After calming down an upset Dico and an even more upset Rake, the guys had gotten a call from Big Brother concerning their new upcoming travel plans. By a stroke of good luck, Ryan had managed to help get the guys together and make it to the airport in time. They were greeted by someone Ryan assumed to be Jeff upon their arrival to the Big Brother offices, along with two strangers.

"Hey, guys." Jeff welcomed them, shaking all of their hands. "I'm Jeff, this is Johnny, and Steve-O." He [nudged] his head to his right, then left respectively, showing the group who was who. After a little role call of their own, along with shaking more hands, they were all led to a conference room, where they met with another man by the name of Spike Jonze.


"Now," Spike started, "all of you have one thing in common: you all willingly do stupid things for laughs. Jeff and I felt like this would be a great idea for a TV show, which I assume you all know about by now."

"Yeah, they know." Jeff interrupted. "I told them all already."

"Great. We were planning on using stuff from both the CKY videos and the a few of the Big Brother videos that've already been shot, but we felt like in order to help sell a pilot to production companies, it would be good to throw in a few clips of both groups doing stuff together."

"What's in it for us?" Bam blurted out. This caused Spike to ask,

"What do you mean?"

"Like payment." Spike looked at him with curiosity. Ryan tried to save the moment.

"I think what Bam here is trying to ask is if we'll be getting paid."

"Oh. Well, um, the pay isn't going to be great exactly... Um, are you all okay with minimum wage?"

"Minimum wage?!" Bam cried, standing up. He was getting just as upset as some of his friends, and Ryan knew that his temper wasn't going to help him out here. Taking grasp of his forearm, Ryan sat his boyfriend back down.

"I know, I know," Spike tried calmly, "it's not what you were expecting, but I assure you that once this gets picked, your pay will increase, but there is a lot of you, and we aren't exactly a huge company here. We're kind of taking a risk even trying for this. We don't know how it'll all pan out." Jeff became clearly upset by what Spike had just said, and leaned his mouth in next to his ear and whispered something inaudibly. They whispered back and forth for a few moments in quiet argument. As they finished, Spike continued. "Okay, listen guys, I know it's not what you want to be hearing right now, but it's all we can offer right now. Can we please just cut a deal?"

"Hold on." Bam said. The gang circled their swivel chairs around him as Bam spoke softly. "Should we do it?"

"The pay's shit. I don't know if I want to." Rake immediately said. Raab looked like he wanted to agree with his friend, and Glomb just looked unsure, so Ryan decided to put his two cents in.

"Yeah, but what if the show gets picked up? He said we'll be getting more. I say we go for it."

"Yeah, but why?" Rake asked.

"Why? Dude, why the hell not? We need money. That's kind of the whole deal right now."

"Well, it is a steady source of income." Glomb chimed in.

"Yeah. Plus," Ryan added, "there's a chance of fame here."

"What about my skateboarding?"

"Dude, Bam, I'm sure you'd still be able to skate. I don't think they'd put restrictions on us like that– especially if we're making them money." There was a moment of silence, before Bam chimed in with more.

"Well... You'd finally be able to get away from that dumbass job with that dick of a boss of yours." Ryan smiled, agreeing with Bam.

"Oh, yeah." Glomb said, as if he had just remembered something. "How the hell'd you even get out of work for this?"

"I've got my ways." Ryan said with a sly smile. "So, are you guys in? 'Cause I'm 100% in if you all are."

"Alright, I'm in." Raab said. Bam joined in, along with Glomb.

"Well, Rake?" Bam asked, waiting on his answer.

"Sure." Rake said, his tone sounding almost forced, almost like he was under peer pressure to say yes.

"Okay." Bam started, turning to Spike and Jeff, sitting across the table from them. "We've agreed. We'll do it."

"Great!" Jeff exclaimed. "Just great."

"Well, now that that's settled, are there any other questions?"

"Actually," Johnny started, turning to Bam, "Steve-O and I were wondering if any of you already had some ideas for skits?" Ryan looked over at Bam, and could've sworn that his cheeks were turning a little bit redder.

"Well, I mean, I have had an idea in mind for a while now..."