Whacked Out Sports
Whacked Out Sports is an American syndicated reality television series which features professional and amateur videos of sports-related mishaps, crashes and bloopers. The show has a comedic theme and uses a narrative voiceover to highlight aspects of the clips. Whacked Out Sports, created and produced by Mark O'Brien, founder of Mighty Oak Entertainment and distributed by Stream Go Media, features 170 episodes and has been in syndication on Fox broadcasting since 2006.
Subject matter
The show consists entirely of short video clips featuring sports-related stunts and odd sporting events. The clips are accompanied by irreverent and wacky narration which is intended to present sometimes shocking images in a humorous manner.High points from the clips are generally replayed several times for maximum effect, a technique also used on the similar show MXC. The narrator, Tom Gottlieb, uses a juvenile commentary to help create the lighthearted nature of the show; for example, stating "he's using his noggin to steer the toboggan" when referring to a luge accident. Another trademark feature of the show are the often cartoonish stock sound effects such as screams, punches, crashes, and groaning men sounds after scenes of crashes, falls, fights or other incidents are shown.
Because of the show's mature content, it contains a special content disclaimer at the beginning of each episode and is usually aired in late night hours.
The clips for Whacked Out Sports are collected from videos taken by various sources around the world.
As the series continued, newer episodes would recycle clips from older episodes, as most of the clips shown appear to be from now-outdated VHS camcorders that were common when the series began, but obsolete only a few years later with the advent of smartphones. Newer episodes of the series also include skits featuring bikini models doing various wacky and sexually suggestive activities.