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This sounds amazing. I’ve been waiting for years for someone to restore this. Great work and I look forward if possible to view these
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Some of you may be wondering “wait didn’t someone else attempt to restore this show?” and yes while that is true, there were unfortunately some major missteps in the wrong direction and some oversights made as well by the person who made the initial “Turd Collection” batch. But first I’m going to go into a bit of how I made my versions. It turns out that, a fact that apparently a lot are unaware of, that Paramount+ returns the show to its original TV format for the first time in a long time. Unfortunately there are still some major issues with these versions like censorship and a ton of music replacement. What ended up happening this time around was whenever a sketch from an episode would be cut, most of the time to fill in the missing minutes, MTV would use a repeated version of a sketch from a previous or future episode. There was even one instance where a sketch was repeated twice in two censored episodes. Either way, you won’t find any of that here. There were also several episodes where the MTV audio sounded better than the Paramount+ audio, so in music instances of those episodes, despite not being replaced I still used the MTV audio.
Another topic I wanted to go into and one reason why I decided to make entire ground up restorations is the framerate. For an unknown reason, the versions from the Turd Collection were rendered at an incorrect framerate (576i which is PAL and not the native NTSC framerate), de-noised, and deinterlaced. All of these are major red flags if one wants to properly restore taped material, because whenever you watch his versions, the framerate is all janked and jumpy, so in my versions I just left everything “as is” (video noise and all) and to me it gives off a MUCH smoother framerate than what was there before. The turd version was also still missing footage in every episode, namely the “coming up next” segments and the fade-ins, though I don’t entirely blame this person for this issue either as he clearly didn’t have all of the same sources I did because the old TV captures he used were missing all of them and I had alternative TV sources that restored all of them (though the Paramount+ versions had almost all of them intact anyway, only a few were missing fortunately). As a result, every episode will on average be about 30 seconds longer than what the Turd Collection has to offer (the Gumball Rally special is a damn near minute and a half longer though). There was also another oversight which was they were seemingly unaware that the “WARNING” skull that was present in the opening and fade-ins of episodes was different in the first season and the first four episodes of the second season, so I restored the versions originally used here as well. Also other minor oversights like additional “don’t try this at home” texts added to stunts after the original broadcasts that he accidentally included in those versions were addressed here as well.
I used almost all of the same sources the Turd Collection used to try to achieve the least amount of upscaled TV footage as possible. Unfortunately I didn’t have access to their Amazon source or what’s listed as the “CDVD” source, so as a result, there were a few small instances where I still ended up using their work because it looked better than the TV footage. So credit goes to them as a direct result of this. However, fortunately of the 7 stunts in those versions that required upscaling from the MTV recordings, only 2 required that here (not counting instances of when I used MTV footage for a missing moment or one of the “small” sketches) and both were in the first season. One thing I also did was on Paramount+, every episode had a “this show is airing in its original form with outdated social norms” screen on it in the openings that I also decided to remove and so you won’t find it in my versions anywhere.
Said stunts and the sources I used are:
-Human BBQ (MTV sourced)
-Up in Flames (was intact on Paramount+)
-The Poo Hug (MTV sourced)
-Taxi 1 (was intact on Paramount+)
-Hockey Check (was intact on Paramount+)
-Night Monkey 2 (was mostly intact on Paramount+)
-The Abduction (was provided as a special feature on one of the DVD releases so I used that source)
Another thing I have to go into is the sources I had access to. If it wasn’t for the OT.com user “lawful”, this restoration wouldn’t have been possible one bit. He provided me with everything outside of the TV captures and helped me achieve the best restoration possible for this series. So big giant thanks to him for making this project possible. Also gotta give credit to the creator of the Turd Collection restorations, since as I said earlier I did use some of their work (in those instances, their work will be labeled as the Turd source) still I gotta give credit to them and also I used their cut report to figure out where I could find sketches at (like if they were on The Lost Tapes DVD or the Volume 1-3 DVD versions). I decided to make a cut report of my own as well, to get an idea of how much work was exactly needed to be done to get the show back to its original state compared to what’s available officially on Paramount+
If interested, please either reply here or PM me.
Season 1:
This season was definitely the most butchered out of all of them, almost every episode was missing at least one stunt/sketch and had the most re-assembly required. Even the intro was censored where a shot of a woman puking was replaced with Knoxville covering himself in tomato juice (I restored the original puking shot to every episode before you ask). I’d dare say the second and fourth episodes are the most butchered of the entire series, they required the most work alone. This entire season also originally aired with an alternative silent version of the opening “WARNING” screen (which was also used for the fade-ins) so I restored that to every episode as well.
-Episode 1:
0:00 - 0:11: original “welcome to Jackass” intro (taken from The Lost Tapes) (replaced with a repeat from episode 2)
0:34: brief amount of MTV footage used to restore original fade from the intro
0:35 - 0:42: “WARNING” screen restored to its original spot along with the original variant used unique to the episode
0:42 - 2:55: original song
1:37 - 1:42: small amount of footage of clerk playing on guitar (taken from the re-edited episode 2)
3:20 - 6:45: three different songs restored to three different scenes
6:45 - 6:52: original “coming up next” segment restored (footage taken from the re-edited episode 2)
7:08 - 9:20: original song
9:38 - 11:31: original song
11:39 - 13:02: Wee Man Oompa Loompa skateboard parody restored (footage taken from the Lost Tapes but MTV audio used due to sounding better)
13:23 - 14:47: original song
14:57 - 16:37: original song
-Episode 2:
0:48 - 3:07: original roller jump sketch restored (replaced with a repeat from episode 3, taken from The Lost Tapes, MTV audio used due to sounding better), no music replaced
1:23 - 1:34: MTV footage mixed in due to the bar covering the doctor’s face differing from the lost tapes version of the sketch
5:03 - 5:12: original “Naked Dave” scene restored using the Turd source (replaced with a repeat from episode 1)
5:13 - 6:07: original Bam Margera trampoline stunt restored (replaced with a repeat from episode 3), no music replaced (taken from The Lost Tapes, MTV audio used)
6:22 - 6:32: original “coming up next” segment restored (replaced with a repeat from the original version of episode 1)
6:50 - 7:26: music wasn’t replaced surprisingly, but the MTV capture was a lot better quality audio wise than the Paramount+ version so I ended up using the MTV audio
7:27 - 10:36: original “human barbeque” segment restored (replaced with a repeat from episode 1)
10:45 - 11:21: original Dave England segment restored (taken from the Volume 1 DVD), (replaced with a repeat from episode 1, funnily enough this was the cut “Oompa Loompa” parody by Wee Man, though of course the song audio is altered)
11:23 - 13:49: original song restored
14:08 - 14:12: original naked run segment restored using the Turd source
14:13 - 15:03: again surprisingly the song wasn’t replaced but I still used the MTV audio because it sounded a lot better than the Paramount+ audio
16:39 - 17:40: ditto
20:08 - 20:16: original “on the next Jackass” segment restored
21:02 - 21:30: MTV audio used due to sounding better than the Paramount+ audio
21:19 - 21:26: original credits footage restored (taken from the Lost Tapes bonus disk)
-Episode 3:
4:51 - 5:23: original song
7:07 - 7:18: original song
7:57 - 9:57: original song
10:02 - 10:19: original song
10:20 - 11:18: original song
11:35 - 11:52: original song
17:02 - 17:30: original song
18:48 - 19:50: original song
-Episode 4:.
1:16 - 1:23: Bam Margera segment restored using MTV footage (the Turd source footage actually looked worse in this instance)
2:01 - 3:59: original song
4:00 - 4:36: no music altered but MTV audio sounded a lot better
4:44 - 4:50: Turd source footage used to take out a warning text that was added to the Paramount+ version
4:51 - 5:28: again, no music altered but the MTV audio sounded a lot better
5:29 - 7:12: original poo hug segment restored (replaced with a repeat segment from episode 1)
7:47 - 8:04: original song
9:07 - 9:31: original song
9:07 - 9:27: missing fight footage restored (taken from The Lost Tapes)
9:32 - 9:54: missing Ryan Dunn segment restored (partially taken from The Lost Tapes, the last portion from the MTV recording, some additional restoration work done to restore name text and skull logo)
9:55 - 12:42: original Poo Poo Platter segment restored and used MTV audio due to the music slightly differing (taken from The Lost Tapes) (replaced with a repeat segment from episode 1)
15:02 - 16:05: MTV audio used due to sounding a lot better
15:58 - 16:03: missing footage restored
16:05 - 16:29: original Dave England segment restored (taken from The Lost Tapes)
16:30 - 20:20: original egg eating contest footage restored (footage taken mostly from the volume 1 DVD) (replaced with repeats from episodes 1 and 3)
16:48: small bit of footage restored using the MTV recording (no the jump cut was not an error on my part, it’s actually part of the source)
20:12 - 20:20: original “on the next Jackass” segment restored
20:21 - 21:23: used footage from the Lost Tapes bonus disk for the credits sequence, audio is from the MTV recording
-Episode 5:
3:14 - 3:50: original Chris Raab segment restored (replaced with a repeat from episode 1) (taken from The Lost Tapes)
5:37 - 5:41: brief amount of footage restored (taken from the Volume 1 DVD extras)
10:34 - 11:38: original song
11:38 - 11:44: original naked Dave segment restored (replaced with a repeat from episode 3)
13:18 - 13:26: original “coming up next” segment restored
17:45 - 20:05: original poo dive segment restored (replaced with a repeat from episode 3) (taken from the Volume 1 DVD)
-Episode 6:
2:59 - 3:22: original song
3:29 - 3:37: original song
6:46 - 7:13: original song
7:39 - 7:44: “coming up next” segment restored
8:36 - 9:39: original song
9:58 - 10:18: original song
10:36 - 11:01: original song
11:10 - 12:13: original song
13:04 - 13:36: original song
15:30 - 15:48: original song
17:04 - 17:35: original song
18:04 - 20:06: original song
20:07 - 20:17: “on the next Jackass” segment restored
20:43 - 20:59: original marching band audio restored
-Episode 7:
3:13 - 3:18: original Bam Margera segment restored (footage taken from The Lost Tapes, MTV audio used)
7:30 - 7:42: restored Ryan Dunn segment (footage taken from The Lost Tapes, MTV audio used)
12:34 - 12:40: restored Bam Margera segment (footage taken from The Lost Tapes, MTV audio used)
-Episode 8:
0:50 - 2:00: original song
2:14 - 2:22: MTV footage used to remove a “don’t try this at home” message that wasn’t in the original broadcast
3:35 - 5:29: original song
5:42 - 7:03: original song
7:18 - 7:32: MTV footage used to remove a “don’t try this at home” message that wasn’t in the original broadcast
9:40 - 10:29: original song
11:01 - 11:10: Lost Tapes footage used to remove a “don’t try this at home” message that wasn’t in the original broadcast
17:16 - 17:45: original song
17:52 - 20:28: original song
Season 2:
This season didn’t require nearly as much work as the first season did though some major censorship still happened. However, similar to the first season, a shot of Dave England puking was censored in the intro of these episodes (replaced with a shot of one of the guys rolling down the street on a toilet), so I restored the original shot to every episode as well. Also the first four episodes had an earlier, alternate version of the “WARNING” crossbones screen (which includes an alternate voice over for it) compared to the one seen in the second half of this season and the third season. Unfortunately the source I had for it wasn’t nearly as good as the alternate skull variant in the first season, so I had to do a tiny bit of reconstructing to restore it, but needless to say it’s back in the first four episodes now. Two episodes of this season though have the most baffling edits I’ve seen of the show, which is that both episodes for whatever reason have their proper season intros replaced with the season 1 intro, which makes 0 sense to me but either way I restored the correct intro to those episodes.
-Episode 9:
7:48 - 7:56: original song (very sloppily replaced in the Paramount+ version I have to say)
7:57 - 8:03: original “coming up next” segment restored
8:52 - 10:12: original song
11:37 - 13:45: song wasn’t replaced but the MTV audio sounded a lot better so it’s been utilized
14:13 - 15:34: original song
15:35 - 17:55: MTV audio used due to sounding a lot better than the Paramount+ audio (the latter even has some missing sound effects)
-Episode 10:
3:32 - 4:10: original fire extinguisher segment restored though some restoration work had to be used to restore the crossbones skull logo (primarily taken from The Lost Tapes, replaced with a repeat segment from episode 3)
3:43 - 3:48 some MTV footage had to be used along with the aforementioned crossbones logo being restored
10:20 - 10:32: original Bam Margera segment restored (mostly taken from The Lost Tapes, replaced with a repeat segment from episode 3)
-Episode 11:
3:04 - 3:17: original song
3:45 - 6:00: music specific moments used MTV audio due to sounding better than the Paramount+ audio (music itself remained unaltered)
6:29 - 7:46: original song
11:30 - 12:04: MTV audio used due to sounding better than the Paramount+ audio (music itself remained unaltered)
15:40 - 16:39: original song
-Episode 12:
7:04 - 8:34: original song
-Episode 13:
1:57 - 3:28: original song (funnily enough the replacement is a cover version of this song)
3:05 - 3:13: MTV footage used to remove a “don’t try this at home” text not in the original broadcast
4:26 - 5:00: original song along with Phil’s singing and whistling are restored
11:45 - 12:19: original Raab Himself segment restored (taken from the Volume 2 DVD, replaced with a repeat segment from episode 15)
12:29 - 12:33: footage from the Turd source used to remove a “Tony Hawk is a professional” text not in the original broadcast
13:53 - 14:01: original “coming up next” segment restored
17:51 - 20:07: original Milk Challenge segment restored (taken from The Lost Tapes) (replaced with a repeat segment from episode 15)
18:03 - 19:52: original song
21:10 - 21:15: original credits footage restored (taken from The Lost Tapes special features)
-Episode 14:
3:23 - 3:40: original Dave England segment restored (taken from the Volume 2 DVD) (replaced with a repeat segment from episode 15)
7:31 - 9:24: original song
9:25 - 9:43: original Steve-O segment restored (taken from The Lost Tapes)
10:38 - 10:42: brief amount of footage restored using the MTV recording
11:35 - 11:36: very very brief amount of footage restored using the MTV recording
11:35 - 13:48: original Human Raft segment restored (footage taken from The Lost Tapes) (replaced with a repeat segment from episode 1)
11:35 - 13:48: original song
13:56 - 14:34: original song
18:01 - 19:25: music not replaced but MTV audio used due to sounding better
20:26 - 21:30: original unaltered credits footage restored (taken from The Lost Tapes special features)
20:52 - 21:30: MTV audio used due to having the audio for the unaltered footage and sounding better
-Episode 15:
0:36 - 1:00: proper season 2 intro restored (replaced with season 1 intro)
1:41 - 3:46: original song
4:00 - 5:03: original song
7:21 - 8:04: original song
8:05 - 10:14: original song
16:38 - 17:10: original song
18:29 - 20:13: original song
-Episode 16:
0:24 - 0:49: proper season 2 intro restored (replaced with the season 1 intro)
1:02 - 2:04: original song
2:31 - 2:44: original song
3:08 - 3:26: original song
4:22 - 5:28: original song
5:36 - 6:56: original song
11:07 - 13:31: original song
15:37 - 16:23: original song
16:41 - 17:23: original song
17:26 - 18:52: original song
19:26 - 20:26: original song (the altered song ended up bleeding into the “on the next Jackass” segment so that got fixed too)
20:35 - 20:42: original song
Season 3:
This season was the least edited in terms of censorship, but some censorship still occurred. Like for example, almost all references to Brad Pitt were removed in the episodes he appeared in (to the point of covering his face with a black bar in shots with his face). However, this season was the absolute worst with music edits because every episode pretty much had almost every single song removed. Also similar to the second season, a few episodes for some unexplainable reason replaced the season 3 intro with the one used in season 1. Also similar to the first two seasons, a shot of Dave England puking has been replaced with a shot of Johnny Knoxville falling down stairs while naked (which is actually the version used for the rest of the episodes for this season), but it’s fortunate that this only affected the first episode of this season. I also chose to utilize the DVD version of the Gumball Rally special because the audio sounded much better and for another unexplainable reason, the Paramount+ version is severely zoomed in on all four sides while the DVD was not. Neither was completely uncut, but they didn’t have cuts in the same place, so no TV footage had to be upscaled to make the complete episode. (funnily enough the DVD was less cut than the Paramount+ version)
-Episode 17:
0:43 - 1:06: proper season 3 intro restored (replaced with season 1 intro)
0:59 - 1:02: alternate/differently edited shots restored to the intro (taken from their native episodes)
1:09 - 1:25: original song
2:10 - 2:39: original song
2:45 - 4:40: original song
5:03 - 7:11: original song
7:53 - 10:43: original song
10:44 - 10:57: original song
11:40 - 12:01: original song
12:11 - 12:23: original song
12:50 - 13:05: original song
14:31 - 14:53: original song
14:54 - 15:07: original “coming up next” segment restored
16:30 - 16:52: original song
16:53 - 20:21: original omelette segment restored (taken from the Volume 3 DVD) (replaced with repeats from episode 15)
20:22 - 20:30: original “on the next Jackass” segment restored using the Turd source
20:30 - 21:21: original credits footage restored (taken from The Lost Tapes special features) (funnily enough the audio remained unchanged), a hilariously sloppy edit was a single frame of one of the “original” shots that was altered still snuck in the Paramount+ version
-Episode 18:
2:41 - 4:20: original song
4:49 - 6:21: original song
6:21 - 7:40: no music replaced but the MTV audio sounded better
7:44 - 7:48: MTV audio used because Paramount+ audio cut out too early
8:13 - 8:29: no music replaced but the MTV audio sounded better
9:01 - 9:31: no music replaced but the MTV audio sounded better
10:08 - 11:00: original song
14:04 - 14:12: MTV audio used because Paramount+ audio cut out too early
-Episode 19:
0:37 - 1:01: proper season 3 intro restored (replaced with season 1 intro)
1:29 - 1:59: original song
2:48 - 4:37: original song
4:38 - 6:10: original song
9:39 - 10:57: original song
12:35 - 13:45: original song
14:10 - 15:24: original song
-Episode 20:
1:10 - 3:31: original song
4:12 - 5:46: original song
8:54 - 10:02: original song
10:16 - 10:57: original song
12:09 - 12:18: original song
12:32 - 15:03: original song
16:33 - 17:35: no music replaced but the MTV audio sounded better
-Episode 21:
4:28 - 6:42: original song
7:00 - 8:13: original song
13:43 - 15:14: original song
15:40 - 17:14: original song
-Episode 22:
0:56 - 2:48: original song
2:49 - 3:26: original song
4:37 - 5:17: original song
13:59 - 14:37: original song
16:16 - 16:41: original song
-Episode 23:
3:53 - 4:39: original song
7:52 - 8:09: original “coming up next” segment and commercial fade-in intro restored using Paramount+ footage
8:37 - 9:14: original song
10:24 - 11:10: original song
14:46 - 15:41: original song
15:42 - 16:02: original “coming up next” segment and commercial fade-in intro restored using Paramount+ footage
24:49 - 25:27: original song
25:28 - 25:50: original “coming up next” segment and commercial fade-in intro restored using Paramount+ footage
26:25 - 27:37: original song
28:59 - 29:08: brief amount of Steve-O footage restored using Paramount+ footage
28:59 - 29:19: song restored to its original spot
35:15 - 35:35: original “coming up next” segment and commercial fade-in intro restored using Paramount+ footage
39:47 - 40:23: original song
-Episode 24:
0:25 - 0:48: proper season 3 intro restored (replaced with season 1 intro)
1:10 - 1:40: original song
1:45 - 3:07: original song
3:19 - 4:37: original song
4:38 - 6:29: original song
4:43: uncensored Brad Pitt credit restored (taken from the Volume 1 DVD special features)
6:08 - 6:12: brief amount of extra footage restored
6:59 - 8:03: original song
8:26 - 9:56: original song
11:53 - 13:18: original song
13:51 - 15:06: original song
16:11 - 16:59: original song
20:50 - 20:58: original uncensored Brad Pitt footage restored which had a face bar added in the Paramount+ version (taken from the Lost Tapes bonus disk)
-Episode 25:
0:13 - 0:17: extra intro footage restored (taken from the Lost Tapes bonus disk)
1:01 - 1:23: proper season 3 intro restored (replaced with season 1 intro)
1:24 - 2:31: original Brad Pitt abduction segment restored (taken from the Volume 1 DVD special features)
2:31 - 2:40: original Chris Pontius segment restored, MTV footage used due to the Turd source having an extra logo not in the original broadcast
2:41 - 3:02: original song
3:12 - 4:00: original silence restored
4:00 - 4:21: MTV audio used due to the Paramount+ audio being edited to remove the song playing in background
5:01 - 5:43: original song
6:15 - 6:24: original song
6:51 - 7:04: original song
7:34 - 7:46: original song
8:24 - 9:40: original song
9:50 - 11:04: original song
11:04 - 11:22: original song
13:20 - 13:50: original song
14:08 - 15:22: original background silence restored
16:23 - 16:57: original Totem Pole segment restored using the Turd source, audio taken from the MTV recording
17:26 - 18:38: original song
18:39 - 18:54: original song
19:05 - 20:00: original song
20:49 - 20:50: original unbleeped audio restored
21:01 - 21:03: uncensored blackface footage restored (taken from the Lost Tapes bonus disk)
21:15 - 21:27: uncensored Brad Pitt footage and audio restored (footage taken from the Lost Tapes bonus disk), audio from the MTV recording used
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