Rob & Big

Rob & Big
Rob & Big title screen
Created by	Rob Dyrdek Chris Boykin
Starring	Rob Dyrdek Christopher "Big Black" Boykin Drama (Rob's assistant/cousin) "Meaty" (pet bulldog) "Mini Horse" (pet miniature horse)
Country of origin	USA
Original language	English
No. of episodes	16 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Ruben Fleischer Jeff Tremaine
Running time	21-21 minutes
Original release
Network	MTV
Release	November 2, 2006 – Present

Rob & Big is a reality comedy series, produced by Ruben Fleischer, that premiered on November 2, 2006 on MTV. It follows the lives of professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek and his best friend Christopher "Big Black" Boykin.

The show is currently in its second season according to executive producer, Jeff Tremaine. The show helped MTV2 achieve its highest rated day in channel history on January 15, 2007. The first full season reached over 70 million total viewers, and was ranked #1 in its time period. During a current clips show of the second season in July 2007, a third season was announced, with Rob stating he is taking it to another level.

Season 1

First Episode

In the first episode, Rob and Big set out to adopt a baby bulldog. Rob thought since it was basically made up of meat, they should just call him Meat Bag (or Meaty). They later use the dog as bait to gather women for their party. Two ladies ask if they are homosexuals after finding out that they live with each other. They laugh it off and Big proclaims how big Rob's asshole would be if they were. The women later attend the party, where Rob hired the Academy Award Winning group Three 6 Mafia to perform. Big prepares a concoction containing Pepto Bismol to fight off any hangover that might occur.

Second Episode

In the second episode, it is Go Skate Day. Rob tries to get Big Black on a skateboard and buys him a Dogtown-style board that fits him. They then witness Tyson the skateboarding bulldog and try to get Meaty to skateboard. They make an appointment to meet with Tyson and his owner at a park later on.

Rob and Big go to the DC shoes skateboarding fair at the North County Fair mall and gets pulled over by the police. They decided to drive to the mall and pull over because they are in the middle of traffic, while getting tailed by the cops they play Chamillionaire's "Ridin' Dirty" on the radio. Rob jokes that they were pulled over for "ridin' dirty."

Rob and Big then meet Tyson the skateboarding bulldog and his owner in an attempt to teach Meaty how to skate. This plan fails as Meaty does not seem to want to learn how to skateboard. Rob compares it to being like a child not wanting to follow in a father's footsteps. He throws Meaty's skateboard and appears to give up on the dream of Meaty becoming a skateboarding bulldog. However he does eventually ride.

Third Episode

In the third episode, Rob and Big go to Vancouver to be motion captured for an EA Sports skating game (Titled Skate, coming out on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 consoles) as well as play a round of skateboard hockey with the game designers. Rob decides to visit his parents in his hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Rob, Big, and Rob's family also go to the skate park co-named (with DC Shoes) in his honor. Rob and Big also visit Kings Island theme park.

Fourth Episode

Rob sets out to help Big Black lose weight. Normal scales are not able to weigh Big, so Rob takes Big to Curves but even their scale is not able to weigh Big, so Rob takes him to a Recycling Center. They find out he weighs 416 lbs. He gets hypnotized in order to help him stay motivated to lose weight, and they go to see a nutritionist, but Rob doesn't agree with the program she recommended, so he buys Big a bike. After a quick montage, he reweighs at the same weight. Rob is visually disappointed in Big's lack of weight loss. Despite Rob's advice of dismissing the nutritionist as a fraud, Big decides to revisit her as he believes that she understands him. Rob accuses Big's trip as an excuse to have another look at the "hot nutritionist". The Nutrionist tells Big "Christopher Boykin" that he could feel free to a have burger once a month and only one burger.

Fifth episode

It is Rob's birthday. The show opens with Big, Bam Bam, and Drama putting a birthday hat and glasses on Meaty's butt, then laying Meaty on a sleeping Rob's face, backside first. Later, the boys notice a smell in the house that seems to be eminating from Meaty's "trapdoor", which culminates in Rob sending him to a pet groomer. The groomers cannot fix the smell, even though they have washed it multiple times. Rob and Big get tattooed. Rob gets the word "relentless" on his left arm and Big gets the "double B's" on his left . Big Black competes in a hot wing eating competition and loses. Then Rob and Big Black's friend Bam Bam steals the trophy by putting it under his shirt. They then go to a club for Rob's party and the episode ends with them having a food fight with Rob's birthday cake. Rob gets thrown into the pool 4 times in this episode, and he jumped in once himself.

Sixth episode

Rob decides it time to redecorate Black's bedroom. He and Big Black go and buy a new bed for Black, and while in the mattress store, Rob jumps on all of the beds inbetween play wrestling with Big Black. They then buy wallpaper to go in Black's room. Rob also buys a handcarved wooden tiger for Black's room as the final touch, much to Black's initial chagrin. Rob decides he wants a skate park in the backyard and has his friend build it for him. Rob wants to get a family portrait that imitates the famous Death Row Records picture featuring Tupac Shakur, Suge Knight, and Snoop Dogg. Meaty then eats a chicken bone out of the garbage and it gets stuck in his stomach. So Rob and Big Black rush him to the animal hospital where they find out that he had a stress-induced seizure and does have a chicken bone stuck in his stomach. The doctor keeps him overnight so he can pass the bone. The next morning Rob and Big Black pick up Meaty after the doctor gives Meaty a clean bill of health. The skate park is finished and they finally get Meaty to skateboard. The family portraits come back and Rob hangs them on the kitchen wall.

Seventh episode

Meaty begins the show by continuing his rebellious behavior. For the second time that day, he has defecated inside the house. Rob discusses this with Big, and they decide to bring in an animal psychic. She claims that Meaty is missing a mother figure, or a female presence in the household. Rob and Big decide to go to a matchmaker to find themselves two possible female companions (both for themselves, and for Meaty). They go to "Meet A Mate", and get set up with Annie [1] (for Rob) and Regla (for Big). They are both singers in a punk-rock band. As Big describes them, "they sound like duds." The girls arrive in a white stretch Chrysler 300, and the boys are immediately skeptical, but leave on the dates anyway. The boys first raid the limo's liquor to ease the pain of their experience. The first stop on the date is a mini-golf course. Next is a karaoke bar, where Rob and Big sing a rendition of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory" while just slightly inebriated. The next day, Rob tells Big that Annie lied about her age to Meet A Mate. Though the boys thought she was 27 years old, according to her drivers license she was 37.

Eighth Episode / Season Finale

Rob has a nightmare in which Big Black fails to protect him, resulting in his being shot several times while riding in his car. This causes Rob to think that Black isn't able to protect him. Rob goes to a lawyer and has a last will and testament written up to make sure his belongings end up with the correct people. Big Black is determined to show Rob that he still has his back so he takes Rob through a series of tests to prove it. First, he takes Rob to the LA County Raceway to show him that he can outrun the police if the situation arises. They then go to a karate school where Black shows off his martial arts skills. Finally, Big Black takes Rob to a paintball course because it's the closest to actual gunfire he could get. Rob and Black face off against two female instructors and Rob and Big Black beat them. When they return to the house Black pretends Drama (Rob's Cousin) was a burglar and shoots him with the paintball gun.

Season 2

First Episode

Rob decides that Meaty needs a companion. Rob, Big, and Meaty go to a miniature horse farm to buy a horse. They purchase a horse they dub "Mini-Horse." Rob and his friends have one last session on his skate ramps before they are taken down to make room for a horse stable.Rob also debates over throwing away a leather jacket that he bought later throwing out after getin Mini-Horse. The episode ends with Rob riding a skateboard with his new horse.

Second Episode

In the second episode of Rob & Big Rob takes out a time machine that he had bought before Big had moved in. Rob puts the time machine on Big however the time machine does not work. They call up the maker of the time machine Steven Gibbs and they ask him how to work it. He says he will not meet them in person because he is afraid they are aliens. Rob then finds another time traveler and they fly to Montreal to meet the time traveler. They are unable to time travel and they return to California. They also buy a horse trailer in this episode to move their pet mini horse around.

Third Episode

In the third episode, Rob and Big go to Mississippi for Big Black's family reunion. While in Mississippi, Rob tries his hand at bull riding and cutting trees for wood pulp. At the family reunion, Rob takes part in the three-legged race with Big's uncle, Jerry.

Fourth Episode

Drama, Rob's cousin and assistant, starts slacking on his job, so Rob threatens to fire him. Rob and Big Black interview a professional assistant to replace Drama, but are not impressed. To instill a greater appreciation for his job and work ethic into Drama, Rob forces him to work for a day at a fast food restaurant. After a few hours of work, Rob and Big pick Drama up and take Mini Horse for a "play date" with some otherll horses.

Fifth Episode

Big Black comes out of retirement after 15 years to perform on the Male Review stage as Black Lavender...an alias he went by as a male stripper for a short time in the early 90's. First Rob and Big go out hair hunting at the Hair Club for Men, then the local wig shop. Later, Big Black rehearses at the house with a "close, personal" female friend. After she oils his chest, he runs through his routine to see what she thinks. Big Black surprises everyone when a Rick James wig he ordered shows up in the mail it was oily and felt like real hair.The big night arrives and Big Black and the boys hit up the strip joint and turn the house out! Black proves to be super agile for a big man, and puts on an impressive show that is impossible to forget.

Sixth Episode

Rob Dyrdek competes in the Tampa Pro competition for the first time after five years. Competing with him is fellow skate teammate Steve Berra. After a skate session at Berra'a warehouse, Rob makes a $5000 bet with Berra that he will do better in the competition, despite having lost to him five years ago. Rob also requests all $5000 to be in singles and to be delivered the day of the competition, so, in the case that he wins, he will be able to "make it rain" with singles. Rob, Berra, Big Black, and Bam-Bam head down to Tampa for the competition, as well as to have some fun, such as riding on the Manta Ray, ollieng and kickflipping gators, and hanging out at the Bro Bowl. At the competition, Rob ends coming in 7th while Berra is in 35th, due to several bails in his runs, making Rob the winner. Rob calls everyone out to the vert ramp, where he and Berra, Big Black, and Bam-Bam throw the money out into crowd.

Seventh Episode

Rob Dyrdek decides he wants to make an R&B song called "Dirty Girl" and make a low budget music video with a persona known as "Bobby Light". So he buys suits and wigs to provide the look for the sensational Bobby Light. Rob tries to prove to his friends that he is an R&B sensation. And he and Big Black decides to bring Big Black's Uncle Jerry out to Los Angeles to be in the music video & to show him a good time. The video shows Rob as Bobby Light, with Big Black, his friends Bam Bam, Drama, Uncle Jerry, a couple of girls, and his pets Meaty & Mini Horse.Uncle Jerry sings Dirty Girl, Dirty Girl, in the music video also.They show Uncle Jerry a great time in LA before he goes back home.

Eighth Episode / Season Finale

The The Wall Street Journal featured an article about Rob Dyrdek and how he let a seller on eBay use his name to sell his old Mercedes Benz. The article called him a C-list celebrity and compared him to David Hasselhoff. Big Black decides to call up the writer asking her to speak with Rob and lied saying he was on a drinking binge. When Rob talks to his mother about the situation she seems dissapointed and says it makes him seem like a loser. Big Black gets a Ford Pinto and takes it to a shop, painting everything completely black (matte black paint job with black chrome). Since Rob has gotten a new SUV (also in matte black), he decides to giveaway his old one. He decides to have a competition to see who will get the SUV. They draw numbers out of hat to see who will challenge him to a game of SK8. The first kid to make Rob get SK8 and beat Big Black in Rochambeau wins it. A local skater by the name of Frank Sanchez wins it after defeating Rob in a close game of SK8 and sweeping Big Black in Rochambeau, much to his family's happiness. After the contest Big Black decides to cheer Rob up, so he gets his old leather jacket a.k.a the "Super-jacket" out of the trash and gives it to Rob saying it's a C-list jacket.

Trivia

In the UK, the show is entitled "Rob and Big Black".

External links

• Official MTV Site
• DC Shoes website for Rob and Big