommended.
Related Reviews: DVD Talk also has reviews of the first season of Punk'd, if you're bored.
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