Scripted?
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popoandpeepee — 18 years ago(January 27, 2008 07:20 AM)
"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 -
knawdas — 18 years ago(February 26, 2008 08:07 AM)
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.) -
pglenn — 17 years ago(May 11, 2008 10:46 PM)
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
