Kenny vs. Spenny

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Kenny vs. Spenny
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Created by	Kenny Hotz
Starring	Kenny Hotz; Spencer Rice
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	53
Production
Running time	20-22 Minutes
Original release
Network	CBC
Release	August 26, 2003 –; present

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Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian comedy reality TV series about two best friends, Kenneth "Kenny" Joel Hotz and Spencer "Spenny" Nolan 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, FX (Repeats on Challenge) in the 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". The fourth season is scheduled to be shown in the US on Comedy Central and Canada on Showcase. 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.

A spin off, that is airs on VRAK, also exists which is called Frank vs Girard. The show follows the exploit of two Québécois. The aired for the first time in 2007. They take the exact same style from Kenny vs Spenny including graphics. 13 episodes have been ordered so far many follow the same competition done in Kenny vs Spenny.

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.

Episodes

Pilot

"Who can gain the most weight?"

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?"

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?"

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."

Season 4

Kenny vs Spenny is to make a return for a 4th season with 10 all new episodes. New episodes will launch on Showcase Television on November 6th, 2007 and later on Comedy Central. See more on Kenny's blog

Competitions confirmed for Season 4:

"First one to get a boner loses"
"First one to get a stain loses" (they both wear white jump suits)
"Who can sing the longest?" (they appeared on The Dean Blundell Show during this competition)
"Who can commit more crime?"
"Who can eat more meat?"
"Who can blow the biggest fart?"
"Who can handle more torture?"
"Who can make the best viral video?"

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 humor), which he has said in prior interviews.

Winners and Humiliations

Pilot

Number	Episode Competition	Winner	Cheats/Episode highlights	Humiliation
Pilot	Who can gain the most weight?	Kenny (cheated: 16 lbs-8 lbs))	Kenny Switched Spenny's protein powder with weight loss powder causing Spenny to lose weight. Kenny also crushed up super laxatives and put them in the weight loss powder.	Spenny ruined the ending of Unbreakable by telling people waiting in line to buy tickets how it ends.

Season One

Number	Episode Competition	Winner	Cheats/Episode highlights	Humiliation
101	Who is the best fashion designer?	Kenny (3-0)	One of Spenny's male models walked off of the show, forcing Spenny to desperately scramble for a new model off of the street.	Spenny walked the streets in one of Kenny's bikini creations.
102	Who can stay awake the longest?	Kenny	Kenny used a bright light visor, an earpiece that beeped when he tilted his head and lots of coffee. Spenny sought to win with using his willpower.	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, scaring it. Kenny visited the cattle farm prior to the competition date and arranged to have a docile cow for himself, and a rather timid cow selected for Spenny.	Spenny was covered head-to-toe in cow manure.
106	Who is the sanest?	Spenny (3-1)	Kenny complained that two of the judges that voted for Spenny were themselves crazy	Kenny went streaking through the streets.
107	Who can earn the most money in three days?	Spenny ($1234.31 to $67.00)	Kenny sold shares of air time for thousands of dollars but he legally had to split the money with Spenny, leaving him with nothing.	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 60 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)*	The duo had a competition in which they had to race to the top of the CN Tower. Spenny ran the entire way up, whereas Kenny lagged behind and took the elevator. The competition was obviously a win for Spenny, but it tired him out for the remaining competitions.	Kenny walked up the steps of the CN Tower with broken ribs.
112	Who can lose the most weight?	Kenny (cheated: 17.5 lbs-17.0 lbs)	At the first weigh-in, Kenny had a solder halo in his hair and during the competition, he injected constipation medicine in Spenny's food.	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 (and extremely large) herpes sore painted on his face.
114	Who can put on the best concert?	Kenny (cheated: 3-0)	Kenny called Spenny's band, and informed the band that the show was cancelled using a fake message created from voice clips from the Kenny vs. Spenny editing studios.	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.But he gave them gifts in the end cause he thought it was bad to trick them	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 invited Spenny's uncle over to the dinner with the judges while Spenny was wearing woman's attire.	Kenny "walked the streets" in an area known for prostitution while wearing a female costume. (Two vehicles stopped.)
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 smuggled magnifying glass to start a fire.	Kenny and Spenny French kissed each other for five seconds (humiliation imposed by the film crew).
124	Who can win a court case?	Kenny	Kenny took Spenny to court to claim he was owed money.	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 (Kenny forfeited)	Kenny locked Spenny alone in a closet for over a day. Kenny felt bad and let him go and forfeited.	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 DVDs.

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 forfeited to stop Spenny from jumping off a cliff into water to prove that he has the biggest balls.	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 until 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)	A random girl on the street attempts to help Spenny get more kisses. Spenny suspects that she is working for Kenny, and as a result Spenny gets rid of her. Kenny later reveals that he in fact does not know her.	Spenny kissed the buttocks and testicles of horse statue.
209	Who can win a rat race?	Spenny	Kenny kidnapped Sally the rat (Spenny's rat). Spenny retaliated by stealing his valuable vinyl records, which angered Kenny into pretending to kidnap Spenny's mother, who he exchanged for his records. Kenny then 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 tries to create fake news stories by hiring actors that look like famous people, a photographer realises that the Shania Twain fake is not actually Shania, he then uses a fake Beyonce however he fails to appear at the judging because he is entertaining her in his bedroom	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, thinking that his script offer is real, buys 7 Bibles from Kenny to prove his sincerity.	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	Spenny consumes several tranquilizers to prevent himself from being mean.	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 commentary, Kenny admits that Spenny won, since Kenny was the one that actually vomited first.

Season Three

Number	Episode Competition	Winner	Cheats/Episode highlights	Humiliation
301	First one to laugh loses	Spenny	Spenny gets Kenny to laugh by having a mutual friend humiliate himself in front of Kenny. Results of competition are decided by photo finish (since Kenny and Spenny both laughed at their friend’s routine).	Kenny ate one of Spenny's freshly picked "boogers".
302	Who do gay guys like more?	Draw	The lone gay judge chose "neither" after walking out on his date with Kenny.	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 which 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. 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.	Kenny tried to get Spenny to drink the semen he collected, but Spenny refused. Kenny then splashed Spenny with the semen; some of it got in Spenny's mouth.
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	Kenny makes a series of funny pornographic series to win over Spenny’s routine porn.	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 imitating 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 was arrested after hitting Kenny in front of two police officers, causing him to spend the night in a cell, thus losing the competition. (Rules stated that they must sleep outside).	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.

Statistics

	Wins	Losses	Ties	Winning %
Kenny	34	16	4	64.2
Spenny	16	34	4	28.3

After episode #313, Kenny leads the series 34-16-4 (W-L-T).
If competitions where Kenny cheated (12) are not counted, he would still be leading 22-16-4.
If competitions where Kenny cheated (12) were counted as wins for Spenny, Spenny would be leading by 28-22-4.

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