I don't know.
But this thread has so wonderful many views.
Or wonderfully…lylylylyly.

It's semi-scripted. They decide what they're going to d and how they're going to do things each episode, but there's no rehearsing and stuff. Basically, it's a half scripted, half improv.

April freaks out because she's supposed to, and all of the events are pre-planned. The voice-overs are always scripted, but it's not as scripted as a sitcom.

Everything is very conveniently filmed, just like any reality show that is at least a bit scripted.

brings me back to my original post - the show is a MOCKUMENTARY and not reality, regardless of whether they ad-lib dialog or not (and ad-libbing dialog is the 50% reality they mention, EVERYTHING else is scripted) unfortunately the underlining theme is Bam making everyone but himself out to be an idiot. and as seen on HAGGARD he holds back all the real acting talent - which is everyone else but himself. but I admit it is fun to watch, usually, as I myself am a big fan of the CKY videos

"Reality" shows like this one is a insult to peoples intelligence. The more shows you see, the more you can tell it's all fake and Bam is a unlikable actor, and a bad one at that.

Yeah, you're right.
I mean, some stuff was written in to be funny ("get him a lifevest! no, a bigger one!") but they pretty much just came up with an idea ahead of time and rolled with it. A lot of the stuff that happened (the Icelandic guy taking them to another country just for beer, the car without brakes, Ape thinking the house blew up, Dico terrorizing Ape and Phil in the "Brazil" episode) was totally legit.
The DVD commentaries shed light on a lot of this, if you listen closely.
The only big contradiction in the commentaries is that they say quite a few times that Raab's mail order bride was legit, and talk about her in detail but a lot of people doubt that she was. (Someone - possibly Vito - allegedly claimed on Radio Bam that she was an actress; but I checked her out and she hasn't done anything else besides VLB.)

Every "reality show" has a basic plot outline the producers come up with before filming, but my guess is that nearly all of the dialogue is real

Bam himself said it was 50% scripted 50% reality!
CKy - Rules!!

"A show that follows Bam Margera (of Jackass and CKY fame) in his attempts to anger his parents. Unlike CKY or Jackass, Viva La Bam focuses mainly on the torture of Bam's parents and less on harmful stunts."
I think he should concentrate more on harmful stunts, especially ones that involve potentially life-threatening situations and poor planning and health and safety. It's totally unfunny and it all seems scripted. April Margera is the worst actress ever. I can't believe anyone would watch more than one episode of this beep

well anyone that thinks that any moment of the show is reality and isnt planned and at least partially scripted is as dumb as bam makes everybody on the show but himself out to be (and anyone that has also seen the movie HAGGARD knows that as far as acting goes bam has the LEAST talent of them all)
however if you view it as a mockumentary along the lines of SPINAL TAP, then your ok caz that is EXACTLY what it is and what makes it work

i wonder if some of his outbursts are planned

Yeah
Basically the major stuff that they do is planned
But all that Vito stuff isn't
Ha
It makes me laugh thinking about it
Bam: Row your boat!
Vito: Row my boat where? Gently down the stream?

Yeah, and you just can't script the classic stuff Don Vito sayslol
"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God." -Elwood Blues

yeah
i agree
some stuff is planned out a head of time
but who gives a flying beep?
its beep funny as hell
who agrees?
Bam: Row your boat!
Vito: Row my boat where? Gently down the stream?

Well in the episode where they go floating down the Delaware River and April and Phil are all worried about them. In one of the last scenes you see April and Phil walking toward a boat to go out searching for them. April says something along the lines of they are looking for a viking ship and a big hotdog. In the back of the shot as they are walking to talk to the boat owners you can clearly see the hotdog canoe tied up against the pier. But in the next shot when they are actually in the hotdog canoe paddling. Then as they get off the hotdog canoe goes from being tied up to the pier to floating out in the water to it being tied up again.
But in the show they show these consecutive scenes as a storyline. Nothing is in between that interupts. So clearly they went back and filmed April looking for them.

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i wouldn't nessicerily say scripted, it seemed to me like the producers asked them to do stuff, i dont know lol
"Theres a place in the world like a deep dark pit, and its filled with people who are filled with beep and the vermin of the world inhabit it."

Yeah, there's no 'actors' they're all real people. Some of the stuff is planned out ahead of time (like "Bam On The River" - Dico wrote that episode) but they're not actually reciting scripted lines.
Well, ok, there are a couple occasions where they were (and they usually make light of it), but 99% of the time is improvised.

It is all planned but not scripted.

Ya on Radio Bam he said the show was 50% reality, 50% scripted

I'd say 50/50