7/22/2007: Stephen Assigns "This Is... Bill" To The Cast of Rutless

Your task is to film a stunt/skit for "This Is... Bill".
Just in case you have never watched This Is... Bill, here is the link to the videos: This Is... Bill Videos
This Is... Bill is the flagship of the Billtvshow.com website and original reason for the site. It is a Jackass style show that we produced back in the early 2000's. We have been talking about doing a third season for a long time and we even have filmed some good stuff for a third season, but we need a lot more and things have grown stagnant. Thus, I am throwing this task out there. Everyone on the cast must film a This Is... Bill style skit or stunt. If it is good enough, it could be featured in the third season. Suggestions: Public pranks, physical harm, hilarious acting. Watch the videos for ideas. (We've got eating skits covered for this season btw ;P)
Try not to duplicate or imitate our old ideas and try to be fresh and original, but within the Bill style. All submissions obviously must be video. Don't do anything to risk your well-being or life and we are not responsible for any injuries, the decision on what you do is ultimately up to you. All individuals involved must submit a video in which they are a star of the stunt or skit. Therefore, if you happen to film this along with other Rutless cast members, you will need to film a skit/stunt for each of you, so we should end up with 6 videos in the end. Have fun and don't die! You have two weeks to complete this one (August 4th).

7/22/2007: Todd completes "Telephone, Telly Font".... sort of..

I had 21 teenagers on Friday night for a Youth Lock-in. We had a blast and we played quite a few games. I was going to insert this game in the place of one of the other games we had planned, however they didn't want to play "Telephone"... try as I may.
It's my own fault really, I let them play a game called "Underground church" where there were 4 teens who were the "cops" and the rest of the group were christians. The cops were trying to keep the christians from getting into their church (which was one room in the actual church building). They chased each other and dragged each other to "jail" all night long. Little did I know how popular this game would be! Some of these kids had some repressed anger/cruelty to release. Whenever one of the christians would get thrown in jail, they were tortured by having to sing a song out of tune or stand on their head or say the alphabet backwards (fun toture!).

We also played a game called "Spew" with Alka-Seltzer and Ginger ale. Put the two in your mouth together and the last one to spew wins! Hilarious!

Another game we played was "Cracker ping-pong". You put a ping-pong ball in the middle of a table and two contestants on opposite sides of the table. When I said go, each contestant would put a cracker in their mouth and the first one to blow the ping-pong ball off of the other side of the table won. Needless to say, they probably spit more cracker on their opponent than they ended up eating!

All in all, it was a very fun and tiring night. I had no idea how old I had gotten until I tried chasing 21 teenagers around the church building. I'm actually surprised that I could almost keep up with them speed-wise, but I paid the price for it yesterday afternoon. I had more muscles hurting than I knew I had.

I didn't get to play the "telephone" game, but they wanted to play underground church about 5 times. So, this night was definitely out of my rut and that's the point, isn't it!? :D

7/20/2007: Stephen Assigns "Telephone, Telly Font" To Todd

You must play a game of telephone with at least 6 people, including yourself.
The game is telephone. All the players get in a circle. The first person has a phrase and they whisper it to the next person and it continues around the circle until it gets to the last person and they must then say the phrase out loud. Odds are, it will have changed since the start and that is the fun of the game. You must use the 5 phrases that I provide you. A few things to remember: Whispers only. Only whisper the phrase once to the next person. Be ready to write down the resulting phrase so that you can post it here for us later. Post reactions and possibly audio if you can.
The 5 phrases you must use:
1. Mahogany tables don't look good painted fuschia.
2. Canteloupes are good for you in the morning.
3. Storm surge is up to over sixteen feet.
4. Cabin fever is contagious in many parts of the southeast.
5. My midichlorian count is well over a thousand parts per million.

7/20/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Trick This!"

Well, when I started out, this seemed near impossible to do. I started out trying to do it off of the ground and then off a tee. I looked like a duck flailing as it was mauled by a wolverine. Then I tried hitting the ball off of the driving range mat, with a slight incline in it. I kept going under the ball and it would simply roll backwards. Then I put Tyson's wallet in front of it and tried that and eventually I got it to flop backwards just a few feet. But, overall, up to that point, it was a failure. Little did I know the kid in the video had actually stacked two balls on top of each other. This is exactly what the driving range owner suggested, so I did that and that worked fantastically. In fact, all 3 were higher than the kid's shot in the video. I didn't even think about him catching it in the video until after I just rewatched it. That wouldn't have been hard to do either, I just wasn't trying to. Anyways, check out the video.
Golf Trick (Medium: 3.97 MB)

7/20/2007: Nathan Assigns "Trick This" To Stephen

Your task is to try to recreate a golf trick shot I saw on YouTube.

Requirements: Video yourself trying to recreate this golf trick shot. GOLF TRICK SHOT I might suggest trying it with plastic balls instead of real ones, so not to loose any balls in the process. If your get good at it then try to do it with real golf balls and film that for a later post if you want to.

Have fun with this and I want to see it next time on the course.

7/19/2007: Nathan Has Completed "Micheal Vick"

This was the craziest thing I have done yet. I think the people around here think I am crazy now. I tried to explain myself to a couple of the people, but they didn't want to hear it.

I went first to the local park and started to hand them out to people that were walking around the walking park. I got a couple of no think yous and one or two "Is this for real". I did happen to get one teenager to take it and said that he would come. I had to explain myself then. I told him that if he could fine the place then he could come, but don't expect me there. I put one up on the bathrooms at the park just to say I was there.

I then went to a grocery store and went around the parking lot putting them on windows of cars. I got a old man mad and he told me I better get out of here and not to come back with crap like this.

So I finally went to the local Burger King and asked the guy behind the cash register to put one up in the restaurant. He went and got the manager and she told me that if this was for real then she was going to commit me to Broughton. I finally had to confess that I was doing it for a task on a website and she laughed and tried to play along the best she could.

In all the task was interesting to see how people reacted when a normal guy went and handed out what would be a crime in this town. I am glad that I won't see these people to much or they would start spreading a rumor about me.

Here is the flyer:

7/19/2007: Nathand Accepts "Micheal Vick"

I think this will be an easy one that I can do with the wife away on in service. I hope that I can make it unbelievable enough where people won't really take me for real.

7/18/07: Allison Assigns "Michael Vick" to Nathan

Your task is to make a fictional animal fight at a fictional location in Hudson, and to pass out fliers to a few people to let them know about your fictional fight. Michael Vick was recently indicted for owning a house where dog fighting took place, so it inspired me.

Your animals can be anything you want. Cats, Zebras, Ligers, or something you make up will do just fine. Just make sure you use a fictional location in Hudson (the town where Nathan lives) so that people don't try to arrest anyone :)

Post a copy of your flier for us to see and tell us people's reactions to this animal fight.

7/18/07: Allison Completes "Puppet Paparazzi"

Today I followed Blipple, the sock puppet. She was made from my boyfriend's sock and some Sharpies. She is named Blipple because when her arms were drawn on, they looked more like blue nipples rather than arms.

Blipple is a socialite movie star who is 21. She just turned 21 after having complete a 45 day stint in rehab for drunk driving.

First Blipple woke up and hung around with her on again boyfriend Beefcake for a while:


Then we followed her to the Ivy, where she had some nachos and water for lunch. And a cigarette, because that's what socialites eat.


Then she talked on the phone for a while:


After a pretty productive day of being a socialite, Blipple then decided to go the Pure Nightclub. Considering she just got out of Alcohol Rehab, we were shocked and appalled to see the 21 year old drinking beer!!


OH the scandal! Someone call Perez Hilton!!

7/17/2007: Marianne Assigns “Puppet Paparazzi” to Allison

You can make a puppet out of a sock, paper bag, or whatever but try to make it with eyes, nose, mouth, hair, etc. You may opt to make it glamorous because this puppet is going to have the paparazzi (you) tailing it all day.

Requirements: Make the puppet, give it a name, a story why the paparazzi are interested in it and take pictures of the puppet all day. Post the story and pictures with captions. The pictures should be like 'a day in the life of'.

Hint: Think- US Weekly, In Touch, and Star.

7/17/2007: Marianne Completes "Pete and Repeat"

Well, I started this one with the first child I saw after learning I was going today. Lucky for him, my 14 year old was the closest person to me. I told him I had a riddle for him and then said the riddle. He said “Oh, I get it.” then walked away. Oh to be 14 again and know everything. Anyway, that’s where I’m sure he would have liked the fun to stop but like any good mom, I wouldn’t let it go. I followed him around and said it a few more times to get some kind of reaction but the only reaction I got was from my 4 year old, who by the way, did not get the answer right and thought Pete was in the boat. I told her a few more times (changing it slightly so she could figure it out on her own) and when she finally got it and said “Repeat” I repeated it. By repeating it, she thought she got it wrong again and just confused her and I started to worry she’d have learning problems so I gave up and told her it was a riddle and that repeat meant ‘to say it again’ and that’s the joke. She caught on a little, thank goodness, and we went in to tell my husband our funny riddle. He caught on right away and played along for the 4 year olds sake and I am happy to say she laughed and thought it was funny as can be and is now still repeating this riddle, over and over and over again. Fun stuff.
Having had enough torturing my 14 year old and my 4 year old busy torturing my husband, I set off to find my 16 year old, after all no sense he shouldn’t be part of this. I called him away from his video game by stomping on the floor. We have a system around here, when we can’t find the teenagers, we stomp on the floor and they magically appear from the cave they have in the basement. (It took training but works like a charm.) When he came up the stairs, I didn’t tell him I had a riddle, I just socked it to him. He fell for it and said “Repeat” so I did, and then he answered again “Repeat” so I did, and then he said “Repeat” and I started to say it again but he interrupted and asked “How many times can you do this?” So I finished the riddle without answering his question and he tried to answer me by spelling the answer this time but didn’t do too well because he said, ”R-E-P-E-T-E”; that’s when the mocking started and he tried to quickly correct himself by saying, “R-E-P-E-A-T”, but it was too late, we all heard it and continued mocking him. He said “Did you call me up here for this, I’m controlling the room for Call of Duty, there’s something wrong with all of you”. I asked him to spell ‘Call of Duty’ and we laughed some more and then he went back down to the cave.

He would like me to clarify for all of you that he DOES know how to spell repeat but that he was trying to joke and spell Pete by saying r-e-p-e-t-e. By including this sentence he said it does not change the fact that I’m writing it and still doesn’t like it.

One of my sisters stopped over and the timing couldn’t have been any better because the only one left in this house to tell the riddle to was the baby. I told her the riddle and she said “Repeat” and I did, then she said “How many times are you going to do this? Dad used to say that riddle all the time. ” I don’t recall my dad saying this riddle but it wouldn’t surprise me if it were true because I am MUCH younger than her and she probably remembers things more clearly than I, the MUCH younger sister.

Her son, who is 15, had come with her and it was around this time that he decided to pipe in and ask “What?” Fool. I then told him the riddle and with a very confused look answered “Repeat?” Then I repeated the riddle and he said,”Ah. I get cha” then waved me off.
This wasn’t so bad, it was actually pretty fun. I don’t have any pics because for one I don’t really want to post my kids on the web and two, they wouldn’t let me.

7/17/207: Marianne Accepts "Pete and Repeat"

Hey, I know this one.

Cast Order For The Week Of 7/16/2007

This will be the last week of individual tasks for Season 2 of Rutless and we will be concluding Season 2 next week with a big bang, as we will be doing a 6 person team task. That task will be posted by me later this week.
For this week:

Monday: N/A
Tuesday: Marianne
Wednesday: Allison
Thursday: Nathan
Friday: Stephen
Saturday: Todd

7/17/2007: Nathan Assigns "Pete and Repeat" To ?

Find out who will fall for the riddle the most.
Your task is to go around and ask at least 5 people of all age groups the riddle " Pete and Repeat were in a boat, Pete fell out, who was left?" and if they say repeat say it again till they get the joke. Try to remember the number of times and post each on the blog. Also include the person's picture if allowed and maybe a hidden video of you playing the joke on some one. Post the reactions of the people and don't stop at 5 if you have time.

Have fun and be careful of who you ask.

7/16/2007: Nathan Has Completed "Paper Planes"

This was a fun task that took a while to download the pictures off my camera, but a fun one at that. I took a sample of 5 different planes that I found the design for at Alex's Paper Planes. I laid down a tape measure down the hall and let the best design win. I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

This is all the planes laid out from right to left of how they were flown.


#1: Amanda's Special

12'3"


#2: The Classic Dart

15'8.5"


#3: Origami Paper Airplane 3

13'9"


#4: Second Origami Plane

15'3.5"


#5: Flying Fish

17"


As you can see the Flying Fish out flew the competition. I might suggest that each of you try to go to the site and fly your own creation and try some of the designs on the site to see if yours can outlast the best.

7/16/2007: Nathan Accepts "Paper Planes"

Sorry for the Late post, but I had the In-Laws in from out of town and the little wife was watching me like a hawk. I will have this task done and posted by tonight if that is cool. Sorry for the inconvenience, but like I said the wife was watching me like a hawk and life would be rough if anything happened to ruin the weekend.

This will be an easy one since there are like only a million different types of planes to make out of paper. I will fly them on my lunch break and post after I get back from lunch.

7/14/2007: Marianne Assigns "Paper Planes" to Nathan

Make different model paper airplanes and fly them for distance records.
Requirements: You will need to make different model paper airplanes and record their distance. I don't know how many different models there are but try to get a good variety and plenty of pictures or recordings. Let us know which ones fly best and which ones are useless.

7/14/2007: Marianne Completes "Print it!"

There is not a PaintShop on this computer but there is a paint. So this will probably take all day to download but that's an even trade because it took me all day to do this task. It's not that it was hard, I just don't know how to do a whole lot of stuff on this new computer yet. It's a pain and I did three pages which is a great feat (you have no idea how great) if it doesn't load...maybe I'll care by Tuesday.

7/14/2007: Marianne Accepts "Print It!"

Shouldn't be that hard.

7/12/2007: Stephen Assigns "Print It!" To Marianne

You must create a fake, sensational newspaper today.
You must design and create a two or more page fake, sensational newspaper with ridiculous stories in it. Refer to The Onion online fake newspaper for ideas. Please provide us with images, scans, whatever so that we can see and read your paper.

7/12/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Thing In A Jar"

This was a pretty fun task actually. You can view the flickr images below by clicking on the pics below. Here is the description of what happened:
I realized it would be way too hard to try and build a model like the guy did on the website, so I improvised and carved a monkey fetus looking thing out of a potato, with two peppercorns for eyes. Then I made the liquid concoction for the jar. I started with tea and BBQ sauce and then added in more buttermilk that gave it a nice haze and finished it off with water. Then I plopped the monkey fetus into the jar and added a weird label. I took it with me to Tyson's house and convinced his grandma that it was a real monkey fetus. The haziness of the liquid really helped in shielding it from being seen for what it really was. Tyson and I went to play golf and I took it with me there. On returning, Tyson's grandma wanted to see if again to show it to her friend. After leading them on about it for awhile, I revealed what it really was by pouring it all out and then destroyed the potato fetus with a 4 iron.

7/12/2007: Stephen Chooses "Thing In A Jar" From The Refusal Pool

From the refusal pool:
Today you must carry around a thing in a jar with you.
Requirements: Go to this site: http://www.traipse.com/thing_in_a_jar/
Now you know what you need to do. Create a thing in a jar and carry it with you today. Take some pics for us so we can see it. Let us know if people asked about it and if so, what they thought it was.

I'm gonna try to do this one. Marianne also knows her task, so we should be able to get things rolling along again.

7/11/2007: Brad Cannot Complete "Town Hall Hunt"

Even if Brad had completed this task over the weekend and his previously assigned Deff Comp 3 task, he had already accumulated 3 prior refusal points this season and thus will be leaving Rutless. We thank him for helping out at the end of Season 1 and through this Season.

Cast Order For The Week Of 7/9/2007

Allison's grandmother died and she will not be with us this week and will be in Georgia. I'm sure the cast of rutless can echo me in sending her our deepest condolences. We will start this week's tasks off on Tuesday. The order is:

Monday: N/A
Tuesday: Todd
Wednesday: Brad
Thursday: Stephen
Friday: Marianne
Saturday: Nathan

7/8/07: Allison Assigns "Harry Potter and the Two Towers" to ?

Whomever you are, your task is to go around on Monday telling people that you know the secret of the last Harry Potter book, which comes out later this month. You can tell them that you are J.K. Rowling's second cousin and that she told you the secret. Tell people you are charging and see if anyone will pay you money to learn who dies in the last book.

If anyone does pay, you must tell them that Bilbo Baggins dies. This is the great secret you have and that is what you must tell people. If you must, you can make up something else completely different, as long as it's not the real truth... which I guess we'll all find out later. :)

Requirements: Tell us if anyone fell for your trick and paid you money. Also, tell us what story you came up with as the secret.

7/7/07: Allison Completes "Fruit of Your Loom"

Strangely enough, no one that I asked this question to gave me the correct answer. Of course, I didn't realize it until later when I looked up the actual answer myself, on the Fruit of the Loom Website.

Most people said apple, banana, pear and grape. I myself thought apple, banana, orange and grape. I asked about 20 people, and most of them responded with some variation of these few fruits.

The fact is that the real fruit of the loom only has an apple, green grapes, purple grapes, and a leaf. That's it. Check out the commercials from the link on the website.

7/7/2007: Brad Cannot Complete "Deff Comp 3"

Just never completed.

7/6/2007: Nathan Assigns "Deff Comp 3" To Brad

Today you must build 3 computers with a limited budget.

Requirements: You must build three different computers to sever three different functions with a limited budget. Don't get your panties in a bunch. You will visit Tigerdirect.com and find the parts to build the computers and post the prices and why you picked the parts to build that particular computer. Here are you three computers and their budgets:

1. A family computer that needs to be able to burn DVD/CD and need to be able to upload pictures off media cards.
Budget: $600

2. The ultimate gaming computer that has everything that you will need to do both online gaming and network party gaming.
Budget: $900

3. A personal business computer that you will need to run your at home business that you can take images or powerpoint presentations to outside business to sell your product. This will have to include either a blueberry or other form of traveling device.
Budget:$1250

Have fun and don't forget that you will need everything from tower to screen.

7/6/2007: Nathan Has Completed "Digg This!"

This was great getting to read different things about what people post and other stories. I actually loved the site and will plan on using it at least once a day to see what stories (mostly sports) will be posted. Well here are the stories in no particular order.

1. http://blog.yourminis.com/2007/07/a-better-digg-t.html

This was a pretty cool page that I thought was a cool idea for a new digg button. I don't think people actualy appreciate the old school Mario anymore. I would make it a little more like Mario jumping on a turtle or kicking Bowser's anus or something.

2. http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=66434CA6FE6500D6A04B9F946D779145?contentId=3641729&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

How freaking stupid can you be? A lady walks up with $16,000 and expects to buy all of the iphones. I don't think she actually reads the fine print of adds in the newspaper. I know that I read all the print when there is sales to see actually if I can get enough to do whatever with. The other fact is she actually has that much money and walks around with it. I thought she would have got jumped and robbed. For that much money I would have done it in the middle of Central Park for all I care.

3. http://consumerist.com/consumer/investigations/video-consumerist-catches-geek-squad-stealing-porn-from-customers-computer-271963.php

This creaps me out. To know that all my stuff off my computer can be snagged by a stranger when he or she fixes my computer. I know that I won't be taking my computer to anyone other than who I know for now. That is the only way I know that my personal stuff will be safe.

4. http://youtube.com/watch?v=hvNujZ3ZDKs

Dang that would suck to pay that much money and watch it hit the ground. This guy is a clumsy moron in my books. How do you just fling the box open without first making it safe to take it out of the box.

5. http://www.fazed.org/content/clock_spider/

This would freak me out to come home and find that sitting behind my clock. I am surprised we didn't see a video of the thing jumping on the guy's face and like sucking his eyes out.

6. http://www.spinwall.com/funny/croceatdog.html

This is one of those "lmao" when you see it. I can't believe that a guy would make his dog do this. I bet the croc's stomach was filled with so much crap that it stunk for a week.

7. http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=10626

This is another picture of a dumb animal trying to show its dominance over another species. The would be like me trying to knock out Chuck Lidell in the octogon.

8. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070222-squid-pictures.html?source=G1902

That thing is like freaking huge. I would loved to catch him or her on a rod and like had the fight of my life. I wounder if they took it back and ate it?

9. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070701/ap_on_bi_ge/7_eleven_kwik_e_mart;_ylt=AtfqSv0GxYvei3wi0HJBVCSb.HQA

Finally they get the clue that more and more americans like the Simpson's and will be shopping there just to say they drank or ate the same stuff and the real characters. I am waiting for one around here and some special guest appearances to open the store with.

10. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/719426704_02518807b9_b.jpg

How freaking stupid can the witch be. American wearing British shirt gets gang beat at a Independence Day Parade is what the caption should say. Come on we kick their butt and took their name and sent them back to mommy and she wears that crap. I am disgusted.

There they are in no random order. I liked the site and will visit it back for more news on stupid crap that happens or gets caught on tape. I suggest anyone go to it and digg up your own news.

7/6/2007: Nathan accepts "Digg This!"

This is going to be sweet. Since Stephen showed me Stumbleupon.com I have been looking for a new site to find other stuff on the net other than what I am used to. I think I am going to like this task, because I get to read what is going on throughout the world.

7/4/2007: Stephen Assigns "Digg This!" To Nathan

Today you must sign up on Digg.com and starting digging some stories.
Requirements: Being a good net citizen, I like to show people places where they can get the full experience of the internet. This is very much like Brad's StumbleUpon task, however you will be looking at a slightly different website. First of all, you must go to digg.com and sign up for an account. Then you must visit the following two pages:
Most Popular News Stories In The Last Week
Most Popular Videos In The Last Week
Look thoroughly through those stories and use your account to "digg" at least 10 of them and then link to your favorite ten stories or videos in your post.

7/4/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Slogan Slinger"

Ok, sorry for the late posting on this, however, I think it was worth the wait. While I think this was one of the harder tasks I've ever had to do, it turned out to probably be one of the best. I went into the local Ingles and looked for like 30 minutes for everything on the list, except for Calgon. I didn't even bother looking for it, as I have never even really heard of it. I just got a Sunkist and made up a slogan for it, which I think most should find quite amusing. Anyways, the checkout process was horribly embarrassing, but in the end it turned out for the best. I have recorded audio of the encounter. The sound is a bit muffled, as the recorder was in my pocket. You should be able to make out most of the slogans though. Here is the audio file:
Slogan Slinger (96 kbps)

Also, here are a few pics:

Outside Ingles

Rice Krispies & Frosted Flakes

Sunkist: It's F--king Sunkist.

7/3/2007: Marianne Assigns "Slogan Slinger" To Stephen

Today you’re going to purchase items with famous slogan lines and as they are scanned at the store, say them to the cashier.
Requirements: A list of national products are given below, the slogan for those products are in parenthesis next to it. You need to shop for these products and then get in line to check out. As each item is passed over the scanner you need to say the slogan that goes with the product to the cashier. You need to describe the cashier’s reaction, the reaction of the people around you and what everyone said. A video would be great but will settle for audio and pictures.

Campbell’s Soup (M’mm Good)
Kraft Macaroni N Cheese (It’s the cheesiest)
Frosted Flakes (They’re Grrreat!)
Bounty (The Quicker Picker Upper)
Alka Seltzer (Plop Plop Fizz Fizz Oh What A Relief It Is)
Calgon (Calgon Take Me Away)
Rice Krispies (Snap! Crackle! Pop!)
M&M’s (The chocolate melts in your mouth not in your hands.)
Kool-Aide (Hey Kool-Aide!)
Milk (Got Milk?)
Almond Joy/Mounds (Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t)
Sure (Raise your hand if you’re sure)
You can take two of the given off the list but you need to add two of your own back on because you need to do a total of twelve products.

7/3/2007: Marianne Completes "Futile Fishing"

After having discovered I had no fishing license, I headed to the nearest sewer drain. I almost really caught a few frogs. They were lounging around eating bugs in what my husband tells me is a storm drain not a sewer. If I had caught any of those frogs I would have freaked 'cause that's just gross.

I guess this should be something I shouldn't show people....but hey I'm a busy mom and it doesn't take long for pool water to turn green when you don't put chemicals in the water. So here I am fishing in the kiddie pool, if I would have caught something in here I wouldn't have been that surprised.