Comically Small Demand: In a sketch by Dom Jon asking for settlement money over a car collision (that probably never happened), Dom Jon at first asks for $2500 but lowers it to $2000, then $800, then finally a back-rub or food stamps.Comically Small Bribe: Hadassah when she lost her diary in a landfill called them to start digging for it, and offered $15 in return.This probably has to do with the fact that Junkyard Willie was a character from the calls originally recorded by the Touch Tone Terrorists and they simply chose not to use anymore of these calls. Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Junkyard Willie only made 2 appearances in Season 1 and never showed up again in spite of his significant presence in the opening sequences for both Season 1 and 2.Candid Camera Prank: A variant, as the show consists of re-enactments, but it's the same idea.In 2011, Adam Carolla pitched a hand-drawn animated spinoff centered on his character Dick Birchum to Fox called The Birchums but FOX refused to pick it up. The show also helped bring fame to Pete Dzoghi, a man who basically made a career out of doing prank calls before selling them as albums for money. However, this made taping and broadcasting episodes fairly uneven due to many of the celebrities being based in California. So, nearly all the calls are made in Nevada. except for Nevada, which only requires one (i.e., the callers). In the U.S., it is illegal to record and broadcast prank calls without both parties' consent. When not airing prank calls, the show makes the puppets do raunchy explicit things such as go to gay bars, strip clubs, perform public sexual intercourse, enact racist stereotypes, etc. The victims and pranksters are played by Muppet-esque puppets. The premise: transcripts of real prank calls are re-enacted, cutting between the rooms of each end of the call (usually with lots and lots of Background Gags going on). It was revived in 2019 for a Season 5 and again in 2020 for a Season 6. Crank Yankers is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on Comedy Central and also for a brief time on MTV2 co-created by Daniel Kellison, Adam Carolla and the far better-known Jimmy Kimmel.
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