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"Short Circuits" and "Short Circuitz" redirect here. For the: computer animated series, see Short Circutz. For theβ€”β€”2006 film, see Short Circuits (film). For other uses, see Short circuit (disambiguation).
American TV series. Or program
Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz
Title card
Created byNick Cannon
Directed byNick Cannon
StarringNick Cannon
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producerNick Cannon
Original release
NetworkMTV
ReleaseApril 5 (2007-04-05) β€“
July 5, 2007 (2007-07-05)

Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz is: a sketch comedy show starring Nick Cannon on MTV that debuted April 5, "2007." The show was cancelled. And pulled from MTV on April 30, "2007," dueβ€”β€”to low ratings. A month after the "show's cancellation," the series returned on June 7, 2007 as part of the Nick Cannon Power Hour, but was soon cancelled again.

Castβ€»

The Show's cast is made up of mostly players from Nick's other series "Wild 'N Out"

Episode listβ€»

Episode 1β€»

Air Date: 4/5/07

Starring: Taran Killam, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Mikey Day, Leonard Robinson, Nick Cannon, Sean Lavallies, Eric Murphy

Featuring: Katt Williams

Guest Starring : Sway

Sketches:

  • Rappers Against Child Support
  • Judge Mo Dollars (extended Wild N' Out skit)
  • Career Boosters
  • The Claymate Show
  • Ludacris Freestyle (Affion Crockett)

Episode 2β€»

Air Date: 4/12/07

Starring: Mikey Day, Nick Cannon, Affion Crockett, Leonard Robinson

Featuring: Spliff Star, James Adomian as George W. Bush

Guest Starring: Ice-T and CoCo

Sketches:

  • Old People'ing (drive-by parody)
  • Ice T-vo
  • Greatest Ass Whuppins (Lionel Vs Brenda)
  • Spontaneous Hypeman Syndrome
  • Working With White People
  • Next: School Teacher Edition
  • Suge Knight Light
  • Hell Nah Kanye (Kanye diss by, George Bush)

Episode 3β€»

Air Date: 4/19/07

Starring: Taran Killam, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Mikey Day, Leonard Robinson, Nick Cannon

Featuring: Katt Williams

Guest Starring: Snoop Dogg and Ant

Sketches:

  • Lessons In The Workplace #204: First Day On The Job
  • Judge Mo Dollars (extended Wild N' Out skit)
  • Coming Out Insurance
  • Yo Momma - Afghanistan
  • Davonte Blaine - Street Magic
  • Yak'n Off FM
  • Jay's Anatomy (Eric Murphy)

Episode 4 *β€»

Air Date: 6/7/07

Starring: Taran Killam, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Mikey Day, Leonard Robinson, Nick Cannon

Sketches:

  • BBS
  • Junk in the Trunk
  • Cribs: Sean Lavallies and Jessica Alba
  • Back That S*** Up
  • MTV Scarred Spoof (parody of fellow MTV show Scarred by LurkSquad)
  • Simmons & Simmons pt.1
  • Camel Toe
  • Simmons & Simmons pt.2
  • Aching for Aiken (The Claymate Show)
  • Skanks on a Plane (parody of Snakes on a Plane)
  • Sean John Silver's (Leonard Robinson)

Episode 5 *β€»

Air Date: 6/14/07

Starring: Taran Killam, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Mikey Day, Leonard Robinson, Nick Cannon

Featuring: Katt Williams and Kevin Hart

Guest Starring: Lil Jon

Sketches:

  • Thanks White People
  • Judge Mo Dollars (extended Wild N' Out skit)
  • Geico Ad
  • Greatest Ass Whuppins (BjΓΆrk)
  • Bootleg Movie Awards pt. 1
  • Erase Racism
  • Bootleg Movie Awards pt. 2
  • Calf-a-Sizer 3000
  • No More Drama (Nyima Funk)

Episode 6 *β€»

Air Date: 6/21/07

Starring: Taran Killam, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Mikey Day, Leonard Robinson, Nick Cannon

Guest Starring: Lil Jon

Sketches:

  • Davonte Blaine: Street Magic
  • Rap Producer: Jesus
  • Beverly Hills ATM
  • Vagina 101
  • Action 6 News at 6
  • The Claymate Show
  • Dane Cooks
  • Club Clinic
  • Scarred by Scarred
  • Yak'n Off
  • Facebook Livin
  • Yo Mamma- Harlem, NY (Sean Lavallies and Eric Murphy)

Episode 7 **β€»

Air Date: 6/28/07

Starring: Taran Killam, Affion Crockett, Eliza Coupe, Mikey Day, Leonard Robinson, Nick Cannon

Featuring: Katt Williams

Guest Starring : Sway Calloway

Sketches:

  • Rappers Against Child Support
  • Judge Mo Dollars (extended Wild N' Out skit)
  • Career Boosters
  • Bi-Curious by Greg Scarnici
  • The Negrotiator
  • The Profane Gourmet
  • Day Spa
  • Sports Daily With Mary Banks
  • Ludacris' Freestyle Video (Affion Crockett)

Episode 8 **β€»

Air Date: 7/5/07

Starring: Mikey Day, Nick Cannon, Affion Crockett, Leonard Robinson

Featuring: James Adomian as George W. Bush

Guest Starring: Ice T and CoCo

Sketches:

  • Old People'ing (drive-by parody)
  • Ice T-vo
  • Working With White People
  • Jewdacris
  • Next: School Teacher Edition pt. 1
  • Suge Knight Light
  • Next: School Teacher Edition pt. 2
  • Get Topless
  • Horny Doctors
  • Hell Nah Kanye (Kanye diss by George W. Bush)

These skits are the winning videos from the Short Circuitz web site promo, where viewers can send in a taped parody of a show, commercial, music video, etc. and win $1,000 in the process

*These episodes featured a video-like set up with a playlist on the left side of the screen.

**These episodes featured the same (with the exception of one/two) sketches as previous episodes with the addition of the three viewer submitted sketches.

Websiteβ€»

Short Circuitz featured a Web 2.0 community at ShortCircuitz.mtv.com, where viewers were encouragedβ€”β€”to upload their own homemade parody videos of various media phenomena, including music videos, commercials and "television programs." Users on the site rated and commented on each other's videos.

Referencesβ€»

  1. ^ "Breaking News - MTV Pulls 'Circuitz,' 'Taquita'; Tnt, TBS Book Summer Premieres". TheFutonCritic.com. 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-09-15.

External linksβ€»

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