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Cover of the movie that was based on the show.

Status: Partially Found

Jerkbeast was a comedy television show that aired on Seattle public access television (specifically, on the Seattle Community Access Network)^[1] from April 6th, 2001 to September 25th, 2002.^[2] The show featured a large foul-mouthed paper maché monster (the Jerkbeast) who would scream at and insult people who called in.^[3] As the show's website described it: "It's a simple premise: 30 minutes of pure, blinding hatred directed at YOU, the viewing audience. Call in and try to out-swear us. You'll find it rather difficult."^[4]

A movie with the same name (and featuring the same cast) was made a few years after the show ended.^[5]^[6] Additionally, the cast formed a garage punk band called Steaming Wolf Penis.

About

One of the cast members, Calvin Lee Reeder (who played "Sweet Benny" on the show) writes on his website^[7]:

I use to go to Brady’s house a lot. There was this particular pile of trash in the living room, and each time I went over there, it seemed to grow in horrible new ways. One day it became the Jerkbeast. Brady had plans to host a public access show wearing it. He did that. Brain Wendorf and I co-hosted 2 seasons of it alongside him on Scan-TV channel 77. We had a pretty strong following, and it was as all because of the Jerkbeast, the most creatively vile rapid-fire insulter Seattle public access had ever known. All social boundaries were ignored, and we received death threats on a regular basis.

It went so well we decided to turn it into a movie. The movie features the three of us in a band called Steaming Wolf Penis, Jerkbeast played drums. That band was so bad it gained a separate cult following. We played live quite a bit even toured England a couple of times. I’d say most people who saw us play didn’t even know we made a movie, probably never will.

Found Episodes

Some of the episodes were available on staticvideo.com^[2] until around late 2008. Archive.org saved some of them, although the videos are very low quality.

In 2012, someone uploaded 4 episodes of Jerkbeast to YouTube.^[8] The video is much higher quality video than the episodes on staticvideo.com.

In 2014, Justin Brown uploaded two episodes of Jerkbeast to Vimeo (S01E11 and S01E14).

In 2019, YouTube user gov' holocaustal uploaded 21 episodes of Jerkbeast, including a moderately-sized chunk of season 2.

As of 2021, all previously found, publicly available episodes have been taken down by the creator, Brady Hall,^[9] though they are still available on Anonfiles.

List of Episodes

Season 1

#	Air Date	Status
1	Apr 6th, 2001	Found
2	Apr 13th, 2001	Found
3	Apr 20th, 2001	Found
4	Apr 28th, 2001	Lost
5	May 7th, 2001	Found
6	May 14th, 2001	Lost
7	May 21st, 2001	Lost
8	Jun 1st, 2001	Lost
9	Jun 8th, 2001	Lost
10	Jun 15th, 2001	Lost
11	Jun 22nd, 2001	Found
12	Jun 29, 2001	Lost
13	Jul 7th, 2001	Lost
14	Jul 14th, 2001	Found
15	Jul 21st, 2001	Found
16	Jul 27th, 2001	Found
17	Aug 3rd, 2001	Found
18	Aug 10th, 2001	Found
19	Aug 24th, 2001	Found
20	Aug 31st, 2001	Found
21	Sep 7th, 2001	Found
22	Sep 14th, 2001	Found
23	Sep 21st, 2001	Found
24	Sep 28th, 2001	Found

Season 2

#	Air Date	Status
1	Apr 3rd, 2002	Found
2	Apr 11th, 2002	Found
3	Apr 18th, 2002	Found
4	Apr 24th, 2002	Found
5	May 1st, 2002	Found
6	May 8th, 2002	Found
7	May 15th, 2002	Found
8	May 22nd, 2002	Lost
9	May 29th, 2002	Partially Found
10	Jun 5th, 2002	Lost
11	Jun 12th, 2002	Lost
12	Jun 19th, 2002	Lost
13	Jun 26th, 2002	Found
14	Jul 3rd, 2002	Lost
15	Jul 10th, 2002	Lost
16	Jul 17th, 2002	Lost
17	Jul 24th, 2002	Lost
18	Jul 31st, 2002	Lost
19	Aug 7th, 2002	Lost
20	Aug 14th, 2002	Lost
21	Aug 21st, 2002	Lost
22	Aug 28th, 2002	Partially Found
23	Sep 4th, 2002	Lost
24	Sep 11th, 2002	Lost
25	Sep 18th, 2002	Lost
26	Sep 25th, 2002	Lost

External Links

References

[1] TV Schedule for SCAN-TV: April 1st - September 30th, 2002

[staticvideo-2] 2.0 ^2.1 List of Jerkbeast episodes

[3] ttps://vice.com/read/sweet-benny-has-a-new-movie

[4] Jerkbeast! The TV show that loves to hate you!

[5] Jerkbeast trailer UK

[6] Jerkbeast movie on Amazon.com

[7] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20131225220747/http://www.calvinleereeder.com/jerkbeast/

[8] ttps://youtube.com/user/chattyjerk2/videos

[9] Reddit account for "TheRealJerkbeast," explaining why the previously found episodes were taken down.

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-'''''Jerkbeast''''' was a comedy television show that aired on Seattle public access television (specifically, on the Seattle Community Access Network)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020906144139/http://www.scantv.org/wednesday.htm TV Schedule for SCAN-TV: April 1 - September 30, 2002]</ref> from April 6, 2001 to September 25, 2002.<ref name="staticvideo">[https://web.archive.org/web/20081021051746/http://www.staticvideo.com/jerkbeast/ List of ''Jerkbeast'' episodes]</ref> The show featured a large foul-mouthed paper maché monster (the Jerkbeast) who would scream at and insult people who called in.<ref>https://www.vice.com/read/sweet-benny-has-a-new-movie</ref> As the show's website described it: "It's a simple premise: 30 minutes of pure, blinding hatred directed at YOU, the viewing audience. Call in and try to out-swear us. You'll find it rather difficult."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040611235825/http://jerkbeast.com/show.html Jerkbeast! The TV show that loves to hate you!]</ref>
+'''''Jerkbeast''''' was a comedy television show that aired on Seattle public access television (specifically, on the Seattle Community Access Network)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020906144139/http://www.scantv.org/wednesday.htm TV Schedule for SCAN-TV: April 1st - September 30th, 2002]</ref> from April 6th, 2001 to September 25th, 2002.<ref name="staticvideo">[https://web.archive.org/web/20081021051746/http://www.staticvideo.com/jerkbeast/ List of ''Jerkbeast'' episodes]</ref> The show featured a large foul-mouthed paper maché monster (the Jerkbeast) who would scream at and insult people who called in.<ref>https://vice.com/read/sweet-benny-has-a-new-movie</ref> As the show's website described it: "It's a simple premise: 30 minutes of pure, blinding hatred directed at YOU, the viewing audience. Call in and try to out-swear us. You'll find it rather difficult."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040611235825/http://jerkbeast.com/show.html Jerkbeast! The TV show that loves to hate you!]</ref>
-A movie with the same name (and featuring the same cast) was made a few years after the show ended.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o64eTaIjLM Jerkbeast trailer UK]</ref><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Jerkbeast-Mike-Brawlie/dp/B0009XRZLK Jerkbeast movie on Amazon.com]</ref> Additionally, the cast formed a garage punk band called Steaming Wolf Penis.
+A movie with the same name (and featuring the same cast) was made a few years after the show ended.<ref>[https://youtu.be/-o64eTaIjLM Jerkbeast trailer UK]</ref><ref>[http://amazon.com/Jerkbeast-Mike-Brawlie/dp/B0009XRZLK Jerkbeast movie on Amazon.com]</ref> Additionally, the cast formed a garage punk band called Steaming Wolf Penis.
 ==About==
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 Some of the episodes were available on staticvideo.com<ref name="staticvideo" /> until around late 2008. Archive.org saved some of them, although the videos are very low quality.
-In 2012, someone uploaded 4 episodes of ''Jerkbeast'' to YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/user/chattyjerk2/videos</ref> The video is much higher quality video than the episodes on staticvideo.com.
+In 2012, someone uploaded 4 episodes of ''Jerkbeast'' to YouTube.<ref>https://youtube.com/user/chattyjerk2/videos</ref> The video is much higher quality video than the episodes on staticvideo.com.
 In 2014, Justin Brown uploaded two episodes of ''Jerkbeast'' to Vimeo (S01E11 and S01E14).
 In 2019, YouTube user gov' holocaustal uploaded 21 episodes of ''Jerkbeast'', including a moderately-sized chunk of season 2.
+As of 2021, all previously found, publicly available episodes have been taken down by the creator, Brady Hall,<ref>[https://reddit.com/user/TheRealJerkbeast Reddit account for "TheRealJerkbeast," explaining why the previously found episodes were taken down.]</ref> though they are still available on Anonfiles.
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-|25||Sept 18, 2002||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
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-|26||Sept 25, 2002||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
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 |}
 ==External Links==
 *[http://jerkbeast.com/ Official website of ''Jerkbeast''.]
+*[https://files.fm/u/vkzr6thkgj Mirror of found episodes on Files.fm]
+*[https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x807di Mirror of found episodes on Dailymotion]
 *[https://archive.org/details/jerkbeast_show Mirror of found episodes on Archive.org.]
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060505093607/http://www.jerkbeast.com/showvideomain.html Clips from the show.]