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:: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 ::

MTV's Punk'd

At first it looked like some stupid show about alternative music or alternative lifestyles and I was like.... ugh. Then I watched it for a minute and realized that not only is it pure brilliance that ONLY MTV could get away with, it's creative, hilarious, and just utterly fantastic.

The concept is a show where MTV enlists people close to celebrities to play big, big pranks on them. On this episode Justin Timberlake's mother and his close friend Ashton Kutcher were both enlisted in a tax evasion scam - a crew posing as tax reposessors showed up at his house and started boarding it up, with paperwork describing $904,000 in back taxes that Justin owed. Then they started putting labels on all his belongings, piles of cardboard boxes out in the driveway, stickers being put on his cars as they reposess the whole shebang - clearly more than $10 million in property, including the house, but they gave him a lot of bullshit about how they could never be certain what stuff would go for at public auction, so they were taking everthing. Kutcher informed the prank squad via radio and earpiece as to where else he owned property and what cars they would find there, and the agents then informed Justin that his other stuff was being taken as they spoke. You couldn't imagine the absolute indignation on his face as all of his stuff was taken away, and he called his mother... who was in on it, and said she was trying to figure out what was going on.

Oh, it was hilarious. In future episodes they show Jessica Alba walking in to find some skinny white guy naked in her apartment, changing, and Eliza Dushku is accused of stealing something. Oh it's fantastic.
:: Peter 7:13 PM [+] ::
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