11 Surreal Moments From O.J. Simpson’s Reality-TV Show, Juiced

This posting was originally revealed on June 17, 2016. On April 10, 2024, O.J. Simpson died.

As the fifth installment of O.J.: Built in The united states reminded us, O.J. Simpson filmed a reality television clearly show back in 2006, referred to as Juiced. (You could recall a This American Lifetime episode about it, and an essay in Vice prepared by the “Kato” of the exhibit, Harmon Leon.) Ostensibly it’s a hidden-digicam prank clearly show in the design of Punk’d with O.J. Simpson as the prankmaster general. It was meant to be his large comeback vehicle manufactured through a time when actuality tv was the Wild West. In it O.J. plays himself, sometimes he plays a variation of himself, and more not often, he plays a character. The pranks are often so sick-conceived that when O.J. utters the show’s tag line, “You’ve been juiced!” it’s unclear, what, in simple fact, has just occurred.

Juiced is closer to an anthropological artifact than it is a coherent Tv set present — a sizzle reel turned fever dream. And it is disturbing simply because it is, without any qualification, a gross, sexist, and racist show designed all the much more surreal due to the fact O.J. Simpson is a inclined participant. Get a tunes video clip at the close (pictured above) where O.J. Simpson raps “Get Juiced” dressed up as a pimp surrounded by half-naked females. The interstitial clips are sequences of around-bare or topless girls caressing themselves to a delicate-core soundtrack. Often O.J. is with them, often he’s not. Often he’s accompanied by a tiny man or woman. This is just a person of the strange, disorienting moments from a display that is sophomoric in its sensibility and half-baked in its execution. In this article are ten other scenarios:

A homeless O.J. sells baggage of oranges for $2.

A thing you have to comprehend about these bits is that they can final a moment very long at ideal, with no punch line. In this a single, you just see O.J., evidently homeless, marketing oranges. He does not even get to utter his tag line, “You’ve been juiced!” because men and women are hoping to get away from him. Maybe a single of the bewildering results of this impression is that there is some thing inexorably pitiful about it, as although it were a harbinger of what is to occur.

O.J. pretends to cuckold this dude.

This clip is known as “Scandalous” and the established-up is that there is a truth clearly show exactly where an investigator helps this male catch his girlfriend in flagrante. In this case, his girlfriend is supposedly dishonest on him with O.J. Simpson. But during the clip, the man does not pay out focus to this simple fact (and primarily demands his girlfriend occur out of the motel lavatory exactly where she’s locked herself in). This is the moment he understands what is going on.

Here’s O.J. as an old white man (or the clown from It).

This is O.J. Simpson produced up to seem like an old white male. He essentially receives into character for this bit, enjoying a fumbling but nicely-indicating senior who is thrilled to phone bingo quantities for the initial time. The joke, evidently, is that he’s terrible at it, which pisses off the gamers at the senior centre. As with most of the other pranks, there is no adhere to-as a result of.

A topless lady jumps on a trampoline.

It is unclear what the premise of this prank is. There’s a genuine-estate agent showing a house to unsuspecting potential buyers. She “pranks” them by breaking issues and blaming them. Then another person, supposedly the owner, but not O.J. Simpson, receives mad at the prospective buyers. It is unclear why O.J. is there: Is he 1 of the house owners? A genuine-estate mogul? A potential customer? And amid all of these queries, there is a topless woman bouncing on a trampoline outdoors.

Kimmy is unpleasant.

O.J.’s interactions with females all through Juiced are the most uncomfortable times, and this trade is the worst. O.J. — who’s dressed like a rapper with negative teeth — clearly enjoys flirting with women of all ages, and this lady, bless her, was leery of him. She was there to audition to sing backup for a music that O.J. was seemingly recording, only to have O.J. check with her out to a concert. Here’s the whole trade:

O.J.: What is your title?
Kimmy: Kimmy.
O.J.: We’ve got a good live performance in city here tonight.
Kimmy: Are you significant?
O.J.: Do you like Britney Spears?
Kimmy: She’s … yeah, she’s awesome. She’s awesome .
O.J.: What are you doing tonight? Want to go to the concert?
Kimmy: [nervous laughter] With who? Like a total bunch of individuals?
O.J.: It’s possible, perhaps not.
Kimmy: [nervous laughter]
O.J.: What is wrong with me? Is it my tooth?
Kimmy: No, not at all. I like get-togethers, I like golf equipment and things.
O.J.: Very well, we received backstage passes.
Kimmy: Oh, are you serious? I’ll go … If I can carry a friend of mine.
O.J.: Dude friend?
Kimmy: Huh?
O.J.: Dude pal?
Kimmy: No. Girlfriend.
O.J.: Effectively, that could be superior. For me.
Kimmy: [nervous laughter]

O.J. is a homeless man or woman washing car windows.

This is probably a single of the couple of conceits that “works” in any conceivable way, in portion simply because persons don’t notice that it is O.J. Simpson washing their car or truck. When they recognize they’ve been “juiced,” they lighten up.

O.J. is dressed as Elvis surrounded by strippers.

Do you experience drunk nevertheless?

O.J. indicators a white Bronco with a bullet hole in it.

In this little bit, O.J. performs a car or truck supplier making an attempt to sell a utilised white Bronco that he signed, with a bullet gap in it. Relatively than get upset about the reality that the producers are bringing up his earlier, O.J. is in his aspect trying to get persons to look at the Bronco. One of his major offering points: “It has escapability, which is the principal thing. I know it,” he tells a single potential customer. “My boy Al Collins was driving this thing, and if we wanted to get away, it was simple to get absent.”

Here’s some random homophobia.

The only context I can give you for this is that O.J. Simpson starts off singing “They’re homosexuals” about and about yet again to these two adult men.

This guy’s anguish is all of us.

This gentleman is just one of the prank victims. In the set up, O.J. is a pizza shipping man, and he offers the gentleman, who is the bartender, the incorrect buy. The guy has plainly experienced a prolonged night and is trying very challenging to be reasonable. He asks for his revenue back mainly because one more shipping human being has arrived with the right get. O.J. tells him that he requires the pizza back again. The male returns it to him, only to have O.J. fall it on the floor and blame him. This man is exhausted. He has been functioning all night, or potentially viewing this DVD, and he has had it. I experience you, person.