Series / Wildboyz

"Science, or adult entertainment? You be the judge."

"So much to see, so little to learn!"

— Steve-O

Wildboyz is a spin-off to MTV's hit TV-show Jackass, featuring Chris Pontius and Steve-O travelling through various exotic (and some not-so-exotic) locations while performing dangerous stunts and interacting with the local wildlife and cultures. Along the way they are joined by other familiar cast members, such as Manny Puig, Wee-Man, and Johnny Knoxville. The series was directed by Jeff Tremaine and combined its parent show's characteristic antics, stunts, and crude humor with documentary-style narration.

The show lasted from 2003 to 2006 and has 4 seasons. The show ended after Johnny Knoxville joined the gang on their trip to Russia, and his willingness to go above and beyond convinced the crew to make a second Jackass movie.

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Wildboyz presents examples of the following tropes:

• The Ace: Manny Puig reprises his role as in-house wildlife expert. Played with in that he's involved in some very stupid stunts. Chris and Steve-O also dub snake-handler David Weathers as a snake-idiot.
  • On-screen text billed Johnny Knoxville as an "expert tracker and hollywood star".
• Amusing Injuries
• Bestiality Is Depraved: A common source of humor for the show's jokes and segments.
  • Steve-O makes out with a giraffe while wearing stilts.
• Body Horror: Using baby alligators as earrings and sticking leeches on their eyeballs, just to name a couple.
  • Chris gets a snake tattoo by getting bit by a snake and then rubbing ink into the bite.
• Camera Abuse: An electric eel brushes past a camera, frying it and zapping the cameraman.
  • Cameramen have been attacked by the animals they were filming on more than one occasion.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Chris and Steve-O stroke sea cucumbers, causing them to release their stringy white innards.
  • Macaques are used in this way as a running gag in one episode.
    Steve-O: As cute as macaque seems, the truth is: it's a filthy little thing that spreads disease and causes nothing but trouble!
• Don't Try This at Home
• Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: Chris squeezes salmon semen into Steve-O's mouth, after filling it with roe from a female salmon.
  Steve-O: It's a small price to pay to continue on the legacy of these salmon... I did it in the name of science.
• For Science!: They do insanely, and hilariously, stupid shit all in the name of science so that no one else will ever have to.
• Foreign Queasine: Some of the local delicacies the cast consumes.
• Forbidden Fruit: Manny places a cookie on the back of an eastern diamondback rattlesnake, which Chris has to grab.
  Chris: ...God I want that cookie.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Chris and Steve-O.
• Ho Yay: Frequently invoked. The fact that Chris and Steve-O are almost always dressed in nothing but thongs doesn't help.
  Steve-O: What could possibly be margay [1] than this?
• Pain to the Ass: Many episodes involve Steve-O intentionally presenting his naked backside to one of the episode's animals to get bitten or stung.
  • In one episode, Johnny Knoxville gave Steve-O a bare bottom spanking across his lap using Mexican nettles.
• Running Gag: It's a well known fact that Steve-O has a hilariously weak stomach. As a result, practically every episode devotes at least one segment to making Steve-O puke. From the mundane like farting in a cramped tram to getting him to drink a very popular southern beverage: chew spit. It's all in the name of science.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Executive producer Trip Taylor, when Chris threw a huge, hairy spider on to his back.
• Shmuck Bait: The crew tricks Steve-O into thinking that Johnny Knoxville was bitten by a deadly viper.
  Steve-O: Dude, I'm the most gullible bastard in the world, of course I thought Knoxville was dead.
• Snake Pit: One shows up in the second season.
  Steve-O: Just as we suspected, an Amazonian snake pit. *beat* I better get in there.
• Too Dumb to Live: Many of the show's stunts involving deadly wild animals fall under this.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Given the globetrotting nature of the series, everyone will have to come face-to-face with one of their phobias eventually. Chris hates snakes (though not nearly as much as Bam), Steve-O is terrified of alligator snapping turtles, and Manny is scared to death of being electrocuted. Naturally, all three experience all of the above and more.