The Joe Schmo Show is a reality television parody show which aired on the American cable network Spike TV from 2003–2004. The show's premise is that a target person or persons are led to believe that they are contestants on a reality television show; in reality, all of the other participants in the purported show – including the host – are actors, and their actions and the outcome of the purported show are all scripted in an attempt to elicit comedic reactions from the targets. The show ran for two seasons: The Joe Schmo Show aired in 2003 and Joe Schmo 2 aired in 2004, and a third series of the show will air in 2013. The series were created by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, who both also created Invasion Iowa. The first season was released on DVD in 2004 and the second season was released on DVD in 2009.
Read more about The Joe Schmo Show: The Joe Schmo Show (Season One), Joe Schmo 2 (Season Two), The Joe Schmo Show: The Full Bounty (Season Three), International Versions
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“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)