Video on Trial season 4
| Video on Trial season 4 | |
|---|---|
| Season 4 | |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Release | |
| Original network | MuchMusic |
| Original release | September 8, 2008 – August 31, 2009 |
| Season chronology | |
The fourth season of the Canadian television comedy series Video on Trial premiered on MuchMusic on September 8, 2008 and concluded on August 31, 2009. It consists of 26 episodes.
Episodes
The show uses a courtroom-style format: each episode usually consists of five music videos being "tried" by five different people, usually comedians, musicians, and entertainment columnists, acting as the "jurors". From the first to mid-fifth seasons, the end of each episode featured a final "verdict" given to each video being "tried".
This list is arranged in the order in which the episodes were broadcast, and does not include spin-off "specials" (such as Stars on Trial). The list contains the air dates, episode numbers, "accused" music videos, and "jurors" of each episode of the season.
Verdicts
The following table contains the fictitious "final verdicts" given to each artist for their video. The verdicts are listed by episode, and the videos are listed in order of their "case numbers".
Verdicts do not apply to artists whose names are in small text.
| Accused | Video | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Episode 4.01 | ||
| Girlicious | "Stupid Shit" | Sentenced to fire Robin Antin...or at least stop letting her direct your videos and go back to what she's best at...collagen injections. |
| A Day to Remember | "Since U Been Gone" | Sentenced to let Kelly Clarkson cover one of their songs...it couldn't be any less successful. |
| Rihanna | "Disturbia" | Sentenced to make more videos in bondage. |
| Slipknot | "Psychosocial" | Sentenced to have a live-in therapist to help them stop hiding between those jock strap smelling masks. |
| Lil Wayne | "A Milli" | Sentenced to try to spend at least a thousand...a thousand...a thousand...thousand, thousand on his next joint. |
| Episode 4.02 | ||
| Jonas Brothers featuring Big Rob | "Burnin' Up" | Sentenced to continue being the best pedophile bait on the market. |
| Ashanti | "Good Good" | Sentenced to wake up and smell the cheating husband already. |
| Danity Kane | "Damaged" | Sentenced to ride their space ship back to Cougar Island. |
| Lil Wayne featuring T-Pain | "Got Money" | Sentenced to build a house for Katrina victims out of his CDs that are popping up in garbage bins all across America. |
| Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis | "Just Dance" | Sentenced to use her extensions to clean up the puke at her party. |
| Episode 4.03 | ||
| Heidi Montag | "Overdosin'" | Sentenced to live out her destiny and pose for Playboy. |
| Gnarls Barkley | "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" | Sentenced to go on the "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" world tour with Jewel. |
| N.E.R.D | "Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)" | Sentenced to S.T.O.P making music. |
| New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo | "Single" | Sentenced to realize that reunions aren't for everybody. |
| Maroon 5 | "Goodnight Goodnight" | Sentenced to appear as the bar band on daytime soaps. |
| Episode 4.04 | ||
| No verdicts were given, as no videos were tried. | ||
| Episode 4.05 | ||
| Ludacris featuring Chris Brown and Sean Garrett | "What Them Girls Like" | Sentenced to remake What Women Want starring in the Mel Gibson lead role. |
| Katy Perry | "Hot n Cold" | Sentenced to go down on Rosie O'Donnell. |
| David Archuleta | "Crush" | Sentenced to move in with Clay Aiken and follow his career trajectory. |
| Usher | "Trading Places" | Sentenced to have Justin Timberlake produce his next record. |
| Metallica | "The Day That Never Comes" | Sentenced to run for president in 2012 with Britney Spears as their VP. |
| Episode 4.06 | ||
| Avril Lavigne | "Girlfriend" | Sentenced to remain a big big star by re-recording all the one-hit wonder hits from the '80s. |
| Theory of a Deadman | "Bad Girlfriend" | Sentenced to stop getting Chad Kroeger to write songs for them. |
| Nickelback | "Too Bad" | Sentenced to writing songs for Theory of a Deadman. |
| k-os | "The Love Song" | Sentenced to dig a little deeper and find a voice of his own. |
| Kalan Porter | "Hurray" | Sentenced to stick to his fanbase and only play old folks homes. |
| Episode 4.07 | ||
| No verdicts were given. | ||
| Episode 4.08 | ||
| Beyoncé | "If I Were a Boy" | Sentenced to realize that no one with an ass like hers could ever be a boy. |
| Miley Cyrus | "Fly on the Wall" | Sentenced to get some acting lessons. We're pretty sure you can afford them by now. |
| Rihanna | "Rehab" | Sentenced to develop a crippling heroin problem. Then she'll know what going to rehab is really about. |
| Hinder | "Use Me" | Sentenced to stop being so damn douchey that even Brody Jenner remarks "God those guys are douches." |
| Ludacris featuring T-Pain | "One More Drink" | Sentenced to ten more drinks of T-Pain's love juice. |
| Episode 4.09 | ||
| Britney Spears | "Circus" | Sentenced to stick to the formula of being a circus freak. It seems to sell loads of records. |
| 50 Cent | "Get Up" | Sentenced to make his s*** unboring by doing something different...like maybe a country record? |
| Jonas Brothers | "Lovebug" | Sentenced to continue down the road to becoming a boy band cliché. |
| The All-American Rejects | "Gives You Hell" | Sentenced to play bingo halls in the suburbs for the duration of their careers. |
| Pink | "Sober" | Sentenced to stay drunk. Nobody likes sober people...or Pink. |
| Episode 4.10 | ||
| Pink | "So What" | Sentenced to pay attention during half-naked pillow fights. |
| Metro Station | "Seventeen Forever" | Sentenced to have rich daughters and become the next Billy Ray. |
| Lil Wayne featuring Bobby Valentino and Kidd Kidd | "Mrs. Officer" | Sentenced to meet some real police officers. |
| The Killers | "Human" | Sentenced to stop dressing themselves. |
| T.I. featuring Rihanna | "Live Your Life" | Sentenced to go to jail already. |
| Episode 4.11 | ||
| Pussycat Dolls | "I Hate This Part" | Sentenced to have a mud wrestling fight with Girlicious and show those young upstarts who's boss. |
| Hilary Duff | "Reach Out" | Sentenced to write a formal apology to Depeche Mode for ruining a perfectly good song. |
| Akon | "Right Now (Na Na Na)" | Sentenced to work full time at his diamond mine and quit the music business right na na na. |
| Demi Lovato | "La La Land" | Sentenced to fall in line with the rest of Hollywood and get a boob job. |
| Fall Out Boy | "I Don't Care" | Sentenced to care just a little bit more next time. Your indifference is starting to show. |
| Episode 4.12 | ||
| Nelly featuring P. Diddy and Murphy Lee | "Shake Ya Tailfeather" | Sentenced to have Murphy Lee get a higher profile so we can figure out who the hell he is. |
| LFO | "Summer Girls" | Sentenced to one-hit wonder status followed by a lifetime of obscurity...ohh, that's already happened. |
| b4-4 | "Get Down" | Sentenced to get down and never, ever get up again. |
| Jessica Simpson | "Sweetest Sin" | Sentenced to let her creepy dad direct all her videos. |
| New Kids on the Block | "Summertime" | Sentenced to stop trying to sleep with girls that could be their daughters...that's just creepy. |
| Episode 4.13 | ||
| Britney Spears | "Womanizer" | Sentenced to bring the real Britney back!!! |
| Katy Perry | "Thinking of You" | Sentenced to go back to making Christian rock songs. |
| Lady Gaga | "Poker Face" | Sentenced to keep her poker face covered up. |
| Solange | "Sandcastle Disco" | Sentenced to ask daddy for more of Beyoncé's money. |
| Jamie Foxx featuring T.I. | "Just Like Me" | Sentenced to make Miami Vice Part 2. |
| Episode 4.14 | ||
| T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake | "Dead and Gone" | Sentenced to be driven out into the middle of the desert and left for dead. |
| Taylor Swift | "Love Story" | Sentenced to stop being such a tease and put out already! |
| Lily Allen | "The Fear" | Sentenced to give us all your dancing presents. You don't deserve them! |
| Kelly Clarkson | "My Life Would Suck Without You" | Sentenced to make out with Clay Aiken. |
| The Killers | "Spaceman" | Sentenced to watch a marathon of all their crappy videos. |
| Episode 4.15 | ||
| Miley Cyrus | "The Climb" | Sentenced to go back to the farm. |
| Asher Roth | "I Love College" | Sentenced to retire after one song. |
| Beyoncé | "Halo" | Sentenced to kiss somebody besides Jay-Z. |
| Leona Lewis | "I Will Be" | Sentenced to run from the police for once. |
| Enrique Iglesias featuring Ciara | "Takin' Back My Love" | Sentenced to grow back his mole. |
| Episode 4.16 | ||
| Britney Spears | "If U Seek Amy" | Sentenced to shave her hair off and be crazy Britney again. |
| Lil Wayne | "Prom Queen" | Sentenced to a lifetime of wedgies from the high school football team. |
| Lady Gaga | "LoveGame" | Sentenced to clean her disco stick after usage. |
| Jesse McCartney featuring Ludacris | "How Do You Sleep?" | Sentenced to not make another video until he grows some facial hair. |
| Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain | "Blame It" | Sentenced to do a shot of tequila off of T-Pain's gut. |
| Episode 4.17 | ||
| A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger | "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" | Sentenced to spend one day in the actual slums of India. We'll see how much dancing you'll do there. |
| My Chemical Romance | "Desolation Row" | Sentenced to put on a concert for their real fans...nobody. |
| Soulja Boy featuring Sammie | "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" | Sentenced to kiss my ass thru the phone. |
| Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake | "Love Sex Magic" | Sentenced to be played over and over until all the viewers have finished playing with themselves. |
| Keri Hilson featuring Kanye West and Ne-Yo | "Knock You Down" | Sentenced to cut Keri Hilson out of this love triangle so Kanye and Ne-Yo can live happily ever after. |
| Episode 4.18 | ||
| Flo Rida featuring Pleasure P | "Shone" | Sentenced to wrestle an inflatable alligator in the ocean. |
| Beyoncé | "Diva" | Sentenced to come up with one original idea at some point in her life. |
| Eminem | "We Made You" | Sentenced to go back into retirement. |
| 88-Keys featuring Kanye West | "Stay Up! (Viagra)" | Sentenced to look elderly for the rest of his career. |
| Wheatus | "Teenage Dirtbag" | Sentenced to party like it's 2001! |
| Episode 4.19 | ||
| Pink | "Please Don't Love Me" | Sentenced to switch teams already. |
| Black Eyed Peas | "Boom Boom Pow" | Sentenced to get boom boom pow in the face. |
| Kelly Clarkson | "I Do Not Hook Up" | Sentenced to just hook up already. |
| Ashley Tisdale | "It's Alright, It's OK" | Sentenced to stick to doing High School Musical movies. |
| The White Tie Affair | "Candle (Sick and Tired)" | Sentenced to get run over by their own tour bus. |
| Episode 4.20 | ||
| Heidi Montag | "BlackOut" | Sentenced to look pretty, stand still, and don't say a word. |
| Katy Perry | "Waking Up in Vegas" | Sentenced to stop waking up in Vegas and start waking up in Gamblers Anonymous. |
| Kid Cudi | "Day 'n' Nite" | Sentenced to spend a couple of days and nights in rehab. |
| Mandy Moore | "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week" | Sentenced to a cage match fight with a real martial artist. |
| The-Dream featuring Mariah Carey | "My Love" | Sentenced to live happily ever after with Nick Cannon. |
| Episode 4.21 | ||
| Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase | "Been Around the World" | Sentenced to have a dance-off with J-Lo and don't stop...like, ever. |
| Limp Bizkit featuring Method Man | "N 2 Gether Now" | Sentenced to listen to their own albums over and over until they've realized the pain they caused for all of us. |
| Green Day | "When I Come Around" | Sentenced to go back in time and recapture their lost talent. |
| Jay-Z | "Who You Wit" | Sentenced to take orders from Beyoncé from now on. His pimp days are over. |
| Madonna | "Erotica" | Sentenced to eternal embarrassment...Or just ignore us and keep being a maniac. |
| Episode 4.22 | ||
| Jonas Brothers | "Paranoid" | Sentenced to strap on a straitjacket and visit a psychiatric asylum. |
| Lady Gaga | "Paparazzi" | Sentenced to get pushed off a balcony a few more times. That'll do the trick. |
| Black Eyed Peas | "I Gotta Feeling" | Sentenced to get a feeling...that it's over. |
| MGMT | "Kids" | Sentenced to get eaten by a 15-foot-tall baby. |
| Pussycat Dolls | "Hush Hush; Hush Hush" | Sentenced to really hush up once and for all. |
| Episode 4.23 | ||
| Kanye West featuring Mr Hudson | "Paranoid" | Sentenced to feature a half-naked Rihanna in all his videos from now on. |
| The All-American Rejects | "The Wind Blows" | Sentenced to keep playing in the ocean until the tide comes in. |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | "Heads Will Roll" | Sentenced to put Teen Wolf in all their videos...that movie rules. |
| Ciara featuring Missy Elliott | "Work" | Sentenced to stop working so hard and take a permanent vacation. |
| Jeremih | "Birthday Sex" | Sentenced to have birthday sex with a wood chipper. |
| Episode 4.24 | ||
| Pat Benatar | "Love Is a Battlefield" | Sentenced to realize that leaving home and becoming a prostitute is never the answer to your problems. |
| Wham! | "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" | Sentenced to avoid all public restrooms no matter how badly you might have to gogo. |
| Journey | "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" | Sentenced to find a video director whose résumé includes more than Public-access television. |
| Lionel Richie | "Hello" | Sentenced to get a restraining order to keep away from all blind people. |
| Sir Mix-a-Lot | "Baby Got Back" | Sentenced to realize women with little butts have feelings and maybe they want to see your anaconda too. |
| Episode 4.25 | ||
| Britney Spears | "Radar" | Sentenced to stay classy, like beef jerky flavoured cheesecake. |
| 3OH!3 | "Don't Trust Me" | Sentenced to put evolution in reverse and floor it. |
| Marilyn Manson | "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon" | Sentenced to stop being shocking and start being cute. |
| Jay-Z | "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" | Sentenced to stop being so jealous of Kanye. |
| Little Boots | "New in Town" | Sentenced to wake up and smell the homeless dancers. |
| Episode 4.26 | ||
| Cobra Starship featuring Leighton Meester | "Good Girls Go Bad" | Sentenced to have sex with Leighton Meester and tape it for the world to see. |
| Mariah Carey | "Obsessed" | Sentenced to start being obsessive about calling it quits. |
| Taylor Swift | "You Belong with Me" | Sentenced to bring out the slutty Taylor more often. |
| T.I. featuring Mary J. Blige | "Remember Me" | Sentenced to spend the rest of his remaining sentence in a straightjacket while watching this video on repeat. |
| Peter Bjorn and John | "It Don't Move Me" | Sentenced to let MJ rest in peace and start stealing Britney Spears' moves for their next video. |