The Odd Couple comes to reality television! People generally do not go out on Sunday nights because they have to get up to work the next day. What usually grips me for evening entertainment is tuning in to Trailer Park Boys on Showcase at 9pm EST. But I'm happy to have found a new Sunday night amusement in Kenny vs. Spenny that follows right after the Boys at 9:30pm EST.The odd couple comes to reality television! The show also makes for great "did you see..." discussions to start the week!
Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice (Spenny) are life-long friends. They star in this unique reality/comedy series revolving around the relationship - and rivalry - between them. Each week, Kenny and Spenny challenge each other to perform outrageous real-life competitions and will stop at nothing to sabotage, humiliate and one-up each other in a never-ending quest for supremacy.
I have laughed through three episodes thus far. Spenny plays the straight man, always taking the high road to win the contests. He always suspects that Kenny, the wisecracker and schemer who is always looking for a shortcut to victory, may cheat. They live together in a downtown Toronto house that is wired for camera and sound and is followed by a production crew that participates in the antics as well.
The contests are pretty far out, and resemble MTV's Jackass. To give you an idea of what the contests are like, I'm listing them as they appeared in each episode:
- Who can drink the most beer without puking?
- Who can stay naked the longest?
- Who has the biggest balls (guts)?
I was hooked with the first contest - the drinking contest. Kenny chose the type of beer that they would drink. Spenny bought the beer and both would label their bottles with red and white to determine the beer count. What Spenny does not know is that Kenny chose that particular beer because there is a non-alcoholic version. Kenny replaces his allotted beer with non-alcoholic ones and hilarity ensues as he pretends to be drunk. He doesn't stop there, but also uses every trick in the book. To Spenny's credit, he never puked. Kenny had to induce vomiting on himself while Spenny was passed out, and told Spenny that he was the one that puked.
Article comments
1 - Rob
These guys are hilarious. I'm glad it's on Showtime now instead of the CBC. Now they don't have to edit the show for all age viewing. I saw the Naked Contest last week and I'm still laughing!