The Joe Schmo Show

The Joe Schmo Show is a television program that aired for three seasons on Spike TV. At once both a reality television and a parody of such shows, the program thrust unsuspecting schmos into a world of craziness, with them unaware that everything around them was happening according to a script.

The program's first season was a parody of reality-competition based shows, particularly Big Brother and Survivor. This season's schmo, Matt Kennedy Gould, faced off against archetypes such as the "Rich Bitch," the "Asshole" and the "Gay Guy" in the mansion of Lap of Luxury for $100,000, not realizing he was unwitting schmo and that the only real thing about the reality show was him.

The second season brought a new twist in the form of two schmos, Tim Walsh and Ingrid Wiese, who believed that they were competing on a reality-romance show, Last Chance for Love, a parody of programming such as The Bachelor. In each episode, the two vied for the affections of Austin Newton-Rice and Piper Davidson, again not realizing that the two were actors. Wiese, however, figured out the charade, resulting in the casting of a new Jane Schmo, Amanda Naughton.

The final season, The Full Bounty, featured Chase Rogan, who believed he was competing to become part of a bounty hunting team in the vein of programming like Dog the Bounty Hunter.