Copy That

**Copy That** was a series that revolved around the main characters doing pranks that the commander gives them that they must copy at any public location.

## Episode Format

### Web Series

The initial episodes of this show was only available in the form of short 5 minute episodes online where the one contestant would have to do the tasks given by the commander, which in this case were random comments that were obtained from a forum thread where people can say what dare they want the person in the show to do. The person would then do this stunt and the performance will be looked at by a higher up. If approved a green check mark will appear on the corner, if the task is failed a red cross will appear. However if the task was impossible to do in the circumstances a grey question mark will appear, meaning undecided. While the first few episodes takes place inside the one player's house, the third episode is the first one done in a public area, this being the middle of St. Louis. This format would last for a while even after the show got green lit and aired in the form of a 20 minute TV series. It lasted up until 2014 when the original run ended in favor of another show with this format being the most active during the period of 2011 to May 2013 when things slowed down in order to focus on the new show.

### Mini Episode Format

Originally made as a way to fill the gaps of missing episodes from this show's TV airings, matches the original style the web series is known for, but the only difference is that they tally the successful tasks together to add to the total score on the show as a whole, with the web series having it's own. The format only got 7 episodes because it was more successful to just make the TV show instead which was also why the original web series stopped fully.

### TV Series

On TV the show there are now up to 5 players in each episode. The cast makes up of 5 people who typically stays the same 5 for the most part. These people are Kevin, John, Mike, and Shaun, with the only two from the original series being Shaun and the commander who is unnamed due to the character being an unknown force giving these commands. The game show aspect is more advanced with the only thing from the original being the points system. How the game is played is they are all given a command to do which they must act upon with the given rules and time/chances limit. Around 5 rounds are played with each round being made up of a prank to do. Every few episodes there will be a bonus round where they still do a prank, but on each other. In this bonus round players can steal other's points from the past episodes since the last bonus round. You can steal both positive points and negative points with grey points being out of this mode. The only time this formula was broken was during the crossover special with Impractical Jokers and the unfinished crossover with Jackass team members.

## Controversy

The show since moving to TV has had backlash for two reasons, one being from people that claimed the show was just a cash grab at the TruTV show Impractical Jokers, and the other being that it felt sold out because of it moving from being a web series over to a TV show.

After the Impractical Jokers crossover aired in 2014 with the show's best ratings since it's inception on television, the show runner, Shaun, offered the cast from his side (Kevin, John, Mike, and Bob) a vacation to Jiberish Land. While Kevin accepted, the others held back for a while. Once Kevin left to Jiberish Land, he went missing, and was never found again. John, Mike, and Bob were all interviewed about the incident and while Bob wanted to do the search for him from there fearing the country, the others went to the country on there own to never return again. Bob, being the last one known to be alive was interviewed yet again, this time for a news reporter from the area that the rest had gone missing. The interview was cut out of nowhere with a technical difficulties screen on the networks it aired on. This cut away happened after he said something bad about the people there. He went missing, but not before being seen by some witnesses being dragged in the news reporter's van. It's speculated that the news studio was the one behind Bob's kidnaping, and the other's kidnapping.

The Jackass crossover was going to be planned for a 2015 release but never got finished due to the cast going missing.

## Episodes

### TV Series (Season 1)

Season 1 lasted from May 2012 to August of the same year with around 10 episodes being made, each 20 minutes in length.

### TV Series (Season 2)

Season 2 started in November 2012 and ended in March 2013 with 10 episodes being in this season. A few episodes consisted of portions from the Mini episodes found on the site with one episode being made only of Mini episodes that never made it online due to the format being canceled to focus fully on the TV series. Most episodes lasted 20 minutes, with the compilation episodes being 11 minutes. This season introduced the overall score tally for players in this season. The footage is looked over by the players throughout the season and they decide who the winner is. They do the same for Season 1. Winner got a physical trophy with a typo on it that misspelt the winner's name.

### Mini Episodes

Made to fill the gaps between full sized productions of episodes, was created during season 2 originally from left over footage. It lasted 7 episodes before being stopped due to needing to focus on the production of the TV show in full.

### TV Series (Season 3)

Known as the revival due to it's return from development hell since the halt of progress in 2013, housed only 6 episodes with the last one being Impractical Jokers. Four more episodes were planned for this season, including the Jackass crossover special, but never reached that goal due to most of the cast of players going missing after the Impractical Jokers episodes was finished. This season was the last time the overall tally was ever used, and unlike the previous season was just a voice over showing the total scores from the season while showing footage of it. The winner of the season didn't even get any physical rewards like the previous season which caused minor backlash due to them saying the company was cheeping out.

### Planned Forth Season

The plan for the forth season would have the players go worldwide to do these pranks all while the commander gives them instructions. This season the contestants only see each other in person all at once at the start and end of the game itself. Each of the two teams are split into two with the teams sharing the points together, which is similar to how they handled the teams in the Impractical Jokers crossover special. The forth season would have been with a completely different cast with the commander and host being Shaun. The final time this season was mentioned was in 2019 with the launch of Eclipse Network, and rebranding of The Krusty Krab channel where they started to air episodes of this show again and had an on screen poll throughout that week of airing the episodes if they should reboot the show. Due to an error in broadcasting, the poll got stuck at 50% on both yes and no options. This carried over to the site that the poll was hosted on, causing them to have to reset the poll. The second time the poll was put up no one was notified and many choose to not respond as a way to prevent the show from being made to prevent the people on the show that get's added from going missing. The show has not been mentioned since, with the whole series now being available for free online.