“Number Two”… see what they did there?
Grossing its entire $11.5 million production budget on opening day, Jeff Tremaine’s sequel Jackass Number Two cemented the Jackass brand as an early-2000s cultural phenomenon. The divisive film helped lock Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the rest of the crew into the era’s list of instantly recognizable personalities.
This second major entry in the franchise is more focused than the original; the stunts are larger and the gags more elaborate. Knoxville has said many bits took inspiration from Looney Tunes—his “Big Red Rocket” stunt is a clear Wile E. Coyote homage. Across the board, the team ramped up scale and complexity. Jackass Number Two may lack the loose, off-the-cuff feel of the first movie, but it still delivers plenty of cringe, laughter, and jaw-dropping moments.
In this Movie List from The Film Magazine, we break down every notable prank, stunt and gag from Jackass Number Two to compare the Anaconda Ball Pit with Dirty Grandpa Part 1, the Big Tyre Race with the Beehive Limo, and pinpoint the funniest, most painful, and most consequential moments. Below are the 10 Best Jackass Number Two Moments.
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10. The “Puppet Show”
One of Chris Pontius’s running traits on Jackass is the over-the-top reputation of his anatomy. In prior Party Boy segments he’d flaunted himself in tight, shiny underwear; in Jackass Number Two he takes things further. For the “Puppet Show” stunt, Pontius fashions a prop out of his penis—wrapping it in tape, adding tiny ears to resemble a mouse—and slips it through a hole into a snake tank. Johnny Knoxville then manipulates it like a puppet to attract a hungry snake, which promptly bites.
The moment captures Jackass at its most outrageous: a deliberately ridiculous setup that sacrifices bodily dignity for a gag. While the pain experienced may be ambiguous, the effort that went into mounting such an elaborate, uncomfortable stunt is pure Jackass—equal parts absurdity and dedication.
9. Big Red Rocket
Johnny Knoxville nearly killed himself—again. Inspired by Evel Knievel and classic cartoon mayhem, Knoxville straps himself to the outside of a massive rocket intended to launch him skyward. The first ignition tears through the rocket’s shell, narrowly missing him. After the terrifying failure, Knoxville climbs back on, rockets into the air, and plummets toward a lake. The real fear in that sequence is palpable; it’s one of the franchise’s more genuinely dangerous set pieces and a reminder of how far the cast would go for a stunt.
8. Old Man Balls
This film introduces an early version of Bad Grandpa, the character Knoxville later expanded into his own spin-off. In “Old Man Balls” Knoxville dresses as an elderly man with convincingly realistic prop testicles dangling from his shorts. By exposing and accidentally rubbing them against objects in public, he provokes confused, horrified and often hilarious reactions from unsuspecting bystanders. The skit showcases Jackass’s prank roots and foreshadows the character-driven comedy Knoxville would revisit a decade later.
7. Anaconda Ball Pit
Johnny Knoxville climbs into a ball pit filled with a pair of anacondas. The intent: confront one of the planet’s largest and most feared snakes for the sake of shock and spectacle. When the first snake strikes, Knoxville’s visible pain and the ensuing panic are hard to watch. Blood appears, fear sharpens, and the stunt becomes more than comedy—an unsettling test of endurance. It’s a moment that blurs the line between planned stunt and genuine peril, making it one of the movie’s most memorable and troubling entries.
6. The Best of Times (Finale)
Unlike the TV show, the Jackass films often bookend their chaos with cinematic sequences. The finale of Number Two is a showstopper: the cast performs a chaotic, song-and-dance sequence to “The Best of Times” that quickly devolves into physical injury. Knoxville has an arm caught in a bear trap; Preston Lacy is knocked unconscious after colliding with a camera; Chris Pontius is blasted across the stage in his underwear; Ryan Dunn breaks his shoulder after a horse-related gag; and Knoxville reenacts Buster Keaton’s famous Steamboat Bill Jr. stunt—standing in the safe spot while a wall collapses around him. The sequence is celebratory and brutal, a perfect closing encapsulation of the film’s tone.
5. Firehose Rodeo
Dave England straps himself to the end of a high-pressure firehose and is thrusted, spun and launched like an unwilling participant in a science-fiction chase scene. The stunt worked so effectively on its first attempt that the crew abandoned further takes—England held on longer than they expected, and his bruises were severe enough that Knoxville declared, “it’s not going to get better than that.” Watching a human body flung around by raw water pressure—without CGI—is both fascinating and unsettling.
4. Wee Man and Preston Bungee Jump
The longstanding dynamic between Wee Man and Preston Lacy—tiny versus huge—plays out as a simple physics gag. Tied together by a bungee cord, Wee Man jumps from a bridge first and is catapulted upward when Preston’s weight pulls down. As Preston falls into the water, the cord snaps Wee Man back down again with comic timing. It’s one of the film’s pure visual jokes: short, immediately understandable, and perfectly placed among more elaborate stunts.
3. Beehive Limo
A scaled prank with maximum payoff: Wee Man, Dave England, Ryan Dunn and Steve-O ride in a limo to a staged “photo shoot.” Crew members dump a box of bees in through the sunroof, lock the doors, and wait. Panic and chaos ensue as men flail and swarm in a confined space. The prank culminates with a bucket of marbles left for them to slip on once freed. The scene is perfectly executed—horrifying for the participants, hilarious for viewers—and results in multiple stings and bruises, plus the image of Dave stripping down to his underwear under the California sun.
2. Wee Man Electric Chair
Beyond the extreme stunts, Jackass’s emotional core has always been the cast’s camaraderie. The Electric Chair skit exemplifies that bond. The crew lures Wee Man onto a stool under the pretense of a card-throwing gag. Unbeknownst to him, the stool delivers small electric shocks on command. As a professional card thrower flings cards toward his exposed rear, Wee Man receives jolts, grows increasingly uncomfortable, and then misunderstands the reveal in a way that sends the crew into uncontrollable laughter. It’s a sweet, ridiculous moment that highlights both the group’s cruelty and their affection—proof of the chemistry that powered the franchise.
1. Toro Totter
For the top spot: Toro Totter. Johnny, Bam, Ryan and Chris sit on a four-way teeter-totter in the center of a bullring. A bull is released and the four must jump to stay safe—except every jump lifts one and slams the opposite cast member to the ground. As the enraged bull charges, chaos erupts: Ryan is unseated and nearly gored, Bam follows, Chris is struck in the leg and abandons Johnny, leaving Knoxville alone as the bull targets him. Multiple brutal charges later, Knoxville escapes barely alive. The sequence combines real physical danger with the cast’s relentless commitment to comedy, earning its place as the film’s most memorable and terrifying set piece.
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