We’re going to assume that by “lost,” they mean “originally rejected by Standards and Practices, retrofitted as a DVD-only, warehouse-clearing cash grab.” And as these things go, it’s pretty entertaining. Some of these skits have appeared on other “Jackass” sets – Johnny Knoxville subjects himself to pepper spray, a taser and a stun gun, while Dave Englund makes the appropriately named vomelet – but there are some bits that were too good to hit the cutting room floor, namely “Cowboy Skatepark” and “Wakeboarding.” They weren’t stingy either, compiling 93 scenes, though several of those scenes are five seconds or less. How much you enjoy “Jackass: The Lost Tapes” depends greatly on how much bathroom humor you can handle; seemingly every third skit involves poo of some kind, and just listening to Englund regurgitating a gallon of milk is graphic enough to elicit the same response in the viewer. None of it is necessarily essential – though Steve-O is surely glad to see that the scene where he was branded on the heart made the cut, after complaining to us about its exclusion from the broadcast – but it would make a nice stocking stuffer for the jackass in your life.
