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Reality TV is full of unforgettable moments, but some mishaps have truly stood the test of time. From epic roasting disasters to outrageous challenges gone wrong, these iconic fails captured the hearts and laughs of viewers everywhere. Join us as we relive some of the most cringeworthy and hilarious moments that turned everyday reality shows into legendary TV history.
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00:00It's hard for me to sit there and pretend like everything's great and hunky-dory when it's not.
00:05Who is hunky-dory?
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the reality TV mishaps,
00:11mistakes, and miscalculations that took on a life of their own.
00:15I'm gonna make it right, give me a sewing challenge and I'll give you what you like.
00:19Number 10, Ashley's Roast, The Bachelorette.
00:22This one can best be summed up with, be careful what you wish for.
00:26Ashley Hebert challenged her potential suitors to roast her on stage in front of a live audience.
00:31They do their job a little too well.
00:33Your jokes around the house are starting to fall kind of flat, almost as flat as Ashley, but not quite.
00:38You're actually the first girl I've ever dated with a smaller chest than me.
00:42Instead of minding her feelings, the guys dig into Ashley as if she's someone they never expect to see again
00:47after this.
00:48William Holmansett is by far the worst.
00:51He expresses his disappointment that Ashley was the season's bachelorette at all before taking yet another dig at her body.
00:57Ashley, so beautiful, so gorgeous, so used.
01:02They say one man's trash is another man's treasure.
01:08I mean, I thought I was signing up to be with Emily or Chantel and then Ashley's here.
01:12Ashley, who considered Holman a frontrunner, leaves the roast in tears,
01:16and it turns out to be one of the biggest car crashes in the show's history.
01:19I hate it when people cry.
01:21It's not attractive at all, but I'm obviously here for a reason,
01:26and that's getting another rose, so I'll do what it takes, you know?
01:29Number 9. Watermelon Catapult, The Amazing Race.
01:32I'm Claire Champlin, The Watermelon Girl.
01:34And I'm Brooke Roberts, the dirtbag that didn't help out.
01:37This show tasks its contestants with completing a variety of odd and often dangerous tasks in far-flung places.
01:44Amazing Race competitor Claire Champlin became a viral sensation in 2010.
01:48Competing on its 17th season,
01:51Champlin was participating in a medieval-inspired challenge
01:53where contestants had to use a slingshot to fling pieces of fruit into the air.
01:57Do what you gotta do to make it go right into that guy!
02:02Give up on me now, please!
02:03Just focus!
02:04I'm not giving up, I'm just getting frustrated.
02:07Champlin's sling sent the watermelon backwards, smashing it against her face.
02:11She recovered, but that didn't stop the internet from milking it for all the laughs it was worth.
02:15The gif-able moment went viral even before the episode premiered.
02:18I have the worst headache.
02:19I don't doubt it.
02:21Okay, so what do we do now?
02:23You have to finish.
02:24What?
02:25There's no out.
02:26I can't even see straight.
02:28They don't call it The Amazing Race for nothing.
02:31Number 8. Snooki's Arrest, Jersey Shore.
02:33The news that Nicole Snooki Polizzi got arrested wasn't so surprising.
02:37Considering most of what went down on Jersey Shore, it was only a matter of time.
02:41I told Danny that I was going to go get coffee, but I really went to the bar to take
02:45shots.
02:45To smushing tonight!
02:47To smushing!
02:48Yay!
02:49Oh, I need to pick up pickles.
02:51Oh my god, they're totally gonna see me.
02:53That the incident unfolded before the cameras during the show's third season
02:56and provided yet another meltdown was just reality TV catnip.
03:00Snooki is shown drunkenly stumbling down the boardwalk, asking where the beach is.
03:04Of course, this being the Jersey Shore, the beach is literally feet away.
03:08Where's the beach?
03:10Hey, Danny.
03:11Where else would it be?
03:12Oh my god, we're going to the beach so bad.
03:15Love you, bye.
03:16Next thing we know, she's falling on the sand and being dragged away by officers who look totally over it.
03:22She's drunk and disorderly. She's causing a scene. You see that?
03:24You're going to place him under arrest, brought back to police headquarters.
03:26She would process and she would release on a summons, okay?
03:29Number 7. Andrew Liu's fake tears. Love is Blind.
03:33Would you make me the happiest man in the world, spend the rest of my life with me?
03:39Would you marry me?
03:40It wouldn't be the first time someone was accused of faking it for the cameras.
03:44Unfortunately, Love is Blind producers were not on Andrew Liu's side.
03:47After being rejected by fellow participant Nancy Rodriguez,
03:51Liu used his time in the confessional interview to show his softer side.
03:54Except, when he couldn't generate tears on his own,
03:56he asked the off-camera producer if he could use eyedrops.
04:00My back.
04:03Is this too much?
04:05Just a little bit.
04:08Um.
04:13It didn't feel good.
04:14All of this was left in the edit of the actual episode, of course.
04:18The brazen fakery went viral as soon as Netflix dropped the first batch of season 3 episodes.
04:23Whatever Liu wanted us to think about him, he certainly got everyone talking.
04:27Um.
04:32I never thought I could care for someone that would bring me to tears.
04:36Number 6.
04:37Hottie's Chicken.
04:38Flavor of Love.
04:39Flavor Flav wanted to know where his potential date's skills in the kitchen lie.
04:42I like to eat.
04:44And I like a girl I can cook.
04:46Whoever makes the best fried chicken tonight,
04:49wants a date out on the town tonight with me and my mom.
04:52Season 1 contestant Hottie probably should have just ordered takeout.
04:55With her big eyes and deadpan seriousness,
04:58Hottie's certainty about her plan to cook an entire chicken in the microwave is...
05:02the kind of confidence we should all aspire to.
05:05I think putting a chicken in the microwave is like the most sanitary thing to do,
05:09plus it doesn't have all the extra calories from the grease.
05:11It doesn't help that she inexplicably impales it with raw vegetables.
05:15You know, because vegetables are healthy.
05:17By the time she's done with it, her chicken looks like a culinary crime scene.
05:21Is this Flavor of Love or Flavor of Salmonella?
05:24It ain't cooked!
05:27Just because it's not fried, you can still microwave it and it is cooked.
05:32I just want to say, whoever number eight was, that wasn't serious, was you?
05:38Number five, chicken or fish?
05:40Newlyweds, Nick and Jessica.
05:42Mom, what are you eating in that packet?
05:44It's called chicken of the sea.
05:45But it's not really chicken, it's tuna.
05:48So don't get confused by it.
05:50Who would ever get confused by that?
05:53No one?
05:55Not your mom.
05:56The 2000s were the height of the dumb blonde stereotype.
06:00Only the smartest and savviest could play the part to perfection.
06:04In the very first episode of her show with then-husband Nick Lachey,
06:07Jessica Simpson ignited a blitz of press.
06:10Simpson's confusion as to whether the canned tuna brand chicken of the sea was chicken or fish
06:14had everyone just a little worried about her.
06:17Is this chicken what I have or is this fish?
06:21I know it's tuna, but it says chicken by the sea.
06:27Is that stupid?
06:29For many, it represented the very best and very worst of the relatively new unscripted genre.
06:34It's a reminder of a time when reality TV was a lot simpler
06:37and water cooler moments were sometimes just a matter of asking a dumb question.
06:41Why is it called chicken by the sea or in the sea?
06:45Chicken of the sea is the brand.
06:52It's kind of odd why I chose to even audition in the first place.
06:56Because my major is civil engineering, which is totally not related to music.
07:01But I really like music.
07:03I want to make music my living.
07:04In its early years, Idol frequently toed the line between legitimate singing competition
07:08and cruel social experiment.
07:11In some ways, William Hung's audition where he sang through a tone-deaf version of Ricky Martin's
07:16She Bangs made him more memorable than some of the show's actual winners.
07:20Talk to me.
07:21Tell me your name.
07:23You blow me off like it's all the same.
07:26Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson didn't exactly mince words.
07:30But something about his energy made him an instant star.
07:33I love that he put every bit he had into it.
07:37Well, I didn't.
07:39William, it's one of actually the worst auditions we've had this year, if I'm being honest.
07:44Seriously.
07:45I mean, everything about it was grotesque.
07:48Oh, stop it.
07:49Was the fanfare for Hung real, or was it based purely on public mockery?
07:53In the age of reality TV, was there even a difference?
07:56He actually cut a motley successful album off the back of his idol appearance.
08:01You're playing games and now you're hitting my heart like a drum.
08:05Yeah, baby.
08:06Number 3.
08:07Eric Gives Up Immunity.
08:09Survivor.
08:09If Eric takes that necklace off, his torch would be snuffed so quick,
08:15I don't even think he could have time to blink his eyes.
08:18A small-town boy from Michigan got a real-life lesson when he went up against the Black Widow Brigade
08:22on the show's 16th installment, Survivor Micronesia, Fans vs. Favorites.
08:27Led by Parvati Shallow and Sari Fields,
08:29the all-women's alliance somehow worked out a plan to guilt Aaron Reichenbach
08:33into giving up his immunity necklace.
08:35I wonder if he would give Nat his necklace.
08:39Probably not, huh?
08:40What?
08:41He would give you the necklace.
08:42You think you could talk him into giving you the necklace?
08:46Nat.
08:47Worth your magic.
08:49You can convince him.
08:50Even they can't believe it works.
08:52They subsequently voted him right out of the game,
08:54as Jeff Probst and the Shock Jury members could only watch.
08:58My mother always told me,
09:00you may not be able to beat him with these all the time,
09:03but you can always beat him with this.
09:06Sorry.
09:07It's still one of the most boneheaded moves in Survivor history.
09:11However, it also helped cement Micronesia as one of the show's very best seasons.
09:15Number 2.
09:16Roxy's Verse.
09:17RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars.
09:18I'm Roxy Andrews and I'm here to make it clear.
09:21I know you love me, baby.
09:22That's why you brought me here.
09:23Watching the remix challenge from the long-awaited second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars
09:27truly was the best and worst of Drag Race all at once.
09:31Detox, Alaska, and Katya slayed the verses they wrote and performed.
09:42Roxy Andrews' verse is an immediate drop in quality.
09:46A rushed flow, some odd lyrics, and a bizarre whispered moment
09:49make her section of Read You, Wrote You stick out like a sore thumb.
09:53I'm gonna show you what I can do.
09:58You're going crazy and fee into...
10:02That's exactly why it's all so perfect.
10:05It's pure camp on every conceivable level.
10:08Ask the average Drag Race fan to recite any part of the song on command
10:11and they'll make it clear that Roxy's verse is unforgettable.
10:15Number 1.
10:15David's Dead.
10:16Celebrity Big Brother.
10:17When I hear David's Dead, I'm gonna think of the next David that's in the house in the other room.
10:23So I thought David had died.
10:25Whoever cast Tiffany New York Pollard should get a raise.
10:28Putting her in a house with a bunch of British celebrities
10:30who had no idea what she was capable of was great enough.
10:33But the David's Dead debacle was genius.
10:36David's dead.
10:37No, it's not.
10:38Shit, shit.
10:39Woo!
10:40Shit, shit, you can't, you can't, you can't do that.
10:43Pollard, misunderstanding the news that David Bowie had died,
10:46told the cast of Celebrity Big Brother 17
10:48that their fellow housemate David Guest had died instead.
10:51Chaos, panic, and fights ensue.
10:54While the others are left to figure out what happened,
10:56Pollard refuses to back down,
10:58thinking it was a trick played specifically on her.
11:01She said that he dropped out of cancer.
11:03Tiffany, yes, that is true.
11:05But you've got the name wrong.
11:06Wrong David, it's the wrong David.
11:07It's the wrong David, honey.
11:08It's a comedy of errors that no one could have written.
11:11Did your favorite reality show make the list?
11:13Tell us in the comments.
11:14Tell us in the comments.