In 2011, Adam Carolla pitched a hand-drawn animated spinoff centered on his character Dick Birchum to Fox called The Birchums but FOX refused to pick it up. The show also helped bring fame to Pete Dzoghi, a man who basically made a career out of doing prank calls before selling them as albums for money. However, this made taping and broadcasting episodes fairly uneven due to many of the celebrities being based in California. So, nearly all the calls are made in Nevada.
except for Nevada, which only requires one (i.e., the callers). In the U.S., it is illegal to record and broadcast prank calls without both parties' consent. When not airing prank calls, the show makes the puppets do raunchy explicit things such as go to gay bars, strip clubs, perform public sexual intercourse, enact racist stereotypes, etc. The victims and pranksters are played by Muppet-esque puppets. The premise: transcripts of real prank calls are re-enacted, cutting between the rooms of each end of the call (usually with lots and lots of Background Gags going on).
It was revived in 2019 for a Season 5 and again in 2020 for a Season 6. Ed is not present in the revival due to the character being deemed too offensive for modern audiences.Crank Yankers is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on Comedy Central and also for a brief time on MTV2 co-created by Daniel Kellison, Adam Carolla and the far better-known Jimmy Kimmel.Ed makes a cameo in one of Bobby's prank calls, such as the "Let Me Put My Brother on the Phone" call.In the video store call, he works in several references to The Shining.
In two prank calls of his own (one to a movie theater and one to a video store), Ed reveals that his favorite movie is Air Bud.Calls a community pool and says sorry for peeing in the pool.Calls an employee at a Mexican restaurant using his love of the Spanish language.Calls the barber shop and asks the man if he wants a haircut.Calls various places and keeps saying Donkey Kong.Called a hillbilly and tells him knock knock jokes.Calls a movie theater and asks the guy in the ticket booth how many tickets costs.Called a record store and sings his favorite song to the record store clerk until he gets it right.Called a Chuck E Cheese employee and tells her it is his birthday.Called a tech support and tells him he got mail.Called an employee at a restaurant and tells her he loves spaghetti.The counselor caught on and knew he was from Crank Yankers! Asked a librarian to define "moron" while repeatedly hushing her because she is in a library.Fell asleep while calling a cough medicine store.