Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video
Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video is the first DVD by television personality and stuntman Steve-O, released in 2001. It mostly contains footage that couldn't be shown on related MTV show "Jackass", due to censorship. Aside from Steve-O, the DVD features Chris Pontius, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Preston Lacy, Ryan Dunn, Jeff Tremaine, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and Ryan Simonetti. It contains a cast commentary and a bonus making-of video. Content. Some noteworthy scenes are Steve-O drinking bong water , the fireball face off where Steve-O spits a fireball while doing a backflip, burning his face in the process, ice skating and falling through thin ice on the Cuyahoga River and the vodka IV where Steve-O gets five shots of vodka pumped through his blood stream courtesy of a registered nurse. It also contains the video "The Career Ender," appropriately titled because it was once believed to end Steve-O's career. Highlights of the Career Ender show Steve-O's first attempt at the butterfly, in which he stapleguns his scrotum to his leg. Unauthorized re-release . After a falling-out with Steve O's old manager, Nick Dunlap, Dunlap re-released the DVD, advertising it as a "Now 100% special edition". It is the same disc sold in 2001, but with a red cover. This was completely unauthorized by Steve-O. Steve-O later sued Dunlap and his attorney Jason Berk. Sequels. "Don't Try This at Home" sold 140,000 copies, and was followed by "Don't Try This at Home Volume 2: The Tour" (2002) and "Steve-O: Out on Bail" (2003), which show Steve-O on a tour with other "Jackass" cast members (such  as Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn) and their exploits and stunts during that time. A fourth video, "Steve-O: The Early Years" (2004), records Steve-O engaging in stunts and pranks done primarily for his and his friends' amusement, as opposed to performing for an audience.