Paramount+ Restores Original ‘Jackass’ Series to Its 2000 Airing Format

(SeaPRwire) –   You can say whatever you like about Johnny Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew—call them crass, immature, or claim they built careers by dropping their pants on national TV (and in five feature films, just for the record). But one thing you’ll never be able to say is that they don’t care about the integrity of their work.

This was recently shown on streaming service Paramount+, where at the end of 2025 all three seasons of the original Jackass TV series were removed and replaced with a message: “Warning: Per me, the jackass tv shows have been temporarily taken down from Paramount+ to restore them to the way they originally aired. That way, you and your dumb little buddies can watch them as they were presented 25 fucking years ago. So, hold tight and the shows will be right back, as painful and dumb as you remember them. Wahoo and sincerely, Johnny Knoxville.”

Now the seasons are back, and the show’s original dignity has been restored. (The performers will never get theirs back, but they knew that when they signed up.) As Knoxville told Variety in a statement, over the past two decades, “the television episodes had been re-edited, re-sequenced, and re-scored to the point they were unrecognizable,” which he “[found] out the hard way last year when attempting to watch them.” The new versions, which launched on the platform this week, have been fixed to match exactly what aired on MTV between 2000 and 2002.

A digital restoration of Jackass has been a long time coming—even the show’s original mid-’00s DVD release rearranged the pranks into a different order, and the episodes got even more muddled when they moved to streaming. VHS bootlegs recorded from the original MTV airings still circulate among Jackass purists, and multiple fan edits that restore the original music cues and episode sequencing exist online right now.

All those efforts were noble, but they’re no longer necessary now that Knoxville convinced Paramount to “[give] us the $$ to restore the shows to how they initially aired in the first place,” as he said in his statement. And we owe him a thank you for that. Now we can all rest easy, knowing we’re watching “The Beekini” exactly as it was meant to be seen.

It goes without saying, but don’t try any of this at home. But now, you can watch it—and the rest of the Jackass series—in all its original glory from the safety of your home.

Jackass: The Series is now streaming on Paramount+.