

We’ve talked a lot about Mr. Show skits that became reality and recently noticed someone doing the same thing here, but we all figured the total number would end somewhere around seven. Wrong.

We’ve talked a lot about Mr. Show skits that became reality and recently noticed someone doing the same thing here, but we all figured the total number would end somewhere around seven. Wrong.

Yesterday we heard about a guy who rents out friends for $10 an hour. “Rent a Friend can hire to hang out with, go to a movie or restaurant with” says the Telegraph. Now, compare that to Mr. Show’s Don Pratt who claims, “I’m just there to hang out with you for as long as you want.” Can you believe this shit? Reality is even quoting the Mr. Show skits it’s ripping off. Has it no shame?

Just to recap, Mr. Show skits that became reality now include:

1. Rap: The Musical

2. Swearing in Ads

3. A Guy on Death Row Becoming Too Retarded to Kill

4. Heavy Metal Therapy

5. Heavy Metal Restaurants

6. Fishing with Guns

7. Baby Massages

Then, later, readers added:

8. A Rapist Having to Wear a Shirt Admitting He’s a Sex Offender

9. A Crime Reporter Ordering Murders so He Can Have Something to Report

10. Blowing Up the Moon

The Spiteful Critic ripped off a bunch of ours (swearing in ads, the moon) and he also had some shaky ones we’re not counting, like Paris Hilton is Ronnie Dobbs? Huh? However, we will give him:

11. R&B Hits Based on One Word



12. Underground Tapes Railroad (at 8:20) was YouTube before YouTube



13. This one’ a bit of a stretch but Coupon the movie is basically Monopoly the movie.



David Cross sent this one…

14. Garth Brook’s “Standing Outside the Fire” is kind of the Bob Lamonta story.



15. And finally, this one isn’t a Mr. Show sketch but it seems as if reality has taken the formula and ran with it.

So that’s at least a dozen but kind of 15 things in the real universe that a bunch of stoners made up as a joke.

-GAVIN McINNES