The Most Terrible Things The Cast Of Jackass Has Ever Done

The Jackass TV show and movies were three things at their core: skateboarding, stunts, and pranks. And while the skateboarding and stunts each had their own level of physical risk, nothing really compares to the psychological (and sometimes physical) trauma inflicted by the incessant prank war waged by the members of the cast against one another while filming the series and its subsequent big-screen spinoffs. Bam Margera summed up the atmosphere best in Maxim's "Oral History of Jackass" when he said, "If you're on the set, you're gonna get messed with, whether you're cast or crew. I feel so unsafe. Full-blown paranoia. If you're tired, you can't even sleep, because you'll definitely get stun-gunned or peed on. I'm sure I'll be in a wheelchair by the time I'm 40, if I even make it there." With that sentiment in mind, here are the most terrible pranks the Jackass crew ever pulled.

We previously mentioned that the Jackass franchise consists of three things, but if there would be a fourth, it would have to be "nut shots," which, for the layperson, is when someone taps, punches, kicks, or strikes with an object the crotch of an unsuspecting victim. This game became such an ever-present occurrence that they even shot a huge segment on creating elaborate "nut shots" in Jackass 3.5.  The result was basically a perversion of the classic Jordan v. Bird "nothin' but net" commercials, except in this case it was nothin' but n...you get the idea.

Bam once hid a camera in Phil's bathroom, then waited for him to come in and settle on the john before bursting in, punching the crap out of him, and tearing his shirt off. Had this occurred in literally any other setting, it would probably be the basis for more than a few criminal charges. In fact, we're pretty sure if Phil wanted to have Bam arrested for this attack on the porcelain throne, he would have been well within his legal rights.

Right now, you may be thinking, "Wait, what is 'surprise peeing?'" And if we're being honest, you're already putting way too much thought into what was literally just Bam Margera sneaking up behind his friends, family, and co-workers, and urinating on them. Not only does he urinate on his unwitting victims, he usually does it on either their face or head, making an already awful thing infinitely more awful.

But to Margera, this is the height of hilarity. He said as much to Maxim in their "Oral History of Jackass" when he gleefully declared, "It's the first time anybody has put a movie out that's 3D that isn't, like, Avatar or Clash of the Titans. Instead, you're going to see my d*** sneaking up on Chris Pontius while he's sleeping, and then all of a sudden you'll see a yellow p*** stream coming out of the screen, and you'll realize it's my d*** p***ing on Pontius."

You can watch a compilation video here if you're so inclined, but be warned: It's super NSFW, as in "features a ton of Bam Margera junk NSFW."

Did you think we were done describing ways in which Bam Margera terrorized his poor parents? Nope, there's more. This time, it was for Jackass 3D. The crew dressed Chris Pontius up as a gorilla and snuck him into April and Phil's hotel room; when they arrived, Pontius went nuts, smashing up the room, leaving April once again fleeing in mortal fear—which is kind of the theme of the parental pranks at this point. Phil, on the other hand, remained behind—not to give his wife a better chance at escaping, but because he had to go to the bathroom so bad, he decided to risk his chances on the toilet while what he thought was a real gorilla tore apart the room. Did he literally have the crap scared out of him, or has decades of dealing with Bam's shenanigans essentially shredded this man's digestive system? Perhaps we'll never know. (We are, for the record, totally okay with never knowing.)

Bad Grandpa was basically an extended version of the old man sketches from Jackass, and while the entire thing was full of crazy pranks played on the unsuspecting public at the hands of Knoxville's elderly alter ego Irving Zisman and his grandson Billy, the beauty pageant prank has to be the craziest. The production team went to great lengths to nail the scene, hiring a professional choreographer and a veteran pageant mom to prep Jackson Nicoll, the actor who played Billy. Admittedly, the whole thing was a blatant ripoff of Little Miss Sunshine, but it was completely worth it for the array of horrified reaction shots of the other pageant parents.

Though the Jackass empire has been on pause for years, Steve-O has gone on to many other ventures, one of which is his YouTube channel. The clown college graduate's video feed is basically just his Jackass solo project, and features him doing—you guessed it—stunts, pranks, and funny sketches. Though his pranks are admittedly not as crazy as some of the Jackass crew's, Steve-O is still not afraid to inflict himself on the general public in the service of a good gag.

The above video features Steve-O posing for pictures with fans when all of a sudden he pulls out what appears to be a used condom—it's filled with fabric softener, by the way—and waves it in their faces. It's not really a great prank, but it is remarkable to see the number of people who react pretty blithely to what should be a truly horrifying experience.

Here again, Steve-O puts himself, and to a larger degree, his accomplices, potentially in harm's way when he pretends to be a homeless guy on the street being assaulted by said accomplices. It's not particularly well-executed or funny, and it's basically an exact copy of ABC's What Would You Do? The difference is the ABC show is presented for social commentary, and doesn't allow for potentially explosive situations in which people could actually get hurt. Steve-O's prank, on the other hand, quite literally results in a physical altercation every time before it's revealed. How could he possibly know that it wouldn't have turned catastrophic for himself or the good samaritans thinking they were intervening on an assault?