History Series / KennyVsSpenny

* IntoxicationEnsues:
** "Who Can Drink the Most Beer?" and "Who Can Smoke the Most Pot?"
** In "Who Is Coolest?", Kenny pretends to become addicted to extreme hard drugs.

** At the same time though Kenny cheats far less in later episodes, while during the first season he tended to cheat pretty much every episode.

* BerserkButton: There are two things that Kenny will absolutely not tolerate, which completely causes him to lose his cool: Physical altercations, and messing with his belongings.

* [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Better to Die Than Be Humiliated]]: In "Who Has the Bigger Balls", Spenny threatens to actually jump off of a cliff to the rocky waters below unless Kenny forfeits. Because Kenny is not ''insane'', he does.

** Kenny will stop at nothing to fuck with his best friend, whether or not it's to escape that episode's humiliation.

* KickTheDog:
** In one episode, Spenny makes it clear that he's not homophobic and is supportive of gay rights after Kenny starts making gay jokes. Later in the episode, he angrily screeches that Kenny is "SO GAY IT'S PATHETIC". Classy.
** In a basketball competition, Spenny hires a group of children to be his basketball players, thinking Kenny wouldn't stop so low as to take them on in a real fight. ... He was wrong. And instead Kenny brought in his team, dressed in black and masks, screaming and taking the kids on without any mercy whatsoever.

* CringeComedy
** See the two-part episode "Who Do Black Guys Like More?" for many examples.
** "Who Do Gay Guys Like More" is even worse. Kenny's over the top antics and Spenny's CondescendingCompassion ultimately cause the judge to quit and storm out in disgust.
** Any time a competition involves Spenny interacting with other people. Oddly enough Kenny seems to usually do fine even when he tries his hardest to be offensive. Largely because people get that he's pretending to be shocking, and Spenny winds up trying too hard.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kenny. His strategy in the soldier episode is to purposefully goofing off so that he can fake [[TakeALevelInBadass improvement]] and end up looking better than Spenny, who starts out giving his best and only tires as the episode goes on. This strategy turns out to be entirely unnecessary as Kenny turns out to have more physical endurance and better reflexes than Spenny while also being a competent marksman ([[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace Spenny got kicked out of the range for being a danger to himself and others]]). In the end the judge said that while Spenny had the potential to become a soldier, he would take Kenny into combat because he's "[[CrazyIsCool crazier than shit]]."
** Kenny was also a war photographer during the Gulf War, which is very subtly hinted at near the beginning of the episode where a black-and-white photo of a younger Kenny holding two guns is briefly shown.
* CurbStompBattle: In "Who is a Better Chef?" Kenny creates three dishes that the judges loved, while Spenny produced one with glaring flaws. Not only that, but Kenny did not cheat at all during the episode, while Spenny had a professional chef feeding him instructions through an earpiece.

In 2012 Kenny uploaded every single episode of the show (including some never aired) onto his Website/YouTube account. Tragically they were all taken down due to meddling from higher ups, but [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRSR9GR4CP7ivjS-_HzEJzG_yuS83vq3B they're back up as of 2018.]]

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: In the "Who Can Blow the Biggest Fart?" episode, at one point Spenny lets loose a ''huge'' fart that rivaled Kenny's best efforts and could have potentially won the episode for him. Unfortunately, he was holding the meter the wrong way, causing it to fail to register the full power of the fart. [[spoiler: This starts a sequence of events that leads to him losing the competition.]]

** In ''Who is Funnier'', Spenny confesses to a whole audience at a stand up club that he has HIV, or atleast he thought he did at the time. The comedian that went on stage immediately after Spenny walked out as an emotional wreck then proceeded to make jokes about Spenny having aids.

** In "Who Has Bigger Balls" Kenny was able to rack up a decent lead by competing legitimately, but he still attempts to psych Spenny out by trashing his room. Unfortunately for Kenny this backfires when Spenny is so despondent and fed up that he threatens to commit suicide and Kenny forfeits to stop him.

** In the octopus episode, Kenny asks that the camera crew stop filming while Spenny trips balls.

* UpToEleven: Kenny has many evil alter egos, but somehow his Satan persona isn't the most evil or sadistic one. As Spenny notes in the Arm Wrestling episode, that honor goes to Silencio, a masked wrestler whose sole purpose is to sneak aound the house and pull childish pranks on him.

* MaleGaze: With an all male crew, it's bound to happen and thus, the b-roll in "Who Can Survive on an Island the Longest?" is a ''marathon'' of shots focused only on the rears of Cuba's finest beach babes.

* RantInducingSlight: Kenny tends to keep Spenny perpetually near his breaking point, so Spenny very commonly is brought to this.

* KarmaHoudini: Kenny wins several competitions by cheating, and always gets away scot-free.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: In "Who Can Make a Better Porno?" Spenny writes out a scenario that's been his personal fantasy since he was an adolescent.

** Kenny will often twist the rules of a competition by interpreting them too literally. Verges on InsaneTrollLogic in the arm wrestling episode, when Spenny says that he wants "a fair match between Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice". So Kenny locates a 14-year old boy who is also named Spencer Rice and handily wins a match against him.