Jackass was an American reality comedy series, originally shown on MTV in one year from Fall 2000 to Summer 2001, for 25 episodes in half-hour format, featuring people performing various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, self-injuring stunts and pranks. Series overview Each episode is approximately 21:30 in length (without commercials), except for the first (20:05) and last (19:30) episodes and the one-hour special (41:50 without ads). The pilot was originally broadcast April 12, 2000 on the MTV Network, then repeated as the first episode of the series on October 1, 2000. Episodes were broadcast on Sunday nights on MTV. Reruns were shown in weeks without an original broadcast, and the entire series was rebroadcast into early 2002. Episodes Season 1 (2000) Season 2 (2001) Season 3 (2001) DVD releases The DVD release of the Jackass television series is unconventional in that instead of being released as full season sets as the show was originally aired, the individual stunts and sketches were re-compiled into 22 new "episodes", and released on five DVDs over a 7 year period. Contrary to popular assumption, Volumes One through Three do not line up exactly with the TV seasons and each volume contains segments from across all three seasons. However, the opening stunt of each DVD "episode" does correspond to the same number TV episode's first stunt, and several of the other stunts also match in each episode. Volume 1 "episodes" 1-5 roughly correspond to s1 e1-5, Volume 2 1-5 to s2 e1-5, and Volume 3 1-6 to s3 e1-6. The remaining 3 episodes from each season have no match. The 3 volumes were packaged into a box set with a bonus disc. The bonus disc contains the one hour special episode "Gumball Rally 3000", presented as originally aired. The bonus disc also includes a few stunts not found in the 3 volumes, as well as various bonus features like outtakes and interviews. Volume Four, sub-titled "The Lost Tapes", compiles the rest of the segments that hadn't yet been included in the previous three volumes and the bonus disc, plus bits that never aired on the TV series (mostly for censorship reasons). Volume 4 "episode" 1 begins with the "Johnny Cannonball" intro that also begins s1e1 (the pilot). The opening stunt "Self Defense" is also from the pilot; though it doesn't appear first in the original episode, it was the first stunt officially filmed for the TV series