Series synopsis
Viva La Bam is an American reality comedy action & adventure television series that premiered on MTV2 on October 26, 2003. It ended on August 14, 2005. It was created by Bam Margera. It stars Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, April Margera and Brandon DiCamillo.
Viva La Bam was an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared. Each episode had a specific theme, mission, or challenge which was normally accomplished by performing pranks, skateboarding, and enlisting the help of friends, relations and experts. Although partly improvised, the show was supported by a greater degree of planning and organization.
Premise
Viva La Bam was an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared. Each episode had a specific theme, mission, or challenge which was normally accomplished by performing pranks, skateboarding, and enlisting the help of friends, relations and experts. Although partly improvised, the show was supported by a greater degree of planning and organization.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Bam Margera as Self
- Ryan Dunn as Self
- April Margera as Self
- Brandon DiCamillo as Self
- Chris Raab as Self
- Phil Margera as Self
- Vincent Margera as Self
- Rake Yohn as Self
Guest cast
Episodes
This series spans 6 seasons with 62 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 22 | October 26, 2004 | April 26, 2006 |
| Season 1 | 8 | October 26, 2003 | December 14, 2003 |
| Season 2 | 8 | April 25, 2004 | June 13, 2004 |
| Season 3 | 8 | October 24, 2004 | December 12, 2004 |
| Season 4 | 8 | March 6, 2005 | April 24, 2005 |
| Season 5 | 8 | June 26, 2005 | August 14, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Phil's Hell Day (Unaired Segments) Unaired segments of the "Phil's Hell Day" episode including 15 minutes of extra footage. |
October 26, 2004 |
| 2 |
Don't Feed Phil (Unaired Segments) Unaired segments of the "Don't Feed Phil" episode including 8 minutes of extra footage. |
October 26, 2004 |
| 3 |
The Family Reunion (Unaired Segments) Unaired segments of the "The Family Reunion" episode including 5 minutes of extra footage. |
October 26, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Phil's Hell Day (a.k.a. Bam's Skate Park) Bam wants to get Phil angry. So in the middle of the night, Bam decides to install a fireman's pole in his room. Bam begins by creating a hole in floor with a chainsaw. The sound of the construction wakes April and Phil. Phil comes to Bam's room to see what's going on. Phil sees a big hole in the floor but he doesn't get angry. Next, Bam takes a bunch of Phil's clothes and irons on a graphic of hamburgers on them. As Phil is getting dressed he notices all the hamburgers on his clothes. Phil wonders where the hamburgers came from, but doesn't get angry. Next, in the middle of the night, Bam replaces Phil's toothpaste with ground meat. The next morning, Phil gets up and brushes his teeth. After a few brushes, Phil spits out the meat. Bam shows Phil the meat as he squeezes the toothpaste tube but, Phil doesn't get angry. Next, Bam steals Phil's van and takes it to a junkyard. The van is crushed and demolished. The destroyed van is brought back to the house and placed in the driveway. Phil |
October 26, 2003 |
| 2 |
Bam Hosts A Concert (a.k.a. Don't Feed Phil) Can Phil go without food for an entire day? That's what Bam wants to find out. Like it or not, Phil's going on a starvation diet. For 24 hours, Bam has instilled his family, friends, and heck, the whole town with one simple message: Don't Feed Phil. It's a tough day, but Phil comes through in the end, logging 24 food free hours. And to celebrate his father's fast, Bam hosts a rock concert in his living room. |
November 2, 2003 |
| 3 |
The Family Reunion Bam wants to do something special for the family reunion. So he decides to build a drawbridge and a moat to replace the front door. But where will the big family dinner take place? Bam and his crew erect a walled area in the form of a castle in the front yard. The guests arrive but there is no food. Finally the food arrives, with Bam's crew dressed in medieval armor. To top it all, Compton Terry makes his entrance riding a top an elephant. Soon after, Bam's Grandmother leaves the party claiming ""this whole family is crazy!"" |
November 9, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Castle Bam Bam is tired of his family complaining about the house, so Bam and the crew pile into the Hummer in search of a new house. The first house they check out has a hockey rink in the basement. Bam and the boys play a quick game of hockey but the game quickly ends as Bam throws a lamp onto the floor. Bam proclaims that this house isn't what he's looking for. The crew continues their search among the tree-lined snow covered roads of West Chester, PA. Finally, the boys stumble upon a secluded house with acres of yard, complete with a unicorn mural painted on the side. Bam and the boys check out the house and decide that this is the one. The crew hastily move the Margera's belongings into the new house. During their unpacking, Bam's brother Jess pays an unexpected visit. Jess' band, CKY, is playing a show in Amsterdam. Bam and the boys decide to abandon their unpacking duties and head out to Amsterdam to check out CKY's show. April and Phil are left with the big job of unpacking and decorating |
April 25, 2004 |
| 2 |
Dating Don Vito While Bam and Dunn are busy ""landscaping"" the yard with their ATVs, April braves the mud and tells Bam he has a phone call. Bam learns that the legendary heavy metal band Slayer are coming to stay over. To prepare for Slayer's visit, the crew feels the need to do some decorating and modifications to the house. The modifications include an indoor mini-half in Bam's room, a pirate-themed bar downstairs and a full concert stage in the backyard. Bam plans to have a party when Slayer arrive, and Don Vito needs a date for the party. Brandon, Ryan and Raab go into town armed with Don Vito's picture, asking random women if they would like to go on a date with Don Vito. Most of the women refuse or just laugh as they walk away. Eventually, three women or shall we saw victims agree to meet Don Vito at a coffee shop. Before the dates, Don Vito is outfitted with a wireless ear piece where Bam can give commands to Don Vito. Bam and the crew monitor Don Vito's progress from afar and give suggestions |
May 2, 2004 |
| 3 |
Fat Boy Face-Off Bam enters Phil and Don Vito in a competition he calls ""Fat Boy Face Off."" The first event is a race where a hoagie is dangled in front of the contestants. The first to either cross the finish line or eat a hoagie becomes the winner. Phil, with much more hustle than Don Vito, crosses the finish line first. In the next event, Don Vito and Phil are blind folded and spun in circles. With their equilibrium off balance, Don Vito and Phil venture into a field were they have to find a chocolate cake propped up on a garbage can. Phil takes about one minute and thirty seconds to find the cake where as Don Vito, easily frustrated, takes about four minutes to find the cake. Chalk one up for Phil. The next event in the ""Fat Boy Face Off"" is an obstacle course affectionally labeled the ""Slobstacle Course."" The obstacle course includes crawling under a fence, running through tires, and finally eating a tray full of chicken wings. At the start Don Vito tries to sabatoge Phil by dragging him to the gr |
May 9, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Drive-Way Skate Park On a beautiful Saturday morning at Castle Bam, Ryan and Bam pick up the mail at the mailbox. As Bam gathers his mail, the box collapses to the ground. Suddenly, Bam gets an idea to turn his driveway into a driveway skate park. Resident carpenter and ramp building expert, Tim Glomb, is put on the job to build Bam's skateboarding vision. While Glomb is busy building the skate park's walls, Bam takes the family out to Los Angeles to find Hollywood flair. Bam's plan is to decorate the skate park with objects collected from celebrities. Bam travels around Hollywood paying visits to Jack Osbourne, Tommy Lee, Dave Grohl and N.E.R.D. Bam collects a smashed watch from Jack, a pair of drumsticks and a snare drum from Tommy Lee, a belt from Dave Grohl and an autographed trucker cap from N.E.R.D. Meanwhile, Don Vito is bent on finding the Playboy mansion. Rake and Raab accompany Don Vito on his quest. Eventually, Don Vito finds the Playboy mansion but is denied entrance. Don Vito starts to really |
October 24, 2004 |
| 2 |
Uncivil War After purchasing potato guns, Bam and the crew return to Castle Bam to engage in a potato gun battle, launching potatoes at each other from a great distance. Don Vito checks out the commotion. Bam decides to launch Don Vito's watch out of one of the potato guns. With the help of Jen, Bam obtains Vito's watch and places it into a potato gun. With much protest from Vito, they launch his watch into the forest. Bam and the crew go looking for the watch and to their surprise, they uncover an old Civil War cannonball. This historical artifact gives Bam the idea that they're going to ""party like it's 1899."" Bam goes to the fuse box of Castle Bam and shuts down power to the house. The Viva La Bam cast spend the rest of day with out electricity. The next morning, April and Phil are awakened by the sound of marching feet from the Civil War reenactment army approaching the front door. April asks Bam, ""What's going on?"" Bam yells ""Civil War reenactment!"" Bam tells the army to go to the backyard an |
October 31, 2004 |
| 3 |
Fort Knoxville This episode of Bam is all about war--Prank War, that is. Bam goes up against Johnny Knoxville and Ryan Dunn in one of the nastiest, raunchiest, filthiest prank wars ever shown on national television. After not having seen Knoxville in a year, Bam is awakened by the sounds of Knoxville taking a drill and an ax to his precious, candy-red Hummer. Without having discussed it with Bam, Knoxville has decided to transform the Hummer into a convertible. Knoxville manages to remove the top of the truck as well as bust out a few windows. What a way to say ""Good morning!"" This means war... On Day One of the Prank War, Bam gives Vito the key to Knoxville's hotel room and gives him clear instructions to do whatever he can to be the worst guest ever--including ""rent a porno, call an escort service, run up the phone bill, do what you gotta do."" When Knoxville walks into the room, he finds Vito lying in a disgusting bed smeared with pizza sauce and chicken grease. As if that wasn't enough, Vito (who |
November 7, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Eurotrip (1) Bam, his friends, and his family go on a trip to France. This is Bam's idea to treat Phil and April for their anniversary. The thing they don't know is that they are not alone. Bam, Vito, and his friends secretly follow them. |
March 6, 2005 |
| 2 |
The Eurotrip (2) Bam, his friends, and family celebrate April and Phil's anniversary. Nearly at the end, Vito has to go and ruin the whole thing. Later, Bam gets April and Phil another chance of having a great day while Raab and Dunn handcuff Vito out on a platform so he won't ruin another day for April and Phil. |
March 13, 2005 |
| 3 |
Working Class Bam On this episode Bam and his friends(including Don Vito) get jobs so they can pay the heating bill or clean like April. |
March 20, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Viva La Brazil Bam takes Don Vito to Brazil, what Vito thinks is in the Bahamas, and they hook up with pro-skater Bob Burnquist. Meanwhile, Dico turns April and Phil's pad into a more "rainforest-y" environment. |
June 26, 2005 |
| 2 |
Ape's Surprise Bam celebrates April's 20's for her birthday; Billy Idol guest appearance. |
July 3, 2005 |
| 3 |
Vito's Revenge When Don Vito has had enough of Bam's pranks, he seeks revenge. |
July 10, 2005 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | MTV2 |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 26, 2003 |
| Last aired | August 14, 2005 |
| Runtime | 20 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Sunday at 21:30:00 |