Kenny vs. Spenny

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Kenny Vs Spenny

"Kenny" left, "Spenny" right
Genre Reality
Comedy
Creator(s) Kenny Hotz
Spencer Rice
Starring Kenny Hotz
Spencer Rice
Country of origin Flag of Canada Canada
No. of episodes 53
Production
Running time 20-22 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel CBC
Picture format HDTV
Original run August 26, 2003 – present
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Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian comedy reality TV series about two best friends, Kenneth "Kenny" Hotz and Spencer "Spenny" Rice, who face each other constantly to achieve glory in defeating one another at different competitions arranged by both at the beginning, commonly one per episode. The loser of the episode must perform an act of humiliation, usually selected by the winner, which can be seen at the end of each episode. Kenny and Spenny created the series and Kenny is also director and executive producer.

The show originally aired on the CBC, but has been moved to the cable television network Showcase since the fall of 2005, although re-runs of the episodes can still be seen on CBC during the late night hours. It was previously seen on GSN in the United States, but continues to air internationally on TV 2 Zulu in Denmark, TV6 in Sweden, Challenge in United Kingdom, The Comedy Channel in Australia, SIC Radical in Portugal and The XtraHOT channel in Israel. Fox Entertainment Group in Latin America has also distributed the episodes and can be seen on the Latin American versions of FOX channel and FX. The series was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2005 and 2006 as the best Canadian comedy series, and has recently received a Rose d'Or nomination in Switzerland for "best international comedy series". Kenny vs. Spenny is also the largest selling format series in Canadian history.

The show has spawned a British version of the show from Sky One called Ed vs. Spencer. Now shown on BBC America, it features two different friends in similar competitions. There is also a German version of the show, called Elton vs. Simon, featuring two German comedians and friends who compete in the same vein like Kenny and Spenny.

Also, another TV show called Frank vs Girard, this time by Quebecers, was created and will air for the first time in 2007. They take the exact same style from Kenny vs Spenny, minus all the things that would make the show rated higher than G. All the competitions they will be doing (13 recorded so far) are all exactly the same competition done in Kenny vs Spenny.

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[edit] Premise

Each typical episode is based on a competition statement which states the goal that the competition will determine. The competition rules are agreed upon by the two roommates, and there is typically a method of judgement or refereeing involved in order to distinguish a definite loser and winner. The detail of these rules and conditions has increased in response to the competitors continued attempts to find loopholes within the rules. The reality of the show is heavily debated. The competetors' personal lives are often brought into the competitions, including their families and friends. The winner of the competition gets to assign a "humiliation" (any task they choose) that the loser must perform.

The main entertainment elements of the series are the comical and irregular competitions, and the contrast in personality between Kenny and Spenny. This contrast usually impacts the way each approaches the competitions. Kenny's approach is typically more unorthodox, and often includes a willingness to use whatever means necessary — including cheating — to win. Although he doesn't always break the rules he and Spenny agree to at the beginning, he is always willing to bend the rules, and usually ends up performing the tasks assigned in a unique way. Kenny sometimes admits to the belief that he cannot win certain competition if they go through and attempts to cause Spenny to forfeit.

On the other hand, Spenny almost always sticks very strictly to both the rules of the competition and his own ethics, often sticking not only to the letter of the rules, but what he perceives as the intention and spirit of the competition statement. He rarely attempts to break the rules, but still occasionally finds loopholes to help him win. Spenny will often bear the brunt of Kenny's plans and pranks. Spenny is often paranoid and sometimes this causes him to sabotage his own efforts. Additionally, Kenny occasionally uses the paranoia to his advantage.

The show is often less focused on who will actually win the competition and more on how each competitor will go about trying to win. This is evidenced by the fact that the person who performs the humiliation is not always technically the loser based on the rules agreed upon - they just do not know about the rules broken by the winner. On several occasions, Kenny has cheated and still been declared the winner, since apparently, unless stated in the opening rules, the loser does not get to check the tape of what their opponent did. The show also rarely shows the aftermath of the competition, often leaving viewers to wonder how a competitor reacted upon finding out that his opponent cheated.

Kenny has also occasionally used his position as executive producer to threaten crew members and force them to help him and/or not help Spenny. Kenny sometimes seems to have more control over competitions because of his position. It could also be said that the show (particularly early in its run) is often edited to make Kenny look like the hero of the show while making Spenny look bad. In the same vein, the show tends to glorify cheating over following the spirit and rules of a competition. Both of these factors seem to result from Kenny's getting more screentime than Spenny in many episodes as a sort of narrator. Some people believe that the show is scripted, although Kenny Hotz himself has said it is not.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Pilot

  • "Who can gain the most weight?"

[edit] Season 1

  • 101 "Who is the best fashion designer?"
  • 102 "Who can stay awake the longest?"
  • 103 "Who is the better chef?"
  • 104 "Who can stand up the longest?"
  • 105 "Who can sit on a cow the longest?"
  • 106 "Who is the sanest?"
  • 107 "Who can earn the most money in three days?"
  • 108 "Who does she like better?"
  • 109 "Who can stay blindfolded the longest?"
  • 110 "Who can win a beauty pageant?"
  • 111 "Who can win a series of mini-competitions?"
  • 112 "Who can lose the most weight?"
  • 113 "Who can stay handcuffed the longest?"
  • 114 "Who can put on the best concert?"
  • 115 "Who is the best parent?"
  • 116 "Who do kids like most?"
  • 117 "Who is the strongest?"
  • 118 "Who makes the most convincing woman?"
  • 119 "Who is the better actor?"
  • 120 "Who is the best male stripper?"
  • 121 "Who is the best figure skater?"
  • 122 "Who will use their arms first?"
  • 123 "Who can survive in the woods the longest?"
  • 124 "Who Can Win a Court Case?"
  • 125 "Who can live in a van the longest?"
  • 126 "Who is the better boxer?"

[edit] Season 2

  • 201 "Who can drink more beer?"
  • 202 "Who can stay naked longest?"
  • 203 "Who has the biggest balls?"
  • 204 "Who do old people like more?"
  • 205 "Who can dance the longest?"
  • 206 "Who can go the longest without talking?"
  • 207 "Who is funnier?"
  • 208 "Who can kiss more women?"
  • 209 "Who can win a rat race?"
  • 210 "Who is the better journalist?"
  • 211 "Who can sell more bibles?"
  • 212 "First one to be mean loses"
  • 213 "Who is the better rapper?"

[edit] Season 3

  • 301 "First to laugh loses"
  • 302 "Who do gay guys like more?"
  • 303 "Who can wear a dead octopus on their head the longest?"
  • 304 "Who can win a ten mile race?"
  • 305 "Who can lift more weight with their genitals?"
  • 306 "Who is cooler?"
  • 307 "Who can produce more semen?"
  • 308 "Who can stay in a haunted house the longest?"
  • 309 "Who can make a better porno?"
  • 310 "Who can catch a bigger fish?"
  • 311 "Who can imitate the other guy better?"
  • 312 "Who can stay homeless the longest?"
  • 313 "Arm wrestling competition."

[edit] Season 4

Kenny vs. Spenny was signed on for a fourth season. Kenny has since announced two episode premises on his blog, "Who Can Act Retarded the Longest?" and "Who Can Fart More?"..

[edit] Criticism

Some viewers of the show consider it to be 'made up'. Kenny does however maintain that it is completely real (although it seems plausible that Kenny's ill treatment of Spenny is heightened for the sake of humour), which he has said in prior interviews.

[edit] Winners and Humiliations

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Pilot

Number Episode Competition Winner Cheats/Episode highlights Humiliation
Pilot Who can gain the most weight? Kenny (cheated: 16 lbs-8 lbs)) Kenny dosed Spenny with laxatives. Spenny ruined the ending of Unbreakable by telling people waiting in line to buy tickets what happens in the movie.

Season One

Number Episode Competition Winner Cheats/Episode highlights Humiliation
101 Who is the best fashion designer? Kenny (3-0) Spenny walked the streets in one of Kenny's bikini creations.
102 Who can stay awake the longest? Kenny Spenny had to serve as Kenny's bathroom attendant.
103 Who is the better chef? Kenny (3-0) During the competition, Spenny got help through a hidden earpiece from a professional chef. Spenny ate cat food.
104 Who can stand up the longest? Kenny (cheated) Kenny used various contraptions to aid his standing which was debated throughout the show as to whether it was cheating or not. In a final stand-off Kenny used itching powder on Spenny's bare feet causing him to quit. Spenny bit off a piece of Kenny's toenail. Also, Kenny spat in the bottle of mouthwash he knew Spenny would use after biting Kenny's yellow nails.
105 Who can sit on a cow the longest? Kenny Kenny threw a toy dog at Spenny's cow and scared it. Spenny got covered head-to-toe in cow manure.
106 Who is the sanest? Spenny (3-1) Kenny went streaking through the streets.
107 Who can earn the most money in three days? Spenny ($1234.31 to $67.00) Kenny drank a coffee brewed with Spenny's underwear.
108 Who does she like better? Kenny (cheated) Kenny swapped Spenny with an unattractive decoy to date the judge, while Spenny dated a friend of Kenny's. Spenny received a beating from a transvestite dominatrix.
109 Who can stay blindfolded the longest? Kenny (cheated) Kenny planted a third blindfold for Spenny to find, tricking him into thinking he had taken his off. Kenny also avoided wearing the blindfold for most of the competition. Spenny endured Kenny's bad breath for 30 seconds.
110 Who can win a beauty pageant? Spenny (2-0 in best of three) Spenny leashed and walked Kenny like a dog.
111 Who can win a series of mini-competitions? Spenny (8-7)* Kenny walked up the steps of the CN Tower (with a broken rib).
112 Who can lose the most weight? Kenny (cheated: 17.5 lbs-17.0 lbs) At the first weigh-in, Kenny had metal in his hair. Spenny gave a spongebath to an old man.
113 Who can stay handcuffed the longest? Kenny Kenny tricked Spenny into removing the handcuffs by "agreeing" to a draw, but winking into the camera. Spenny attempted to "pick up" women with a fake herpes sore painted on his face.
114 Who can put on the best concert? Kenny (cheated: 3-0) Kenny called Spenny's band, and using voice clips from the Kenny vs. Spenny editing studios, made a fake message, informing the band that the show was cancelled. Spenny stood in the middle of the street, in costume, and sang Kenny's song.
115 Who is the best parent?** Kenny (cheated) Kenny switched his already dead doll with Spenny's doll. Spenny dressed up as a baby and sat in a crib on a busy downtown sidewalk.
116 Who do kids like most? Kenny (6-1) Kenny bribed the kids with a promise of gifts, which ended up being empty boxes. Spenny bobbed for apples out of Kenny's toilet bowl.
117 Who is the strongest? Kenny (default - Spenny injured) Kenny convinced Spenny that Miriam (Kenny's sister, competing against Spenny in this competition) was taking steroids. Spenny received an "atomic wedgie".
118 Who makes the most convincing woman? Spenny (5-0) Kenny "walked the streets" in an area known for prostitution while wearing a female costume.
119 Who is the better actor? Kenny (cheated) Kenny got someone else to act as himself, and gave Spenny a flat tire on his van so he couldn't watch the performance. Spenny had a dozen eggs thrown at him (including one hard boiled).
120 Who is the best male stripper?** Spenny (5-0) Spenny used pliers to rip out some of Kenny's body hair.
121 Who is the best figure skater? Spenny (default - Kenny faked an injury) Kenny faked a broken leg. No "official" humiliation - but Spenny urinated on Kenny’s bed.
122 Who will use their arms first? Kenny Kenny got his friend to throw Spenny's Guitar off the roof and Spenny was forced to use his arms to catch it. Spenny smelled Kenny's sweaty armpit for five seconds.
123 Who can survive in the woods the longest? Draw (both men forfeited) Kenny used a magnifying glass to start a fire. Kenny and Spenny French kissed each other for five seconds (humiliation imposed by the film crew).
124 Kenny takes Spenny to court for money owed Kenny Kenny spat in Spenny's face.
125 Who can live in a van the longest? Draw No humiliation.
126 Who is the better boxer? Spenny (default - Kenny did not show) Kenny locked Spenny in a room. Kenny urinated in his pants.
  • *In the mini-comps competition, Spenny (9 wins) urinated longer; jumped on a pogo stick more times (5-2); won rock, paper, scissors; stared longer (only shown on Season 1 DVD); held his breath longer; bowled a better game (146-105); scored higher on the pinball machine (only shown on television); climbed the CN Tower stairs faster and won the 100-metre dash. Kenny (8 wins) stood on his head longer; blew a bigger gum bubble; won the spelling bee; stuffed more marshmallows in his mouth (15-10); had more sperm (cheated); climbed a flight of stairs faster; spat a grape a further distance (cheated, only shown on television) and won the wrestling match (12-4).
  • **Although these episodes were filmed as part of season one, they actually appear on the season two DVD's.

Season Two

Number Episode Competition Winner Cheats/Episode highlights Humiliation
201 Who can drink more beer? Kenny (cheated)* Kenny drank non-alcoholic beer and vomited next to Spenny whilst he was passed out to make him think that he himself had vomited. Spenny ate Kenny's vomit (Spenny believed it was his own).
202 Who can stay naked the longest? Kenny While Spenny was in the basement, Kenny set all the clocks ahead 5 minutes so Spenny would think the competition was over and put on clothes. Spenny dressed as a town crier, stood on a busy street corner and proclaimed to have a "small wee-wee".
203 Who has the biggest balls? Spenny (via forfeit) Kenny licked bird feces off of the windshield of the production van.
204 Who do old people like more? Kenny (3-0) Kenny had a man with Down Syndrome named Leonard to pretend to be his little brother. Spenny participated in a seniors' water aerobics class while wearing a woman's bathing suit.
205 Who can dance the longest? Kenny Kenny said the comp did not start till he changes his shoes & snuck out of the house. Spenny started dancing. Hours later Kenny come back changes shoes & the comp really starts. Spenny after hours of dancing gives up Spenny dressed up as a cheerleader and performed several self-denigrating cheers.
206 First one to talk loses Spenny Spenny hid a bug in kenny's room to hear him talking in his sleep. Kenny used a text to speech program. Kenny had his mouth washed out with soap.
207 Who is funnier? Kenny Kenny faked a letter from the Ministry of Health, informing Spenny that he may have HIV. Kenny would use this practical joke as his entry for the competition. Spenny performed oral sex on a condom-covered cucumber.
208 Who can kiss more women? Kenny (420-33) Spenny kissed the buttocks and testicles of horse statue.
209 Who can win a rat race? Spenny Kenny used a capybara, claiming it was a "South-American Jungle Rat". Kenny had a live rat placed in his underwear.
210 Who is the better journalist? Spenny (default - Kenny did not show) Kenny used a toilet placed on the sidewalk of a busy street.
211 Who can sell more bibles? Kenny (7-0)** Kenny tricked Spenny into thinking his children's film script was bought by Hollywood executives. Spenny flew to Los Angeles International Airport and waited in vain for non-existent Hollywood executives to pick him up (part of an elaborate ruse by Kenny).
212 First one to be mean loses Draw No "official" humiliation - but Kenny "illegally" dressed Spenny up as a clown and urinated on him while he was unconscious.
213 Who is the better rapper? Spenny (2-1) Kenny created a fake crime scene at their home to look like a drive by shooting caused by Spenny's remarks made to a gang. Kenny had hired an actor to play a police officer but Spenny saw through the act by noting the officers dirty shoes. He subsequently went along with the whole ordeal (relocating to a hotel room) making Kenny believe that he would not show up to the rap off. Spenny does show up however, and wins with help from the Rice Cakes. Spenny had "Kenny is a Loser" displayed on a large outdoor TV screen along with some very unflattering pictures. Spenny became annoyed after realizing that narcissistic Kenny actually enjoyed the attention.
  • *On the Season 2 DVD Kenny admits that Spenny won, since Kenny was the one that actually vomited first.
  • **All seven bibles were purchased by Spenny in an attempt to show Kenny that he did not care about the competition due to his script being "picked up" by Hollywood executives.

Season Three

Number Episode Competition Winner Cheats/Episode highlights Humiliation
301 First one to laugh loses Spenny Kenny ate one of Spenny's freshly picked "boogers".
302 Who do gay guys like more? Draw (the lone gay judge chose "neither") Kenny and Spenny were each "teabagged" on the forehead (humiliation imposed by the film crew).
303 Who can wear a dead octopus on his head the longest? Kenny (cheated) Kenny took the octupus off his head and attached the tentacles to his hat to make it look like he was still wearing it. Also, Kenny dosed Spenny with LSD, leading to Spenny releasing the octopus into the lake. Spenny ate sushi off of Kenny's naked buttocks.
304 Who can win a 10-mile (16.09 km) race? Spenny Kenny tricked Spenny into believing that his mother was dead, so that Spenny would go to a fake funeral miles away from the race track. Kenny received a spanking on his bare buttocks from his mother.
305 Who can lift more weight with their genitals? Kenny (via forfeit) Kenny lifted 5 fake bricks with his genitals witch Spenny believed were real Spenny sucked on the nipples of mutual friend Bobby.
306 Who is cooler? Kenny Kenny faked a drug overdose causing Spenny to lose his cool during judgement. Although Spenny's attempts at being cool would have lost him the competition anyway. Spenny stood naked in a meat freezer.
307 Who can produce more semen? Kenny (cheated) Kenny got semen from other crew members and collected semen from used condoms in alleyways. In addition, Kenny stole an x-ray machine and radiated Spenny, causing him to become ill and lowering his semen count. Just before the final verdict Spenny filled his beaker with hair conditioner, which fooled Kenny, but he couldn't go through with cheating and admitted to what he had done. Spenny was splashed with semen (original humiliation was to drink it, but Spenny refused).
308 Who can stay in a haunted house the longest? Spenny Before entering the house, Spenny went to specialists on the supernatural in hopes of resolving his fears while Kenny went to a different specialist on the supernatural in hopes of gaining the skills to conjure up the devil. While in the house, Kenny played many tricks on Spenny in hopes of scaring him out of the house. In a last ditch effort to prevent his fears from taking over, Spenny handcuffed himself to a chain link in a room. Kenny went to the room next door and attempted to raise the devil in a ritualistic fashion. What followed was a loud bang which caused Kenny and the crew to run out of the house. The loud bang turned out to be a crane from the next building. Kenny dressed in and modelled women's lingerie in a store window.
309 Who can make a better porno? Kenny Spenny performed anal sex on one of Kenny's inflatable male sex dolls.
310 Who can catch a bigger fish? Kenny (cheated) Prior to the competition, Kenny visited the owner of the boat and paid him off to go to an area with no fish, and to go through with his plan. Also during his trip, Kenny had filmed himself catching a dead fish. Later on during the actual competition, Kenny pushed Spenny into the lake, drove away, and left him for 30 minutes. Afterwards, the boat drove back and retrieved Spenny and Kenny showed him the tape made beforehand of him catching the fish. Spenny's head was wrapped in clingfilm while he pressed his face into a hanging pig's buttocks.
311 Who can imitate the other guy better? Kenny Kenny besmirched Spenny's character while immitating him thus provoking Spenny to break out of character too many times. Kenny, through an earpiece, made Spenny say rude things to unsuspecting people on the street.
312 Who can stay homeless the longest? Kenny During the contest Kenny visited his bank and withdrew money without his card so he could dine in a restaurant. Spenny gets arrested. Kenny kneed Spenny in the groin.
313 Arm wrestling competition. Kenny Although Kenny attempted to cheat by finding a child with the name Spencer Rice and arm wrestling him, Spenny and Kenny arm wrestled at the end of the competition. The replacement Spencer Rice lost and was hosed down with ice cubes down his pants. Then baby food was poured on his head and a pie smashed in his face. When the real Spenny ended up losing he had to stick his hand in a public bathroom toilet and unplug it. The toilet was nearly overflowing with urine, feces and other garbage.

[edit] Statistics

Wins Losses Ties Winning %
Kenny 34 15 4 64.2
Spenny 15 34 4 28.3
  • After episode #313, Kenny leads the series 34-15-4 (W-L-T).
  • If competitions where Kenny cheated (12) are not counted, he would still be leading 22-15-4.
  • If competitions where Kenny cheated (12) were counted as wins for Spenny, Spenny would be leading by 27-22-4.
Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

  • Kenny used Wikipedia on the show to research the use of radiation on Spenny to reduce his sperm count in the third season.
  • Kenny is an avid Video gamer and in 2006 was used in the Xbox promotion "Game with Fame".

[edit] External links

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